Posted on 08/31/2015 4:39:09 PM PDT by Red Steel
Fox News came to Donald Trump’s defense, in a sense, on Monday after Rand Paul accused the network of giving the GOP frontrunner “twice as much airtime” as every other candidate at the first GOP debate earlier this month.
“And then everybody wonders why he’s doing well in the polls,” Paul said in an interview with Boston Herald Radio today. “Maybe we shouldn’t predetermine to give somebody who really isn’t even a good Republican, or a good conservative — maybe we shouldn’t be predetermining to give them twice as much time as everybody else.”
But in a statement to The Huffington Post, Fox News Executive Vice President Michael Clemente denied the veracity of Paul’s claim.
“There is zero truth to Senator Rand Paul’s accusation,” Clemente said. “While Trump was given the first question by virtue of his standing in the national polls, time was allotted as equally as possible, given the back and forth and interruptions that occurred.”
Following the debate, NPR Politics crunched the numbers on each candidate’s speaking time and it is true that Trump spoke for more than twice as long as Paul. But the rest of the field fell on a spectrum in between the two.
Here is the full breakdown:
1. Trump 10:30 2. Bush 8:33 3. Huckabee 6:32 4. Carson/Cruz 6:28 (tie) 6. Kasich 6:25 7. Rubio 6:22 8. Christie 6:03 9. Walker 5:43 10. Paul 4:51
Ironically, while Trump may have gotten the most debate airtime, he too spent the following days and weeks accusing Fox of treating him unfairly, mostly when it came to Megyn Kelly’s tough questions.
Sure RaPaul. No Fox didn’t for sure.
If anything he got treated worse!
Rand is losing it. I guess Trump can do that to you.
Poor Rand. My eyes are gettin’ misty.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE Please. I didn’t know Rand Paul was even running. He’s surely not in the race is he?
Rand Paul needs to buy a giant pacifier and suck on it.
Fox gave Trump a double dose of ‘cheap shots’.
Maybe the one dumbest thing this guy has ever said.
Shooting from the foul line? Is this what Paul’s campaign is going to be all about? Dude, drop. Don’t ruin your future franchise. Trump will consume all.
He is such a phony
Can we get the Trump Hair Test done on Rand? Seeing that squirrel fly off like in an old sit-com might create enough mirth to raise his poll numbers for the first time.
This guy is turning into an annoying little troll.
At one time, I thought Rand was a reasonable candidate...until I saw him on stage with Trump. He fell totally apart...like a kid in a playground who missed an easy pitch.
Other than Lil’ Jebbie has anyone fallen any further? I thought Paul would be the darlings of the Libertarians and the young Hipsters. MASSIVE Fail! Maybe he could start by getting that Uncle Lewis’s squirrel toupee off his head. Ok it’s real but weird.
They did give Trump a special treatment and, it didn’t work at all. (for FOX)
Paul has to be crazy to think this. yep
He is immature and petty.
Did Rand take a secret side trip to Colorado before he came up with that?
Saturday Night Live Spoof:
George Will “Being & Becoming”
(baseball knowledge game show)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xi2oyv_being-becoming-george-f-will-s-sports-machine_shortfilms
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