“He’s stone cold ignorant”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
These people knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
Every question they asked could have been written by DailyKos/Comedy Central to feed a Liberal attack line against Republican imagery, and given NBC, probably was.
Take the “Fantasy Football betting” question, for instance.
The ONLY reason to ask that question, in an economics debate, was to get the low-info Bubbas around the water-cooler to say, “Did you hear REPUBLICANS want to ban Fantasy Football??!!!”
You could actually watch the pre-written memes about this popping up on Twitter, in REAL-TIME, starting almost the moment the question was asked.
Luckily, Cruz saw it for exactly what it was, and cut it off before Bush could really put his foot in his mouth.
A bunch of people at MediaMatters.Soros are probably STILL crying over that one.
From the previous debate, which was supposed to be on the economy.
So here are some of the actual questions:
- “What’s your biggest weakness?”
- “You want to bring 70,000 pages to three.. is that using really small type?”
- “Why not slow down, get a few more things done first or least finish what you start?”
- “Does your opposition to it show that you’re not the kind of problem-solver American voters want?”
- “Is this a comic book version of a presidential campaign?”
- “When you look at him [another candidate], do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country?”
- “I just wondered why you think we should hire you now?”
- “Why should the voters believe the promises that you’re telling them right now?”
- “..it raises the question whether you have the maturity and wisdom to lead this $17 trillion economy. What do you say?”
Here are some of the statements made to preface some of the questions:
- “You’ve been a young man in a hurry”
- “as you would of flying away from that podium by flapping your arms.”
- “the fact that you’re at the fifth lectern tonight shows how far your stock has fallen in this race”
And many other statements and questions were presented to get one candidate to specifically call out and demean another Republican candidate or other Republicans.
Lets rephrase some of these to be asked to the democrats at their next debate (make up your own):
- “Hillary, given the fact that you lied {quote her emails to her daughter and Egypt prime minister} at the Benghazi hearings, do you have the moral authority to lead anybody?”
- “Hillary, given the fact that you sold out state department classified and top secret information for monetary gain, at what point in time will you be in jail for treason, before, during, or after, the election?”
- “Hillary, given the fact that you set up your own email server which is a violation of federal law, should’t you be in jail right now?”
- “Hillary, given the fact that you have violated 15 federal laws on the email server and Benghazi situation, shouldn’t you be sitting in jail right now?”
- “Bernie, you, an avowed socialist, and given the fact in the 20th century, close to 170 million people have been murdered by their own socialist governments, as president of the United States would you be murdering 30 million Americans or 50 million”?