Posted on 09/02/2016 8:00:45 AM PDT by bryan999
Donald Trump's son on Friday raised questions about Matt Lauer’s links to the Clinton Foundation, suggesting the NBC host may not be fair in his role of candidate forum moderator.
“Obviously there’s a lot of speculation because of his involvement with the foundation,” Eric Trump said in an interview with “Fox and Friends.”
"I hope he’ll be fair,” he continued, saying that NBC and MSNBC have been biased against his father.
“It may as well be a super-PAC against Trump,” he said. “It’s really, really sad to see what’s happened to the media on that station.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Lauer is in the tank for Hillary, and I love that the Trump campaign is not going to “play nice” and keep silent about it, as did Romney in ‘12 and McCain in ‘08 about things on the same order.
Perhaps, but I don’t think Trump is counting on them to change.
What he’s done at minimum is set the stage to attack the question and biased media during the debate.
For example Trump receives a loaded question on illegal immigration.
Trump begins his answer with, “So typical of the pro-Hillary media to phrase a question on immigration to take the focus off of who really matters, the American People. The real problems facing us with this issue are...” and Trump reiterates his positions.
McCain and Romney were clueless as to how to put a fist to the jaw of the MSM. Trump doesn’t have that problem.
“Obviously there’s a lot of speculation because of his involvement with the foundation,” Eric Trump said in an interview with “Fox and Friends.” “I hope he’ll be fair...”
Now that is how you concern-troll.
I thought I heard Rudy Guiliani say he was negotiating the debate details, including the moderators. If so, he didn't do a very good job.
In Rudy’s defense, how many journ-o-lists are there out there who are NOT dyed-in-the-wool Liberals?
As a moderate Republican he probably thought that getting Chris Wallace in was a major coup.
Savage
Dreamy choice~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Borders, Language, Culture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The psychopathic media will now accuse Eric of being an escort.”
LOL!!!
I almost spit my coffee from laughing so hard!
Love that response!!!
"Hillary Clinton is a known, accomplished liar. Everything she says is a lie. She lied about xxx, xxx, xxx, and xxx. She lied to Congress under oath and the American people. It makes no sense for me to debate her. Her response to every question asked will be a lie and the American people deserve the truth. Therefore, I will hold a press conference each day of the scheduled debate but will not appear on any stage with a known liar.
Why in hell does the RNC agree to having ONLY liberals as moderators?
work the refs !
Moderators for Debates:
Lester Holt...
Elaine Quijano...
Martha Raddatz/Anderson Cooper...
Chris Wallace...
CPD Announces 2016 Debate Moderators
Sep 2, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and Michael D. McCurry, co-chairs of the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced the moderators for the 2016 general election presidential and vice presidential debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates (as announced on September 23, 2015), are as follows:
First presidential debate:
Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Monday, September 26, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Vice presidential debate:
Elaine Quijano, Anchor, CBSN and Correspondent, CBS News
Tuesday, October 4, Longwood University, Farmville, VA
Second presidential debate (town meeting):
Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and Co-Anchor of “This Week,” ABC
Anderson Cooper, Anchor, CNN
Sunday, October 9, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Third presidential debate:
Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday
Wednesday, October 19, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
The CPD also announced that Steve Scully, Senior Executive Producer, White House and Political Editor for C-SPAN Networks, will serve as backup moderator for all the debates.
Fahrenkopf and McCurry said that, “These journalists bring extensive experience to the job of moderating, and understand the importance of using expanded time periods effectively. The formats chosen for this year’s debates are designed to build on the formats introduced in 2012, which focused big blocks of time on major domestic and foreign topics. We are grateful for their willingness to moderate, and confident that the public will learn more about the candidates and the issues as a result.”
Format
The format for the debates, announced on July 7, 2016, will be:
First presidential debate
The debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator and announced at least one week before the debate.
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Vice presidential debate
The debate will be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.
Second presidential debate
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which half of the questions will be posed directly by citizen participants and the other half will be based on topics of broad public interest as reflected in social media and other sources. There will be two moderators. The candidates will have two minutes to respond to each question and there will be an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate further discussion. The town meeting participants will be uncommitted voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
Third presidential debate
The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate.
With the exception of town meeting, all debates will be moderated by a single individual and will run from 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time without commercial breaks. As always, the moderators alone will select the questions to be asked, which are not known to the CPD or to the candidates. The moderators will have the ability both to extend the segments and to ensure that the candidates have equal speaking time. While the focus will properly be on the candidates, the moderator will regulate the conversation so that thoughtful and substantive exchanges occur. The CPD is in discussion with technology and civic groups that will provide data to the moderators to assist them in identifying the subjects that are most important to the public.
This year’s debates will build on the successful 2012 debate formats which introduced longer segments, allowing the candidates to focus on critical issues. “The CPD has a simple mission, to ensure that presidential debates help the public learn about the positions of the leading candidates for president and vice president,” CPD co-chairs Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr. and Michael D. McCurry said. “These formats will allow an in-depth exploration of the major topics in this year’s election.”
The CPD has sponsored and produced all the presidential and vice presidential debates since 1987, the year it was established. For more information, please visit www.debates.org.
#BuildWallFollow Law
That is all!
Here’s a link to the video from Fox:
Can you imagine the left reaction if a moderator, in the same position as Lauer, has been placed as the sole questioner —— was a paid worker for Trump?
Donald has lots of good people to do the heavy lifting for him.
And let's not forget the formidable Ivanka.
Why did Trump agree to Matt Liar? Is this the art of the deal?
LOL! No kidding. They are pulling out all the stops. That was a U.K. story (the Daily Mail), so it appears the fear of a Trump presidency is international. They retracted the story, but low-info people will just repeat it as fact.
Certainly Canadians are petrified (although I work in journalism, so most of the people I know are leftists, sadly).
I kept trying to make this a hyperlink, but it wasn't working. So here's the source:
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/09/02/daily-mail-retracts-story-suggesting-melania-trump-worked-as-escort.html
My sentiments as well, we need to quit playing this stupid game with the lib media. Call them out for who they are and don’t agree to be the guest of honor at a political ambush. At best you’ll be able to put them in their place but you will still end up “off message”.
Lauer is completely biased. It is laughable. I want them to explain how he is not biased. The Today Show has been , is, and will be a left wing propaganda organ for 20 years. It has no credentials except to promote hillary infomercials. He is a pathetic lackey— a hired stooge — a puppet.
The funny thing is Trump can easily lay him bare and expose him as a joke with examples of numerous sycophantic interviews of leftists and his attack dog smearing of true Americans.Its all on record. I say go for it with gusto.
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