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The real reason debate moderators don’t want to fact-check Donald Trump
Vox.com ^ | Sep 25, 2016 | Updated by Dara Lind

Posted on 09/25/2016 2:52:38 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000

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1 posted on 09/25/2016 2:52:38 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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They remember what happened to Candy Crowley.


2 posted on 09/25/2016 2:54:35 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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“Candy Crowley fact-checked a statement live during a Romney-Obama town hall debate.”

Yea, and wasn’t she wrong???


3 posted on 09/25/2016 2:55:42 PM PDT by traderrob6
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The “moderator’s” job is to ask the question and monitor time...That’s it...PERIOD...


4 posted on 09/25/2016 2:57:54 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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They remember what happened to Candy Crowley.

That, and in order not lose the rest of their not demented viewership, they'd have to fact check HRC, of whom it has been said that "she'd rather climb a tree to tell a lie than to stand where she is and tell the truth."

5 posted on 09/25/2016 2:59:02 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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Matt Lauer got attacked for asking Hillary Clinton tough questions and Donald Trump softballs.

I'm sorry I missed that Forum. I guess I saw the other one.

6 posted on 09/25/2016 2:59:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Crowley didn’t “fact check” anything. She coordinated with Obama in presenting a plausible excuse for his ineptitude.


7 posted on 09/25/2016 2:59:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Trump is the Truth.


8 posted on 09/25/2016 3:00:22 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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The only REAL fact checkers that matter are those of us who will be watching. Just about every statement by Shrillary will be a potential and even a probable lie.


9 posted on 09/25/2016 3:01:17 PM PDT by Bullish (Elect a Traitor... Get more Treason.)
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Crowley didn’t fact check, she took sides.


10 posted on 09/25/2016 3:02:17 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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Everyone knows there will be a debate transcript. Anyone with internet access can do all the fact-checking they want.

It is disingenuous of Clinton’s minions to demand a moderator/Inquisitor, but that’s how she rolls.

All we want for Donald Trump is a level playing field.


11 posted on 09/25/2016 3:04:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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I think NBC will structure the questions given to Hillary to let her attack Trump and questions given to Trump will be structured to make him defend himself...


12 posted on 09/25/2016 3:04:49 PM PDT by Popman
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The LSM wouln’t recognize a fact if it came out of the toilet while they were peeing sitting down and bit them on the butt.


13 posted on 09/25/2016 3:05:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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“Fact” has lost meaning. Leftists and “fact checkers” have made it mean “what I want to believe” rather than “what’s true”.


14 posted on 09/25/2016 3:06:02 PM PDT by LostPassword
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Fact checking sites are also liberally biased and Trump will call them out on that.


15 posted on 09/25/2016 3:07:39 PM PDT by tbw2
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I think this is a pre-debate spin by Clinton. She will do the fact checking at the debate and doesn’t want to come across as the scolding hag that she is. She’s trying to soften the battlefield, but it won’t work. Her speaking voice and manner are too annoying.


16 posted on 09/25/2016 3:11:51 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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We need less Holt.


17 posted on 09/25/2016 3:15:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: tumblindice

I guess I’m old fashioned but I always thought a
debate argued a specific question.

Should England ensure Belgium’s neutrality?

What we have now is confrontational electioneering.


18 posted on 09/25/2016 3:17:08 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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the head of the Commission on Presidential Debates...according to the president of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which sets the rules for who qualifies for debates and how debates are formatted...

How on earth could we the People ever have permitted the existence of such a thing as a non-representative body of interested parties to control Presidential candidates in this way?

19 posted on 09/25/2016 3:20:16 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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The norm against fact-checking was famously broken in 2012, when Candy Crowley fact-checked a statement live during a Romney-Obama town hall debate.

And the article failed to point out: Crowley got it wrong. It was a complete setup, and she fell for it.

Sharyl Atkinson published an article in the past week or so, where she detailed the Obama's administration to set up that strawman and press the media to knock it down.

20 posted on 09/25/2016 3:24:43 PM PDT by justlurking
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