Nervous Trump tells Fox he doesn’t want debate moderators to fact check
I want to see the bloated man sweat a lot that night. Yes, I do.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Nervous Trump tells Fox he doesn’t want debate moderators to fact check
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By Peter Daou | September 22, 2016
Appearing on Fox & Friends four days before the much-anticipated first presidential debate, Donald Trump gave himself away, telling the hosts that he didn't think moderators should fact check the candidates. Trump has built a campaign on lies and desperately hopes he won't be confronted with the truth as the entire world watches.
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The New York Times profiles Shareblue today and says this:
[Shareblue is] already warming up for the biggest event of the general election so far: the first debate, on Monday night. It has already published a piece calling on moderators to fact-check Mr. Trump on the spot, and will continue through debate night, whipping up support online with the hashtag #DemandFairDebates.
We launched #DemandFairDebates for a simple reason: By objective measures and according to independent studies, national media coverage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been substantially lopsided in his favor.
As we’ve argued in recent days, Matt Lauer’s moderation of NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum was widely panned—and deservedly so—but Lauer’s fault was not that he did something unusual. To the contrary, Lauer’s performance was a one hour microcosm of a year’s worth of media coverage.
It included the three core elements of what has been a relentless double standard: Antagonism and scorn for Clinton, an unhealthy obsession with her emails, and sheepish acquiescence to Trump’s lies.......................
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Chee-YI-nah!
Thanks for your post - you've very well summed up the Drumpfplorables' attitude.
