ABC's Complete Failure to be Fair During Trump vs. Harris Debate, with The Fifth Column Hosts

I feel like it's a before and after moment for for the profession I I for me this debate is not even about Trump and Harris it's not about the presidential election it's about what happened last night with what used to be a respected news organization just completely jumping into the tank for one candidate I mean not even show me a Fox News debate show me one Fox News debate where the moderators have ever done that for the Republican candidate of choice right where they've whatever they they've decided we want Mitt Romney to win and they sank everybody else that you can't find that this is this was a decision by ABC to get Trump and while he didn't help himself you know taking all of her bait and so on and so forth ABC News emerged the most Victorious and having done what they wanted to do and with the biggest loss in reputation that's my view on it how do you guys see it I think that this gave a lot of credence to my political tribe which is that of the triple haters the ones who don't like the presidential candidates from either party and also don't like the media I mean seriously there's lots more that you cannot like about kamla Harris after this about Donald Trump who performed horribly I thought uh and definitely ABC the biggest problem with the ABC moderation um even thinking about it 12 hours later is not even the asymmetrical fact checks sir this is this is um what you said is not true not even that although that's what we noticed in the room at the time and couldn't believe because it was all going in One Direction the biggest problem is that KLA Harris hasn't given any interviews right um she's given one uh in 50 some odd days to CNN she hasn't had her views challenged so this is when you as a moderator follow up when she doesn't answer a question repeatedly they asked Donald Trump to Sir could you please answer the question they almost didn't do that even once with KLA Harris and this is someone who's a new candidate and who has changed her positions really violently on at least a half a dozen big issues and the way that she answers that is like well I've already answered that of course I've answered how I've changed my positions and then she doesn't actually answer they did not follow up that is the biggest bit of malpractice Point not not once let me just show you a little of the factchecking that was done of Donald Trump in short form watch there is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born president Trump as you know the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country but you bring up Springfield Ohio and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there uh he told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed injured or abused by individuals within the Immigrant Community clarification and you know this you and your allies 60 cases in front of many judges many of them and said there was no vice president Harris you heard the president there tonight he said he didn't say that that he lost by whisker so he still uh believes uh he did not lose the election uh that was won by President Biden uh and yourself and now I am going to play a quick soot of ABC news factchecking kamla give it a second no it's coming it's coming hold on because she only told the truth yeah that's and say that David mure is a real credit to the profession and ab a brilliant moderator I'm voting for David M I'm voting for he thrown his hat into the ring until last night yes ABC won last night tweet out did they even need KLA Harris there why did ABC even invite her she wasn't yes um we recorded late last night uh about midnight after a couple hundred glasses of wine and I had a I need that I wish I'd been with you it was it was it made it much more bearable that opportunity e you have to take a drink opportunity economy smoke fanel every time I heard it the thing is and Megan you came up cuz I suggested you for this want to do this in the future in a very specific way and I was kind of joking but then quite serious about it is that I think that these should be just straight adversarial you're interviewing somebody for the job of the presidency of the United States the most powerful job in the world these should be adversarial interviews there should be two people as ABC had it one person should only ask questions of President Trump and one question one person should only ask questions of Vice President Harris and they should be their adversaries on both sides alling them on these issues because as I said last night and this is a what a great question for me would be bring up the Tweet about the Minnesota bail fund we've had no no one's had an opportunity to ask her this because of course she hasn't given an interview and if she does it's certainly not going to be to somebody who's going to ask her about that get an adversarial person and they're on both sides and have them fire questions at them and actually challenge them it solves the whole thing and it actually makes for entertaining television I said the same thing last said if they have another debate it should not be with any of these news operations it should be I get to choose a moderator and you get to choose a moderator there's going to be two from the outside you know we can each choose one but it this farce of we're going to entrust the future of the country to organizations like ABC News must end it must end and shame on any Republican who ever agrees to this again Donald Trump cannot agree to another debate with one of these organizations again or he he gets what he deserves this was this is the organization which in which it's run by K Harris's best friend ABC newses these days they hired Donna Brazil debate cheater in Chief and I'm not suggesting she gave the questions to kamla Harris but you wouldn't be surprised to learn she had you you certainly after watching that wouldn't be like I'm shocked shocked that ABC worked to undermine Donald Trump in such a way and they put in that answer if she had I said I'd be surprised because she didn't answer any of them if she had them before maybe she would have answered the questions that were asked of her including the very first question literally the first question no one comes class yeah of course she's from the the middle class small businesses yes here it is wait let's watch that it's St 12 when it comes to the economy do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago so I was raised as a middle class kid I believe in the ambition the aspirations the dreams of the American people and that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity economy his plan is to do what he has done before which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations okay keep going sh total Dodge because we're not that's obviously why we are not better off than we were four years ago and yet I didn't he him press her on that didn't hear the moderators press her on that I mean the question is pretty simple are we better off are we not um she didn't even address the question not even a little bit and and let's never leave Donald Trump off the hook on this she said at the end of that thing his only plan is to cut taxes uh and do what he's normally doing basically his only plan in this whole uh debate was to cut taxes and to enact a tariff when it comes to the economy and the other stuff about immigration whatever but he didn't rise to the level he you can take that opportunity as the opponent in a debate and you should never walk away from a debate and blame it on the refs even if the refs are loaded against you conservatives and Republicans have for a long time used that to their advantage just look at n Gingrich look at other people who had moments of high stress turned it back on and pointed out the unfairness of the loaded of the moderator he could have done that he didn't do any of it he took the bait over and over again from comml Aris and didn't take those opportunities when she was obviously flailing around as she did in her very first answer yeah yeah I think that's right especially during the debate I was surprised I think when we were watching it I might have even said this that he didn't do I mean new Gingrich did it in such a like Grand way I mean a memorable way I mean you don't remember remember things from debates his response about that question the the the kind of dirty question that was asked of him was terrific and I think he was maybe prepared for it but Donald Trump at a million points during this debate could have said I can't believe you guys are doing this you're wor this is the way you're going to work against me do that and also by the way he has the opportunity to the first thing that he says at every time she doesn't answer a question is say by the way Americans keep in mind she didn't answer the question and then answer your own question so I think it's absolutely right and and you know look a very good column for people to read this morning is Jim G over at National Review because he did a great thing where he took every question not the answers every moderator question and strung them together it is really jarring to read them all together you're like wow this is actually what was asked but as as Jim pointed out and there's a number of other people I can't I mean people I've been talking to this morning Republicans he did poorly he just just objectively did not do well but can I say something can I say something on that look I I agree with you that Trump took all of her bait he ran after her bait just like Myck runs after his liver snaps um but uh and that he he did not do a good job of staying on his message and factchecking her in all the places where he could have but I actually went back I watched it rewatched it again today and then I read the transcript of it carefully as you can see with my little poits and Trump actually did a better job than I thought he did trying to bat down her attacks on him he was he was attempting because she would bring up a lot of stuff about him that was not true and or that was potentially damaging and so he I think he did feel the need to say that's a lie here's why that's a lie don't be worried about for example my tariffs here's why and then he would pivot back but she was given free reign she was doing what one should do during a debate which is just deliver your message not answer the question asked make it into an attack on your opponent and then he felt the need to respond to her attacks and then would try to say something offensive or affirmative but I think we all walked away with the impression that he wasn't doing a good job because it was just constant you did not vote for this economic downturn and this High inflation but you could be paying for it at the pump the grocery store and with growing stacks of unpaid bills Financial stress can be crushing and one solution could be 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