I think thereâs a case to be made for the moderator not to fact-check, but for the networks to refuse? Thatâs unprofessional, to say the least.
Cowardly fools. For the sake of a few points in ratings itâs ânot their jobâ to inform the voting electorate. Yep. PATRIOTS for sure.
The moderator however may eye roll, jaw drop, gasp, genuflect, & ROFL.
and Interrupt (but only Hillary) donât forget that one.
The media and the rest of societyâs institutions have simply failed to deal with the radicalization of the Republican party. Trump in some ways is an outgrowth of the right-wing noise machine, the difference being mostly quantitative. Heâs presented a geometric increase in the denial of reality and manipulation of half the publicâs mind. His flurry of lies amounts to a DDoS attack on any opponent. I hope for everyoneâs sake the Hillary people have a strategy for this.
YeahâŚpfffffffffâŚâfactsââŚwhat are they anyway? I mean, who can really tell?
SoâŚdueling campaign rallies it is, then?
And, in their failure, want us to look away briefly while they accept an Emmy.
Who cares if these failures continue to fail, they have our web comment, Twitter coattails to ride and claim as their own in that chummy way they haveâŚ
Itâs got to do with ACCESS which is ALL THAT MATTERS in todayâs âIntoTainmentâ environment.
Trump has said he will (and has) âblacklistâ anyone who challenges His Orangeness and that would mean NO ACCESS during the most lucrative time in the Election.
Is it Petty: Yes.
Is it shortsighted: Yes
Is it Patriotic: No
There is NO DIFFERENCE between the MSM and Wells Fargo when it comes to how they get their profit and the same threats and punishments await anyone who dares to disturb the cash flow to the Mega-Corps that control our Media.
Face it. Trump wins no matter what because he generates more cash for the MSM.
They care as far as it takes them to con that dollar out of our handâŚ
Without fact-checking, itâs just going to be another Trump-centered ârealityâ show. No thanks.
A truth telling crawl at the picture bottom would be a ratings winner innovation for the first network to implement it. What are they afraid of?
Donald Trump: âThe unemployment rate is 42%.â
Hillary Clinton: âNo, it isnât, according the the Bureau of Labor Statistics itâs 4.9%.â
Donald Trump: âTheyâre lying to hide the problem and support you and Obama. Itâs 42%.â
Hillary Clinton: âWe have to believe what those we trust to measure these data tell us, and youâre mistaken Mr. Trump.â
Lester Holt: âWell, we appear to have a difference of opinion on the unemployment rate, which we wonât resolve in this forum, so letâs move on to the next issue.â
Yeah, that does the electorate a fucking service in the search of the truthfulness of both candidates and of revealing their grasp of the matter. Just kill me.
When you insist that only the opponent is allowed to fact check, reality is reduced to âhe said, she saidâ, and the public remains stupid. The public looks to the media for answers, not to be told to do their own investigative journalism.
If the media has now officially dumped itâs constitutional obligation to educate the public for the sake of the more profitable approach of letting everything slide, then itâs long passed time we either start to regulate this for-profit failure, or start revoking press âprivilegesâ.
Anyone who doesnât believe that a modern Hitler or Mussolini could be elected in the U.S. is a fool. Or a Pundit.
âand if you and I have different sources of information, does your source about the unemployment rate agree with my source?â
Not if yours is a liar, fuckface. Are we really going to play this game? An entire right wing propaganda machine has been created SPECIFICALLY for this purpose: creating a drum-beat of counterfactual disinformation bearing superficial hallmarks of credibility solely to force the pussyfooted milquetoast MSM and others to back down in the face a choice between conflicting or even diametrically opposed sources. The fucking maggots feeding on the Fourth Estateâs corpse dutifully respond with mealy-mouthed pseudo-ethics, scolding us all that the only âresponsibleâ thing to do is âreport both without favoritism or bias.â
Itâs why you can go to Faux News and (pulling from last Friday) read a whole article about MSNBC receiving all the top âawardsâ for âmedia biasâ, shamelessly presented as if it was all based on objective, academic study of the reporting by an unbiased, non-partisan groupâŚonly to look it up and find out theyâre a bunch of ideological lunatics:
YeahâŚthat one had me infuriated.
#Republicansâ wetdream: Fact Free Debates!
BTW: Whatâs the over/under on Hair Furor losing it and blurting out the âCâ or âBâ word tonight? ___ Gottaâ be a close one.
Other words to look for:
âMexicansâ
âforeignersâ
âyuuuuugeâ
âMuslim,â
âterroristsâ
âloserâ
âimmigrantsâ
âsadâ
âbiglyâ
âweakâ
âtremendousâ
âIâ
âwallâ
Feel free to add any youâre certain about.
Short of using racial slurs, the âCâ word and shitting his pants and puddling on the floor, the media will be grading Trump on the âcan stand behind a podium and convert oxygen to CO2â scale as his bar for success.
Final assessment by the MSM: âHillary was right on questions of policy, the facts, and being able to speak coherently, just brilliant, but Donald was just so entertaining and, although he has nothing of substance to offer, a real crowd pleaser. He wins!â
If the voters elect that asshole for POTUS, this republic deserves whatever happens.
âŚthugs, wall, criminals, BLM, protests/protesters, wall, âreligion of peaceâ (said sarcastically of course), vetting, wall, shootings, terrorism, âradical Islam,â wall, tax returns, health, riots, wallâŚ