ABC debate moderators 'bent backwards' to help Kamala: Commission of Presidential Debates co-chair

Quote:Following the Tuesday night debate between Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, Commission on Presidential Debates Co-Founder and Co-Chair Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr criticized the ABC News moderators’ performances, saying they "bent backwards to help" Harris.

"I thought one of the things that really shocked me last night was the way the moderators handled it," Fahrenkopf said on Newsmax’s The Record on Wednesday. "We always explain to our moderators, and we’ve done 33 of those, Greta, starting back in 1988, that their job is to be facilitators. They’re not to get involved themselves."

"It’s different than if you had someone on your show and you asked them a question and they answered it in a different way than they said a month before, you would correct them. But moderators are not supposed to do that," Fahrenkopf, who also served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee between 1983 and 1989, said.

"A debate is between the candidates, not a debate between the candidate and the moderators. And these moderators, so far as I was concerned, it was the worst performance that I’ve seen. And I’ve — as I said, I’ve done 33 of these things over the years. I don’t know what their thoughts were, but they clearly were oversized, I think, on the way they treated the former President and the way they treated the present Vice President, I think they bent backwards to help her."

The Commission founder’s comments came ahead of Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, calling for an internal investigation into the ABC debate.

Penn demanded to know if the network’s news department deliberately worked at "rigging the outcome of this debate." He said, "I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don't know how much of this was planned in advance."

"I don't know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that," he added.

Gave the questions to Trump too. Didn’t help.

Of what use are "full internal investigations"? Heck, anyone near to the mods were in cahoots and if it's internal it means that ABC would be doing the "investigations" which would go no where. Even if you hired outside "investigators" what guarantee that those people weren't Demoncrat biased?

(09-13-2024 07:10 AM)bearcat65 Wrote:  

(09-12-2024 05:43 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(09-12-2024 04:33 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This is just as serious. Mark Penn is calling for ABC/Harris to be investigated. It sounds like there is some "there" there.

Yeah, scripted answers because anyone with half a brain knew they were going to ask about the economy, immigration, abortion, Afghanistan, and health care. No real shockers there.

Harris spent 5 days prepping like a professional so she had answers for the hot topics already prepped.

Trump doesn’t have half a brain so from him you got “I have concepts of a plan” and “they are eating the dogs”.

So you are saying that Harris is so on top of the issues that she had to spend 5 days being told how to answer questions that they knew were coming. And somehow that makes her smarter than Trump. That's laughable.

What’s laughable is that she had five days prepping and the questions and still couldn’t answer any of them.

Muir and Davis are simply smirking @ssholes who enjoyed trying to overhelm and skewer Trump. After Trump is sworn in in January, he should have his Chief of Staff contact ABC and advise those two chumps will NOT be permitted inside the White House for any reason.

(09-13-2024 07:50 PM)Crayton Wrote:  Gave the questions to Trump too. Didn’t help.

lolno Not beforehand.

(09-13-2024 07:50 PM)Crayton Wrote:  Gave the questions to Trump too. Didn’t help.

lookie lookie at ball on hookie ... #bobbin'

yeah, buggy ... thanks for playin'....

What's the latest on this?

(09-18-2024 09:57 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  What's the latest on this?

Seriously - none pf the mainstream media will follow up on this. They just hope by ignoring the problem it will go away.

They need a new headline - STAT!

The latest is the someone on Twitter released a word doc with vague claims, and no information about the person who is making those claims.

So, not much is going on with this.

This is so ******* ridiculous. You people REALLY need to think a bit more.

You honestly think a multi-million dollar business is going to risk it all for something that gains them absolutely nothing? They probably make more money having trump in office.

The one person who hasn’t figured out the debate was a setup tells us we’re the ones who need to think. LMAO.

(09-18-2024 01:56 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  This is so ******* ridiculous. You people REALLY need to think a bit more.

You honestly think a multi-million dollar business is going to risk it all for something that gains them absolutely nothing? They probably make more money having trump in office.

I know, they would never do that

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/d...out-230553



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(09-18-2024 09:57 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  What's the latest on this?

The "affidavit" was a complete fabrication. That's. It.

But I'm sure the talking earring or the doppelganger stories are totally real. It's amazing the lengths the cult goes to simply because they cannot admit the obvious. You/he tried the same thing after Hillary smacked him around...claiming she had an ear piece.

#Hoodwinked

Why does it even require a whistleblower?

Everyone knows she got the test questions ahead of the exam from her ABC pals. Same thing Donna Brazile did for Hillary.

(09-19-2024 08:14 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-18-2024 09:57 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  What's the latest on this?

You/he tried the same thing after Hillary smacked him around...claiming she had an ear piece.

Was that the debate where Donna Brazile later admitted that she gave Hilary the questions in advance?

(09-19-2024 09:48 AM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(09-19-2024 08:14 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-18-2024 09:57 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  What's the latest on this?

You/he tried the same thing after Hillary smacked him around...claiming she had an ear piece.

Was that the debate where Donna Brazile later admitted that she gave Hilary the questions in advance?

It was ONE question, IIRC. And clearly, that one incident does not in any way make this made-up story credible.

(09-19-2024 10:10 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-19-2024 09:48 AM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(09-19-2024 08:14 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-18-2024 09:57 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  What's the latest on this?

You/he tried the same thing after Hillary smacked him around...claiming she had an ear piece.

Was that the debate where Donna Brazile later admitted that she gave Hilary the questions in advance?

It was ONE question, IIRC. And clearly, that one incident does not in any way make this made-up story credible.

Ah yes. Brazile decided to give info to Hilary, but because she's a paragon of virtue, she only gave her one question.

Fine, Brzaile gave her all the questions. Again, NONE of that would make this made-up story any more credible.

This is all a waste of time. Regardless of the affidavit being true or false - everyone who watched the debate could see that the moderators were biased in how they treated each candidate.