The next debate moderator has been selected. The October 15th debate will be moderated by Steve Scully, a former intern for Vice-President Joe Biden and a self proclaimed member of the “never Trump” resistance group. You can’t make this stuff up:
WASHINGTON – […] Let’s not forget that another debate looms on the calendar. This one promises to present a stark contrast to Tuesday’s bout. For one thing, experts and critics are already proposing to cancel future debates or launch format changes to quell all that chaos and cacophony.
Then there is the moderator to consider. When debate day dawns on Oct. 15 the moderator will be none other than Steve Scully, senior political editor of C-SPAN. (read more)
Scum, all of them…Can’t handle a fair fight so they have to stack the deck against us, total BS! Trump still wins.
You guys still dont get it. This is exactly what Trump wants. This bias infuriates his base. So we will walk over broken glass to vote for him. Its so unfair that it pisses us off. This had already hit talk radio and conservative media. Trump loves this. He uses their own bias and tds to get us riled up. This motivates us! Trump’s a big boy. He can wrestle a handicap match. The more they lie, the more it fires us up. We vote and the left sees that Biden is not their Bernie. Biden is depressing the woke base.
Pick one:
1. Trump is a terrible negotiator on these most important debate arrangements.
2. Trump is intentionally showing – NOT telling – Americans what biased media is all about.
Obviously #2, playing chess. I hope he tightens up his sound bites with more details on his accomplishments (and Biden’s weaknesses). He’s used to rally speak where his fans know exactly what he’s talking about.
I say no, I don’t want the President to go through that unfair crap again.
We don’t need it to win.
He is a lion who understands both the business world and the political world. He knows the optics. This is his specialty. If you’ve read his book you will understand his love for this arena. Have faith in him. He’s far stronger than 99% of us. Be of good cheer ☺
Yes, you right…
Of course you’re right. PT loves the challenge. My question is why does the repugs sign up for this ass kicking every year. Year in….year out….When is the last time we saw a moderator like Lou Dobbs…Tucker?….Mark…? Why do we always sign up for these DH’s.
Triple amen
Probably a silly question from an uniformed foreigner, but who chooses these interrogators?
Dowse these RATS with a lovely scent of blood and let Trump the Lion have at ‘em in a cage.
AFC: I agree with you, albeit very reluctantly.
I believe this new debate format, with the leftist Scully as “moderator” is a huge trap for PDJT.
I see nothing but danger, and massive unnecessary risk.
Yes, I know…he is our capable warrior, our Lion, etc. But this next venue will be staged and tweaked, and prepared, in every possible way…and not to PDJT’s favor.
I see very little to gain.
Better to focus time and resources on on rallies, door-to-door, maybe some kind of online “Townhalls”.
Does PT know about this??
We need to start a social media campaign to get this guy replaced. The left does it all the time. Who on our side can get the ball rolling and get this info out via social media?
Joe Rogan wants it. He has millions of followers.
Yes, this news has been out there for some time, and he is a known commodity. Not a good one, but a known one. He also worked for Ted Kennedy
The Trump campaign agreed to this……..I just don’t know sometimes who is running the show on our side. ?
I could be wrong, but I don’t think either campaign has any word in it. According to the Commission on Presidential Debates website, they select the venues and the moderators. The moderators than select the questions.
Under the heading, ‘How are the Debate Moderators Chosen?‘ (link below) it states, “They do not meet with the campaigns, nor do the campaigns have a role in moderator selection.”
https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/overview/
Okay, but why should these old liberals get to decide anything about the debates? It’s not “their” debate! They should be there to facilitate, not dictate terms.
How about 4 debates – one campaign picks 2 moderators and the other campaign picks the other 2? Or debates with 2 moderators, one pick for each campaign?
I really don’t get who elected these people to control the debates. I sure as hell didn’t give my consent.
President Trump will look forward to taking down this clown too
Same old same old. I think the obvious bias in these “debates” and Trump’s ability to have fun while destroying both opponents actually works against the opposition.
https://twitter.com/Matthew_4_Trump/status/1311736981156630531?s=20
Matthew might be on to something. Have two debate moderators. Biden’s chosen moderator, Steve Scully, can ask Trump questions, and then Trump gets to pick a moderator to ask Biden questions. Sounds more fair to me!
Why not? that is just common sense
Since 1996, only once has the CPD selected two moderators, the 2nd presidential debate in 2016 – Martha Raddatz of ABC News and Anderson Cooper of CNN.
But that’s the point. The CPD gets to Select them. Why should they have that power? They shouldn’t.
Just a plot to protect Biden by forcing Trump to pull out of the debate.
If Trump doesn’t get his mic cut off, I’m sure he’ll be fine.
Bongino talked about this today – he said that if they change the debate rules for the second and third so that these dweebs have the power to mute his mic, the President should walk, and have a town hall instead.
The idea of someone muting the President should be WAY beyond the pale.
Democrat cheer: When we go low, we can go even lower.
President Trump “I am used to it”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311793693763014656
Chris Wallace surpassed bias – he was outright hostile. He argued, interrupted, scolded, demeaned, and condescended to the President of the United States.
It was shocking, and Wallace should be condemned. (Both professionally, and to hell.) Yes, I’m still outraged.
And now, the Presidential debates commission wants the power to MUTE the POTUS??? Preposterous! Obscene! These despots need to be made to heel!
No, no, NO to this new turd. Let’s hope PDJT tweets a storm out about Skully’s scorn for him.
He was perfect!
Keeps us jumping pot. Leap leap frog.
Your enemy doesnt expose deep implants until desperation. We have every American vote. I promise on my life
Peoria, I don’t think it matters to PDJT who the moderator is. The President knows he will be debating two people…and I don’t think the mike kill switch idea will fly. Wallace did a mea culpa on Fox, he knew it was bad. President Trump has a plan for these debates and the best is yet to come.
Whom are you speaking of … oh, I think you mean the “moderator”. The journalist non grata whom never henceforth be named on Fox.
Joem…, I’m grinnin…
Wallace did a “mea culpa”? According to whom? Do you have a link for this?
Peoria, I have searched the Fox News site and the article from this morning has been scrubbed. Wallace basically said that he did not anticipate President Trump’s aggressive approach to the debate and that he was poorly prepared for that eventuality.
Well that’s not a mea culpa, anyway. Not even close.
It’s another attempt to blame PDJT for where he (Wallace) failed
Gee, what could possibly go wrong with this.
And Kristen Welker from the WH press corps for the 3d debate; that ought to be another winner.
And of course Kristen Welker hails from the vile Philthadelphia press corps before heading to a national station and then the WH…. another radical left-wing psycho pretending to be a journalist. Are there any real journalists left?
Joe Biden is now a special needs politician.
And here I thought “Agent Scully” went off the air a long while back. /s
Scully, I let him go…
I feel like it will be easier for Trump to deal with this guy. With Chrissy, Trump stayed pretty calm, because it’s FNN. With this guy Trump will enjoy the counterpunch without walking on eggshells
We need to start a social media campaign to get this guy replaced due to bias. The left does these social media campaigns against us and wins. I don’t do social media. Who from our side can get the ball rolling here. Sundance, others? Thanks.
Picking Chris Wallace for the debate moderator was almost as big a blunder as giving 17 exclusive one hour interviews to Bob Woodward at the Washington Post. Sometimes, I sit here scratching my head wondering why President Trump thinks…this time the end result with these people will be different???
He is fighting a mental wall u dont have but leftist do. The he won’t talk to anyone he is an arrogant dictator.
POTUS is detonating each column built to vote against him, only thing left is to vote for something, forcing biden to stand for something.
But we don’t hear about Woodward’s’ book anymore, do we?
Why can’t I like anything?
cliffaheadwolvesbehind: Not even puppies?
???
Issues with WP. Sundance has a article about it today on his posts.
The insanity is starting to Pierce through the leftbrainwashedmind…
I am a person that sits among all types at a lot of times. The left women are worried of biden Making it to the election ( comment only started after debate, seeing POTUS attack him)
Just remember this , we only talk about the current act or event!, POTUS gained subliminal leverage last night, and can hit us with the vote thought the day before largest percentage of votes are cast.
You know this instinctively. He doesn’t want to to win a debate. He doesn’t want to win a friend. Every move is a detonation set to a pillar of the SWAMP. At the time 10 21. He will
Symbolic
President Trump knows exactly who this is. I think he likes the challenge of beating them at their own game. I bet he has poll numbers that show that 75% think he kicked Chrissy and Biden’s butts all over Cleveland. I totally trust PT on this one. He will use this to his advantage. Plus, very likely that Biden won’t hold up anyway.
And one more thought…..can you imagine all the stuff that is going to happen between now and the 15Th? Let’s just buckle up and enjoy the show. MAGA.
I used to wonder why President Trump never bothered to throw his weight around on issues like this. Watching his confidence level now, I’m convinced it’s just minutiae to him. He doesn’t care. He’s not afraid of them, he’s not intimidated by them, he doesn’t think they’re going to be able to ding him in the least. And his internal polling must be telling him that he’s right. I think the most surprising thing to him about Washington DC and the federal government and the mainstream media it’s just how not bright they are. They’re so focused on little tiny gotchas that have worked for them in the last 25 years, and even though they keep failing, they keep trying, because that’s all they’ve got. Their horizon is maybe 48 hours. And he keeps gathering information, gathering ammunition, and it’s going to be a shock to them when he finally uses it.
You hit it!
They chase gotcha feel good wins. He is setting strategic steps for one final win
The real issue with the media is the fact that we, the Trump voter, are not leaving Trump under any condition(s). They can not change our minds and it is beyond frustrating for them. Too damn bad.
First Trump got Sgt Tahmouressi out of Mexican jails (while other “leaders” twiddled their thumbs”
Then he got poor Otto Warmbier and three pastors out of North Korea, and another pastor out of Turkey
Trump has spoken out in favor of sobriety — not government-enforced sobriety, but individual-willed sobriety, the “real” kind; he has also spoken out for clean air and water (and clean everything else!)
Trump spoke out in favor of peace and went to negotiate, because war is insanity (and sane people know that)
There’s simply no one else I can get behind. I know the rest of them are fakes
Godspeed President Trump. And if you are going to blow up debates, they were biased $$$$shows anyway, so whatever
Kinda Wile E. Coyote like?
Oh well – something else for us to question PDJT on.
He’s in charge.
I say let him do whatever the hell he wants.
Let Trump be Trump!
Pathetic, the bias and thumbs on the scale is so obvious. Most people have seen the MSM bias over the last 4 years, so this is easy to spot. It’s so over the top, I think it won’t help Biden. We are all used to it.
This is galling. Do Rinos actually have a committee set up somewhere by Ronna Romney to promote this kind of malfeasance? And who are the dunces on ‘our side’ allowing POTUS to be subjected to this dumbphuquery?
Its Frank Fahrenkopf, Jr. has been the GOP dunce on the commission for at least 8 years. What a useless turd. We should all let him know what we think about him. If someone more internet savvy than I can find his email address, we can really let him know what we think of him
Has there -ever- been anything other than a liberal moderator at a presidential debate? Maybe I’m being forgetful, but I can’t think of one, while I remember many liberal ones.
How are these moderators selected? Who makes these decisions? Shouldn’t there be a process that involves representatives of BOTH campaigns involved in the selection of mutually agreed upon moderators?
Cant there be a “voir dire” process like they use in jury selection? Shouldn’t each candidate have a certain number of unquestionable “veto challenges”?
This is ludicrous
it’s all good, this ultimately benefits PDJT… they keep showing that President Trump is right when he says the system is rigged and that the msm is the enemy of the people… on national tv. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Sane people see right through the charade and scripted talking points.
This is utterly ridiculous
OK, we all know democrat operatives (and politicians) are unethical, morally bankrupt, bottom of the barrel scumbags, so this is no surprise when it comes to who was chosen to “moderate” and who did the choosing, but you’d think there would have been court cases on this already due to the modern day democrats MO
The airwaves belong to the people, and in a Republic, who we the people choose to lead us is of the utmost importance
That our system of government and our judicial branch would sit quietly while the most important aspect of choosing a leader, the debates, are turned into a biased, partisan clown show is unconscionable
The cornerstone of our elections are nothing more than hit jobs on Republicans while it spins and weaves to help Democrats. The truth is shut down while lies and deceptions hold sway
Allow third world tactics of the left, and become the third world
Why are the debates beholden to legacy media? When the debate commission came about in the 80’s television was king. Now it’s a far second the internet. Divorce these debates from corporate TV (almost all of which is Leftist), host it at a university, allow streaming by anyone who wants to broadcast, and have the moderator be someone outside of corporate media, who understands the stringent 2 minutes here, 2 minutes there format BS is nonsense, and who instead simply serves to introduce the candidates then allow them to discuss (and yell) about whatever they want.
Round 1: ‘down goes wallace, down goes wallace.
Round 2: ‘down goes scully, down goes scully.
Round 3: ‘Next’?
TV shows are produced for ratings. The debates make good (i.e., bad, therefore, good) TV. The choice of moderators works to PDJT’s advantage, because he knows how to play the game very, very well. This is beyond dispute.
Next debate will have more viewers in my opinion. They will want to see how the taming of our Lion will not work.
The next debate is a townhall format. I’m sure the
Audience will be stacked with democrats with
Prepared in advance questions that Joe with have
Access to. Sure I’ll the Presidents people know
This and are prepared.
Picking Scully to be the next moderator is a transparent provocation to the Trump campaign to pull out of the debates.
To quote Maha Rushty, “Things like this don’t happen in a vacuum.” Just like the FBI had an insurance policy so does the DNC and all associated with it, which includes the likes of Wallace.
There is no longer ANY semblance of fairness in this entire process. I defer to DJT for his instincts on this but if he goes through with the next debate he needs to sit down and watch his last performance and listen to constructive criticism on how to proceed in such a hostile environment.
Perhaps turning off his mic and letting Slow Joe twaddle on would be a good thing.
At least things are consistent.
There is also no semblance of justice in the DC legal system.
Perhaps turning off his mic and letting Slow Joe twaddle on would be a good thing.
Nu uh! You want people to go to sleep and miss whatever the President says next? Joe is Ambien in a suit.
With weird leg hair.
Here’s the deal: (:-) ) When you get deep enough into delusion, hysteria, groupthink, and psychosis, you really lose grip on reality. These elite Dem/media people are so far gone that they have no earthly idea how tired of them the average American ( and many immigrants) are. The American people are remarkably fair-minded and rational about things, and they despise injustice. Stacked decks. Backroom dirty dealing. The Dems are blowing this election bigly. Trump has to bear up under the persecution and unfairness without having a stroke or killing somebody; he’s doing it for us. But all this terrible, terrible, unfair, despicable rigging of the game is going to blow up spectacularly! on Nov. 3. But shhh, don’t tell ’em.
Round 1: ‘Down goes Wallace…down goes Wallace’.
Round 2: ‘Down goes Scully… down goes Scully’.
Round 3: Next’.
Sounds like fun. Won’t watch this one either. Trump will be the only one speaking anything close to facts and truth, and his helicopter press baggies are more entertaining.
The RNC has to be a party to this.
I think this was part of their Consent Degree. Not only were they not allowed to file any objections to eldctions violations by Dems, but they also secretly agreed to torpedo their own candidates whenever possible. /s
What a gift to Trump! Nothing motivates MAGA to the Polls than a stacked swamp attacking our very genius president PDJT!
And it is that very blatant swamp that has been driving Democrats and Independents to #Trump2020
And our Warrior gladly takes the slings and arrows FOR US.
Maybe Obama will be available to moderate the 3rd debate!
Isn’t a moderator, by definition, supposed to be non-partisan?
If only Chris Wallace had done his job; pushing Biden to answer policy questions, ask Biden about his son’s alleged corruption with China, Russia, Ukraine, prostitutes, ask Biden about his taxes, about Tara Reede, etc then maybe President Trump wouldn’t have needed to do his job for him.
To quote Rush Limbaugh, “Things like this don’t happen in a vacuum”. The FBI had an “insurance policy” and so does the DNC and their minions, which includes Wallace.
Picking Scully to moderate the next debate is a clear and transparent provocation to the Trump campaign to pull out of the debates to save Slow Joe.
I hope smart capable people will be helping our president to prepare for this next one. He does need to do better and the battle lines are now very clear.
My suggestion is to shut up and let Hide’n Biden babble on. He will dig his own grave (figuratively speaking).
If President Trump decides to go through with the debate, and I think he should, I would advise him to read off the moderator’s resume’ as well as his quotes in Twitter and elsewhere in his opening statement. And then the debate can start.
That is actually a very good idea. I might modify it a little: wait until Scully’s obvious bias shows up, then hit him with his resume.
Angry. Yes, so much so I feel I could spit nails. Disgusted and weary. The same ole’ same ole’ nearly every presidential election cycle. It’s incredulous to me and it ought to be an utter shame to America.
This great nation cannot have debates and elections without major upheaval, fraud, and those who are intending to undermine the process.
I’m going into, what has become increasingly, my shut-down mode. Don’t listen to rallies, debates, etc. I just can’t tolerate all the vitriol in the air. I get nothing out of it but … never mind.
I do know for whom I going to vote. The Lord willing. There’s not another person on the horizon whom I believe will do what I think this nation needs. Donald J. Trump. I cringe at the thought of any other entering the Oval Office on January 20, 2021.
I’m tired. Good night. God bless. God bless Trump/Pence. And, praying for this nation to be in a better, much better, place than it is now.
What happened to the Joe Rogan proposal? The sick sad thing about this BS is that if conservative media persons moderated, it would be fair, not skewed, screwed, blued, tatooed, and utterly illegitimate, as it was with pissy Chrissy and will be with this idjit. I’m guessing the strategy is to try to make PDJT reject further debates to keep Bribem in the basement more.
I dont know how trump team agreed to this!
I have simple solution to this issue. The first time trump is given the floor to speak, he should ask the moderator to acknowledge/disclose publicly that he worked for biden as intern. The game closed in front of millions of people.
Can anyone here please carry this suggestion to Trump team?
I can’t see PT pulling out of the debate whatever they throw at him.
Can we create a petition to block moderators who overly support one candidate over another???
These are NOT debates. They are fake news 2 min. Gotcha soundbites. A waste of time.
Angry. Yes, so much so I feel I could spit nails. Disgusted and weary. The same ole’ same ole’ nearly every presidential election cycle. It’s incredulous to me and it ought to be an utter shame to America.
This great nation cannot have debates and elections without major upheaval, fraud, and those who are intending to undermine the process.
I’m going into, what has become increasingly, my shut-down mode. Don’t listen to rallies, debates, etc. I just can’t tolerate all the vitriol in the air. I get nothing out of it but … never mind.
I do know for whom I going to vote. The Lord willing. There’s not another person on the horizon whom I believe will do what I think this nation needs. Donald J. Trump. I cringe at the thought of any other entering the Oval Office on January 20, 2021.
I’m tired. Good night. God bless. God bless Trump/Pence. And, praying for this nation to be in a better, much better, place than it is now.
As long as they don’t try to mute PDJT, I’m all for it. He’s tough. Trust him!