{"id":129,"date":"2016-10-20T12:32:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fresnocountydemocraticwomensclub.org\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:32:46","slug":"chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fresnocountydemocraticwomensclub.org\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace Did Everything He Could to Help Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a reprint of an Article Appearing in the \u201cDaily Koss\u201d webzine on 10\/20\/2016 by dcg2<\/em><\/p>\n

You may see this entire article at http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/10\/19\/1584737\/-Chris-Wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-Trump-and-still-couldn-t?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=d3de525854910836fdb0e5365cc1b211&source=email-chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt&email_referrer=chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt&email_subject=chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

Well, the third debate is in the books, and it was another dominating outing for Hillary, another debate where Trump kept the brainwashed 40% in line, and another debate where the ensuing week will be terrible for Trump.<\/p>\n

And the crazy thing is, I thought Chris Wallace did everything he could to throw Trump a lifeline. Think about it:<\/p>\n

Conservative wedge issue dream sequence to open. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace opened the debate with about 40 minutes on conservative wedge issues.\u00a0 The Supreme Court first to help bring home wavering conservatives.\u00a0 Then guns.\u00a0 Then abortion.\u00a0 Then illegal immigration. Yep, the first 4 questions were the Holy Quartet of Fox News conservative wedge issues.<\/p>\n

Of course, Hillary crushed it on all of them, but don\u2019t overlook what Wallace chose to open the debate with not just for one question, but for several.<\/p>\n

Attacking Hillary first, holding off on the Trump negatives until later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace had to ask about the big attacks on the candidates \u2014 sexual assault allegations, refusal to accept Democracy, and Wikileaks.\u00a0 But notice how he did it.\u00a0 The very first one of those Wallace brought up was Wikileaks.\u00a0 Yep, that was more important to get to first, I guess.\u00a0\u00a0 And he didn\u2019t get to sexual assault or trying to undermine our democracy until well into the debate, after a lot of people probably tuned out.<\/p>\n

Helping frame the sexual assault allegations; trying to give Trump an out on supporting democracy. <\/strong><\/p>\n

When he did ask Trump the bad questions, he tried to spoon feed them to Trump.<\/p>\n

He framed the question about sexual assault as \u201cwhy aren\u2019t they telling the truth\u201d using the question itself to imply that the veracity of the accusations is in doubt.\u00a0 That was as soft, as generous to Trump, as he could have brought it up.<\/p>\n

Then, on the question on which Trump hung himself, Wallace actually tried to bail Trump out.\u00a0 After Trump said he might not accept the election results, Wallace laid out for him in detail why he shouldn\u2019t say that and then gave him a second chance to correct his debate-ending error.\u00a0 Trump was too dumb to take it, but Wallace still tried to throw him a life preserver.<\/p>\n

Framing his economic question in conservative terms. <\/strong><\/p>\n

How about the economy?\u00a0\u00a0 When he did ask about the economy, he framed it for the audience as being about Hillary favoring more government.\u00a0 He did ask Trump about his numbers not adding up, but of course he had already framed Hillary for conservatives as being for big government (and conservatives don\u2019t care about things like numbers adding up or science).<\/p>\n

And of course Wallace also threw in an Obamacare question, framed as an attack on Obamacare.<\/p>\n

LYING about the stimulus bill. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace falsely claimed that the stimulus caused the slowdown. I\u2019m not looking at a transcript, but I think that was the phrase.\u00a0 He\u2019s a liar.\u00a0 The stimulus did not cause<\/em> any slowdown, and it helped pull us out of recession.<\/p>\n

Someone should FactCheck Wallace on that.<\/p>\n

This was the question that made me most mad, besides starting the debate with 30-40 minutes of conservative wedge issue questions.<\/p>\n

Advocating for cutting Social Security and Medicare. <\/strong><\/p>\n

He asked two questions about a Fox News favorite, cutting social security and Medicare and the debt \u2014 but he did it in a way that tried to push the audience toward supporting cuts.\u00a0 First, he brought up the debt, setting up the notion we can\u2019t afford to take care of our seniors.<\/p>\n

Then, the coup de grace for Fox and the elites who want to cut Social Security and Medicare was that he asked those questions in a ridiculously slanted way.\u00a0 He set it up as a choice between making cuts now or letting the programs die.\u00a0 As if there\u2019s not other options.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, framing that false choice was a complete and total abuse of his position as moderator.<\/p>\n

Ignoring the debate ground rules. <\/strong><\/p>\n

He closed the debate by ignoring the ground rules \u2014 admitting that the campaigns had negotiated an agreement not to have closing statements, but he was just going to ignore that and put them on the spot anyway.<\/p>\n

While that statement was great for Hillary (and absolute home run), it was still wrong of the moderator to do that to candidates who carefully negotiated the ground rules.<\/p>\n

Finally, look at everything he didn\u2019t ask: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Climate change <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Family and medical leave<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 How to lift people out of poverty. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 How to help the middle class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Education. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Equal pay. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Energy or, God forbid, renewable energy.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Child care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Minimum wage. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Collective bargaining rights.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Are corporations people? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Money in politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Reining in Wall Street abuses. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

I know some have praised Wallace, but that\u2019s only true if you grade him on a curve (like how some grade Trump\u2019s debates) and don\u2019t think about what he actually said, what he didn\u2019t bring up, and how he framed things and\/or tried to throw help to Trump.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much a good moderator could have asked about which impact people\u2019s lives, instead of this litany of conservative wedge issues and false attacks on Democratic economic proposals.<\/p>\n

The crazy thing is Hillary is so good \u2014 and Trump so bad \u2014 that even Fox News\u2019 framing couldn\u2019t save Trump.<\/p>\n

But I really hope after this disservice to the nation, neither Wallace nor Fox are allowed the legitimacy of hosting another debate again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a reprint of an Article Appearing in the \u201cDaily Koss\u201d webzine on 10\/20\/2016 by dcg2 You may see this entire article at http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/10\/19\/1584737\/-Chris-Wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-Trump-and-still-couldn-t?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=d3de525854910836fdb0e5365cc1b211&source=email-chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt&email_referrer=chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt&email_subject=chris-wallace-did-everything-he-could-to-help-trump-and-still-couldnt Well, the third debate is in the books, and it was another dominating outing for Hillary, another debate where Trump kept the brainwashed 40% in line, and another debate where … <\/p>\n

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