I listened to his aggrandizing opening one more time then a bit longer when he announced he was going to something different - take questions. Really! He did. But he never answers them. Not one while I was listening and some were indeed quite specific. Just the same old "I guarantee you when I'm President that won't happen..."
What he did do is savagely attack Carly Fiorina. He must be worried about her burgeoning popularity.
Neither of them are perfect by any manner. Both have had business successes and failures but I see the beginnings of the "Romneying" of Carly. She's to blame for everything that went wrong with HP and Lucent and now everyone who lost their job in shake ups is coming out of the woodwork. Oh, she ruined my life! And how long ago was was that? Haven't you done anything since? Stuff happens. Hub lost more than one job due to corporate turmoil. We didn't like it but we didn't wallow in it. We moved on.
Okay. That's a prejudiced paragraph because I like Carly Fiorina. That being said, to date other than Ben Carson, she and Trump are getting all the press. And Carson darn little at that other than poll results.
Frankly, I would like to hear about other candidate rallies and speeches. From both parties. I don't care about network ratings, I care about information and I'm not getting it. Where is Jim Webb? Where is Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chaffey and what issues are they campaigning on? I haven't a clue. Do you?
The same holds true for Rick Santorum and George Pataki. They certainly aren't sitting at home twiddling their thumbs waiting for Trump to topple.
The media has an obligation to cover all the candidates, not be the determining factor of who has the right to move up and who doesn't. It's no wonder politicians have a love/hate relationship with the media. They have the power to make you or break you depending on their own personal ideology. That's wrong. They're supposed to be objective but with the lines blurred between punditry, reporting and entertainment, we the public are being ill served.
I shouldn't have to watch FOX to hear about the Republicans nor MSNBC to hear about Democrats. I should be able to listen to either and get the same perspective. Objectivity.
We rightfully put a pox on both political parties; the media deserves the same.
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I have a real problem with the networks sponsoring the debates. If it isn't a conflict of interest, it is surely unethical for them to insert themselves into the debates, instead of stepping back, watching, and then reporting. It seems to me they are trying to manipulate this election, and I suspect it will get worse as time goes on. It's just wrong.
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