The whole f**king thing was rigged

 

The whole thing was rigged.

Twice in the last few months democrats have binge drank the Kool Aid. The first one was the anointing of Kamala Harris following the coup of Joe Biden. The second was Harris’s debate performance. They’ve been high fiving each other non-stop since Tuesday, but the I suspect the hangover is just beginning.

Over at Townhall, Matt Vespa posited a question – Did Someone Leak the Debate Questions to Kamala Harris?

It’s a fair question. Why? Because it’s happened before. It’s not some tin foil hat, pie-in-the-sky conspiracy theory: Democrats hired by major news networks have fed debate questions to their party’s presidential nominees. While many analyses and polls are being discussed about the ABC News debate on Tuesday, what about the possibility that Harris got the questions in advance?

I think this is very possible. Despite her juvenile tactics and facial expressions, to me she appeared to be ready for all the questions. She had her false claims and accusations all teed up. It’s like she knew.

Surprisingly, Harris campaign co-chair Sen Chris Coons (D-MD) opined that Harris should participate in a debate on Fox News.

“I think the American people would love to hear more from both of them: ‘What will you do to make us safer and stronger at home and abroad?’ And she should accept an invitation from FOX to come on and debate President Trump.”

That’s pretty curious from a team so confident that they’d won the war already. Perhaps they know something they haven’t admitted- the debate did not move the needle. Nate Silver still believes Trump is the likely winner.

But ABC may have killed the traditional debate, especially as this debate was 3 on 1. Ben Whedon at Just The News:

The Tuesday evening presidential debate saw former President Donald Trump trade barbs not just with Vice President Kamala Harris, but with moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, presenting a lop-sided spectacle that has some questioning the utility of further debates at all.

This is an amusing but accurate description of what happened:

Indeed, Tuesday evening’s event on ABC News stood in stark contrast to the CNN debate, an event that even saw Trump compliment moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash on their handling of that contest. Muir and Davis, by contrast, drew scrutiny from both sides of the aisle for pressing their thumbs on the scale in favor of Harris.

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly presented a caricature of the debate format in which the moderators would present questions as follows:

“Mr. Trump, you said something incredibly controversial and terrible. Let me remind you of what it was. Do you have any regrets or thoughts on how terrible you were? Trump answers. Vice President Harris, how bad is Trump? And then she answers.”

“It happened over and over again. That was the format,” Kelly said. “Mr. Trump, you’re a piece of shit. Kamala Harris, isn’t he a shit? Thank you.”

Bill Shipley out it this way:

First Muir Question to Trump re Tariffs — here is the “question” which is in the form of the following individual sentence predicates before the question is posed:

“Mr. President, I do want to drill down on something you both brought up.”

“The vice president brought up your tariffs you responded and let’s drill down on this because your plan is what she calls is a essentially a national sales tax.”

“Your proposal calls for tariffs as you pointed out here, on foreign imports across the board.”

“You recently said that you might double your plan, imposing tariffs up to 20% on good coming into this country.”

“As you know many economists say that with tariffs at that level costs are then passed onto the consumer.”

“Vice President Harris has argued it’ll mean higher prices on gas, food, clothing medication arguing it costs the typical family nearly four thousand dollars a year.”

“Do you believe Americans can afford higher prices because of tariffs.”

So Muir’s question included the following editorial assertions prior to asking a question:

1) Tariff is a national sales tax.

2) Tariffs on imports across the board.

3) Double them to 20% on goods coming into the country.

4) Most economists say costs passed on to consumers.

5) Harris says higher prices on gas, food, clothing, medicine — $4000 per year on a typical family. Q — Can Americans afford your tariffs?

This was the first question to Trump. It has poison darts littered in it. There are 5 predicate sentences — all debatable — and the “question” was akin to “When did you stop beating your wife?” The first question to Harris, just before this was “Are Americans better off now than 4 years ago?” That’s a question with hazards for her, but it is not argumentative like the one posed to Trump.

Former democrat pollster Doug Schoen:

“It’s pretty clear to me that on Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris won what may be the only debate between herself and former President Trump,” wrote Doug Schoen, a former advisor to left-leaning candidates such as President Bill Clinton and Mike Bloomberg. “The vice president had some help, too. She was aided and abetted by two ABC News moderators who seemingly felt the need to fact-check virtually everything the former president said.”

He further asserted that Harris gained confidence as she saw “Trump faltering under relentless questioning from herself and moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.”

“The debate was hardly fair,” he concluded. “And absent a debate on Fox News, there’s little reason to believe he’ll get a fair shake from any other network.”

Muir and Davis were not moderators as much as they were DNC operatives:

Among the most widely-panned actions of the moderators were their fact-checks, almost all of which were directed at Trump. Muir and Davis consistently allowed Harris to falsely link Trump to Project 2025, a presidential transition project proposal from the Heritage Foundation that he has repeatedly disavowed. She further claimed that Trump would support a national abortion ban and repeated the debunked “very fine people” hoax in reference to Trump’s 2019 remarks on a demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. None of those remarks prompted any pushback at all from the moderators.

By contrast, Muir and Davis repeatedly “fact-checked” Trump, sometimes using subjective metrics, personal opinions, or even inaccurate information. Among the most notable was Davis’s attempt to claim that “[t]here is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.” Her remark came in response to Trump’s discussion of Democratic abortion policy. He specifically pointed to Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., saying he “says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth — it’s execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born is okay, and that’s not okay with me.”

And there were lots of falsehoods spewed by Harris. Breitbart counted at least 21 of them.

What was more were the absolutely astonishing denials by Muir and other democrats that flew in the face of facts. Wolf Blitzer proved himself to be a complete ass.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” host Wolf Blitzer claimed it was “outlandish” for 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump to claim 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris supports taxpayer funding for gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants and those in prison,

Yet this from CNN, Blitzer’s employer:

In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use, and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention.

Then there was Fire Marshall Jamaal Bowman:

“She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.” Yall serious right now? He says anything. He just put words together that scares people and barely forms sentences.

Here’s another idiot from the New Yorker magazine:

These are stupid people. STUPID.

Kamala is on tape saying the exact opposite of virtually every position she claims to believe now. We’ve truly never seen anything like this: pic.twitter.com/8sbwcfq2UT

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 12, 2024

And we have this:

STUPID

And crime is down? It is NOT.

FACT CHECK: In last night’s three-on-one debate the ABC News moderators used misleading crime data from the FBI to ‘fact check’

@realDonaldTrump

. The reality is that Trump (as he usually is) was right – crime is not down – it is up, way up. Kamala Harris and her willing accomplices in the mainstream media would have you believe that violent crime in America is at a 50-year low, a narrative eagerly parroted by so-called fact-checkers at Politifact and now ABC News. The reality, however, is far from what they claim. The only thing at a 50-year low is the integrity of violent crime data. Less than a year after taking office, Biden-Harris’s administration had the FBI dismantle the long-standing crime reporting system, replacing it in 2021 with a new, ‘woke’ system that is optional for state and local law enforcement agencies to use. As a result, at least 6,000 law enforcement agencies aren’t providing data, meaning that 25% of the country’s crime data is not captured by the FBI. This deliberate underreporting skews the statistics, painting a falsely optimistic picture of public safety while real Americans continue to suffer from rising crime rates.

There’s a great summary at that link.

And it was all a plot:

This sounds less like a debate and more like a setup. @LinseyDavis . @DavidMuir and @ABC  spent weeks playing out questions and their responses. Her catty retort to the abortion question wasn’t off the cuff, it was hand crafted. There’s no way they didn’t share all of this with the Harris team.

A second former democrat pollster, Mark Penn, has called for an investigation.

Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Thursday for ABC to launch a formal internal investigation into its news division’s planning and execution of this week’s presidential debate to determine if there was some effort at “rigging the outcome of this debate.”

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“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,” Penn told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.

“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.

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Other publications have disclosed a questionable coziness between Harris and Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney and who oversees ABC News. The New York Times quoted Harris as calling their relationship “extraordinary friends,” and disclosed that Walden and Harris are neighbors in Brentwood, a wealthy Los Angeles enclave where Ms. Harris and her husband also own a residence. The Times also pointed out that The Waldens have donated money to Ms. Harris’s political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco.

PJMedia’s Victoria Taft published yet more information about Harris’ connections with ABC News undisclosed by the network. ABC moderator Linsey Davis bragged in 2021 on ABC’s live coverage of the Biden Inauguration about being sorority sisters with Harris.

Muir, Davis and ABC set a trap for Trump and without a doubt fed Harris the questions. The whole f**king thing was rigged.