Matt Lauer’s supposedly overly rough treatment of Hillary Clinton Wednesday night at the Commander-in-Chief Forum in White Plains, New York has become such a big thing that the low-information voter fast-food providers at Inside Edition felt the need to cover it. Trump’s backers said Lauer gave Clinton a pass while treating their candidate with disrespect.
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Lauer grilled Clinton particularly hard about that email server that has not yet led to the Earth opening up and swallowing us whole, but is somehow the most atrocious act committed by any presidential candidate on the history of this planet, so thanks a lot Colin Powell.
And although Trump is on the losing side in this question, he fares better than nearly every Republican in the last 24 years. “It would have been easier to follow many of my law school classmates to a high-powered NY law firm, but the call to service rooted in my faith was just too powerful”, she said. They have to be prepared on the atmospherics. “And they have to be prepared to strike their own very disciplined, important voice for completeness and accuracy in the responses that they get”.
University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato, meanwhile, said being subjected to occasionally unfair criticism is part of a moderator’s portfolio. “Are they going to let the candidate roam freely and ignore the questions, and misstate the facts, or are they going to intervene, and to what degree? They have to think about this”.
The long list of Trump comments on Iraq seemingly begins on September 11, 2002, just weeks before the invasion vote, when Trump was asked by radio host Howard Stern whether he supported going into Iraq.
The ease with which NBC was able to fact-check Trump’s claims only makes one wonder why Lauer couldn’t do it in real time.
“Lauer’s performance was not merely a failure, it was horrifying and shocking”, wrote Jonathan Chait in NY magazine. The New York Times declared Thursday, “Matt Lauer Loses the War in a Battle Between the Candidates”. About 6 in 10 said they thought Obama would be the better debater over both John McCain and Mitt Romney.
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Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump on Thursday (Friday NZ Time) for his condemnation of American military generals and his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying her Republican opponent had “failed” at proving he can be commander in chief. Since he wasn’t talking, it’s impossible to know whether Lauer had considered whether it would have been repetitive given that earlier in the hour, Clinton had specifically pointed out that Trump had been fudging the record on Iraq. Trump was long one of the most outspoken figures alleging that President Obama was not born in the United States. It was because Lauer allowed Donald Trump to walk all over him.
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Surprisingly, the amount of people who are voting outside of the two candidates is increasing over time.
