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2016 Postmortem

DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Thu Sep 8, 2016, 04:32 AM Sep 2016

Fox News ignoring Lauer's partisan and unprepared performance

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/08/trump-clinton-rip-each-other-over-iraq-war-isis-at-military-forum.html

No mention that Lauer spent 10 out of 30 minutes asking about her emails and then ran out of time.
No mention how he was barraged for that by other journalists.
No mention that he repeatedly interrupted Clinton.
No mention that Trump was allowed to drone on and on.
No mention how Lauer was barraged by other journalists for not following up on Trump's lies.
No mention that Trump proposed getting back into Iraq and taking their oil.

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Fox News ignoring Lauer's partisan and unprepared performance (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2016 OP

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And that's why Lauer didn't ask Trump about past controversies? DetlefK Sep 2016 #2

It was a disgrace MFM008 Sep 2016 #3

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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

2. And that's why Lauer didn't ask Trump about past controversies?

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Thu Sep 8, 2016, 05:12 AM

Sep 2016

The Khans? McCain? Kill the families of terrorists? More nukes mean a safer world? Get out of NATO? That he knows better than the generals how to defeat ISIS? What effect his hostility to Muslims has on muslim extremism?

MFM008

(19,816 posts)

3. It was a disgrace

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Thu Sep 8, 2016, 07:37 AM

Sep 2016

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