It’s back to all the free publicity he got as soon as he rode down that fucking escalator. That audience was a bad joke. They should have just brought their banners and flags. Collins couldn’t even read questions from non-fawning viewers? This was just a MAGAt rally.
And most people have not sat through a MAGA ralley and get a feel for just how nastey they are. This showed the side that most people don’t see or don’t want to believe about the MAGA’s (with the acception of the ones a 1/6). They are just normal looking people with sick, delusional beliefs. And it comes out only when they get together. That was clearly shown this night for the world to see. It was like watching Hitler at Nuerumberg.
As he was saying his sickest shit, they should have just slowly panned over the audience’s faces. It would have been both scary and enlightening.
Agreed. Then we would have seen the true face of evil, it is what Trump reflects. They created this evil monster. They are the monster.
When they did show the audiance you could see that their faces were glowing with pride. Thats our boy up there, you go boy is what it said.
i saw a few clips. trump has this posture?, attitude?, when he is questioned by women. i noticed it in the clips from his deposition. he positions his head and eyes in a downward way that gives a snide, superior, beneath my level feel.
if i hadn’t just seen his depo clips i may not have picked up on it. there is a “i’m not really paying attention to you”, “you are not worth my time” vibe.
he has a very real thing about being questioned by a woman. i wonder if that is why they had collins do the moderating. aside from the fact that cnn seems to be promoting her into more things.
Who would the ideal questioner of Trump be?
I would suggest someone very experienced in dealing with Trump’s sort of overt hostility, well informed on substance especially in areas that Trump reverts to frequently, quick on his feet, I’m probably describing a trial lawyer rather than a TV personality. Maybe Dan Goldman from NY state?
or tv person who was a lawyer. as mentioned above jake tapper and chris wallace both at cnn held their own against trump.
medi hasan would be a good choice.
This is what most troubles me about CNN. My attention is mostly on print rather than television, though television may involve more profit. In the context of that attention, I think of Trumpists populating Fox and then Fox’s newer more extreme competitors, while CNN was sharing the left with MSNBC and WaPo and the Times. I’m afraid the Trumpist market looks more profitable right now because such a large target audience is dropping their brand loyalty, so CNN is going for them. Of course if they can hold their leftist market too, so much the better, but it’d be that Trumpist segment they may be changing to court.
I fear our watching may have little effect on what we know and think, and more effect in boosting CNN’s ratings and ad revenue. So, it’s not that we’re keeping a more open mind by watching, it’s that we are participating in a toxic business.
What I’m gathering from some in this thread is that the only responsible and effective way to communicate to the mainstream masses how unsuitable and dangerous Trump is for major media outlets to collaborate with Trump on holding pro-Trump events. That’s what real journalistic integrity and impartiality looks like!
I’m pretty pissed that Anderson Cooper is trying to gaslight us (the sane) into thinking we’re in the wrong by not wanting Trump to get this kind of free reign, national exposure. Just like I am really mad at the idea of also teaching intelligent design in schools, or “both sides of the Holocaust.”
WE KNOW WHAT TRUMP AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE ABOUT. Our neighbors have been flying tattered “TRUMP” flags for 7 years, and have “FUCK BRANDON” signs in their flower beds. We’re out marching for our rights while our aunts and uncles scream “FUCK YOUR RIGHTS!” to our faces at family dinners. People in our towns are having public meltdowns over books and boogeymen. Trump’s slimy tentacles have permeated every corner of this country, from the Liberal “silos” to the places where they opened the door and let him in.
Saying that Trump needs a whole Town Hall Special so “everyone is aware” is like saying there should be an infomercial for Coca-Cola just in case no one has ever run across it.
Gimme a break.
I’m sour that there’s no late night shows right now. Stephen Colbert is good friends with both Chris Licht and Anderson Cooper. It’d be nice to see what he came up with to say about those two and wtf he thinks Licht is doing.
Jon Stewart. With an air horn, as Stranger suggested.
yes, air horn or buzzer!
If Americans could coax Jeremy Paxman to come across the pond, he would make a good moderator to tangle with Trump. Ultimately, the problem comes down to the fact that news sources (both terrestrial networks and cable) have sacrificed their journalistic integrity in a bid to continue receiving access to politicians. They need to develop the spine to risk having the politician storm out in a huff. Of course, the likes of Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, et al., are never going to do that. These people need publicity and cameras like a normal human being needs water and oxygen.
Just once I would love for an interviewer to doggedly pursue questions and if the interview subject complains that they are biased or unfair, they can point across the room and say “the door is right there. I’m not holding you here; leave whenever you wish.”
Do y’all know why I know the Trump/Russia collusion story isn’t a hoax? It’s because we saw Donald Trump ask Russia for 30,000 emails. And we also saw Jr release an email chain where he agreed to meet with Russians associated with Putin during the campaign.
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
Just as you should believe that this Trump/CNN thing was nothing more than a partnership between the 2 entities.
I’m going to hate to do this, I do apologize, but I am going to link to a Ben Shapiro article which contains quotes made by Donald Trump regarding the CNN appearance:
Let me quote:
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I have zero doubt that “a deal” was done, and it was done by a CNN emissary who kissed the zits off Trump’s ass with the words of “we need you back, nobody drove ratings like you, Donny Boy!” Probably Chris Licht.
The entire thing was a Trump campaign rally, a “deal” between Trump and CNN.
CNN has never fallen this low in my estimation before. And f-you, Anderson Cooper. I put myself in the silo of 331,000,000 Americans who don’t watch your smarmy ass.
I can’t link because I don’t know how to use my phone, but I saw a report that MSNBC came in third for ratings during the “town hall”. Faux still beat them. Did Faux cover it in real time?
MSNBC? Do you mean CNN?
To note that Paxman is not what he was, as his Parkinson’s related slow deterioration continues. In his heyday he would have brooked no bullshit from Trump though.
The solution to the problem with the town hall is to not broadcast it live. Present it more like 60 Minutes interviews, where the broadcast can cut away from the town hall periodically to fact check and provide context without a moderator being shouted down. Trump has allowed these kinds of interviews in the past, where he also gets to record it to guard against the network presenting things out of context.
A better moderator by themself isn’t the answer. There is nothing someone can do to stop Trump in real time from gish galloping off on tangents.
I think Jon Stewart would be a great moderator for a debate between legitimate candidates because he would be well prepared, acerbic, and would be assertive with candidate regarding cagey language whether he agreed with them or not. Trump, however, would just make some ethnic slur and storm off the first time Stewart called him out because he no one has ever actually held Trump’s feet to the fire and he is utterly incapable of responding to a real challenge in a verbal sparring match with someone who cares just as little for decorum as he does. It would be the shortest and least informative ‘town hall’ ever, although at least Trump wouldn’t be allowed to go on endlessly spewing falsehoods and invective.
Stranger
Does anyone else think that CNN selected a young, attractive woman as moderator because they knew it would guarantee that Trump would be at his misogynistic worst?