Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Ooh la la la la la la la.....


I'm guessing, this one:

Donald Trump's town hall with ABC News did not go well, although I give him credit for agreeing to a road game in a hostile gym. The President had a few decent moments in Philadelphia Tuesday, but the event showed he is simply better in a pugilistic debate with an opponent than he is in addressing individual voters in a "townhall" format.

Not that the negative interactions were all his fault. This was billed as a conversation with "uncommitted" voters, which is, charitably, baloney. Most of the questions were hostile, and several of the questioners quite clearly have no intention whatsoever of voting for Trump.

Ya mean, like this guy?

Yeah, very "hostile," if by "hostile" you mean "not fawning":
On Wednesday, Day called Trump's answer "laughable" and said it showed how Trump and others haven't "journeyed through these inner cities of America" and been on the ground, talking to the people in these communities.

"This is one of the reasons why so many people, especially African Americans voters, in these communities are really feeling voiceless, really feeling as if they're not sure if their vote matters at the end of the day, because there's no plan there," Day told CNN's John Berman on "New Day."
"And to see a President fail to acknowledge racism all together, and even that we have a race issue, and also fail to really point to how the urban inner city where African Americans live actually isn't experiencing any greatness, that's very troubling."

Day identified himself Tuesday at the town hall as an undecided voter in the 2020 election, and he supported Green Party candidate Jill Stein in 2016.

He told CNN he's "undecided" because he has yet to hear either presidential candidate -- Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden -- "explicitly explain" or lay out a "viable plan" of how they would help Black Americans in inner cities.
Or did Jennings mean like this guy, who asked the first question:

Paul Tubiana of Bethlehem asked Trump the first question at Tuesday’s town hall.

“Mr. President, I voted for you in 2016. I’m a conservative, pro-life and diabetic,” Tubiana explained to Trump. “I thought you were doing a good job with the pandemic response until about May 1. Then you took your foot off the gas pedal. Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?”

That one never comes up in Jennings analysis.  Funny, neither did this, which was actually broadcast on CNN:

“He didn’t answer anything,” Tubiana lamented. “He was lying through his teeth.”

Tubiana said that Trump gave “canned responses” at a time when people like him are “feeling scared, alone and powerless.”

Or this question:

Another questioner, Ellesia Blaque, explained to Trump that she would die without her medications. She wanted to know why he his administration is working to overturn protections for people with preexisting conditions.

“He didn’t answer my question,” an angry Blaque recalled to Stelter.

Blaque said that she was “on the fence” about her 2020 vote until that moment.

“I’m going to vote for Biden,” she said, noting that Trump had “reanimated me to vote.”  I'd agree they're both hostile to Trump; the question is:  why?  Three guesses, first two don't count.

But the purpose of TV "hosts" (to be mouthpieces, megaphones: nothing more) is an issue for Mr. Jennings:

Trump also had to fight off relentless badgering from ABC's chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. This is Stephanopoulos' job, I guess, and Trump often says things that are so ridiculous that he invites the badgering. But this format was supposed to be about Trump and the voters and it was frequently about Trump and the anchor. This show should've been unmoderated.

This is actually a more accurate take on confronting Trump with his lies:

And oddly, Jennings never gets to this very hostile questioner:

There really is an alternative universe some people live in.  "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest...."


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