sethnintendo said:
Like I said I don't think it is right to give her easy questions either. Matt Lauer should have at least pushed back when Trump lies about never supporting the Iraq and Libya wars. He is starting to backpedal on it now a bit. He wasn't like Cheney trying to get the war going but he wasn't totally against it either. Basically he tried to brag about being totally right about Iraq when he didn't know shit about it before the invasion (his 2002 interviews prove it). The war began in 2003 and any evidence of clips of him going against the war in 2003 don't mean anything. The overall public started going against the war around 2004.
Holt began one question by stating that Republican nominee Trump “had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion,” a frequent claim from critics that Trump has adamantly disputed during the primary and general election seasons. Holt on Monday, and many in the media before him, pointed to a September 2002 interview Trump gave to Howard Stern in which he said “Yeah, I guess so” in response to a question about whether President Bush should go to war. When Trump pushed back on Holt, saying “I was against the war in Iraq,” Holt countered: “The record does not show that.” Then Trump laid out his case. “The record shows that I’m right,” he said. “When I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, ‘I don’t know, maybe, who knows?’ essentially. I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto. We talked about the economy is more important [than going to war]. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/27/2003-clip-backs-up-trump-on-iraq-war-opposition.html Just check this link out. Fox News states 2003 and tries to skip past the 2002 comments. |
Sure, but again I don't think the question or the topic is wrong in itself. It's a legit question, and in fact, frankly, Trump deserves it.
But it's clearly a tough, hard question, and not having a single equivalent question for Clinton is really a fundamental problem but not the most disturbing problem. It's not just "5 toughs question for Trump and none for Clinton", it's him creating this false narrative about Trump being the only one having a liability, a bad jugdement regarding wars, regarding Irak, because Hillary get a free pass for her support and vote for Irak war, support for war for Syria, Libya, and ISIS rise. And really, I'm not trying to convince you Clinton is worst or whatever, I'm strictly speaking about how massive the bias was in this debate.
