Hawkeye
January 25th, 2008, 09:28 AM
Man, the cards are stacked in these nationally televised debates by corporate media. Watching last night's debate I can tell you rat now that MNBC (especially bug-eyed Tim Russert) might as well come out and make a public endorsement of John McCain.
Lat night, I put the stopwatch on these media whores and here's the stats of the 90 minute debate. First of all its sounds fishy that MNBC said the debates were originally scheduled to last 2 hours but said just after air time started that the majority of the candidates wanted them to last only 90 minutes. What?
Here is the total time each candidate got to answer a question and additional observations;
Mitt Romney - 20 minutes:22 seconds
John McCain - 15 minutes:45 seconds
Rudy Guiliani - 13 minutes:20 seconds
Mike Huckabee - 11 minutes:35 seconds
Ron Paul - 6 minutes:11 seconds
Why did Romney get more time? IMO, Russert/MNBC wants McCain and sees Romney as the biggest threat. They handed Romney more rope and asks McCain scripted questions.
Other observations;
In the 2nd quarter of this game the format was supposed to be each candidates asking one other candidate a question. No candidate asks Ron Paul a question, probably fearing the answer. Ron Paul asks his question of John McCain concerning transparency in the federal reserve bank meetings and McCain dodged the question.
In the 3rd and 4th quarters, each candidate was supposed to get equal time to answer the same questions. But when it came Ron Paul's turn to answer, Russert interjected different and loaded question. In fairness, Russet did the same thing to Romney several times, trying to trip him up.
I admire Paul for putting up with this farce as it is definitely loaded dice. Russert set the rules and broke them in order to steer perception. And, as I prognosticated before the debate, McCain's main theme was to scare us with Islamic Terrorists, using that term over 13 times while none of the others did. The military industrial complex has chosen their candidate and MNBC, owned by GE, made that crystal clear. Russert is the big kahuna at MNBC.
*your milage may differ
Lat night, I put the stopwatch on these media whores and here's the stats of the 90 minute debate. First of all its sounds fishy that MNBC said the debates were originally scheduled to last 2 hours but said just after air time started that the majority of the candidates wanted them to last only 90 minutes. What?
Here is the total time each candidate got to answer a question and additional observations;
Mitt Romney - 20 minutes:22 seconds
John McCain - 15 minutes:45 seconds
Rudy Guiliani - 13 minutes:20 seconds
Mike Huckabee - 11 minutes:35 seconds
Ron Paul - 6 minutes:11 seconds
Why did Romney get more time? IMO, Russert/MNBC wants McCain and sees Romney as the biggest threat. They handed Romney more rope and asks McCain scripted questions.
Other observations;
In the 2nd quarter of this game the format was supposed to be each candidates asking one other candidate a question. No candidate asks Ron Paul a question, probably fearing the answer. Ron Paul asks his question of John McCain concerning transparency in the federal reserve bank meetings and McCain dodged the question.
In the 3rd and 4th quarters, each candidate was supposed to get equal time to answer the same questions. But when it came Ron Paul's turn to answer, Russert interjected different and loaded question. In fairness, Russet did the same thing to Romney several times, trying to trip him up.
I admire Paul for putting up with this farce as it is definitely loaded dice. Russert set the rules and broke them in order to steer perception. And, as I prognosticated before the debate, McCain's main theme was to scare us with Islamic Terrorists, using that term over 13 times while none of the others did. The military industrial complex has chosen their candidate and MNBC, owned by GE, made that crystal clear. Russert is the big kahuna at MNBC.
*your milage may differ