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WHAT HAPPENED TO YOURS MATT?
WHO knew matt lauer went that way? Obviously hates women, is threatened by them if their's are bigger than his (I bet his are like raisins if they are there at all), no wonder he was so warm and fuzzy with donald, maybe more a daddy figure to matt than a CIC? From +Daily Kos .....
CiC Forum: Lauer Confirms Double Standard And Sexism Towards Hillary Clinton.
Media is rightfully being scorned by his abysmal performance moderating last night’s CiC Forum
the NYT
Granted 30 minutes with each candidate, who appeared back-to-back at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan, Mr. Lauer devoted about a third of his time with Mrs. Clinton to questions about her use of a private email server, then seemed to rush through subsequent queries about weighty topics like domestic terror attacks.When an Army veteran in the audience asked Mrs. Clinton to describe her plan to defeat the Islamic State, Mr. Lauer interjected before the candidate could begin her reply.“As briefly as you can,” he said, one of several moments where the anchor spoke over Mrs. Clinton to remind her that their time was running short.
Zero deference for the real CiC questions, he wanted to delve in the tedious headlines of emails and “scandal” not letting the candidate finish or sometimes start to express a thought. But then
Mr. Trump stormed onstage in his familiar motor-mouth style, often talking over Mr. Lauer and declining to directly answer many of his questions. At times, Mr. Lauer — who has conducted fewer adversarial interviews with Mr. Trump than his colleagues on NBC’s political desk — appeared flummoxed by his subject’s linguistic feints.Drawing particular ire was the moment when Mr. Trump asserted, with his usual confidence: “I was totally against the war in Iraq.”
It is on record that that was a lie... Lauer let it pass
'tweets went on a storm
'from WaPo
@MLauer should have been prepared to do this during the forum.twitter.com/NBCNews/status…
TpM
And others
If only Trump had attacked that Gold Star family in an email, then it would be newsworthy to Lauer. twitter.com/kimfrederi/sta…
Trump blatantly scolded our generals , right there
When Mr. Lauer asked if Mr. Trump actually believed he knew more about the Islamic State than American generals, the candidate replied: “The generals have been reduced to rubble.” When Mr. Lauer brought up Mr. Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, noting that Mr. Putin had invaded Ukraine and was suspected of hacking Democratic emails, Mr. Trump refused to say a negative word about him. “Do you want me to start naming some of the things that President Obama does?” Mr. Trump asked.
It was surreal....
Donald Trump faced a tough round of questions on Wednesday night at NBC’s Commander In Chief Forum when Matt Lauer lobbed him open-ended question after open-ended question—more akin to something you would ask a third grader than a potential president. While Lauer pounded away at Hillary Clinton about her emails during her first question, his first query of Trump was:
What have you experienced in your personal life or your professional life that you believe prepares you to make the decisions that a commander-in-chief has to make?
Yeah, that was a doozy, Matt. This was basically the equivalent of, “Why do you want to be president one day?” Open-ended questions are usually a gift to candidates—allowing them to answer however they want. In a situation where a journalist only has 30 minutes with a candidate and he’s covering something as complicated as foreign policy, this is child’s play. Wonder how many more truly illuminating questions we can nail Trump down on. Oh, here’s another:
You recently received two intelligence briefings ... Did anything in that briefing, without going into specifics, shock or alarm you? … Did you learn new things in that briefing?
Wow. How about this, “What did you do at school today, Donnie?” Ok, moving on, surely we’ll get to something meaty soon.
Will you be prepared on day one, if you’re elected president of the United States, to tackle these complex national security issues?
Now we’re getting down to it! “Have you completed your homework, Donnie?” For real, this went from bad to worse—it was by far the easiest set of questions I have ever seen asked of a presidential candidate. The inquiries didn’t test his knowledge of intricate foreign policy issues, they didn’t nail him down on specifics, they didn’t hold Trump’s feet to the fire in any way on his major flip-flop of the day—a decisive move away from the isolationism he has touted like a badge of honor to a more hawkish foreign policy posture. That happened the same day, for goodness sake. It was there for the taking and Lauer passed on it.
Instead of exhibiting the hyper-control around timing that he did with Hillary Clinton—interrupting her multiple times—Lauer let Trump ramble on long enough that the GOP nominee slipped into portions of his stump speech.
When Trump asserted that he had always been against the Iraq War, Lauer failed to note that he had in fact told Howard Stern otherwise during a 2002 interview.
And finally, Lauer wondered if Trump was prepared for the “emotional burden” of making critical foreign policy decisions.
If he had dropped the mic right there, we could have all laughed it off as an elaborately staged joke of an interview. Unfortunately, Lauer was serious. Either he didn’t know enough to ask the tough questions or journalists have such low expectations for Trump that they’re questioning him on a curve. Either way, it was one of the worst exhibitions of journalism this cycle, at the very least, and the country is worse off for it.
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