Former top Clinton adviser calls on ABC
to launch internal probe into whether
debate was rigged
Just the News,
by
Nicholas Ballasy
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
9/12/2024 5:43:58 PM
Mark Penn, a former top adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Thursday for ABC to launch a formal internal investigation into its news division's planning and execution of this week's presidential debate to determine if there was some effort at "rigging the outcome of this debate.[Snip] "I don't know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on[Snip]fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rochow 9/12/2024 5:55:36 PM (No. 1794641)
It certainly was. Have a look at her 'desk', littered with paper. I thought they were not allowed to have 'notes' or cheat sheets. If you want to jot something down, you can do that quickly on a piece of paper. The camera also moved away from her desk quickly and over to Trump. Can't recall that he ever showed up like the bidet or the camel cow with piles of paperwork.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/12/2024 5:56:03 PM (No. 1794643)
Well that's interesting. The debate so successfully and skillfully created an image of Hairass that is totally detached from the last 8 years of data surrounding her, that I had concluded that there must have been back channel collusion to accomplish it. It was Hollywood scripted for both Hairass and the "meddling moderators."
I do fault Trump for not having spent 5 days of intense preparation because I think he could have decimated her, but the "rally" approach needed some serious modification. The "fault" is minor because I could respect no man more than I do him as I have watched his epic battle against the forces of country theft and corruption that has found a home in the DimoKKKrap Party.
Hopefully, such an investigation can be forced.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janjan 9/12/2024 5:59:09 PM (No. 1794645)
This is a lot more backlash than I expected. Good for them for speaking up. The bias was horrible and infuriating.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/12/2024 5:59:51 PM (No. 1794646)
David "Maniac" Muir and Linsey "Demon" Davis. The Knotseez at ABC News enjoy going on national television and spewing their lies.
Kamala "OpenBorderCzar" Harris
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
qr4j 9/12/2024 6:00:45 PM (No. 1794647)
Donna Brazile handed debate questions to Hillary in advance of a 2016 debate. Republicans have come to expect that behavior. That is especially true of Mr. Trump. He knows the media are out to get him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
davew 9/12/2024 6:05:43 PM (No. 1794650)
ABC rigged it in plain sight. The trick was using the split-screen where Harris could mug to the panel, grin, guffaw, roll her eyes, and otherwise convey total contempt through her body language. They muted Trump's mic, but they gave Harris a video megaphone to distract viewers from the compelling points that Trump was making with his words. The writer, Stephen King, said it quite well on his X post.
"Kamala Harris's face kept saying, "Go ahead, Donald, have your tantrum, and then the adults will speak." He got more time than she did...but she didn't need more time. Her face said it all."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catfur27 9/12/2024 6:18:02 PM (No. 1794658)
abc :. " ..Ok...we did an investigation of ourselves ...and we found ourselves to be clean.....this is just another attempt by racist/homophobic / democracy-hating Trump-supporters to squash liberty."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
sanspeur 9/12/2024 7:27:09 PM (No. 1794676)
just cause kammy’s best friend sorority sister was in charge doesn’t mean anything , check it out
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DonQuijote 9/12/2024 7:27:18 PM (No. 1794677)
I'd like to boycott the sponsors, but I don't know who they are. I don't watch ABC except the local affiliate at 11:00 for the weather, but stopped that after Tuesday. This has gotten out of hand and ABC needs to be humiliated on a national level.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/12/2024 7:31:48 PM (No. 1794679)
I saw something similar, poster #1. She turned the pages of papers stapled together, meaning she had more than one page of notes. When did she write all those notes? When Trump was speaking, she spent most of her time glaring at him with her hand weirdly attached to her face.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/12/2024 7:43:04 PM (No. 1794689)
# 2 - No need for Trump to prepare for that debate. He has all the information he'll ever need in his head already. He knew a set up when he saw it. We all knew it was a set up. He played it low key. Good idea. I don't think she fooled anyone, well maybe a few liberals, but she didn't steal one single vote from Trump.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
3XALADY 9/12/2024 7:56:59 PM (No. 1794697)
#8 I'm thinking I read the sorority sister also introduced her to our First Husband or whatever they call him. Sorority sister had trout lips big time. They were ugly.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
downnout 9/12/2024 8:06:39 PM (No. 1794704)
I can’t decide if Mark Penn is becoming disillusioned with the leftists or if he’s just trying to salvage whatever shreds of his reputation remain. I would like to think he’s coming to his senses but I’m very skeptical.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 9/12/2024 9:22:30 PM (No. 1794730)
Hell, it was obviously rigged.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 9/12/2024 9:58:21 PM (No. 1794750)
What a joke, from the 'chief rigger' herself....chuckle....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 9/12/2024 10:31:34 PM (No. 1794764)
On this one, I have to hand it to Jake Tapper and Dana Bash at CNN. In the Trump-Biden debate, they could have played the 3-against-1 game that the ABC stooges did, but they were somewhat fair or played close to it.
But as my wife says, maybe the idea of that debate was to show Biden the exit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
IceQueen 9/12/2024 10:50:20 PM (No. 1794774)
B'H
I call a Big BS to this whole call to launch an internal probe, conducted by an "independent party." Obvious gaslighting (and shameful, if any dem/leftist had any shame): a stage play. Will anything come of it? Perhaps we'll see in President Trump's next term. I've questioned why the FEC has failed to even look into the obvious in kind donations to the dem party.
#6: her facial contortions mirrored the ex with whom lots of us folks are familiar. Off putting doesn't not even describe our reactions!
#11: I Agree!!!
#12: He's called "Dougie," isn't that condescendingly cute!?! I am actually surprised he has three (3) children. . .
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/12/2024 11:21:08 PM (No. 1794790)
OH DUH...FIRE ALL OF THEM!
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