Instead of challenging Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) misleading claims about Donald Trump’s standing in some key states, Fox News host Charles Payne helped validate the falsehood.
Sessions appeared on Your World to discuss a letter signed by more than 70 Republicans urging the RNC to cut off funding to Trump and shift resources to House and Senate races. After a bit of sympathetic-to-Trump discussion on the subject, Payne shed the “fair and balanced” charade to give Trump’s recent economic speech high marks.
“The speech was great,” Payne said. “There’s no doubt about it. The speech was great.” What kind of news anchor would say that? A Fox anchor, that’s who.
Payne did acknowledge that the polls “aren’t looking that great right now.”
Sessions began to spin. “Donald Trump has had everything, including the kitchen sink, thrown at him," Sessions said, echoing Fox's attempt to blame the media for Trump's poor polling. "And he’s still standing. In key battleground states, he’s neck and neck with Clinton,” Sessions said.
“He’s leading in states that we haven’t carried in 12 years,” Sessions continued. “You can’t win this race without doing well in Ohio and Pennsylvania and some of these other states, and he’s doing very well there. He was leading in a poll recently in Iowa. This is strong.”
“I saw that poll,” Payne said.
But the fact is that Clinton is still slightly ahead in Real Clear Politics' averages for Iowa and Ohio. She’s leading by nine points in Pennsylvania. FiveThirtyEight gives Clinton a 77% chance of winning the election in its polls-plus forecast. The same forecast gives Clinton a 76.1% chance of winning Ohio, a 73.2% chance of winning Iowa and nearly 87.6% chance of winning Pennsylvania.
Of course, Payne never mentioned those numbers.
Watch the bias below, from the August 12 Your World.
Bonus! Watch for Grandpa Hannocchio’s massive implosion on radio and television. It will be the worse temper tantrum in broadcasting history.
I don’t know that Trump and his supporters are personally responsible for CNN’s ratings, but it’s interesting that Paul would like to think they are. It’s a little troubling that Paul would like for Trump to take credit for trying to pollute someone else’s social postings on Twitter or anywhere else, but that’s for Paul to explain.
Very interesting that Paul thinks that Trump leads somehow in “all independent online polls”. What the heck does this mean? The aggregate of all polls clearly shows Trump slipping farther and farther behind. What specific polls are showing him as leading? I strongly doubt that Paul can produce anything here, but I’d be curious to see what he is talking about.
Finally, Paul’s comments about free speech are moving, but he’s got the discussion upside down and backwards. Forgetting that he’s lumping Progressives and Liberals into a single designation, I’ll just deal with his misunderstanding of radicals and free speech. Progressives have long been proponents of free speech, particularly when they were told to shut up about their opposition to war and cruelty, or when they were told that voicing a different opinion was somehow treason during the disastrous George W. Bush presidency.
But progressives have also long spoken out against Hate Speech, which is not the same thing as simply voicing an opinion. It’s a matter of advocating hatred and violence against someone else, something that Trump and his supporters have repeatedly done. Paul apparently doesn’t like being called out for this, but he has a simple solution he can exercise: Don’t say hateful and racist things, and he won’t be called out for saying them. He does have the right to say those hateful things, but everyone else has the right to call him on it when he does so.
Don’t forget the Trump excuse the polls are all wrong because people are embarrassed to tell pollsters they’re voting for The Donald so are all biased towards Hillary.
Of course, you’ve got to wonder why voters are embarrassed to admit they plan to vote for Trump? ;^)
The polls being skewed is a tired Republican excuse to wallpaper failing candidates. A subtext to their endless whine the media is biased against conservatives. They infamously tried to un-skew the polls for Mitt with comic results. Rove was so convinced by this line of malarkey he made a spectacle of himself live on election night refusing to accept Fox’s own projections Romney had lost.
Are his rallies bigger? His Twitter feed more popular? Certainly. People enjoy his entertaining stand-up act and hope to witness his next outrage. His fans are more rabid and loyal than Hillary’s. But what his followers can’t grasp is just because a couple more thousand voters aren’t interested to interrupt their day to attend a Hillary speech isn’t an expression of how many people will ultimately vote for her.
Trump never fully consolidated his base. Nor has he changed his rhetorical vomit to appeal to voters outside his base. In fact, he’s slowly hemorrhaging mainstream Republican voters who were planning to vote for Trump out of party loyalty but are now fearful of the long-term harm he’ll do to their party.
-Trumps rallies are 10 times bigger.
-Has many millions more social media followers,
-Leads in all independent online polls.
-His followers killed CNN’s ratings.
-Trumplicans.are tea-bagging CNN’s Twitter feed.
It’s sad now when what are supposed to be “radical” liberals accuse Trumpsters of being “radicalized”. That WAS the job of the left but left is now the new right.
It’s sad now when progressive liberals say; “You can’t say that.” and “I don’t like how he says things.” and “I don’t like his tone.”