NBC News Townhall Thread

[DaleCooper]

OK, so, I was told this was going to "compete" with the Biden ABC town hall, but now it looks like the Biden ABC town hall is at 11 PM.  Maybe that's just in my timezone.  So I'm watching Trump.

Right now he's refusing to condemn QAnon.  He's being extremely belligerent.  He accused the interviewer of lying about what QAnon is even though "he doesn't know anything about it."  He keeps interrupting her and just laughed at her and said "so cute."  He also refused to answer the question about "herd immunity" and said "the cure can not be worse than the disease" and now he's refusing to denounce the "Biden killed Seal Team Six" thing because "it was a retweet, not my opinion."

So, pretty normal one thus far.

This is why I always laugh when Trump sycophants think that any event involving Trump speaking to a camera is going to help him. Any time people are made to listen to Trump, his approval rating dips.

[DaleCooper]

It’s not a trainwreck. Better than the “I was a widower” sob stories from Joe Biden. Trump goes into hostile environments, and that takes courage.

"Socialists'" weird fetishizing of Trump continues.

The "I'm a socialist but I have nothing bad to say about Trump" grift has been around since at least 2015. Very strange.

[DaleCooper]

Between Savannah Guthrie, the boycottNBC backlash, the twitter NY Post blackout and the Webster online dictionary changing definitions hours after words used by Amy Coney Barrett, this week has been unapologetically bias against Trump and I’m not sure it will work to the media or Biden’s benefit.

The Trump victim card doesn't work. He's been playing it for four years now and no one has been swayed. If he ever took winning this election seriously then he would've acted like an adult.

[DaleCooper]

Took 20 minutes for voters to begin asking questions.  This is a hit piece if I’ve ever seen one!

Being asked questions is not a hit piece. Sounds like Trump isn't POTUS material if he can't handle softballs like "Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power?"

[DaleCooper]

By the end of the day Trump got the event he wanted

If republicans or Trump supporters want to get upset at anybody
get upset at Trump for setting this up in the first place

He agreed to do this and who agreed to let Savannah Guthrie moderate
If Trump was not happy with that he could have easliy turned NBC down and went to Fox News and did a townhall on their network

He has no one to blame for this but himself

I think you got this wrong. Nobody is complaining. She was very hostile and biased. And her style of questioning was belligerent and rude. The people don't like that and just because of that fact, Trump won the debate with the moderator.

People don't sympathize with Trump. Even when he was receiving oxygen practically on his death bed at Walter Reed he didn't get any sympathy from the voters. A reporter asking him reasonable questions and not letting him dodge them isn't going to make people outside of the cult view him more favorably. If Trump is speaking, he's losing.

[DaleCooper]

I don't think Guthrie was unfair, but Trump more than held his own throughout. 

Guthrie acted the way she did to mollify NBC employees who resented NBC giving Trump debate time at the same time as Biden.  They did not want the Trump event to detract from Biden's attempt.  That ought to tell people something about the depth of the bias of the media. 

Trump held his own against a moderator with both a political and a personal agenda.  He's had to debate the moderator in his first two (2) events.  Joe Biden hasn't had to because the tough questions (Hunter's corruption and how Joe is part of that, giving Antifa and BLM free passes on violence, court packing, our policy on China, and specifics of Biden's COVID-19 plans that are actually different from Trump's, and disclosure as to his own health information) were not asked by Biden's moderator on the other network.  The "undecided" voters on Biden's "town hall" included a former speechwriter for the Obama White House.  (That man should be confronted by reporters and asked why, as a member of the inner Obama White House is he "undecided".)

Why can't Joe Biden be in a nationally televised event vigorously questioned by a Republican journalist who's not a #NeverTrumper?  Why can't he be asked about why he won't condemn BLM and Antifa for their violence?  Why can't he be asked about Hunter Biden and the corruption that is beginning to may Biden look like Spiro Agnew?  Why can't he answer questions about his role in the Presidential transition during which he suggested application of the Logan Act against Michael Flynn; about what he knew and what Barack Obama knew about these events?

The answer is that Biden CAN, but he WON'T.  He won't because he's a fading coward who now (apparently) has something to hide that will contaminate his Administration from Day One.  And now he's all about the money.  The Big Tech Companies won't be able to hide this, and it's going to be awful if (and, IMO, when) the Hunter Biden issues cause people to see Biden as Agnew, "the big guy", "my guy" taking payments.  Taking kickbacks from his own son is how the e-mails read. 

An interrogation for Trump.  A friendly interview for Biden.  That's what happens.  Is that honest?  Is that putting first the interests of honestly undecided Americans who are seeking honest answers to serious questions?  Biden is getting a free pass, and now the free pass is on Spiro Agnew-esque behavior while VP that is coming back to haunt him, but that Agnew-esque legacy of Biden will also haunt all of America if he's elected.

What journalist would you suggest?

According to Pew Research, Democrats have at least +10 net trust in the following sources of journalism:

NPR, PBS, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, Time, WaPo, CNN, Newsweek, Politico, MSNBC, WSJ, USA Today, Univision, The Guardian.

Meanwhile, Republicans have at least +10 net trust in the following sources of journalism:

Fox News, Hannity, Rush Limbaugh

(even Republicans only have +3 net trust in Breitbart).

So what journalists would you trust?  Limbaugh isn't a journalist.  Hannity isn't a journalist.  We tried getting Fox News' top journalist to do the debate and you all have been at war with Chris Wallace ever since.  Who's your guy who's gonna give Biden a fair shakedown?

The irony is that they desperately need a "biased" moderator, even if they don't realize it. Without a moderator to place the blame on, how will they justify Trump's inevitable humiliation on the debate stage?