Democrats WILL get airtime to respond:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[safeinOhio]

1. PLEASE, please, please, make it

Nancy.

[NurseJackie]

16. Yes, please! NANCY ROCKS!!!

Looks like someone else had a different opinion, however.

[safeinOhio]

19. Dang I missed it.

[Takket]

2. Drumpf will bring fear and lies

So our reply needs to calm, rational and loaded with verifiable facts. Hope the Dems pick someone up the the task.

[bigtree]

3. make sure

Puesto Loco™
? @PuestoLoco
12h12 hours ago

Please call & demand equal time for Dems to rebut Trump’s Tuesday night political speech:
CNN [phone]
ABC [phone]
NBC [phone]
FOX [phone]
CBS [phone]
PBS [phone]

[CousinIT]

4. +1 n/t

[watoos]

5. Nancy would be good,

she would get under Trump's skin. If not Nancy I'd like it to be a Senator who could embarrass his Repug colleagues.

Can Dems ask Al Franken to give the rebuttal?

[Harker]

12. Or Sen. Warren.

That might be the beginning of something beautiful.

[Kingofalldems]

6. Gee I wonder if Fox will give them airtime?

[Hortensis]

7. I'll watch Trump -- on CSPAN.

I feel screen media should cover this speech. Trump threatening what would be an enormous, dangerously enormous, abuse of power is news. This will also be Trump's first prime-time speech ever, and he is POTUS.

But with fact checking in real time for all viewers to see. Like the "facts box" CNN tried during a Sanders press conference. There've been no responses yet to widespread demands for fact checking.

[ismnotwasm]

8. That, is excellent

Trump can’t do a speech without lying, and this will be an opportunity to publicly fact check him.

[Harker]

13. Yep.

He won't be able to stick to the script. He'll lie, brag, and almost certainly say something demonstrably stupid... then the Democratic response will reveal the truth... I hope you're right.

[lark]

10. WTF is wrong with ABC?

Are they Russian Repug too?

[Towlie]

11. They'd better be ready to deal with a Gish Gallop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

The Gish gallop is a technique used during debating that focuses on overwhelming an opponent with as many arguments as possible, without regard for accuracy or strength of the arguments.

Trump could spew out so many outrageous lies that there won't be enough time to prepare and deliver a comprehensive refutation. Hopefully the Democrats have assembled a large team that's ready to work fast.

[Honeycombe8]

14. That's good, but I don't expect this to help.

To give a speech right after Trump's, there is no time to correct the misinformation and lies. They can guess at what the lies will be.

I hope they try to correct the lies, rather than just focus on DACA and the Democratic position. Because there is no counter position to Trump's lies. It would equate the Dem position to the Trump position. The Trump position is total fabrication and lies.

It gets me so angry that the networks are going to air Trump's speech. When they refused to air Obama's? No way. That portends bad news for us going forward, if Trump is now telling the networks what to do. That would mean he has taken control of the media.

[SCVDem]

15. Since time will be short

How about real time TRUTH checking.
That should be quick!

[SidDithers]

17. Oh, I hope it's Bernie...nt

Sid

[orleans]

18. i was glad to see this:

"Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN each said it would air both Trump's speech and Democrats' response live on Tuesday night after Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) requested equal air time following the president's address."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424290-networks-plan-to-carry-dem-response-to-trump-primetime-address