CNN spin on their town hall this morning
Several members of Jon King's insufferable "panel" admitted that TFG is using this opportunity to repair his image with voters outside the rightwing bubble. So they are totally aware of this, and okay with it. At no point did any of them suggest that he would be challenged. And now we know that the audience will be packed with rightwingers who would be the last people on earth to challenge him. No Dems allowed.
The only opportunity for any kind of "challenge" will have to come from Kaitlin Collins. I just don't see her asking enough tough questions on her own with any kind of follow-up to compete with all the fawning BS that is going to come from the audience. which will ask the bulk of the questions.
I won't be watching, but I'm sure some brave DUers will be. I'll read about it here or on some trusted reporters twitter pages. I have absolutely no faith in CNN to cut through his crap. The format alone is stacked against truth,
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Remember the fairness doctrine? Yeah the one that Ronald Reagan murdered. Back when we had real "free speech" and "free press" as described in the Bill of Rights, the opposition party could demand equal time to rebut any of the lies/disinformation that a candidate was allowed to say on the air.
The news media (before 1980) were careful to never allow those political lies and disinformation because they hated to give equal time to the other side. The networks policed themselves in the old days, and they were quite good at it most of the time. But those days are over - the fairness doctrine died by Reagan's decree and now we're subjected to lies almost 24/7/365.
Most of the younger adults in our country have no idea what the fairness doctrine is, or that it ever existed.
