The main focus of the Fox News GOP debate that was so heavily biased against Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and in favor of Jeb Bush is well known after 24 million people watched it. Most of the focus has been on Megyn Kelly’s meltdown and hypocrisy with Donald Trump. But there’s more to the biased Fox News debate than just Trump and Kelly. American Thinker has an excellent breakdown of just how bad the bias of the Fox News debate really was, aside from the Trump/Kelly confrontation. Consider a few stunning and embarrassing numbers from the Fox News GOP debate:
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40: Ted Cruz was ignored for 40 straight minutes during the debate – with the mods even skipping Cruz on the topics of Iran and yes, Obamacare. How in the world can you take yourself seriously when you don’t invite Cruz into an Obamacare discussion? Perhaps it’s because Fox was so arrogantly assuring everyone back during the Cruz Obamacare shutdown filibuster that it was going to cost the Republicans the Senate in 2014. How did that turn out?
59: It was 59 minutes before a single moderator mentioned any Democrat – and it was a question that involved Hillary Clinton. It’s as if Barack Obama hasn’t been president for almost 7 years and as if these are just normal times and this is just a normal election. Maybe that’s what Fox thinks. It apparently has never crossed their collective minds that what voters want is a plan for defeating the Democrats and then for rolling back the 7 years of devastation that have been wrought by them. They’re not interested in any of that.
31: Talk about ego. The three moderators of the prime-time debate spent nearly a third of their time on themselves! Yes, with 10 candidates needing exposure, 31 percent of the airtime went to the Fox crew. Not even Donald Trump got close to that kind of exposure – and he got more than any other candidate by far.
1: Bret Baier doggone well knew that one, and only one candidate, would refuse to pledge to support whoever the Republican nominee is, and he started off the entire debate with that insulting and smarmy “by a show of hands” charade. This is the utmost in subtle pomposity, as it puts the moderator in the position of professor while the candidates are subconsciously relegated to student status. By the way, over the years, it’s been intellectually vapid as well; almost all of the “show of hands” questions are impossible-to-fully-answer theoreticals.
3 out of 4: Three out of the first four questions asked by Chris Wallace were specifically designed to get two specific candidates on the stage at each other’s throats. They wanted a catfight – and when they got it with the Rand Paul v. Chris Christie exchange. (Megyn Kelly squealed her delight like a schoolgirl.)