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发帖数: 6571 | 1 September 26, 2016
Clinton wants debate moderator to 'fact-check' the candidates
By Rick Moran
Hillary Clinton and her aides are pressing moderator Lester Holt to "fact-
check" Donald Trump during the debate tonight. Debate moderators cannot "
close their ears to Donald Trump's lies; it will extend an unfair bias to
Donald Trump," Clinton's press secretary said. The Clinton camp claims that
it will be like giving Trump more time if Hillary has to do her own fact-
checking.
But the Commission on Presidential Debates doesn't want the moderators put
in that position.
CNNMoney:
But Janet Brown, executive director of the commission, which organizes
the debates every four years, said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that "I don't
think it's a good idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the
Encyclopedia Britannica."
Once the fact-checking door is open, "I'm not sure, what is the big fact
, and what is a little fact?" She added, "Does your source about the
unemployment rate agree with my source?"
Trump campaign aides have staked out a similar position. Some of them
say a pro-fact-checking stance is really an anti-Trump stance.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway responded to the Clinton camp's
call for aggressive moderating by saying on ABC, "I really don't appreciate
the campaigns thinking it is the job of the media to go and be these virtual
fact-checkers."
This point of view stipulates that the candidates will challenge each
other without the moderator stepping in. As Lehrer put it on CNN: "The
moderator's job is to keep the flow going."
The counterargument goes like this: An actor or a robot could keep track
of time. A journalist needs to represent the viewers and help make the
truth known.
"We hate to leave absolute errors of fact on the table," former debate
panelist Ann Compton said.
Related: 100 million? Ratings expectations for first Trump-Clinton
debate are sky high
So is fact-checking a part of the job or not? On Monday, it will be up
to Holt to decide.
The commission "asks independent, smart journalists to be the moderators
and we let them decide how they're going to do this," Brown said.
Holt is well aware of the controversy. While he has not commented, one
NBC staffer close to Holt said, "Lester is not going to be a potted plant."
Another staffer seconded that sentiment.
The fact-checking debate revolves around this fact: Trump is unusually
fact-challenged.
While both candidates have been criticized for shading the truth this
year, top fact-checkers say Trump's lies are in a league of their own.
After reviewing every statement made by both Clinton and Trump for a
week, Politico concluded that "Trump's mishandling of facts and propensity
for exaggeration so greatly exceed Clinton's as to make the comparison
almost ludicrous."
Trump even said last week that Holt is a Democrat, when in fact Holt is
a registered Republican.
If Holt intervenes in this debate, it will create a groundswell of support
for Trump. It will appear as if the liberal media is ganging up on the
candidate – 2 against 1, with Hillary and the press sticking it to Trump.
Is Clinton so ill prepared that she can't do her own fact-checking? Her
claim that she would take most of her time allotted to correct Trump's lies
and misstatements misses the point. Highlighting Trump's ignorance and
dishonesty might be a better tactic than showing the voters just how smart
she is on the issues.
"Fact-checking" is a losing issue for Clinton. If Holt weighs in, it will
only help Trump.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/09/clinton_wants_debate_moderator_to_fact_check_the_candidates.html#ixzz4LODSucuj
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发帖数: 2808 | 3 FBI director Comey在哪里？请来fact check希拉里。 | t*****n
发帖数: 2578 | 4 不支持
这样moderator成了judge。
他们辩论的fact观众自己可以check
【在 y***r 的大作中提到】
: 支持fact check，支持互相打脸。
| i**********k
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发帖数: 2808 | 6 主持人check创普，希拉里就不用说话，减少咳嗽，尿失禁，翻白眼的几率，90分钟过
得快些。 | l*****o
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发帖数: 2369 | 9 少来这一套，到了最后一分钟谁都不应再提出新要求。要有也应放在下一次辩论 | g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 10 奥巴马给希拉里的建议：be yourself！
希拉里要求辩论主持人fact check。
这两人都很有喜剧天分哈。 | j**********r
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