Sunday, September 06, 2020

The Debates


The Presidential Debate Committee has picked the moderators for the upcoming debates. Chris Wallace, Steve Scully and Kristen Welker for the Trump-Biden exchanges  ... and Susan Page for the Pence-Harris debate.

Now these choices are supposed to be impartial picks by this impartial committee. Are they? Well I went to Wikipedia for some of the fundamentals (in quotes below, bolded text is mine) for the latter three of them ... and provide the above video for you to gage Chris Wallace’s lack of bias.

Chris Wallace
See above video. Is “redirecting funds” not “defunding?” Come on!


Steve Scully
is a senior executive producer and political editor for the C-SPAN television network. He is one of the hosts for its morning call-in show, Washington Journal, as well as The Weekly, C-SPAN's podcast. Scully served on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association for nine years, including as president from 2006 to 2007.”

Scully received a 1982 undergraduate degree with honors in communication and political science from American University in Washington, D.C. During his degree he completed a 1980-81 study abroad program at the University of Copenhagen, interned for Sen. Joe Biden from September to October 1978 and in Sen. Ted Kennedy’s media affairs office in early 1979 Scully then earned a Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, graduating magna cum laude in 1984”


Kristen Welker
is the daughter of Harvey and Julie Welker.[3] Her father is an engineer, her mother a real estate agent.[ Welker's father is white and her mother is black.. She graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1994 and Harvard College with a Bachelor of Artsin 1998.  At Harvard, she majored in history and graduated with honors.  Welker also interned for Today in 1997, while at Harvard.”

 Welker regularly represents MSNBC at the daily White House press briefings as well as reports live for various programs on the channel. She occasionally fills in on NBC Nightly News and Today.”


Susan Page
 is an American journalist and biographer, and the current Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today.”

 Her first book was published in 2019, a biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush titled The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American DynastyAlso in 2019, she signed a deal to write a biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tentatively titled Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Arc of Power.



Somehow, there always seems to be a thumb on the media’s “impartial” scale ...


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

2 comments:

History Teacher III said...

Nothing to see here. Nice try. Go back and try again. D+

George W. Potts said...

D+ ...? Kinda like I got through college ...