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Saturday, March 12, 2016    
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By Growltiger* 
 
The Fox Inquisition-cum debate four days before last Tuesday's primaries/caucuses didn't have the desired effect, so the RNC and the media took another shot at Donald Trump last night in hopes of derailing the Trump insurgency and restore balance to the Establishment Uniparty before Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and the Northern Mariana Islands vote.
North Mariana Islands! 
 
Before the debate, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus came out to inform the audience that the RNC is not doing what everyone with two eyes, two ears and at least one blinking neuron knows it is doing.
 
As has happened since Jeb suspended his campaign, the audience was stacked in favor of Marco Rubio. The crowd applauded wildly whenever Mr. Rubio smiled, spoke or licked his lips. Senator Cruz, Mr. Trump and Governor Kasich did not receive the same wild applause, but then neither does the RNC hope Senator Cruz or Governor Kasich will defeat Mr. Trump in Florida, and that was the point. 
 
The viewers were not supposed to notice this, however, since Mr. Priebus already had told them not to believe their lying ears.
 
Businessmen (and neurosurgeons and governors without law degrees) don't do as well in debates as attorneys, so as with the previous debates, the attorneys pontificated and the non-attorneys, businessman Donald Trump and Governor John Kasich, both of whom have spent their careers doing rather than speechifying, answered the questions without oration or elaboration. Not as flashy but much more believable. 
 
The contrast between the CNN moderators and the Fox News triad of the previous Trump Inquisition was startling. While it was obvious the CNN quartet are as horrified by the Trump insurgency as their Foxy friends, they at least looked, sounded and behaved like professionals and not shrill (Kelly) or smarmy (Baier and Wallace) shills. 
 
Mr. Trump got his usual "gotcha" questions and accusations--it wouldn't be a Republican debate without them--including being asked why Mr. Trump allowed 78-year-old John McCraw to punch a protester at a multi-thousand people rally in North Carolina. 
 
Shame on Mr. Trump for not preventing grandpa from decking one Rakeem Jones (1).  
 
Nowhere in the article will the reader learn Mr. Jones's age or race. To learn he was a Black Lives Matter protester, the reader has to read the first few comments in the comments section. 
 
Nor did Mr. Tapper bother to mention a video of a security guard roughly grabbing and ejecting a protester (rightly so) at a much smaller Rubio rally earlier in the week. Such is the way the news media handles information and the double standard, which applies to Mr. Trump. 
 
Because the moderators did not spend the two hours on Trump Gotchas, there was some new information. Most strikingly, all four candidates have now come to Mr. Trump's position on trade, immigration and the necessity for a temporary halt on H1-B visas, which the Disney Corporation (and others) used to replace American IT workers with foreign tech workers. The two senators attacked Mr. Trump on tariffs but then a few minutes later seemed to be saying exactly what Mr. Trump was saying--that countries that devalue their currency would be hit with a "tax". All four candidates apparently would send our soldiers back into harm's way in the Middle East in an attempt to destroy ISIS with Mr. Trump having already said he would not put onerous rules of engagement on our military. The four men differed on peace between Israel and Palestine, with Senators Rubio and Cruz and Governor Kasich apparently convinced it will never happen and Mr. Trump willing to try.
 
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