With Wednesday being an off day for Trump’s criminal trial it seemed like it would be a relatively show news day. Oh, there would still be big stories but nothing reaching OMFG level. Dark Brandon seems to have thought where’s the fun in that? and with a direct taunt upended everything. Yep, President Biden’s alter ego challenged Trump to one-on-one debates with the first being next month. Complete with that I hear you’re available on Wednesday’s burn. If that last part was to bait Trump into quickly accepting Biden’s proposal it worked. Within ten or fifteen minutes Trump accepted.
Of course, in a few hours when Trump had a chance to think over what he’d agreed to he started backing and filling. No one should be surprised that once Trump realized what he’d be in for he’d start trying to find a way out of the whole thing. He also knew he’d need some bigly help to get out of the mess he’d stepped into so who did he call? His pals at Fox News of course! I could revert to my inner jarhead and come up with all manner of colorful and frankly disgusting descriptors involving Trump and a certain orifice he wanted cleared out but his plea can be summed up in a single word: HELP!
Well, as Huffington Post reports by evening Fox’s trio of prime time Trump fluffers were on the case. With as the headline notes three different takes, all of them WTF? weird to start providing a safe runway marked “No Debates” for Trump’s jet to land on. I think it’s safe to say all three are feeling hurt that at least one of the debates wasn’t set to be hosted by their network with the three of them “moderating.” After all, the slogan of their network is “Fair and Balanced.” Alas, Fox having always said that has never made it so but let’s get to the matter at hand and what the “Terrible Trio” Fox airs during prime time had to say about the whole thing.
Hannity who is and has long been Trump’s favorite, his do to guy (remember his plea about Hannity! Won’t someone please call Hannity? to bail him out when pressed while on stage for a live interview with an audience present?) Sean Hannity. Hannity leveled attacks on CNN’s Jake Tapper (one of the hosts for the June debate) calling him a radical, left wing partisan. He went on to demand moderators have their mics cut so they can’t be mean and fact-check Trump. As if anyone who tries can ever possibly keep up with all the lies but maybe get one or two fact-checks in. And then Hannity came up with some wild-ass CT:
He claimed Biden will take a “heavy dose” of “whatever he took before the State of the Union” to win the debate. He also said Biden is “secretly” trying to get Trump to cancel:
Acyn has a tweet that says Hannity is basically saying Biden agreed to debate Trump to avoid debating Trump! Say what? Hey, I told you we were going to talk about some weird stuff. But let’s move on and talk about Fox’s prime time Aryan Queen Laura Ingraham. Now, to be fair to her few of us speak German in 1930’s dialect so sometimes her pronouncements come out garbled in translation but she had different take.
She chose to paint a different picture, with talk of how Trump is calm and Presidential while Biden is prone to ranting. And they say her hero Hitler was tweaking on bad meth! Really Laura? THAT’s what you’re going with? Apparently so:
“So all Donald Trump has to do is stay calm, and stay calm during the entire debate, and let Biden rant and rave, because Scranton Joe is looking and sounding meaner and more petty by the day,” Ingraham said. “And then Trump, by comparison, he easily appears presidential, cool, confident and ― yeah ― possessing a lot of common sense.”
I think Jedi Master Yoda would say Strong is the delusion in this one, and follow it up with Stronger still the spread bullshit smells. IF, and it’s a very big if Trump actually shows up Biden can offer something short and sweet and common sense with a bit of baiting and just sit back and let Trump talk crazy. And then shake his head with a Dark Brandon smile and say something like What a load of Malarkey. And TRUMP will rant and rave.
Now let’s examine the newest addition to Fox’s prime time Three Hour White Power Hour, Jesse Watters. As the dubious winner of the Tucker Carlson’s replacement sweepstakes (kind of like winning Trump VP pageant) Waters, “bless his heart” tries but wasn’t ready for prime time. Nor has he grown into the role. In yet another completely different take on things here’s what we got from Waters:
Meanwhile, Jesse Watters almost sounded impressed by Biden’s crack about Trump’s packed court calendar.
“Let’s pick the dates, Donald,” Biden said in his video challenging Trump. “I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”
“Wooooooooow! The day the Democrats aren’t tying him down in court,” Watters said. “That is some Dark Brandon.”
Watters had multiple complaints about debate conditions – moderators, networks and more including his very own, different CT. Watters claims Biden scheduled the debates early to fight shadowy Democratic “kingmakers” looking to replace him. But he also echoes Hannity by saying Biden will be “shot up” with something to enhance his performance. Watters tweeted: “Biden’s list of debate demands are longer than a spending bill. Tactically, this may have been a smart move for Biden, but strategically, it shows weakness.”
So add it all up and what do we have? Three Fox prime time hosts advancing different weird, even crazy to the point of CT theories, but all with the same goal. Set up a way for Trump to get out of any debates with Biden in a way that will save face with voters. Trust me when I say strange, even crazy is all this is it’s only the beginning of the batshit insane rationalizations that will get tossed out there to provide Trump with a face-saving way to get out of debating Joe Biden.
On Colbert, George Stephanopoulos said he would love to moderate that debate with Biden’s protocols in place. He said his first question would be, “who won the last election?” 👏
Love your name. Clever. Timely. Anyway, wotinell does CT mean? Esoteric abbreviations bug me.
CT is shorhand for Conspiracy Theory
Master Yoda would say of this latest Trump-trap, “Around he f**ked. Found out he did”
let Trump weasel out then Biden can show up and answer whatever questions they want to ask. preferably with a cutout of Trump standing at the other podium.
…seemed to work for Clint Eastwood a while back. Remember him debating the empty chair?