I think everyone who complained this morning about ABC hosting a Trump Town Hall should apologize...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[LisaM]

1. Sure!

Katie Couric and Sarah Palin all over again.

[frazzled]

8. In what respect, Charlie?

[LisaM]

17. Katie Couric asked Palin what news sources she read

E.g,.the New York Times,.WSJ,.and so on, and Palin answered "all of them!"

Because that was so clearly untrue, Couric was accused by the right of baiting Sarah Palin with a "gotcha" question.

[brewens]

26. She has a degree in communications, emphasis journalism if you can believe that.

I had three years on one of the best high school newspapers in the country back in the 70's. Lewiston high school in Idaho, just 35 miles or so from the U of I where Palin went for a year. Their student paper, The Argonaut was a joke.

You'd think Palin would have tried to bluff it at least. She could have said the Anchorage paper, if she even knew what it was called, WSJ or whatever. That may have been a trap though. Katie was probably armed with recent relevant stories from those to try and stump her with.

[frazzled]

32. I knew that

I was just being facetious. “In what respect, Charlie” was her response in an interview to the question of what her view on the Bush Doctrine was. It was much ridiculed.

[LisaM]

35. Oh that's right!

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I forgot that!

[sfstaxprep]

2. An Ambush That He Agreed To Attend

It's not a fucking ambush if you show up voluntarily, and stay to the conclusion.

[greenjar_01]

3. ROFL

[BootinUp]

4. Are there any tasty clips of the actual ambush?

I don’t think I can watch any of Ingraham.

[cayugafalls]

19. Yes. Here ya go!

If you click on the tweet it takes you to even more clips!

Link to tweet

[Nevilledog]

24. Rupar is awesome!

[chriscan64]

5. Another political hit job

using his own words.

[rufus dog]

6. Echo chamber

It won't cost him a single vote. The good news, it won't likely gain him many votes.

He got 90 free minutes to spout bullshit, his cult will say he did great, our side will see the same old bullshit. The small percentage who are open, well they ain't Rhodes Scholars. At his point he likely has little to gain.

[StrictlyRockers]

12. I thought you were talking about a different echo chamber.

But nope.

Did you even watch the town hall?

[rufus dog]

15. I saw the last half

Point being, we have seen it before. Our side will see him for the disaster that he is. The cult will claim he did great. The ignorant undecideds can’t be counted on.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt about the have did you even watch the town hall and reply with. Have you been paying attention over the past five years?

[Wounded Bear]

27. No shit...they still claim he won the debates against Hillary...

[Thekaspervote]

23. Obviously fux snooz thought it was a debacle, otherwise why would they have the blonde nazi

Go on and call it an ambush.

They said the losers and suckers story wouldn’t hurt him... it did. Yahoo poll showed that 15% of voters said they would be less likely to vote for him. Same poll, Woodward story a whopping 23% said they would be less likely to vote for him.

Death by a thousand self inflicted cuts!!

[Demsrule86]

34. No they are defending his poor preformance as a 'hit' job...this hurt him with the few

undecided voters...maybe even some of his less crazy base.

[UTUSN]

9. Ambush?!1 All softball questions, chance to show empathy to weeping immigrant, George polite

free air time...

If they give BIDEN equal time they always have to be "TOUGH" on the Dem to show they're not biased!

[cayugafalls]

25. They have to call it an ambush because he looked so stupid.

That is how they will spin it. Poor wittle twumpy was ambushed with nasty questions...

They got nothing, he looked like a criminal moron with no empathy.

[Greybnk48]

10. Guilty! I didn't say anything, but I thought it.

Trumpy destroyed himself! I've only seen clips, but man does he suck. He didn't have one good moment. Now I'm sorry I didn't watch the whole thing.

[yaesu]

13. I don't care what network sponsors what tRump event, I will never watch it. They will go out of

their way giving him much more airtime than Biden, like they pulled on HRC. My local ABC station is owned by a tRump humper & I rarely if ever watch.

[Thekaspervote]

28. Kudos to you for not watching! If everyone had your attitude the narrative would have to change

No ratings, they bleed advertisers, narrative forced to change.

I don’t watch either. Won’t even watch msnbc..too much of the same

[FM123]

14. I saw a few clips and it is obvious that trump is clueless as to how stupid he looked...

Just like the Woodward interview, I bet he thought he did GREAT.

[bringthePaine]

16. ha cover is blown, this is beginning of the end - thx Mr. Woodward

[cwydro]

30. Wish I had a buck for every time someone says it's " the beginning of the end."

[rufus dog]

18. And I am going to add the obvious

His base will see this as an ambush. He called George a Democrat, the majority of questions came from African Americans. He remained calm.

So the take away will be, he went into hostile territory and treated the enemy with respect.

Now, I wasn’t one condemning ABC for the free airtime. But his pathetic performance did nothing to hurt him. It just didn’t do enough to help him.

Ponder this, why was the VAST majority of the audience Black?

[Marcuse]

20. A gotcha question means that a truthful answer would look bad.

[bringthePaine]

21. after all, who doesn't love the smell of slow-roasted Nutzi pig?😬

[nolabear]

22. This poor woman whose mother died of cancer

She’s crying, earnestly asking what he’ll do for immigrants and he’s going on and on and on about her poor mother dying of COVID-which she didn’t-and how great he’s doing.

He’s just a colossal idiot.

[vlyons]

29. If you think that was an ambush, just wait for the 1st debate

OMG! Trump will put on such a titanic butt show. He will lie (of course), change the subject, say what-aboutisms, act petulent and insulted at the question.

[pecosbob]

31. ABC is every bit as responsible for making Trump president as the rest of the media

[llmart]

33. +1000

Isn't that the truth???