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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLester Holt is an antagonist....
Joe did a magnificent job of answering his inane rebukes..
I really do not understand NBCs glorifying Holt...
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)not puff anyone up.
I don't understand the folks all upset because Holt asked a couple of mildly tough questions that then Biden answered well.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)dlk
(11,560 posts)His hostility was obvious and unprofessional. It detracted from the town hall.
I watched the whole thing, there was none of that.
brush
(53,771 posts)was just as much Joe's fault as it was trump's. I lost respect for him then. Everyone in the nation saw trump make the debate almost unwatchable.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)because you know he didn't actually say that.
brush
(53,771 posts)have watched it.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Some people here are simply too sensitive.
Silent3
(15,206 posts)...but there was definitely, to me, something in Holt's tone that sounded like, "Where's your explanation for why you didn't stop Trump from acting like that... and it better be good!"
brush
(53,771 posts)in check from acting like belligerent adolescent, an adolescent who just happens to be the president.
Holt let his republican hole card show.
R B Garr
(16,950 posts)Holt was duplicitous about Biden being bullied, then wondering why Joe told him to shut up. It was obvious to all that Biden was holding off an 8-year-old mentality and trying to be dignified about it.
elleng
(130,865 posts)except for one badly timed commercial break.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)I'd forgotten that. He was a total jerk.
brush
(53,771 posts)His treatment of Hillary kind of points to what came out about his attitude towards women.
PatSeg
(47,418 posts)but honestly, I never understood why he was so successful. There was nothing about him that was in any way unique or talented. He couldn't have been more blah or ordinary. A little divine justice there that he lost it all, though he still exited the world stage a wealthy asshole, but still an asshole.
brush
(53,771 posts)Last edited Tue Oct 6, 2020, 11:35 AM - Edit history (2)
Bryant Gumbel so when Gumbel left, the job just fell into his second banana lap. I lived in NY back then. Before he was on NBC he worked across the river in Jersey on a nothing show called "One Broadcast Plaza" which was a midday show on local stories.
He got lucky.
PatSeg
(47,418 posts)Clearly his career was the result of dumb luck. Supposedly at his peak, he was earning $25 million a year. What on earth could have made him worth that much money? So instead of being grateful for his clearly unearned success, he abused his position. Do you suppose he ever questioned what on earth he ever did to deserve his good fortune and maybe even set out to 'pay it forward' like some celebrities have done? Obviously not.
I truly believe that eventually we will all reap what we sow.
Polly Hennessey
(6,794 posts)DU said that Lester Holt is a registered republican. Who knows.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Talitha
(6,582 posts)Joe used to disagree with Obama, and Obama said Joe made him a better President. So just because Holt questioned Joe, it doesn't make him the enemy.
PatSeg
(47,418 posts)It really does open up the discussion.