By Mike Huckabee
September 11, 2024
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In last night’s “debate,” Kamala Harris was allowed by the “moderators” to get away with telling long-debunked lies, evading questions, and reciting vague answers and platitudes with few if any details. Several media outlets are understandably blasting ABC’s moderators as the most biased in modern history, as they repeatedly drilled and “fact-checked” Trump, ignoring vital current issues to drag up fake accusations and controversies from four or five years ago.
This isn’t to excuse Trump’s substandard performance. He shouldn’t have allowed himself to be riled so much and get distracted, since he had to know going in that that was Harris’ strategy and the ABC duo would do anything possible to help her. If there is another debate, I hope he’ll be better prepared. (Harris’ people immediately called for another debate, but I suspect that was just political theater. If they really believed she won that big and took the lead, they’d never risk giving Trump a do-over.)
But amid too much rambling and sidetracking, Trump did get in some of the night’s best lines, and his summation was powerful and persuasive: He asked why, if Harris has all these great plans for improving Americans’ lives and fixing the problems she and Biden caused, she hasn’t put any of them into effect yet, or why she doesn’t go right back to DC and enact them now. I hope people were still watching by then.
A CBS focus group of voters also didn’t seem to share the Democrats’ and media’s belief that Harris scored a knockout…
The moderators were sooooo bad, their blatant bias actually became one of the biggest news stories of the night.
They repeatedly “fact-checked” Trump while letting Harris get away with blatant lie after blatant lie…
Their bias even landed them the cover story of the New York Post. When you’re the moderators, you’re not supposed to end up being the story…
https://nypost.com/cover/september-11-2024/
Their worst moment had to be when Linsey Davis interjected herself into the debate, contradicting Trump by insisting, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.” Actually, Trump was correct. While it’s illegal in all states to kill a baby that’s born healthy, there are states where it’s legal to allow a baby born alive during a “botched abortion” to die, which is what Trump was talking about. One of them is Minnesota, thanks to Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz.
And here’s video of former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam making the chilling remarks about deciding whether to let a baby born alive during an abortion live or die that Trump said he made:
https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1694569361095151768
For the record, abortion is the only surgical procedure that’s considered “botched” if it doesn’t result in someone dying.
If you have a lot of time, here are links to more “fact-checks” of Kamala Harris that the moderators conveniently overlooked. Settle in, this could take a while, and they don’t even include the most obvious debunked lies, like the “Very fine people” hoax that's so tired, it needs Geriotol by now…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/10/fact-check-kamala-harris-claims-she-supports-israel/
And just to be fair, here are some real fact-checks of things Trump said. Notice something different?…
My final debate thoughts
Finally, just a few points I haven’t heard anyone else mention...
1. Where were the “fact-checks” when Harris kept referring to abortion as protecting what a woman can do to “her own body”? Since she evaded the question of where she would draw the line at viability (the line people usually choose when they refuse to accept that life begins at conception), I assume she knows that most Americans find late-term abortion to be infanticide. Why won't she tell us, in her view, at what point does a baby in the womb become a separate person from its mother? If her excuse for not addressing that is that late term abortion never happens, then why did her running mate find it so important to legalize it in Minnesota?
2. I was never aware until last night that Kamala's lifelong passion has been small business. If so, then why has she spent her entire career at the government trough and never started or run a small business? She had to go all the way back to her childhood nanny to think of a small business owner she knew. She did claim to have worked at a McDonald’s once, but finding evidence of that seems to be harder than getting a photo of the Loch Ness Monster.
And did you notice that her solution to everything (small business creation, affording a house, helping young parents, “climate change”) is “government investments,” which is what people who know nothing about real investments call “spending a truckload of the taxpayers’ money”? By the way, that would create even more inflation, just as the “Inflation Reduction Act” that even Biden admitted was really a green new deal spending bill did. She cast the tie-breaking vote to pass that.
3. Nobody seems to be fact-checking her lie that multiple Capitol Police officers died on January 6, 2021 (One officer died the day afterward, the coroner ruling it a stroke from natural causes.)
But what really stuck out to me was her hyperbolic claim that January 6th was “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” It didn’t even prevent Congress from certifying the election later that day. FYI: The Senate was actually bombed in 1983. And did nobody but me notice that she made this ludicrous claim on what was literally the eve of September 11th?
I don’t know about her, but if I had a time machine and could go back and change the events of any day since the Civil War, I wouldn’t pick January 6, 2021; I’d pick September 11, 2001.
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