Candidates will speak again at same Oct. 20th dinner...

[Skeptic Ginger]

The BBC, possibly stung by recent criticism that it's pro-Clinton and anti-Trump, gave a fairly different take on the event this morning...

There's been quite a bit of false equivalence on a number of news stations. Clinton had one or two barbs that came across poorly, but had Trump presented a normal performance Clinton's would have gone unnoticed.

When your opponent uses a neutral charity dinner to put on a negative campaign speech, you tend to look like you are giving a tit for tat if you say anything barely over the line.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

It is amazing that Donald managed to screw this up. He has been a celebrity for a long time and had a reality TV show starring him for years. I am quite certain that I would have done a better job than he did.

You forget he's a one trick pony. It's like Kristen Stewart, she looks like she can act until you notice she can only play one role.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

No, it was something about Rupert Murdoch and his religion. He happens to be Catholic.

Are you sure? I think it was one of Clinton's communications director Jennifer Palmieri's emails.

WikiLeaks emails appear to show Clinton spokeswoman joking about Catholics and evangelicals

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

There's been quite a bit of false equivalence on a number of news stations. Clinton had one or two barbs that came across poorly, but had Trump presented a normal performance Clinton's would have gone unnoticed.

When your opponent uses a neutral charity dinner to put on a negative campaign speech, you tend to look like you are giving a tit for tat if you say anything barely over the line.

She plays him like a fish. She's gotten pretty good at it. It's almost too bad it's nearly over. :shudder: By all the gods and monsters I can't wait for it to be over.

 

[Jim_MDP]

Pretty much it all looks the same.

I did mistakenly watch a portion of Melania's excuse-fest for BusGate, taped in one of their Tower Living Rooms... just incredibly ostentatious.

And that statement was canned/rehearsed... she gave the same speech to both CNN and Fox... fairly verbatim (teenagers my ass).


But it gave me a shudder to think of giving them the incoming Administration's control over the White House redecorating budget.

 

[jimbob]

Too bad Hillary doesn't speak first. She would probably unhinge Donald again.

No, much better to have the last word, and the last laugh.

And the winner is MikeG, as Trump managed to shoot himself in the foot and give Clinton an excuse to retaliate - she probably had two speeches depending on whether Trump kept with convention or broke it by attacking her too vigorously.

Trump's no great comedian and may get no intentional laughs at all.

In hindsight that would have been a good result for him.

 

[ZirconBlue]

She plays him like a fish.

A bass, I guess.

 

[steve s]

But it gave me a shudder to think of giving them the incoming Administration's control over the White House redecorating budget.

If it looks like Trump might have a chance to win, start investing in companies that make gold leaf.

Steve S

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

A bass, I guess.

The lips. Bottom feeder. Some form of carp. Has a few moments of good fight on the line, but not worth landing. Totally inedible.

 

[Darat]

If it looks like Trump might have a chance to win, start investing in companies that make gold leaf.

Steve S

You mean faux-gold leaf.

 

[quadraginta]

A bass, I guess.

Groper.

 

[erwinl]

Groper.

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Sadly the fins are too large.

 

[Polaris]

Watched this, uncut, this afternoon.

It seems Trump took his stand-up comedy lessons from The Situation on his Roast a few years back. The one where Ice-T face-palmed. I could see some of his material getting laughs if he had even the slightest sense of timing and an ability to adjust his own settings beyond "attack" and "smarmy lie about not having attacked".

Even though HC had a few jokes that bombed, the difference was as clear as if George Carlin had to follow The Unknown Comic. Probably clearer.

According to my wife, the evening's big winner was Maria Bartiromo's cleavage.

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Googled her to make sure this was the same woman I noticed, and yeah, that was a magnificent distraction from Donald's stupid spray-painted rawhide face . Your wife is correct.

That wasn't the only thing I looked at to avoid seeing the speaker, though. I couldn't help but notice the old guy just behind and to the right who looked like he was about to slit his wrists every time Trump spoke.

You forget he's a one trick pony. It's like Kristen Stewart, she looks like she can act until you notice she can only play one role.

And that role is "nauseous".


ETA: Giuliani looked like he was about to open fire.