Giuliani Notes: MSNBC and Politico BIASED Against Rudy in GOP Debate
MSNBC, POLITICO BIASED AGAINST RUDY IN GOP DEBATE
Thursday’s Republican debate, hosted by MSNBC and Politico.com was biased against Republican front runner Rudy Giuliani. A count of the words each candidate spoke indicates that Romney was given 50% more air time and McCain 25% more that Giuliani was permitted.
Romney spoke 2300 words to McCain’s 2030 to Giuliani 1603. When the airtime is os heavily skewed in favor of the 2nd and 3rd place candidates against the front runner, one is entitled to ask why. With more than 1/3 of the Republican backing Giuliani and interested in what he has to say what journalistic justification is there for giving him less face time than his two leading rivals.
The Democratic Party has been concentrating its fire on Rudy for months now and this effort by two Democratic news organs to short change Giuliani is part of the process of trying to defeat the only Republican who can win in November.
Flap certainly did not count the words but Hotline counted the number of questions and Romney had the edge:
| Candidate | Questions | Time |
| Mitt Romney | 19 | 10 min 47 sec |
| Rudy Giuliani | 17 | 8 min 19 sec |
| Sam Brownback | 15 | 7 min 26 sec |
| Mike Huckabee | 15 | 7 min 23 sec |
| Jim Gilmore | 12 | 6 min 58 sec |
| Tom Tancredo | 15 | 6 min 48 sec |
| Tommy Thompson | 13 | 6 min 26 sec |
| Ron Paul | 13 | 6 min 20 sec |
| John McCain | 16 | 6 min 7 sec |
| Duncan Hunter | 12 | 5 min 53 sec |
With ten political candidates it is hard to maintain control and fairness in any debate format. However, Chris Matthews, a former Democrat operative (presidential speech writer for President Jimmy Carter and staff aide of Democrat Speaker Tip O’Neill) did a horrible job in moderating the forum.
Was MSNBC and Politico blatantly biased?
Probably not – but that was the result and Rudy Giuliani was punished.
The candidates, including the Mayor should insist that their next debates have a more fair method of distributing questions and be guaranteed equal time to respond. Plus, aren’t there any retired GOP politicos who can moderate?
How about former Californa Governor Pete Wilson, Senator Alan Simpson or Senator Phil Gramm?
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