Twitter video clips show debate moderators in America slanting questions against Republicans and throwing softballs at Democrats. It is even more shocking that some Democrats are running from debates. They can’t even hack it, even with the liberal tilt.
Katie Hobbs, a Democrat candidate for governor of Arizona, is the poster girl for debating avoidance. Hobbs is at least following this pattern. In the Democrat primary, she also avoided a debate in which to face Marco Lopez. Was it white privilege?
Dana Bash confronted Hobbs on the October 16 State of the Union broadcast on CNN with a quote by Laurie Roberts, a political analyst in the Arizona Republic. “If Katie Hobbs loses remember October 12, when she ran away from Kari Lake. Arizona Democrats are well-known for grabbing defeat from the jaws, but Hobbs refusal to debate her opponent Wednesday is a new level in political malpractice.
Hobbs could only say that “Kari Lake made it clear repeatedly that she doesn’t want to have substantive, in-depth discussions about the issues that are important to Arizonans.” She wants to control the dialogue.
Hobbs doesn’t trust liberal moderators, although debates do have a moderator who corrals the candidates.
Hobbs rejected the usual debate with the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission and Arizona PBS. Hobbs requested separate interviews for the candidates, but the CCEC declined it and instead scheduled a 30-minute TV interview on Lake’s local PBS.
Hobbs then announced that she would be doing her own 30-minute PBS interview, infuriating both the CCEC as well as the Republicans. Since 2014, Arizona PBS has been managed by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. How desperate can you be to trust PBS and a school named after Cronkite, the liberal icon.
Arizona State President Michael Crow stated that Arizona PBS had to interview Hobbs, a debate-skipper, because they must be fair and balanced in all that they do.
The CCEC announced that they had scheduled a 30-minute interview with Lake on October 23rd with AZTV7 (an independent local television station). PBS claims that they are still open to Lake interviews, but she refuses in protest of Hobbs’s indulgence.
Hobbs arrived at ASU for her interview. Ted Simons, a PBS interviewer, began with the debate question. She claimed Lake “threw an argument” like a high school bully, showing that she didn’t have “temperament and leadership.”
Hobbs was so protected by ASU that they encouraged remote classes after three o’clock in the afternoon. This was because they “don’t know what the onsite circumstances might be around the Cronkite Building.” ASU police officers and a police dog were present for security.
Hobbs is a terrible questioner, so it was only natural that Hobbs quickly left the interview and took a freight elevator to a secured parking garage. Reporters who viewed the interview from a media room were forbidden to leave for more than a minute! Democracy dies in darkness! This demonstrates the extreme protection of ASU and Arizona PBS.
Cowardly Katie looks like an animated cartoon. How is she able to be governor of a state. Is she going run from reporters whenever they gather around her? Are local and national reporters going to stop being Democrats long enough to insist she answer their questions? It is laughable that the Media-Democrat Complex thinks they are “saving democracy.”
