Martha Raddatz of ABC News on "This Week with George Stephanopolis allowed Mike Pence

[politicaljunkie41910]

to call Hillary 'dishonest' six times and never called him out on it or, questioned the honesty of the man at the top of his ticket. She was asking him about Trumps fiasco on Friday, and just about each time she asked him a question about Trump, Pence said with that old soft spoken country boy tone of his, "Look Martha, the country overwhelmingly thinks that Hillary is dishonest blah blah blah. Martha just let it go and asked her next question, to which Pence once again tells Martha that the majority of Americans think Hillary is dishonest, blah blah blah. This continued several more times. The press cannot be trusted to call Trump a liar, but they have no problem letting Trump surrogates call Hillary dishonest over and over again in their presence. It's so evident that they are not interested in their answer, they just want to get on to their next question.

[Skidmore]

1. Raddatz is one of those journalists who just

really turn my stomach. She and Richard Engle and that Barbara whatsherface who follow the war machine around and practically wax poetic when battles flare up.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I thought she did fairly well with him.

That boilerplate 'Hillary is dishonest' stuff seemed to be what he fell back on (quite clumsily at times) when he couldn't get any traction on some other nonsense.

[cilla4progress]

3. I thought so, too.

I felt she was transmitting the message that, "OK, Pence. You are now on record for posterity." No matter what happens in this cycle, I am confident how history will view this travesty.

[politicaljunkie41910]

4. Hillary's 'dishonesty' is a perception strongly perpetrated by her enemies and repeated by the media

without any perspective. Trump lies whenever he speaks. He can't help himself. The media does not spend every conversation questioning his honesty and trustworthiness. If I deny the same lie over and over again, because I believe it to be a lie, and I do so 50 times, is that the same thing as someone who tells a different lie 50 times a day. Everyone knows that Trump lies whenever he is speaking. He can't help himself. If he talking there is a lie in somewhere in what he is saying. The media knows it. The public knows it. But the media has no problem telling her to her face that there is a public perception that she is dishonest. Well half of those who make up that perception, hate her. Why is it that the media has a problem calling out Trump on his dishonesty.

Yesterday someone said on DU that the tide has changed. CNN is now calling Trump a LIAR and they linked to an article regarding the Birther issue announcement. The headline in the link did not use the word LIAR, and neither did the article. The media plays around with words when it comes to Trump, to avoid using the word LIAR when it comes to Trump when everyone knows that half of what comes out of his mouth is a lie. By not calling him out on it they allow him to continue perpetrating his lies. Had they called a spade a spade, from day 1, the media's integrity wouldn't be in the toilet where it is today.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx?g_source=Politics&g_medium=lead&g_campaign=tiles

[LenaBaby61]

5. So much for the Liberal Media...

Going after tRump after he Rick Rolled them this past Friday with that bogus press conference.

Not really feeling that the debate moderators will be any better vs tRump than what Raddatz was vs Pence.