Courtesy of Pam Martens.
Maria Bartiromo, On Meet the Press, September 15, 2013
The fourth Presidential Republican debate will take place this evening in Milwaukee. The leading candidates (Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Rand Paul) will take the stage at 9 p.m. ET. Lower polling candidates (Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Bobby Jindal) will debate earlier at 7 p.m. ET.
The event will be hosted by the Fox Business Network and the Wall Street Journal with a free live stream available for viewers at www.FoxBusiness.com. The 9 p.m. debate will be moderated by Fox Business News anchors Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto with the Wall Street Journal’s editor, Gerard Baker.
One person to watch as much as the candidates this evening is Maria Bartiromo for a pro-corporate/anti-government tone to her questions. Bartiromo has regularly sided with corporate bigwigs accused by the government of fraud and wrongdoing. She was also once the target of media scrutiny herself for getting too close to a company she covered – Citigroup – including taking trips on their corporate jet.
For a little background on the kind of questions you may see coming from Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal, see our February article here.
It’s possible that we could be surprised and see some gutsy questions, given the public mood and the unprecedented dissembling by some of the top candidates in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
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