In a screed published on news channel Fusion’s website on Friday, executive editor Dodai Stewart and editor-in-chief Alexis C. Madrigal demanded that white men need not apply to the job of being presidential debate moderators in the fall: “This isn’t what America looks like. Issues around race, gender, immigration, discrimination and justice are not just talking points – they’re a matter of life or death for many. We need moderators who better reflect this reality.”
The pair ranted: “We owe it to young Americans – the people who have to live in this country in the future – to have a debate that deals with the issues important to them.” The “issues” they listed were an amalgamation of left-wing concerns near and dear to any Democrat’s heart:
We need a moderator who will ask about Black Lives Matter. We deserve a moderator who will ask tough questions about immigration. We are owed a moderator who will question the candidates about Islamophobia, who is not afraid to question the nominees about abortion, about deportations, about paid maternity leave, about LGBTQ discrimination, about student debt.
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They proclaimed: “If America’s future is young, brown, queer and female, America owes it to itself to listen to those voices during the presidential debates.”
Stewart and Madrigal offered a list of suggested moderators – many of them liberal activists disguised as journalists – beginning with Fusion’s very own Jorge Ramos. Other biased reporters included were MSNBC’s Irin Carmon, Slate’s Jamelle Bouie, and CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson.
As an example of their ideal debate, they cited a recent slanted candidate forum co-hosted by Fusion that routinely hit Hillary Clinton from the left:
Who is asking the questions matters: In January, at the Iowa Brown and Black forum (co-hosted by Fusion), Jorge Ramos asked Hillary Clinton not to use the word “illegals” when speaking of undocumented Americans. At the same event, Drake University Junior Thalia Anguiano asked Clinton, “What does white privilege mean to you?”
