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Ten Republican presidential candidates met in Cleveland for a primetime debate on Fox News.
At the debate, real estate mogul Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
The moderators were Fox News anchors Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
Here is a running transcript of what they said.
KELLY: It is nine p.m. on the East Coast, and the moment of truth has arrived.
KELLY: Welcome to the first debate night of the 2016 presidential campaign, live from Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
I’m Megyn Kelly…
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… along with my co-moderators, Brett Baier and Chris Wallace.
Tonight…
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Nice.
Tonight, thousands of people here in the Q, along with millions of voters at home will get their very first chance to see the candidates face off in a debate, answering the questions you want answered.
BAIER: Less than a year from now, in this very arena, one of these 10 candidates or one of the seven on the previous debate tonight will accept the Republican party’s nomination.
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Tonight’s candidates were selected based on an average of five national polls. Just a few hours ago, you heard from the candidates ranked 11th through 17. And now, the prime-time event, the top 10.
WALLACE: Also of note, Fox News is partnering for tonight’s debate with Facebook. For the past several weeks, we’ve been asking you for questions for the candidates on Facebook. Nearly 6 million of you, 6 million, viewed the debate videos on our site, and more than 40,000 of you submitted questions: some of which you will hear us asking the candidates tonight.
KELLY: As for the candidates who will be answering those questions? Here they are.
Positioned on the stage by how they stand in the polls, in the center of the stage tonight, businessman Donald Trump.(APPLAUSE)
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Nov 27 @ 10:02 AM ET
Thank you to the many-many-many of you who took the time to talk me through my heartache. I can’t even begin to tell you how special your insight and comments are. Really. I read every single word and I am endlessly touched by your openness and honesty. You’ve all touched my heart and it has worked wonders to help me through a bit of a rough patch. I can’t thank you enough.
There is something about this debate on Syrian refugees that is tapping a deep emotional chord—and bursts of bias—among journalists.
And some presidential candidates are exploiting the issue as well.
The question about America’s responsibility for those fleeing Syria—President Obama wants to admit 10,000 of them—involves clashing national values.
On one hand, we have always been a country that welcomed and assimilated immigrants, especially for humanitarian reasons.
On the other hand, there is a responsibility to protect our borders at a time when Middle East terrorists are trying to infiltrate western nations.
Yet some in the media are so openly sympathetic to what I’ll call the Obama/Hillary position—that turning away refugees is “not who we are”—that it’s clouding their judgment.
In the past two days I’ve been back in the kitchen (in something other than pajamas) where I belong.
Today I bring you the Chocolate Chip Cookie Debate. My question to you is simple. What makes a better chocolate chip cookie: melted butter or softened and creamed butter? Does it make a difference?
I think I make old school chocolate chip cookies. You know what I’m talking about. Cream the butter with the sugar, add eggs and vanilla extract and then the dry ingredients. Dollop onto a cookie sheet, throw them in the oven and sometimes you end up with completely flat and crisp cookies. One remedy to the flat cookie conundrum is to chill the dough before you bake off cookies. That really helps. But melted butter?
Let’s discuss.
Chief among them is Elise Labott, CNN’s global affairs correspondent, who just got suspended for two weeks for editorializing on Twitter.
Labott was so outraged by the House passing—with nearly 50 Democratic votes—a measure to tighten security checks on Syrians headed for the U.S. that she tweeted:
“House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish.”
To its credit, CNN acted swiftly. And to her credit, Labott apologized for her “inappropriate and disrespectful” message.
But the reaction by some journalists and media experts on Twitter—Labott was right! CNN’s move was shameful!—shows how deeply embedded these feelings are.
Reporters, as opposed to commentators, have plenty of leeway to analyze these days, but this was an out-and-out declaration that the bill was an ethical outrage, as Labott now recognizes.
And it's funny how some of those who say reporters should just deliver the facts are just fine with those opinions they happen to agree with.
Some outlets see this as a right-or-wrong moral issue, period. A banner headline in the liberal Huffington Post called the House vote a “DISGRACE.” Salon ripped “America’s Latest Round of Anti-Immigrant Racism.”
Isn’t it possible to be worried about a couple of terrorists slipping through the refugee application process without being branded a racist?
In a Fox News poll out yesterday, 67 percent of those surveyed oppose Obama's plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees. And 49 percent said it was very likely that at least one such refugee would carry out an attack in America. Right or wrong, this is not some far-out position.
Part one of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Debate is a testing of the melted butter chocolate chip cookie. The recipe is from Alton Brown. In addition to the melted butter, this recipe calls for bread flour (more gluten strength and protein) instead of all-purpose flour, and a much larger proportion of brown sugar to white sugar, milk and an egg yolk.
Madness? Perhaps. But the result is a solid, yet somehow light and moist chocolate chip cookie. It’s packed with sweet brown sugar flavor, and really a delight!
Some Republican candidates, meanwhile, have ratcheted up their rhetoric in uncomfortable ways. Donald Trump is talking about whether some mosques should be closed or placed under surveillance, having said the press misunderstood and he was not proposing a national database for all Muslims.
Ben Carson described this situation this way: “If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.”
After this was widely reported, Carson blamed the press: "What did the news media do? 'Carson said 'the Syrians are like rabid dogs!' This is the type of thing that they do. Fortunately, it only works on gullible people. But the problem is there are a lot of gullible people."
Ted Cruz says Islamism is an ideology “that says they are compelled to use violence and force to murder anyone that doesn’t share their radical faith or to forcibly convert them,” and that “the president insists we have to endanger the safety and security of our nation.”
Obama, too, has taken partisan swipes, saying the Republican candidates are apparently “scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America. At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of 3-year-old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me.”
Jeb Bush, on the other hand, risks the ire of his party’s base in saying: “You talk about internment, you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people—that’s just wrong.”
But too many press accounts portray opponents of throwing open the doors to Syrians as heartless, if not racist.
This cookie was far from the flattened, crispy, somewhat disappointing chocolate chip cookies I made when I was just kid standing on my tip toes to reach the counter. This recipe creates a tall, proud and perfectly soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie.
How do you feel about melted butter and bread flour in chocolate chip cookies? How do you think the creamed butter and all-purpose flour will hold up? This is serious friends. Dead serious.
We’re talking cookies, and we’re not done yet. We’re a long way from done in fact, so settle in!
In the first installment we discussed creamed versus melted butter. Thank you for all your comments. I looks like the melted butter and bread flour combination creates a very high, chewy and almost caramelish cookie. These cookies were chewy even three days after they were baked! Creaming, on the other had, produces a flatter, more buttery, traditional cookie. Both are delicious! Just depends on your mood!
Now…
In The Cookie Debate Part One I mentioned that the NY Times had serendipitously printed an article about the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Did you read it?
We need to talk about this 36 hour rule. We need to do an experiment.
Here’s the skinny: Some of the best bakers swear that by resting their cookie dough in the fridge for 36 hours, they produce a more robust, evenly browned, altogether irresistible cookie. The science behind the concept indicated that by letting the dough rest the liquids from the eggs are fully absorbed into the flour, creating a drier and firmer dough which bakes up into the perfect consistency.
“Politicians who don’t want Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war to come to the United States are well within the mainstream. It is actually those who support refugee resettlement who are disconnected from what most of the country wants. So you can call opponents of welcoming Syrian refugees whatever you want, but you're extending that label to perhaps a majority of Americans as well (including plenty of Democrats).”
I understand the strong emotions on all sides. But perhaps journalists, as well as the politicians, should take a deep breath and not get carried away.
I’ll be honest. I furrow my eyebrows at this statement. I recognize that baking is about science, and how ingredients interact with one another- but baking is also about sugar, and sugar tastes good. Simple.
In the name of both science and sugar, I’ve made a batch of cookie dough and I’m going to bake them off at 12 hours, 24 hours and 36 hours. Together we’ll see the difference. We’ll get to the bottom of this. And what a delicious experiment it will be!
I used Demolition Dessert’s Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It’s has straightforward ratios. It’s creamed butter, white sugar and brown, and chocolate, of course.
Let the waiting and baking begin. Only 12 hours until the first batch!
Thank you to the many-many-many of you who took the time to talk me through my heartache. I can’t even begin to tell you how special your insight and comments are. Really. I read every single word and I am endlessly touched by your openness and honesty. You’ve all touched my heart and it has worked wonders to help me through a bit of a rough patch. I can’t thank you enough.
There is something about this debate on Syrian refugees that is tapping a deep emotional chord—and bursts of bias—among journalists.
And some presidential candidates are exploiting the issue as well.
The question about America’s responsibility for those fleeing Syria—President Obama wants to admit 10,000 of them—involves clashing national values.
On one hand, we have always been a country that welcomed and assimilated immigrants, especially for humanitarian reasons.
On the other hand, there is a responsibility to protect our borders at a time when Middle East terrorists are trying to infiltrate western nations.
Yet some in the media are so openly sympathetic to what I’ll call the Obama/Hillary position—that turning away refugees is “not who we are”—that it’s clouding their judgment.
In the past two days I’ve been back in the kitchen (in something other than pajamas) where I belong.
Today I bring you the Chocolate Chip Cookie Debate. My question to you is simple. What makes a better chocolate chip cookie: melted butter or softened and creamed butter? Does it make a difference?
I think I make old school chocolate chip cookies. You know what I’m talking about. Cream the butter with the sugar, add eggs and vanilla extract and then the dry ingredients. Dollop onto a cookie sheet, throw them in the oven and sometimes you end up with completely flat and crisp cookies. One remedy to the flat cookie conundrum is to chill the dough before you bake off cookies. That really helps. But melted butter?
Let’s discuss.
Chief among them is Elise Labott, CNN’s global affairs correspondent, who just got suspended for two weeks for editorializing on Twitter.
Labott was so outraged by the House passing—with nearly 50 Democratic votes—a measure to tighten security checks on Syrians headed for the U.S. that she tweeted:
“House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish.”
To its credit, CNN acted swiftly. And to her credit, Labott apologized for her “inappropriate and disrespectful” message.
But the reaction by some journalists and media experts on Twitter—Labott was right! CNN’s move was shameful!—shows how deeply embedded these feelings are.
Reporters, as opposed to commentators, have plenty of leeway to analyze these days, but this was an out-and-out declaration that the bill was an ethical outrage, as Labott now recognizes.
And it's funny how some of those who say reporters should just deliver the facts are just fine with those opinions they happen to agree with.
Some outlets see this as a right-or-wrong moral issue, period. A banner headline in the liberal Huffington Post called the House vote a “DISGRACE.” Salon ripped “America’s Latest Round of Anti-Immigrant Racism.”
Isn’t it possible to be worried about a couple of terrorists slipping through the refugee application process without being branded a racist?
In a Fox News poll out yesterday, 67 percent of those surveyed oppose Obama's plan to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees. And 49 percent said it was very likely that at least one such refugee would carry out an attack in America. Right or wrong, this is not some far-out position.
Part one of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Debate is a testing of the melted butter chocolate chip cookie. The recipe is from Alton Brown. In addition to the melted butter, this recipe calls for bread flour (more gluten strength and protein) instead of all-purpose flour, and a much larger proportion of brown sugar to white sugar, milk and an egg yolk.
Madness? Perhaps. But the result is a solid, yet somehow light and moist chocolate chip cookie. It’s packed with sweet brown sugar flavor, and really a delight!
Some Republican candidates, meanwhile, have ratcheted up their rhetoric in uncomfortable ways. Donald Trump is talking about whether some mosques should be closed or placed under surveillance, having said the press misunderstood and he was not proposing a national database for all Muslims.
Ben Carson described this situation this way: “If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.”
After this was widely reported, Carson blamed the press: "What did the news media do? 'Carson said 'the Syrians are like rabid dogs!' This is the type of thing that they do. Fortunately, it only works on gullible people. But the problem is there are a lot of gullible people."
Ted Cruz says Islamism is an ideology “that says they are compelled to use violence and force to murder anyone that doesn’t share their radical faith or to forcibly convert them,” and that “the president insists we have to endanger the safety and security of our nation.”
Obama, too, has taken partisan swipes, saying the Republican candidates are apparently “scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America. At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of 3-year-old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me.”
Jeb Bush, on the other hand, risks the ire of his party’s base in saying: “You talk about internment, you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people—that’s just wrong.”
But too many press accounts portray opponents of throwing open the doors to Syrians as heartless, if not racist.
This cookie was far from the flattened, crispy, somewhat disappointing chocolate chip cookies I made when I was just kid standing on my tip toes to reach the counter. This recipe creates a tall, proud and perfectly soft and chewy chocolate chip cookie.
How do you feel about melted butter and bread flour in chocolate chip cookies? How do you think the creamed butter and all-purpose flour will hold up? This is serious friends. Dead serious.
We’re talking cookies, and we’re not done yet. We’re a long way from done in fact, so settle in!
In the first installment we discussed creamed versus melted butter. Thank you for all your comments. I looks like the melted butter and bread flour combination creates a very high, chewy and almost caramelish cookie. These cookies were chewy even three days after they were baked! Creaming, on the other had, produces a flatter, more buttery, traditional cookie. Both are delicious! Just depends on your mood!
Now…
In The Cookie Debate Part One I mentioned that the NY Times had serendipitously printed an article about the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Did you read it?
We need to talk about this 36 hour rule. We need to do an experiment.
Here’s the skinny: Some of the best bakers swear that by resting their cookie dough in the fridge for 36 hours, they produce a more robust, evenly browned, altogether irresistible cookie. The science behind the concept indicated that by letting the dough rest the liquids from the eggs are fully absorbed into the flour, creating a drier and firmer dough which bakes up into the perfect consistency.
“Politicians who don’t want Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war to come to the United States are well within the mainstream. It is actually those who support refugee resettlement who are disconnected from what most of the country wants. So you can call opponents of welcoming Syrian refugees whatever you want, but you're extending that label to perhaps a majority of Americans as well (including plenty of Democrats).”
I understand the strong emotions on all sides. But perhaps journalists, as well as the politicians, should take a deep breath and not get carried away.
I’ll be honest. I furrow my eyebrows at this statement. I recognize that baking is about science, and how ingredients interact with one another- but baking is also about sugar, and sugar tastes good. Simple.
In the name of both science and sugar, I’ve made a batch of cookie dough and I’m going to bake them off at 12 hours, 24 hours and 36 hours. Together we’ll see the difference. We’ll get to the bottom of this. And what a delicious experiment it will be!
I used Demolition Dessert’s Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. It’s has straightforward ratios. It’s creamed butter, white sugar and brown, and chocolate, of course.
Let the waiting and baking begin. Only 12 hours until the first batch! - TypLeafsFan fan
