Grade Lester Holt's performance as debate moderator:

41 Comments

  • Stanley - 7 years ago

    I think Lester holt is actually a Democrat and Is currupt!!!!

  • Patti - 8 years ago

    Totally biased in favor of Hillary Dispicable Clinton.
    No questions about why she hasn't been indicted for her felonious handling of classified material or for using bleach-bit to destroy subpoenaed emails...and, SO much moe!
    It is incredible that he allowed the whole "waste of time" discussion on taxes to take the spotlight off of her criminal activities.
    Unbelievable how biased the media and moderators are.
    It's disgusting!

  • Carol - 8 years ago

    Holt was obviously pro ctooked Hillary. He stated lies as fact. He asked questions that forced Trump on the offensive. That just wasted time and made Trump look bad. Holt's career is over.

  • Carmen Da - 8 years ago

    You Trump supporters will attack anyone who is not pro Donald. Get over it already!

  • Robert Guardino - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt was absolutely terrible & outrageously biased towards crooked lying Hillary Clinton. No more NBC 4 me.

  • Robert Guardino - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt was absolutely terrible & outrageously biased towards crooked lying Hillary Clinton. No more NC 4 me.

  • Mark - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt was the biggest loser in the debate.

  • Eric - 8 years ago

    I totally agree with everyone else, totally biased. I just can't believe theses are the best candidates we have. Having said that, it still needs to be fair to both of them. Earlier in the week I saw the mainstream media trying to rig the debate by saying the moderator should fact check. In other words............be able to attack a candidate. We all know which candidate was attacked. Hello?.......Bengazi, Clinton foundation, Email server, Pay to play, Bill's rape allegations. These are just not some minor things, this is corruption to the core. Just connect the dots on the Clinton foundation. Take a look at the poor people in Haiti that never got the aide that so many people donated. Clinton lies to the american people daily and only a few care. We will be the next Venezuela if people don't wake up!

  • Pal Mayberry - 8 years ago

    Lester has officially become a member of the Clinton crime family. A journalist no more.

  • Gwee Doe - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt should be charged with a crime for stating lies as facts and defending Clinton. In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court said Stop and Frisk is constitutional. Lying, as Holt did (as did Candy Crowley), is a chargeable offense in many instances. This should be one of them. He's supposed to be a moderator. Lies ... especially serious ones ... carried criminal penalties at one time.

  • Not impressed - 8 years ago

    It would have helped greatly if the moderator had the gonads to say to Trump..."Just answer the question!"

  • Kenneth Moore - 8 years ago

    I've watched NBC news exclusively for the last ten years. After viewing Lester Holts performance moderating the Presidential Debate I won't be watching NBC news anymore! That was disgraceful.

  • Kevin Morton - 8 years ago

    Wow, what was that?!?! This moderator was unfortunately not the right man for the job. He was very professional but extremely bias. He favored Hilary as if he had an affair with her or Bill. Why would America allow this to happen? Right in our face on TV.

  • Chez - 8 years ago

    Basterd is new tag name for a holt sell out

  • Joy kiser - 8 years ago

    I felt he tried to be a little fair. IMO his worse action was entering into the debate an announcing stop and frisk was unconstitutional. We can do our own fact checking. IMO he did open the door on cyber security and HRC went on and on about it. And Trump missed a wonderful opportunity to hit her up, because he was distracted about his taxes. IMO that was a huge missed opportunity for HRC to be hit up with factual info about everything from her server and emails to Benghazi.....that is on Trump for not walking through that door. I think that probably most people will see his mode refractor skills through the prism of their choice for president. I agtee, that most questions should be about policy and not personal questions, and I think that a Trump was asked more personal questions. The last question, I was proud that Trump did not stoop to her level, but I think he could asked in a nice way about why she pays women employees less then men, how is she so pro child, when she defended a child rapist, and why did she undermine all the woman that Bill has raped. But maybe that could not have been done without stooping to her level so maybe he made the reight decision

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  • Mic - 8 years ago

    Biggest problems in this country are corrupt politicians like Hillary Clinton,from her destroying her emails,to her corrupt husband meeting with our corrupt DOJ to our corrupt FBI not doing anything but a slap on the wrist , along with the corrupt liberal media giving her a free pass. Sad day in America when you have email scandal,Benghazi,and her getting corrupt money from other countries and Lester Holt doesn't bring up any of these corruptions. Wow very sad. We as a nation if we allow this behavior from the left or the right we are in big trouble!!! We as a nation need our media to not pick a side, but to report the truth!!! That's your job!!!! Sadly I feel Lester Holt failed us.

  • Irene Hopkins - 8 years ago

    I thought Lester stayed composed, respectful, and did a fine job under tough circumstances. He was fair and respectful on all accounts.

  • Concerned - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt gave Hillary a free pass. It reminded me of The Obama-Romney debate in 2012 when CNN Candy the moderator would not let Romney complete his answer and Obama's wife yelled from the audiance and things went down hill after that for Romney. This country is in bad shape and we need law and order like Trump stated. Come on people, GET REAL PEOPLE AND VOTE FOR A PERSON WHO IS NOT A LIAR, FRAUD, AND DOESN'T LET OUR PEOPLE DIE. DO WE WANT BILL BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO CARRY ON AS HE LEFT OFF? THIS GOVERNMENT IS SAD AND IT NEEDS A SHAKE UP!

  • Mike Scott - 8 years ago

    Lester holt allowed trump to go over his time limit every single time he allowed trump to interrupt Clinton over 30 times in the first 20 minutes .Trump has absolutely no knowledge about anything that's going on in the world other than what he half listens to from his advisers.He was sniffing like a Coke head all night long and couldn't stand up straight ,and he talks about stamina.he's a bully to brags about not paying taxes to this country and brags about taking advantage of other people sorrow and bad luck as" it's good business". Not good business that's evil .For the working man out there that thinks he'll stand up for you you're a fool he spent his whole life walking over people like you not paying people like you when he goes bankrupt and leaving you Unpaid for your hard work ! wake up! Rasicts out there ignorant people are going to go to him but people with a Brian wake up ! You are throwing your country to a dictator want to be a Mussolini a Adolf Hitler with nuclear weapons.He is a sick human being that cares about one thing " himself " .Wake up

  • Thomas - 8 years ago

    The first question was basically a lie, (did he make up the questions?) probably not, but still his opening question was a far left lie perhaps they believe in the lies they tell, who knows for sure but lies they are still. Basically they make this huge blanket statement about how "Everything is fine" Jobs created, Economy Ok, but wages (really they think that woman make so much less than men) which is bull ducky my wife makes twice the money I make, which is fine, she is a micro biologist, she should make more, but again its still a lie, make believe world where the liberal and the far left think that somehow what they have done to America and its people is ok. Everything after that just proved how "disconnected the media are from reality" The thing is did this guy himself feel the same way? Perhaps he did, but if he objected you would have seen someone else performing his job last night someone that the media could control, its all about what the media want to put out there. So last night there was no debate, it was Trump against the moderator and Hillary and you know what was really funny about all of that nonsense, Trump Still WON.,,

  • Al Schallop - 8 years ago

    Lester Holg did' task the correct questions and appeared to let Secretary Clinton off the hook. U.S. Citizens are very concerned about ISIS, Islamist Rafical Terrorisn, the deaths of American Citizens in Bengazi and extremely upset by her handling of secret emails on her personal server. Mr. Holy avoided these key issues. Why ! I think a college debate senior could have done s better job. Very disappointing and with his experience, Mr. Holt
    should have done a better job.

  • john - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt did everything possible to pounce on Trump with questions that were biased. He showed his true colors as a main stream media type out for their "woman" to win. I personally feel that Clinton was provided the questions ahead of time when (if I recall correctly) no one had was to know the what the questions were to be. Further, Clinton was constantly looking down...not at notes, mind you...which is a typical sign that someone is lying.

  • Glenn - 8 years ago

    Typical of a black man hiding from the truth never asking Clinton any questions about all the failures and lies she has created . Lester is just another racist pawn for the liberal left.

  • Trish - 8 years ago

    Lester asked at least two debate questions pointed toward Trump, and corrected the audience once when they cheered for Trump. Hillary got no pointed questions nor was the audience ever corrected when they cheered for her. It was obviously biased. I personally think both candidates are a joke, but it still upsets me that something like this can't be free of bias, blatant bias. Hillary had Lester in her pocket.

  • John Wy - 8 years ago

    PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: LESTER HOLT JUST GAVE HILLARY A FREE PASS on
    everything !!!!!! Lousy...

  • Tom Swatkowski - 8 years ago

    when did Holt become an attorney? Stop and frisk is NOT illegal. Check the records. It is used daily across this country. Where were the ethics questions against Hillary?

  • Rich - 8 years ago

    @LesterHoltNBC you did a bad job last night. You were not a moderator. You took sides defending and rooting for Hi"Lair"y. Even with your one-sided protection of Hi"Lair"y, Donald still won "the test of who is more Presidential."

  • M. Rawlings - 8 years ago

    It amazes me that these people seem to have no integrity. If you can't be fair excuse yourself from doing it at all. Could he seriously not come up with one tough question for Hillary? How can he not see that?

  • Di - 8 years ago

    For the most part he was just okay, but definitely slanted topics not controversial for Hillary Clinton. He brought up no questions or issues of controversy regarding Clinton. NONE! Why did he not ask about Benghazi and Clinton's obvious lying about a fake video and telling parents of the dead soldier's that scenario than the real truth under her watch as Secretary of State, (why did he not ask if she does not owe those families an apology since she is always asking others to apologize?), or delve into Clinton's email scandal regarding the missing emails and bleached out emails which may still cause security issues for the US and is such a big part of this campaign and has obviously cost her much distrust and votes, She says words do matter, but what about her words? Where were the questions regarding the controversy over the Clinton Foundation and pay for play? These issues define character/temperament/judgement of a person, something she needs to be called out on! As an experienced politician a "smile" and a "sorry" does not cut it and simply is not good enough.
    Holt was wrong on the stop and frisk comment, the judge was thrown off the case and case may still be pending. He was wrong on the Trump comments on the Iraq war and unfortunately once again Trump had to defend his position. Holt should not have entered into those issues. So, though I am not surprised of the slanted questioning, I was still disappointed and only confirms that the media is unfair and unbalanced. I thought Trump spoke from the heart and tried to explain the real hard issues US and its people will be facing with a sense of hope for the future and Clinton was a well rehearsed puppet with more of the same old rhetoric.

  • Carl - 8 years ago

    Totally rigged. He asked NO hard questions for Hillary, and always let Hillary speak first. He also regularly interrupted Trump, and never "fact checked" Hillary. At one point, right after Trump started a sentence, he interrupted, so Trump shut him up by saying:"You asked me a question, and I'm answering. Do you want me to answer.
    Instead of asking about a lameduck president's birth certificate to put dirt on Trump, why not ask the so-called "biggest threat to human being"? Global warming, please.

  • John - 8 years ago

    Lester was horrible, his questions definitely went after Trump and didn't ask Clinton any hard questions about any of her main issues. It's as if the Clinton campaign got to pick the questions.

  • Bardot - 8 years ago

    Lester was not fair to D Trump.Clinton with 26 + service and politician was given pass by Lester. Why did he not asked about clintons email server.

  • Randy - 8 years ago

    John is right on point. I love how this is so obvious but the news reporters gloss right over the bias especially on the Clinton news network (CNN), Clinton broadcasting station (CBS), MSNBC. Hopefully the rest of America can see through this too. Until these debates, I never realized how controlled and biased the news networks are.

  • John Davis - 8 years ago

    Most of the questions from Lester were about Trumps tax returns, business debt, Obamas citizenship, and the race card. No questions on Benghazi, email scandals, medical issues, birth of ISIS, immigration, etc. If you noticed, Lester would let Hillary start the response on every question so Trump would have to end up defending each issue, then he would cut Trump off when he tried to respond. It's all planned to make him look aggressive. It was so rigged and biased but just another day for the main stream media!!

  • Mat - 8 years ago

    Worst ! No respect when trump was talking.

  • Jeremy Lin - 8 years ago

    Did I just watch a 2 on 1 debate tonight? Trump was debating against two opponents.

  • joy - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.

  • Context Period - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt - like most contemporary TV reporters facing Trump - needs to grow a pair. But I don't blame Trump. He saw his openings and he took them, at will and without hesitation or fear of retribution on the part of the so-called "moderator" who did little, if any, moderating.

    Bottom line, however, Trump's unbridled performance may well be counterproductive. Early results indicate it was and will be.

  • Judy Davidson - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt failed as a moderator tonight because he lost complete control of the situation and aloud Donald Trump to talk on and on in stead of holding him to the two minutes allowable. He continually called two minutes on Hillary Clinton and did not do the same for DT. In my opinion, LH should have interrupted DT during his rambles and held him to the rules set up for the debate as he did Hillary. Poor showing as a moderator. I do not know how moderators are chosen, but there better be a better selection for the following two debates.

  • Nancy - 8 years ago

    Lester Holt failed terribly! He totally allowed Trump to keep talking when told to stop! He never answered any questions. A debate is to allow the citizen to have a fair look at the canidate and his views on all the subjects that are important to this country! All Lester did was to allow Clinton and Trump to continue their hatred on the stage in front of all of us that need are looking for a leader. Lester did not make them stick to the question..terrible. When do we get to have a debate with a tough moderater .....so we can see what their views are!!! Americans lost tonight!!!!!

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