Well now
this is a curious thing.
In the transcripts from last night’s debate that have been released thus far, the exchange where Megyn Kelly asks Jeb Bush about his service on the Bloomberg Foundation at a time when it supported Planned Parenthood (here’s an earlier report on it) has been scrubbed.
Those of you that watched the debate live may remember it as being a particularly tense moment. Megyn Kelly followed up with Bush after Bush dodged the initial question, and Jeb declared he didn't know, he was only there to work on education issues, and "it doesn't matter." But nope, it doesn't appear in the transcripts. (Here's the
Washington Post version, which seems to be identical to the CBS one.) And it's not just the transcript:
Fox appears only to be releasing selected clips of the debate, and this exchange is not included.
So that's a bit odd. A simple transcription error, perhaps, that just happened to, oops, take out an entire question, answer, follow up question, and follow up answer?
Huh. Well, it is Fox News. It's only blind luck that the network didn't happen to put up onscreen graphics accidentally declaring some of them "Democrats." It'll be interesting to see if the omission gets fixed, though.