Gilmore: Country’s biggest problem is ‘organized establishment media’

by Ben Kamisar - 01/28/16 7:54 PM ET

Longshot White House hopeful Jim Gilmore accused the media during his appearance at Fox News’ undercard debate of “manipulating” the presidential race by picking winners and losers.

Responding to an assertion by Carly Fiorina that the “political class” in Washington has grown out of control, Gilmore said that he believes the media is a bigger issue.

{mosads}“The country has changed and there are powerful forces at this point that are really controlling our lives and that’s why people are so angry,” he said.

“One of those is government, which is regulating everything through the environmental protection agency and other places. But the biggest is the organized establishment media.”

He criticized the debate moderators for giving Fiorina two questions in a row, despite him going a stretch without receiving a question. Gilmore immediately received a follow-up question about gun control.

“This media across the country is manipulating, shaping and framing this campaign and has been for at least a year now in order to get the kind of choices that people are going to see,”

“This is wrong, it has to change, and when I’m president, it is going to change.”

Gilmore has missed the threshold for the majority of the undercard debates because of low polling.

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