There’s a screen grab below the fold highlighting a specific moment of giggling glee for Chris Wallace. Remember, Wallace is a presidential debate moderator; however, he’s also one of the three specific figures (outlined in multi-sourced media reports) who was given instructions by Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to take down Trump.

Together with George Will, Wallace transparently plays out the Murdoch agenda. Watch George Will ridiculing any reasonable immigration position by saying Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the face of all things horrible against the poor and misunderstood illegal aliens. The condescension is actually quite remarkable:

This panels expressed delivery is the reason why we’ve stuck the previous outline on Murdoch’s agenda to the top of the page. The systemic hatred toward the candidacy of Donald Trump needs as much sunlight as possible in order for people to fully grasp the scope of how the elite ruling and chattering class are responding when their rigged systems are challenged by the ordinary electorate.

Over the past fifteen months tens of millions of Americans have watched as Donald Trump ripped the masks from most of the modern professional punditry who espoused to be conservative yet hid their ideological nature as elite corporatists and globalists.

It began in June ’15 when millions of Fox News viewers saw the entire line-up of professional pundits proclaim: borders shouldn’t matter; border walls won’t work; illegal alien amnesty was the only viable solution to decades of unenforced immigration law; ObamaCare is not really all that bad, and the federal government doesn’t really need a budget.

….. And that was only in week #1 of Donald Trump’s campaign.

Since June ’15, on almost every issue those same pundits have now transparently aligned themselves with Wall Street agenda items like global trade, tax policy, big government spending, and advocacy to including advancement of Speaker Paul ‘Omnibus’ Ryan.

However, as sharp reader DrudgeAddict smartly pointed out last year, these voices were the exact group who gathered together in an exclusive meeting with President Obama in 2009 to sing his praises after the ’08 election. Including :

George Will

Michael Barone

David Brooks

Charles Krauthammer

Bill Kristol

Lawrence Kudlow

Rich Lowry

Peggy Noonan

All in attendance for a dinner meeting with president Obama before he took office. The post-meeting/dinner report in The New Yorker Magazine holds the following quotes told by the glowing participants of their time with President Obama:

Richard Lowry:“the only presidential candidate from either party about whom there is a palpable excitement”. Charles Krauthammer: “Obama would be a president with the political intelligence of a Bill Clinton harnessed to the steely self-discipline of a Vladimir Putin”, who would “bestride the political stage as largely as did Reagan.” Bill Kristol:“I look forward to Obama’s inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer.” Larry Kudlow: “[Obama] loves to deal with both sides of the issue.” “He revels in the back and forth. And he wants to keep the dialogue going with conservatives.”

Indeed, it sounds like a joyful political love-fest amid the smitten beltway punditry in 2009.

So is it really a surprise to read or hear their current, and collective, opinion of the horribly unwashed pro-America vulgarian Trump?

Let’s review. Starting with the pundit who coined the term “vulgarian”, George Will:

George Will 2015: “Donald Trump Supporters Need To Come Into The Republican Party On Our Terms, Not Theirs” (link with video)

Rich Lowry 2015: “Look Trump attacks everyone but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here is that last debate. Let’s be honest, Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon“. (link with video)

Charles Krauthammer 2015: …”[…] And the pity is this: this is the strongest field of Republican candidates in 35 years. You could pick a dozen of them at random and have the strongest cabinet America has had in our lifetime, and instead, all of our time is spent discussing this rodeo clown.” (link)

Bill Kristol 2015: […] “I doubt I’d support Donald. I doubt I’d support the Democrat. I think I’d support getting someone good on the ballot as a third party candidate.” (link)

( Via Instapundit ) AUGUST 2015 […] GOP establishment is trying so hard to discredit Trump that they don’t seem to realize that they are angering a large portion of their own constituency, which is hungering for leadership and a willingness to openly defy P.C. norms. To paraphrase Hamlet, me thinks they dost protest too much, and it is beginning to backfire on them and cause them to take openly hypocritical positions.

Indeed, they are now taking the position that deporting illegal immigrants is wrong. Oh, how the establishment loves to talk tough on immigration when it suits its purposes of ginning up conservatives on election day. But when a candidate comes along who actually wants to do something about the issue–and isn’t afraid to defy political correctness to do so–the GOP establishment suddenly cries foul, and brands him a fool, dictator, or police state zealot. The necessary implication is that the GOP establishment is all hat, no cattle on immigration.

No wonder increasing numbers of those who self-identify as Republican now openly abhor the party, and it totters on the brink of implosion. (link)