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Debate Thoughts:
According to electoral-vote.com, CNN’s Dana Bash called the debate a “sh*tshow.” I didn’t watch on CNN, so I can’t personally verify that, but I also can’t think of a more apt description.
That was a disgusting display, largely on the president’s part. Fairly early in the debate, FiveThirtyEight's Nathaniel Rakich tweeted out this: "Biden came prepared for a debate. Trump came in determined to prevent one." Again, a very apt description.
Trump (as usual) lied constantly. Here’s the totals from the New York Times fact-check of the debate (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/29/us/debate-fact-check):
Trump False/Misleading/Unsubstantiated claims: 34
Trump True or Mostly True claims: 1
Biden False/Misleading/Unsubstantiated claims: 4
Biden True or Mostly True claims: 8
Looking at other fact-checking articles, the ratio’s about the same (the Associate Press, for example, listed Trump as having said 11 lies, while Biden had 4). You can check other sources for yourself if you’re curious.
Even Chris Christie, who was part of Trump’s debate preparation team, said on ABC News (which is where Denise and I watched the debate) when asked what he thought of Trump’s performance: “It was too hot. You come in and decide you want to be aggressive, and I think it was the right thing to be aggressive. But that was too hot… the advice was for the president to be aggressive, but it was hotter than it was planned to be.”
Devon, on his FB page, said that “If you are just now figuring out that debate moderators should be able to cut mic signals, you’re part of the problem…” I agree. As I said in reply to Devon: “...electoral-vote.com said this: ‘...the Commission on Presidential Debates really needs to step in and insist that candidates' microphones be turned off when the stage is not theirs. If that change isn't made, there is no point in having any more debates.’ With that, I entirely agree.”
In my (absolutely not humble) opinion, a debate featuring a bully who constantly interrupts the other person, who bickers with the moderator as often as his opponent, and fires personal insults at the other person when he's trying to reply so often that the other person has no choice but to resort to shouting back is utterly useless. This was like watching a montage of horrible car wrecks—that might work as a reality TV show, but it’s a disgrace as an example of “democracy in action.”
The networks should perform a mercy killing of these debates. They serve no useful purpose until civil discourse is restored.
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(If you reply, please remember to be civil...)
According to electoral-vote.com, CNN’s Dana Bash called the debate a “sh*tshow.” I didn’t watch on CNN, so I can’t personally verify that, but I also can’t think of a more apt description.
That was a disgusting display, largely on the president’s part. Fairly early in the debate, FiveThirtyEight's Nathaniel Rakich tweeted out this: "Biden came prepared for a debate. Trump came in determined to prevent one." Again, a very apt description.
Trump (as usual) lied constantly. Here’s the totals from the New York Times fact-check of the debate (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/29/us/debate-fact-check):
Trump False/Misleading/Unsubstantiated claims: 34
Trump True or Mostly True claims: 1
Biden False/Misleading/Unsubstantiated claims: 4
Biden True or Mostly True claims: 8
Looking at other fact-checking articles, the ratio’s about the same (the Associate Press, for example, listed Trump as having said 11 lies, while Biden had 4). You can check other sources for yourself if you’re curious.
Even Chris Christie, who was part of Trump’s debate preparation team, said on ABC News (which is where Denise and I watched the debate) when asked what he thought of Trump’s performance: “It was too hot. You come in and decide you want to be aggressive, and I think it was the right thing to be aggressive. But that was too hot… the advice was for the president to be aggressive, but it was hotter than it was planned to be.”
Devon, on his FB page, said that “If you are just now figuring out that debate moderators should be able to cut mic signals, you’re part of the problem…” I agree. As I said in reply to Devon: “...electoral-vote.com said this: ‘...the Commission on Presidential Debates really needs to step in and insist that candidates' microphones be turned off when the stage is not theirs. If that change isn't made, there is no point in having any more debates.’ With that, I entirely agree.”
In my (absolutely not humble) opinion, a debate featuring a bully who constantly interrupts the other person, who bickers with the moderator as often as his opponent, and fires personal insults at the other person when he's trying to reply so often that the other person has no choice but to resort to shouting back is utterly useless. This was like watching a montage of horrible car wrecks—that might work as a reality TV show, but it’s a disgrace as an example of “democracy in action.”
The networks should perform a mercy killing of these debates. They serve no useful purpose until civil discourse is restored.
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(If you reply, please remember to be civil...)
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