Wait a minute ! This debate was Biden’s idea and he was the one who said no audience and other parameters. He in fact set up all the rules and Trump agreed. Trump did his usual schtick but the country and I were mesmerized by Biden. His appearance, his frailty, his answers, his expression. I wanted to cry for him and I watched until the …
Wait a minute ! This debate was Biden’s idea and he was the one who said no audience and other parameters. He in fact set up all the rules and Trump agreed. Trump did his usual schtick but the country and I were mesmerized by Biden. His appearance, his frailty, his answers, his expression. I wanted to cry for him and I watched until the end but I could not face the comments of all those talking heads gathered on CNN. I just knew they would call on Joe Biden to leave the race. Which is what they discussed and now the NY Times has weighed in and it was not pretty.
I don’t think the Biden team set up the no factchecking rule or agreed to it.
That one was announced later. Same for not having them stay on topic. According to the AP:
“CNN determined ahead of time that Tapper and Bash would be questioners, not umpires. They didn’t follow up questions — except to repeat those that weren’t answered — and left it to the politicians to try and fact-check“
I’ll add that DJT used that to his advantage. Not only did he lie but by staying off topic he got more time to lie when the question was repeated.
At one point DJT was interrupting Tapper as Tapper tried to go to the next question. Eventually Tapper told him something like ‘let me ask you this question and then you can do what you want.’
Wait a minute ! This debate was Biden’s idea and he was the one who said no audience and other parameters. He in fact set up all the rules and Trump agreed. Trump did his usual schtick but the country and I were mesmerized by Biden. His appearance, his frailty, his answers, his expression. I wanted to cry for him and I watched until the end but I could not face the comments of all those talking heads gathered on CNN. I just knew they would call on Joe Biden to leave the race. Which is what they discussed and now the NY Times has weighed in and it was not pretty.
I don’t think the Biden team set up the no factchecking rule or agreed to it.
That one was announced later. Same for not having them stay on topic. According to the AP:
“CNN determined ahead of time that Tapper and Bash would be questioners, not umpires. They didn’t follow up questions — except to repeat those that weren’t answered — and left it to the politicians to try and fact-check“
I’ll add that DJT used that to his advantage. Not only did he lie but by staying off topic he got more time to lie when the question was repeated.
At one point DJT was interrupting Tapper as Tapper tried to go to the next question. Eventually Tapper told him something like ‘let me ask you this question and then you can do what you want.’