Exactly. There was NO moderation. None.Shame on CNN and others for their shoddy, shallow commentary of this event. Someone wrote on Facebook yesterday-"He wasn't feeling well and he was arguing with the actual devil. Don't you dare abandon him."
Well? Why would that be a surprise. Someone said before the debate - "LET JOE BIDEN BE HIMSELF? They did not do that - seemingly they forgot what we have ALL seen right along - the orange boob does NOT "debate" - he opens mouth & spouts garbage - thats what he does at rallies and thats what he did Thursday night. And frankly, we've all listened & watched enough of the "news commenters" (because thats what they are - NOT actual journalists) for the last three and a half years at least. Did anyone actually believe that would change for a debate? They want clicks - they want to sell their news. PERIOD>
I am so freaking fed up with all of the hand wringing & the serious expressions on these news jerks faces as they tear Biden down & never a bad word OR a check on the lies the boob spouted.
We do not "need" someone else - we need to support Biden who is OUR candidate.
Lets just stop paying attention to these "commenters" - they clearly are no better than social media influencers!
Would it have been possible for the Joe Biden, the President of the United States, to say, "this isn't what I signed up for and I don't have time for it." And walked off the stage. It was not a debate and the moderators did NOTHING to stop the garbage that flowed from one of the debaters. Besides that, golf swings? It's all bait and switch. (The walking off the stage part is probably not a good idea :) but it would sure make me feel good! lol)
I love the idea -- but I have zero trouble understanding how that would have been spun: "Biden, the loser, walks offstage in a huff." Because no way would CNN or the rest of the media take responsibility for their own failures.
Actually, Susanna, I was kinda hoping Joe would walk across the stage and punch him in the faceтАж.and I say that as someone who eschews violence as a solution. Yeah, I was that pissed.
We already know by now that they have never moderated. They didnтАЩt with Hillary while drumpf stomped around behind her as she talked, and they often enabled drumpf to bulldoze his opponent because they cannot manage his off script bullying behaviors.
Susanna, don't blame the moderators -- his prep team should have known (through inquiry, if nothing else) about the format, or anticipated it. I blame his prep team.
But no matter -- what's done is done. There's plenty of time to correct course; full court press now, in ЁЯПА terms. CF45 didn't win any new voters on Thursday.
Then why have moderators at all?? IIRC, Biden and/or his team chose the format or at least knew about it well in advance. I hope "what's done is done," but I'm not dismissing the possibility that the lily-livered white male apparatchiks running the national Democratic Party can still blow things up in their panic.
How could his staff have prepped him for the possibility that the moderators wouldn't moderate?
Exactly. There was NO moderation. None.Shame on CNN and others for their shoddy, shallow commentary of this event. Someone wrote on Facebook yesterday-"He wasn't feeling well and he was arguing with the actual devil. Don't you dare abandon him."
Well? Why would that be a surprise. Someone said before the debate - "LET JOE BIDEN BE HIMSELF? They did not do that - seemingly they forgot what we have ALL seen right along - the orange boob does NOT "debate" - he opens mouth & spouts garbage - thats what he does at rallies and thats what he did Thursday night. And frankly, we've all listened & watched enough of the "news commenters" (because thats what they are - NOT actual journalists) for the last three and a half years at least. Did anyone actually believe that would change for a debate? They want clicks - they want to sell their news. PERIOD>
I am so freaking fed up with all of the hand wringing & the serious expressions on these news jerks faces as they tear Biden down & never a bad word OR a check on the lies the boob spouted.
We do not "need" someone else - we need to support Biden who is OUR candidate.
Lets just stop paying attention to these "commenters" - they clearly are no better than social media influencers!
1000%, Maggie.
Would it have been possible for the Joe Biden, the President of the United States, to say, "this isn't what I signed up for and I don't have time for it." And walked off the stage. It was not a debate and the moderators did NOTHING to stop the garbage that flowed from one of the debaters. Besides that, golf swings? It's all bait and switch. (The walking off the stage part is probably not a good idea :) but it would sure make me feel good! lol)
I love the idea -- but I have zero trouble understanding how that would have been spun: "Biden, the loser, walks offstage in a huff." Because no way would CNN or the rest of the media take responsibility for their own failures.
Actually, Susanna, I was kinda hoping Joe would walk across the stage and punch him in the faceтАж.and I say that as someone who eschews violence as a solution. Yeah, I was that pissed.
Now I'm visualizing something involving a pie . . . <g>
It would have been a slow walk in a huff, adding to the criticism of that action. Plus, he did get stronger as the session went on.
No. See below.
We already know by now that they have never moderated. They didnтАЩt with Hillary while drumpf stomped around behind her as she talked, and they often enabled drumpf to bulldoze his opponent because they cannot manage his off script bullying behaviors.
Susanna, don't blame the moderators -- his prep team should have known (through inquiry, if nothing else) about the format, or anticipated it. I blame his prep team.
But no matter -- what's done is done. There's plenty of time to correct course; full court press now, in ЁЯПА terms. CF45 didn't win any new voters on Thursday.
Then why have moderators at all?? IIRC, Biden and/or his team chose the format or at least knew about it well in advance. I hope "what's done is done," but I'm not dismissing the possibility that the lily-livered white male apparatchiks running the national Democratic Party can still blow things up in their panic.