Posted on 09/11/2024 11:38:47 AM PDT by DFG
The Candy Crowley Debate
What do we remember, if anything now, about the second presidential debate of 2012?
Not whether Obama or Romney won.
But only how CNN’s Candy Crowley blew up her career and embarrassed CNN—by outrageously hijacking the debate, and as a partisan, fact-checking (and erroneously so) Romney in efforts to help Obama.
So, too, we won’t remember much of these debate details, given the shameful role of the two ABC moderators.
Harris came out calm, exceeded low expectations, repeated well her memorized talking points, avoided until the last 20 minutes her trademark word-salads, and repeatedly baited and incited an increasingly angrier Trump.
Harris called for unity, while smearing him as a racist and repeating the old lies about Charlottesville, “bloodbath,” the 2025 project, and Trump’s supposed support for a federal ban on abortion.
Trump might seem to have matched or beaten Harris if one only reads a transcript of the entire debate—given she never honestly would or could reconcile her past and antithetical present positions.
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VDH nails it.
My prediction is no one will hear from Harris in any measurable way from now until the election. It will now be the basement strategy from here on out. Guaranteed.
It's time for a complete media divorce.
VDH gives a succinct and clear review of the “debate.”
At the end Hanson noted: “So, the real story was how ABC’s moderators ruined the debate, their own reputations, and their network’s brand.”
The question to be asked is how the ABC moderators, their reputations and their network, all of which had already sunk into an abyss of diseased excrement, could get anymore “ruined.”
“ My prediction is no one will hear from Harris in any measurable way from now until the election. It will now be the basement strategy from here on out. Guaranteed.”
No doubt
That was it
She took pretend questions in a reversed play from Disney, the people who introduced her to her husband- friends, business colleagues, homeys
You won’t see her again
Best analysis by far of anything I’ve read.
Bkmk
Mark
Nixon beat JFK during their debates, but was called a loser because of his unshaven image on TV
The question to be asked is how the ABC moderators, their reputations and their network, all of which had already sunk into an abyss of diseased excrement, could get anymore “ruined.”
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The problem is that it’s only “ruined” with conservatives, a portion of the populace they care nothing for anyway. Trump lent credence to the station by agreeing for a debate heavily stacked against him. I love Trump, but he is not disciplined enough as a debater to skillfully manage a situation like that.
abc does not care how biased they appear
they would only care if it affected their bottom line
if everyone who thought that abc took sides in the debate
canceled their cable tv
maybe
maybe they would care
What the ABC “moderators” showed is just how precisely aligned their thinking and world view is with the Dems. It would never occur to them to “fact check” anything Harris says, because they *know* those things to be true and believe everyone else does, too. Therefore, no “fact checking” is required.
But they assume everything Trump says is a lie, and see it as their duty to point that out.
If “fact checking” is to be applied, it needs to be applied to every statement made by each “debater”. Good luck with that.
“So, the real story was how ABC’s moderators ruined the debate, their own reputations, and their network’s brand.”
Victor Davis Hanson is off base. He can’t see the forest for the trees.
The real story is how the RNC has continued to allow this to happen for decades. Moderators like Candy Crowley, Mike Wallace and David Muir are just symptoms of a greater problem. The RNC is the problem. They don’t protect their candidate and they ignore their voters. That’s the real story.
The RNC allows it because they are in on the game. They are the eunuchs who are given the job to harrumph loudly to disguise the fact that we have a one party government and have for decades.
NOT!!!!
ANY thinking independents, will have turned on them and HARRIS last night.
Harris doesn’t have to speak to anyone because her complete army of acolytes in the media will do all her talking for her.
Yep
Trump's only path to victory with that crowd was to try and let the Vice President destroy herself.
We are some of the fortunate who were able to experience Rush when he first began in Sacramento. I had already ceased paying any attention to ABC-CBS-NBC. When MSLSD came along, I never bothered. Rush basically banned anything from MSLSD. He would state that just mentioning them for 2 minutes on his massive show brought more viewers and listeners than they ever got on their own.
If President Trump can return to the Oval Office, there is hope.
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