On the debate thread last night, I commented on how "glassy black" Biden's eyes looked.
Now James Woods tweets...
James Woods@RealJamesWoods
So why was blue-eyed Joe Biden wearing black contact lenses?
Posted on 09/30/2020 11:06:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
'Well, first of all, I guess I’m debating you, not him,' Trump said to Chris Wallace during Tuesday's 2020 presidential debate. Fact check: True.
Debating one person is difficult, especially if he’s had oodles of alone time in his basement to prepare while you’ve been a little busy leading the country. Debating that person and a partisan media hack at the same time is just BS.
That, however, was President Donald Trump’s exact plight Tuesday night at the first 2020 presidential debate, when he was treated to a two-on-one showdown with his actual opponent Joe Biden and his honorary rival, Fox News moderator Chris Wallace.
Wallace, a registered Democrat, failed to maintain any control over the debate. Even members of the left pointed out what a chaotic “disgrace” the whole ordeal was. But after a while, it was hard to pay attention to anything but Wallace’s Biden bias. Media moderators playing favorites with presidential contenders is nothing new, but Wallace’s persistent partisanship reached a new low.
From interrupting Trump but not Biden at nearly every turn, blocking the incumbent before he could correct mischaracterizations and flat-out lies from Biden, to full-throated arguments with the president despite lobbing soft-ball questions — or no questions at all — to the former vice president, Wallace’s presentation was appalling.
Who needs the leftist media swarming to fact-check Trump’s claims from this debate when you have Wallace to recycle long-debunked claims? “Vice President Biden, you say that President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville three years ago, when he talked about ‘very fine people on both sides’ was what directly led you to launch this run for president,” Wallace said, framing his question as a Trump attack using a false leftist talking point to smear Trump as a white supremacist sympathizer.
During the same segment, Wallace employed more Democrat talking points in what proved to be one of the most egregious exchanges of the night. Earlier this month, the Trump administration rightly announced it would be prohibiting federal agencies from subjecting their employees to woke “critical race theory” and “white privilege” seminars. Although critical race theory is itself a racist and toxic framework of social study, which posits that white people are guilty oppressors based only on the color of their skin and therefore lends itself to extreme “remedies” (such as looting as reparations), Wallace framed it nicely as “racial sensitivity training.”
“This month, your administration directed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or critical race theory,” Wallace said, couching critical race theory with the unobjectionable “racial sensitivity” phrase. “Why did you decide to do that — to end racial sensitivity training?” Wallace doubled down on the term. The implication, of course, is that Trump himself is insensitive to racial issues.
“I ended it because it’s racist,” Trump replied, factually. “A lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane, that it was a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in our schools, all over the place.”
Trump’s statements were true, but the truth wasn’t good enough for Wallace, who asked like a genuine leftist, “What is radical about racial sensitivity training?”
Trump didn’t take the bait. “They were teaching people to hate our country, and I’m not going to do that,” Trump said. “I’m not going to allow that to happen.”
Chris Wallace calling critical race theory “racial sensitivity training” is totally ignorant of what’s being taught. It is racist and anti-American. Appalling.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 30, 2020
Are you kidding me Chris Wallace? You ask with a straight face and an accusatory finger what’s wrong with federal teaching of the indoctrination of critical race theory? Shame on you, Chris.
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) September 30, 2020
Several times, Trump tried to talk about Biden’s scandalous family business dealings concerning his son Hunter, which presented a gross conflict of interest while Biden was in office during the Obama administration. After Biden repeatedly lied, saying it was “simply not true” that Hunter received $3.5 million from the wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow — in fact, a wire transfer and a Senate report revealed that’s exactly what happened — Wallace always deflected, closing out segments before Biden faced too much heat.
“We’ve already been through this,” Wallace interrupted. “I think the American people would rather hear about more substantial subjects. … I’d like to talk about climate change.”
“So would I,” Biden replied. That worked out well. Of course, Wallace then proceeded to debate Trump on climate change, touting Obama’s Clean Power Plan and using language seemingly intended to paint Trump as a science denier.
Chris Wallace, over the course of the night, has moved from moderator to debater.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 30, 2020
This is to say nothing of Wallace coaching Biden about what his policy plans contain, or of coming to Biden’s rescue when the former vice president couldn’t name one police group that supported him, or of asking Trump the same question over and over about his tax returns despite the president answering it, or of characterizing Biden’s “defund the police” position with the more palatable phrase “community control of policing.”
Wallace proved himself a hack over and over, and it was disgusting. How are the American people supposed to discern between the two candidates and their positions when a third party injects himself into the debate in such an improper way, shirking his duty of moderating in favor of carrying out his anti-Trump agenda?
Chris Wallace is making very clear that his goal tonight is to run interference for Joe Biden. If he wants to be a deranged NeverTrumper, that's his prerogative, but Wallace is doing everything in his power to tilt the election toward his preferred candidate. Everyone can see it.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 30, 2020
Too early to call a debate winner, but the loser is Chris Wallace.
— Kylee Zempel (@kyleezempel) September 30, 2020
Biden: "I can't keep track of all his ranting"
Wallace: *laughs* "I'm having trouble myself"
the mask is slipping, Chris #Debates2020
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) September 30, 2020
Chris Wallace is actually coming off worse than either candidate.
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) September 30, 2020
There's a super easy way to figure out if you completely failed in your only job as a debate moderator: if anyone is talking about you instead of the candidates, you failed.
Tonight, the number one thing people are talking about is how the debate moderation was awful. pic.twitter.com/WKMLBgdBUh
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) September 30, 2020
The American people don’t want to see a cultural elitist prevent the two 2020 fighters from engaging in a verbal brawl. They don’t want to see the candidates get shut down right before they’re about to get angry and show their most authentic colors. And they sure didn’t tune in to watch Wallace debate Trump.
“Well, first of all, I guess I’m debating you, not him,” Trump said to Wallace during one of their scuffles. Fact check: True.
I heard Rush say that and I was shaking my head. Can’t believe Rush would get along with this toad.
Rush should retire.
I like him but he fell for the Globalist story back in the 90’s and didn’t realize he was wrong until probably 2017.
He also has a track record of hob-nobbing with reporters as he thinks it keeps him with the in croud.
Wallace has always been an Anti-Trumper. I am very disappointed in Fox for promoting him. I quit watching him a long time ago and was sorry to hear he was “moderating” the first debate. He is just a chip off the old block: AKA :Liberal Daddy Mike Wallace. I don’t know why Fox keeps promoting him, but unless they ditch him soon, they may lose another Fox loyalist.
Wallace did precisely what the Murd bro’s and all the anti-American, anti-God, left-wing, global socialists wanted.
Fox polling is designed for the same.
Same as 2016.
I don’t like Chris Wallace, and agree that Trump was debating 2 people, but if he thinks Wallace’s performance is the most embarrassing, wait till the debates shift to the liberal networks.
This is what the Fox moderators stole from the candidates and the viewers on Thursday night. They usurped the role of rebuttal and made the candidates individually argue their positions with themselves instead of the other candidates. And then knowing this was going to be the format, they staged meaningless personal questions that had no viable rebuttal opportunities from the other candidates.What candidate is going to interject in the middle of a crude mysogeny question? What candidate is going to rebut an "any word from God" question? What candidate is going to jump into Megyn Kelly's question to Jeb Bush that "your brother's war was a mistake" or the Bush dynasty question?
There were a half-dozen questions where one candidate was asked to attack another candidate.
With questions like that, how can we truly see the positions of each candidate? When the questions are lowball and undeserving of the stature of Governors, Senators, and business leaders, then why should we take seriously the fallout from such a farce.
- Wallace to Rubio: Could you please address Governor Bush across the stage here, and explain to him why you, someone who has never held executive office, are better prepared to be president than he is...
- Wallace to Cruz: Senator Cruz, your colleague, Senator Paul, right there next to you, said a few months ago he agrees with you on a number of issues, but he says you do nothing to grow the party...
- Wallace to Trump: Governor Bush has called those remarks, quote, “extraordinarily ugly.” I’d like you — you’re right next to him — tell us — talk to him directly and say how you respond to that...
- Kelly to Christie: Do you really believe you can assign blame to Senator Paul just for opposing he bulk collection of people’s phone records in the event of a terrorist attack?
- Baier to Rubio: Senator Rubio, why is Governor Bush wrong on Common Core?
- Wallace to Christie: Governor Huckabee says he can save Social Security and Medicare without doing any of that. Is he lying?
- Kelly to Bush: Governor Bush, I want to ask you, on the subject of name calling of your fellow candidates, a story appeared today quoting an anonymous GOP donor who said you called Mr. Trump a clown, a buffoon...
Apparently, Wallace learned nothing from that experience.
-PJ
I didn’t watch the debates; my mind was made up a year ago or more.
But I do eavesdrop. The consensus at the restaurant where I ate lunch today was that they didn’t like the behavior of any of the debaters - Biden, Trump, or Wallace.
On the debate thread last night, I commented on how "glassy black" Biden's eyes looked.
Now James Woods tweets...
James Woods@RealJamesWoods
So why was blue-eyed Joe Biden wearing black contact lenses?
He just forgot his “Biden 2020” hat.
Many of us used to be like that. Getting along with the opposition. Seems so quaint and now long out of fashion.
Rush can count on one hand the leftist interviewers and hosts who have been somewhat tolerant of him, and have fingers left over, hopefully a middle one to flash to the hundreds of rude ones.
I listened to the Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Rush that his big stations carried years ago. He brought his family and was humbly excited and nervous.
When the leftist middle aged hag (some has-been star) read the accomplishments she stopped and said "Wait. Do I have to read these words. I don't believe them. Do I have to go on reading this?"
Outrageous. So rude and nasty.
Why do we need a “Moderator” at all??
Why not instead have a computer-generated voice that reads RANDOM questions and the response is randomly directed to either candidate. The candidates’ responses for the first minute are done without interruptions with the opposing candidate’s mike is turned off to disable interruptions.
Then after the first minute, it’s a free for all for the next 5 or so minutes. No intervention by a moderator. Let them fight.
Then a bell rings and both their microphones are turned off after 5 seconds (to allow sentences to be finished) and they move on to the next random computer-generated topic.
Special contacts....
Wow. That Sci-Fi stuff is here. Biden will say “What next? A phone without a line or a booth? Self-turning stacks of 45rpm records so you don’t have to get up to turn them over?”
'Well, first of all, I guess I'm debating you, not him,' Trump said to Chris Wallace during Tuesday's 2020 presidential debate.
Brit Hume claimed that Wallace was the best moderator who ever lived? Maybe Brit should stay on the island and fish for the rest of his days?
How the heck did weak Wallace ever get the job?
How the heck did weak Wallace ever get the job?
Wallace easily knocked Candy Crowley out of first place on the Most Biased Moderators list. As the new “champion” Wallace’s sordid performance will be tough to surpass. He could hold “the title” decades.
Of course it was. Fox news should fire Wallace.
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They won’t. He’ll stick around so the Stupid GOP can have him back to moderate the next debates four years from now. they’ll never learn.
Chris Wallace should have refused the invitation to be moderator...no explanation is needed. When the former VP refused to “discuss” a question put to him...a normal moderator would have given the question to the POTUS...Wallace did not, he went on to the next question leaving an angry and frustrated POTUS...not good at all. The “debate” squabble went down hill............
Wallace is a Marxist.
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