I have to admit, I read some people’s opinions yesterday (on here I think) that the format of the debate actually favored Trump for several reasons, and I didn’t buy into it.
In hindsight, the format did not help Biden much, and it probably helped Trump seem less like the mean-tweet bombastic candidate and more like a serious speaker.
The one conspiracy theory that I have is not that the ‘debate’ was intended to take Biden down, although I will admit I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
So there was a two minute delay, and I want to know why Dana Bash appeared to cut Biden off when he was short circuiting, when it seemed as though Biden still had time left on the clock to speak.
There are two possibilities here. The more obvious one is that it was so important for CNN to save Biden that they needed to cut him off and switch things up fast.
The conspiracy theory version is that he actually continued to short circuit, but they dumped the feed, which basically means the viewing audience missed some of it.
For those who don’t know how a broadcast delay works, the realtime feed is saved in a buffer, and then broad cast many seconds later after it actually occurred. The reason for doing is is so that they can dump the feed, not in real time, but backward in the buffer. It’s a bit like using a time machine to be able to go back many seconds and stop something from happening (or in this case, from being witnessed).
The debate format was intended to help Biden.
“So there was a two minute delay,”
If that’s true I’d expect more post-debate curiosity about what was left out.
Maybe there was the delay and actually nothing was left out.