[houeto]

The audience had been instructed not to applaud during the debate, but applause did happen here.

Listen closely. I have several times. For a brief moment their were 2 or 3 that were clapping. There was only one set of hands that kept on clapping. Those belong to MO.

I would like to say more about it but I really need to shut up.

[Scotswife]

Why do you really need to shut up?

My guess is this scenario was actually role played during debate prep.