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Debate commission adopts new rules to mute microphones
AP via Mike balsamo ^

Posted on 10/19/2020 4:47:49 PM PDT by janetjanet998

WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate commission adopts new rules to mute microphones to allow Trump, Biden 2 minutes of uninterrupted time per segment.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; debates; mics; presidentialdebate
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Trump should just bring his own AMP and MIC to the debate.


161 posted on 10/20/2020 2:50:55 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: cymbeline

Why do you think Biden’s mike will be cut?


162 posted on 10/20/2020 5:41:38 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: a fool in paradise

No, they’ll claim they had technical difficulties when trying to mute Biden or “Moderator” during this “historic new application of ‘fair’ technology”, that you understand, takes some head-breaking to get it right. Too bad it had to be Trump’s, you know, but he’s so misogynistic, after all, we’re trying to protect America from him.
Love,
Big Media


163 posted on 10/20/2020 5:44:49 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

“Why do you think Biden’s mike will be cut?”

If they cut mikes after 2 minutes I assume that means both sides. It would be extremely obviously if the moderator cheated.

I also assume they’ll want Biden to talk as little as possible.


164 posted on 10/20/2020 5:45:07 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Blue Highway

Yep, exactly.


165 posted on 10/20/2020 5:45:28 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: janetjanet998

Do they really think we are dumb enough to not know what they are attempting to do?


166 posted on 10/20/2020 5:48:01 AM PDT by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Persevero

“Yeah I don’t mind this as long as it’s fairly applied.”

Sure, why not trust Big Media and the #neverTrumpers?


167 posted on 10/20/2020 5:51:34 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: janetjanet998

Fine, let Joe mumble.


168 posted on 10/20/2020 5:53:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (FILL THE SEAT)
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To: cymbeline

“It would be extremely obviously if the moderator cheated.”

It always is, and our candidates still attend the debates anyway.


169 posted on 10/20/2020 5:53:59 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: janetjanet998
Censorship at its finest!

I hope President Trump pulls out!

170 posted on 10/20/2020 6:07:51 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

“”I hope President Trump pulls out!””

I think the Biden camp (FAKE NEWS) are hoping for that as well. They don’t want to talk about Hunter.


171 posted on 10/20/2020 6:10:25 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: janetjanet998

Two minutes is a mighty long time for someone speaking through a brain fog and little to no recall of what he did an hour ago. I think this will come out to a major win for President Trump.


172 posted on 10/20/2020 7:03:41 AM PDT by Flint
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To: janetjanet998

They seem to have backtracked from the earlier proposition “Mike Wallace or a later moderator will rush out and tie a gag on the mouth of the candidate who tries to continue speaking.”

Decided it would take too much time with all the running back and forth.


173 posted on 10/20/2020 8:05:47 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
You’ll be able to hear Trump on Joe and the mod’s mike.

Right, like old recording studios trying to isolate singers and instruments before the current plan of each person coming in alone to an empty booth area and recording a separate digital track to be added to the master or deleted.

Game on internet will be "I heard Trump say 'loser' and 'you're deluional' , listen to minute 34:20 on this audio.

And "Biden was coughing furiously, you can hear the echo on the walls near Trump."

174 posted on 10/20/2020 8:12:25 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: McGruff
to allow...Biden 2 minutes of uninterrupted lying.

LOL

Biden: "C'mon, guys. I was just starting to tell how the Russians trained Trump as an adolescent to be an agent. Darn it all."

175 posted on 10/20/2020 8:14:56 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: janetjanet998

Changing the rules within 48 hours?

Trump needs to tell them-—NO.


176 posted on 10/20/2020 8:37:00 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Brown Deer

Trump should pantomime his responses by pretending to speak and gestulate but keep silence. That way no one would know whether the mute button was stuck or not stuck and the debate commission would then look like they were sabotaging Trump.

Or better just stand there silently for each of his 2 minutes and let Biden just Jabber and when asked why Trump wasn’t speaking, Trump would reply “I’m told the microphone will be turned off at whatever whim the moderator responds to...so I’m standing here silently and then I’m going to a rally afterward. And then just stand there stoic and proud and silent! He could offer this response...”The Biden Crime syndicate family needs to be arrested and jailed and there fore I will not dignify any more of his attacks with a response!”


177 posted on 10/20/2020 8:43:44 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: janetjanet998
If all three groups (the two campaigns and the commission) agree to the rules, then how can the commission unilaterally break the rules of a trilateral agreement?

-PJ

178 posted on 10/20/2020 8:44:34 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: janetjanet998

Good.

Contests have rules.

People who break the rules should lose the contest.

Two minutes is *NOT* two minutes and 10 seconds. You don’t get a fourth out in baseball, or a fifth down in football.

If you can’t make your point, coherently, in two minutes you don’t have any business running for city council, or claiming to have a college degree; formal debate is only a notch above T-ball; anyone who can’t understand and adhere to the rules is retard


179 posted on 10/20/2020 9:12:43 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
If Trump brings up Biden and his son shaking down the Chinese and accepting bribes, the mod will switch off Trump's mic.

She'll say, 'We're talking about Climate Change (a subject that has been covered in EVERY 'debate' this year. Even Chris Wallace who never took a college science class that wasn't required spend time on 'Climate Change'... so did the bimbo who sided with CommaLa against Pence...

Americans don't care about the issue but democrats want to 'change the subject' and eat up the time so Americans watching will feel OK about the scummy creep Biden. Aren't we charmed with democrats and their cheating to favor their own? /s

In ALL the 'debates' held the last five years there was NOT ONE moderator who would have considered voting for President Trump. I guess that's 'fair' if we lived in a commie hellhole... but in a free society it's NOT FAIR, It's totalitarian and thuggy. And Chris Wallace has no busineess working for FOXNews. Not because he's a democrat but because he's manipulative and untrustworthy. His 'debate' and two of his 'town-halls' are proof.

180 posted on 10/20/2020 9:42:36 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's base: Why doesn't Biden have rallies in black communities?)
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