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VIDEOBody Language expert Mark Bowden noted that the stage manager of the CNN presidential debate messed up by keeping Joe Biden's podium light dark until after he reached the podium and then turned it on while correctly turning on Donald Trump's podium light before he reached it. But was this really just an error? Almost everybody was surprised about how fair the two Trump-hating CNN moderators were towards Trump. Of course, this wasn't so much a sudden embrace of the MAGA movement by the moderators as an effort by CNN (a Deep State media outlet) to get Biden to drop...

Oh, and since Biden could have inadvertently DESTROYED the Morning Joe marriage perhaps he might feel obligated to help bring them back together by calling on the advice of the smartest person he knows. Namely Hunter Biden who could give Mika and Morning Joe emergency marriage counseling. Wouldn't everybody appreciate Hunter Biden providing such a service due to his vast knowledge of broken marriages and relationships? If there is indeed a CRACK in the Morning Joe Marriage, that is something Hunter Biden would definitely be interested in smoking out.age.html">VIDEO

When you see 'Biden Is Toast' in a Politico headline, you know things are really, really bad for Joe Biden. That line was part of a title of a story in that periodical about Biden's disastrous debate performance on Thursday which was originally published fifteen minutes before that event was even completed: "Dems freak out over Biden’s debate performance: ‘Biden is toast’."Lisa Kashinsky, Adam Cancryn, and Eugene Daniels, acting more like coroners providing a Biden campaign autopsy than as Politico reporters, had the sad task of laying out the brutal facts for the bereaved Democrats and their media allies.

VIDEOBob Woodward was in a state of SHOCK over how horrible Joe Biden's debate performance was. "A political hydrogen bomb," he called it. You just know he would have also called it WORSE THAN WATERGATE if Carl Bernstein had not already beaten that phrase to death. Okay, if he didn't actually say it out loud he was definitely thinking it. Oh, and getting hit with a hydrogen bomb is definitely WORSE THAN WATERGATE.

VIDEOThis version of Biden is the BEST version ever!Well, that version of Joe Biden eagerly hyped by Morning Joe crashed and burned on the evening of June 27 during his CNN debate with President Donald Trump. As a result the mood of the set of Morning Joe or, rather, Mourning Joe the following morning was one of deep, deep gloom. The normally boisterous blowhard, Joe Scarborough, was at times tongue tied and shaken as he came to the sad conclusion that Joe Biden must throw in the towel in order to prevent the dreaded Trumpocalypse.Scarborough was followed by his sidekick...

VIDEOSo how did PAID DNC shill Harry J. Sisson spin Joe Biden's DISASTROUS performance at the CNN debate? Well, he spun that, eh, the debate doesn't really matter and, oh yeah, Orange Man Bad!

VIDEOHere is just ONE of the ways in which CNN plans to practice debate CENSORSHIP via muting. Not to be confused with CNN alienating independent journalists by refusing to allow them to comment during livestreams of the debate. That is another form of CENSORSHIP by CNN.

Cernovich @Cernovich Zero reason for Trump to do the rigged CNN debate. From Jayne Zirkle 11:12 AM · Jun 24, 2024

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - The first U.S. presidential debate between incumbent Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on June 27 will include two commercial breaks, no props and muted microphones except when recognized to speak, CNN said Saturday. In May, the candidates agreed to face off in two debates including one this month that will be moderated by CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash in Atlanta, while the other on Sept. 10 will be hosted by ABC. CNN said Saturday both candidates will appear at a uniform podium during the 90-minute debate, podium positions will be determined...

CNN has finalized its rules for the upcoming debate between presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, according to reports. The network announced Saturday that both Biden's and Trump's campaigns have agreed to the rules of the debate and that Democrat-turned-independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be on the stage, according to Fox News. According to CNN qualifications, candidates have to have gotten 15% support in four different national polls and be on the ballot in enough states to get at least 270 electoral college votes. Kennedy is currently on the ballot in six states, but...

Former President Donald Trump and Fox News have scheduled an Iowa town hall event on the same date and at the same time (Wednesday, January 10, at 9:00 p.m. ET) as CNN’s upcoming Republican presidential debate. For some insane reason, a few of the dummies running for the Republican presidential nomination have agreed to allow far-left CNN to host a debate in Iowa. File that under Why we lose. But now, just five days before the all-important Iowa Caucus on Saturday, January 15, Trump will deliver a two-fer. This Fox News town hall will not only steal attention away from...

DES MOINES, Iowa — There's less than three weeks until the Iowa caucuses, and GOP presidential candidates are blitzing through Iowa. Recently, Ron DeSantis made multiple stops across the state and brought along some Iowa leaders who have endorsed him. So far, DeSantis has completed a 99-county tour, also known as a full Grassley, and has made more than 154 stops across Iowa. His campaign tells Iowa's News Now he's garnered support from more than 30,000 Iowans who plan to caucus for him. They have more than 1,000 caucus captains who will be speaking in favor of him at precincts...

The Democratic debates tonight and tomorrow will likely stick to the familiar script from the first ones, with candidates tripping over each other to see who can promise the biggest tax-spend-and-regulate agenda. This doesn't make for compelling television. President Trump nailed the description of the first round with his one-word tweet, "BORING!" To make the debates more exciting to watch and to provide voters with a glimpse of reality into Democrats' fantasy-world policy proposals, the CNN moderators must press the candidates on the consequences of their proposals. A good place to start is by challenging their uniform support of the...

Maybe it was because it was held in Las Vegas, where so many great prizefights have been held. But Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate was easily the best yet. CNN and Wolf Blitzer did a good, fair-and-balanced job of staging and refereeing the nine-person fight card. Most of the time was spent discussing substantive issues like foreign policy and national security, not throwing personal low blows. No candidate was the clear winner. No one was the unanimous loser. No one dramatically moved up or down in the rankings. A day later it's still No. 1 Donald Trump against everyone else...

Two Hispanics, a diminutive Libertarian and a Donald loomed large in the fifth and thankfully, last Republican debate of 2015. The amigo Senators Rubio and Cruz stole the night "insulting" each other in what can only be described as a full-on duel between the sole Hispanics running. This was also the first time Senator Rand Paul had some strong moments, while Trump sustained his triumphant position with even more verbal firepower. Rubio vs Cruz "And you know, there was one commentator that put it this way that, for Marco to suggest our record's the same is like suggesting ‘the fireman...

Each of the Republican presidential candidates brings something good to the race for the GOP nomination and some things not so good. In the fifth and final GOP debate of the year, the candidates on the main stage, and even a few on the "undercard," presented ideas and positions that many Republican voters would consider far better than those we have now under the president we have now. Donald Trump continued to channel Republican voter anger on several issues, including the feeling that the U.S. is no longer "great," a word Trump does not define, but which resonates with the...

Faced with the likelihood of an embarrassing exclusion from a CNN debate Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul hinted he might drop out of the presidential race within days. "We will make an announcement, on that, on Tuesday," Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said when asked if he will continue his campaign if low polling numbers relegate him to the second tier debate Tuesday, the Boston Globe reported....

Random thoughts on last night’s televised Democratic “debate.”And the winner is – surprise – Hillary! Bill was right, that new face lift really paid off. Look mom! No more turkey neck!In fact, Hilz doesn’t look a day older than she did 7 years ago.Even The Donald thought she performed well. It’s almost like she got the questions ahead of time, or something.Moral of the story: never, ever, bet against the Clinton machine. With the Clinton machine running efficiently in the background things that might normally matter no longer do. Corruption doesn’t matter, emails don’t matter, dead ambassadors don’t matter, classified...

Just before tonight's Democratic debate began in Las Vegas, I made a prediction: And so it came to pass. Mrs. Clinton presented herself as the experienced, hyper-informed, trailblazing adult in the room throughout the evening, directing almost all of her verbal punches at Republicans.  Only once did she directly attack one of her rivals: Bernie Sanders, (predictably) on gun control, perhaps the only issue on which she can credibly outflank him to the left. In spite of her hedging on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and marijuana legalization, extremely weak answers on Libya and trade, and unresponsive dismissiveness on her burgeoning email scandal...

In the view of this NewsBuster, Hugh Hewitt is the ablest conservative interviewer on radio. So it was surprising to see him serve as such a loyal CNN soldier on today's Morning Joe. Hewitt, a member of the CNN panel at Wednesday's GOP debate, refused to complain about the paltry opportunities he was given to question the candidates. And defending the fact that Donald Trump had been given twice Scott Walker and Mike Huckabee's airtime, Hewitt said that while "unfortunate," Jake Tapper had done a "marvelous" job of allocating time. That was too much for Mika Brzezinski, who bluntly told...