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Debate between Vice Presidential candidates- GOP candidate Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – prevailed upon Vance, and all but a handful of staunchly partisan pundits agreed with that conclusion.
Walz stumbled and panicked at the first question – which everyone in the world knew would be about Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel earlier in the day. Yet Walz made a mistake in his response, and it got worse from there CBS moderator called out The unwritten mercy rules for leftist moderates were watching the Democrats melt down and Walz get thrown a few softballs at J6 at the end of the debate, by which time the Internet was screaming and laughing at the Minnesota governor.
There were three important findings:
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First of all, Vance is a brilliant and calm debater and a confident figure on the national stage.
Ohio Senator JD Vance (left) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz show a lot about the caliber of presidential candidates who elected them.
Second, Walz isn’t, and that represents a big decision. Vice President Kamala Harris It had to be made after the departure of President Joe Biden. This was a terrible decision. Imagine her Cabinet and White House staff if she somehow wins.
Third, the legacy media is irreversibly broken and cannot be taken out of a state of rote leftism and extreme partisanship, or even brought back to a minimum level of seriousness on major occasions. Is.
Do the executives at these networks – ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC – not see what has happened? Americans do not trust the news divisions of legacy networks. It’s as if these divisions are being driven by a combination of campus-demonstrator new interns and hardened partisans from the Obama years.
Although the CBS debate was not as biased against Vance as ABC’s previous debate was against Trump, it was still heavily biased against center-right and conservative viewers. The audience saw the question set quickly veer from the world crisis and border crisis to the left’s favorite issue, abortion.
As the world prepared just hours after Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan began with an obligatory round of questions on that crisis. But, after 10 minutes, they pledged to have a quick exchange on immigration and Biden-Harris relief efforts after Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia in a largely unsuccessful… Abortion , which was discussed in detail in the ABC debate and about which there is no secret.
Three rounds of questions on abortion, really? And three rounds marked by rote framing favored by the hard left? Predictable but still shocking.
The debate turned to questions about child care and then the inevitable “Wasn’t January 6th terrible?” Ended with. Question.
What a show. Not a single question on China’s huge military buildup and its threat against Taiwan and the Philippines. Not a single question was asked about the Chinese Communist Party spies who have infiltrated our country, including the offices of the current and former Governor of New York. Not a single question on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The vice presidential debate did not go well for CBS or the rest of the legacy media. CBS News anchors Norah O’Donnell (left) and Margaret Brennan watch the debate between Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator J.D. Vance, R-OH, and Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, at the CBS Broadcast Center on October 1. Operated. , 2024, in New York City. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Yes, there was a quick reprieve from the consequences of more than 10 million illegal immigrants coming across the southern border under the Biden-Harris administration, but there was also a quick cutback when Vance launched an apparently embarrassing fact-check by CBS FactCheck . “Legal Status” of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. “We have a lot to accomplish,” was the trigger for cutting out anything inconvenient.
Walz was asked about lying about his China trips — sort of. It was left hanging. A delicate response to an unintelligent team of debate organisers. Chinese President Xi Jinping is a kind of Voldemort for the networks – who shall never be named – perhaps because ABC and CBS all have corporate ties to companies that must do business there?
Look, every vote cast in the debate went toward the GOP as Vance, after insisting that prices of everything from food to gas are skyrocketing under Biden-Harris, gave a quick tutorial on why construction costs are rising. thus increasing home prices, and repeatedly reminded viewers of Harris’s failure in his job as “Border Czar”, while also stressing the need for more domestic energy production. Tim Walz provided comic relief.
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Walz wasn’t the only one to lose, however. It was also CBS, which joined ABC in the legacy media hall of shame. When we come back to the debate in four years, the good news is that the “debate commission” has already ended and, by 2028, the idea of big networks hosting debates unmoderated by center-right moderators will also be gone. Will end. Candidates will call C-SPAN and find some impartial moderators. Siri could have done a better job in our last two debates this year.
What’s coming across in the networks’ C suites – if they’re self-aware at all – is that their product and their talent are terrible, and their audience is already gone or will soon be gone. Tuesday night was the latest example of this.
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