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The debate between the vice presidential candidates — Republican candidates Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — was dominated by Vance, with the exception of a few staunch partisan commentators. All agreed with that conclusion.
From the first question, Waltz staggered and panicked. Everyone around the world knew it was about Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel earlier that day. Still, Walz's response remained ambiguous, and things got worse from there, with the CBS hosts invoking an implicit code of mercy for left-wing hosts who had watched the Democratic Party melt, and at the end of the debate J6. I threw a softball to Mr. Walz. By then, the internet was abuzz. And he laughed at the governor of Minnesota.
There were three important points:
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First, Vance is an excellent, level-headed debater and a reassuring presence on the national stage.
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (left) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz demonstrated much about the caliber of their chosen presidential candidates.
Second, Walz is not, and he represents the one big decision Vice President Kamala Harris has had to make since President Joe Biden left office. That was a terrible decision. Imagine the Cabinet and White House staff if somehow she won.
Third, legacy media is irreparably broken, unable to recover from its descent into mechanical leftism and hyper-partisanship, or even return to a minimal level of seriousness when it matters. .
Didn't the executives at networks like ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, etc. see what happened? Americans don't trust traditional network news departments. It's as if these departments are run by a combination of interns fresh from campus and die-hard partisans from the Obama era.
But while the CBS debate was not as overtly biased against Vance as ABC's previous debate was against President Trump, it still appealed to center-right and conservative viewers. It was very, very biased. Viewers saw the question set quickly veer away from the global and border crises and land on the left's favorite issue of abortion.
With the world watching just hours after Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel, hosts Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan opened with the obligatory questions about the crisis. I cut it. But after 10 minutes, they quickly exchanged thoughts on immigration and the Biden-Harris debacle in the abortion relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helen in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia. continued. This has been thoroughly discussed in the ABC debate, and there is no mystery at all.
Is it true that you are asked 3 questions about abortion? And three rounds marked by the rote framework favored by hard-line leftists? Although I expected it, it was still shocking.
The debate became bogged down with childcare-related questions, and then ended with the standard question, “Wasn't January 6th bad?” question.
What a farce. There were no questions asked about China's vast military buildup and threats to Taiwan and the Philippines. Not a single question was asked about Chinese Communist spies shooting up our country, including the offices of the current and former governor of New York State. There was not a single question about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The vice presidential debate did not go well for CBS and other traditional media outlets. CBS News anchors Norah O'Donnell (left) and Margaret Brennan pose with Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Minnesota) at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1. He moderated a debate with Governor Tim Walz. , 2024, New York City. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Yes, the fallout from the more than 10 million illegal immigrants who flowed across the southern border under the Biden-Harris administration was quickly weathered, but so was the moment Vance launched his admittedly embarrassing fact-check on CBS Fact Check. It was rounded up. The “legal status'' of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. “I have a lot of work to do,'' and that was the trigger for me to cut off things that made me uncomfortable.
Walz was asked about lying about traveling to China. It was left hanging. A dumb answer to a dumb team of debate organizers. Chinese President Xi Jinping is a kind of Voldemort for the networks — although he is never named — and ABC and CBS both have corporate relationships with companies that have to do business there. Is it because there is one?
You see, the votes that were swung to the Republican side in the debate were Vance slamming the rise in the cost of everything from food to gas under the Biden-Harris administration, explaining why construction costs have skyrocketed and how that has caused housing prices to rise. This is because I briefly explained and repeatedly explained why the price would soar. While reminding the audience that Harris has failed in her job as “border czar,” she also emphasized the need to expand domestic energy production. Tim Walz provided comic relief.
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But Waltz wasn't the only loser. Joining ABC in the legacy media hall of shame was CBS. When we return to the debate four years later, the good news is that “debate commissions” are already defunct and that by 2028, major networks will be hosting debates without checks from centre-right moderators. It means that thoughts will disappear as well. Candidates will call on C-SPAN to find an impartial moderator. In the past two debates this year, Siri could have done a better job.
What's becoming clear among network executives is that, even if they realize it, their product and talent are terrible, and their audiences are already, or will soon be, leaving. is. Tuesday night was just the most recent example of why.
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