I really don’t get it. People are already accusing the moderator of last night’s debate as being partial toward Clinton.
I’m sorry: this isn’t a high school debate where the moderators must remain impartial. This is basically, as I’ve said, a glorified press conference with journalists sitting there conducting it.
Furthermore, and this is a major point: FACTS ARE NOT IMPARTIAL. FACTS ARE FACTS. When Trump (and to a much lesser degree, Clinton) said something demonstrably wrong, I don’t want the journalist to sit there and say nothing. Screw that: when Trump says, “I never said that,” I want his dámņëd Tweet in which he said exactly that to be projected on the wall behind him. These people are fighting for the hardest job in the world, and if they cannot be counted on to be consistent with things they themselves have said in the past, how can any sane person count on what they say in the future? And how can any journalist just let them go?
I want the reporters to take off the kid gloves and grill these people. It’s their dámņëd job and it’s about time they started doing it, because I’m sorry, Walter Cronkite wouldn’t let them pull this crap.
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