Finally, MSNBC and Fox News agree: The CNN Presidential Debate was a grisly mess
Well, that was a surprise.
No one thought the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Thursday, June 27, would be the epitome of statesmanship and oratory. The Lincoln-Douglas debates, it ain’t. Or, as Lawrence O’Donnell said afterward on MSNBC, “In any sort of normal universe, you would think the candidate who, during a presidential debate said, ‘I didn’t have sex with a porn star’ was the loser of that debate. That would be the normal scorecard.”
This was not normal.
Still. I knew that Donald Trump lies a lot. I knew that Joe Biden is old (as is Trump). Both of those things were on display — and how — during the CNN Presidential Debate. What I didn’t know was that the agreed-upon rules of the debate would render Jake Tapper and Dana Bash — excellent journalists — so completely ineffectual.
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