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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social |
CNN let down the country with their awful debate format. The no-fact-checking ended up making Trump's endless lies sound plausible.
Two things can be true: This was a total disaster from a journalistic point of view, and Biden blew a big opportunity.
newrepublic.com/article/1832...
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Tommy Valdez
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Biden's team agreed to the terms of the debate, right?
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...instead of a Raskin or a Buttigieg, policy conversations are obliterated by the firehose of psychopathy and lies. The opponent, format and likely ill-suited prep would have defeated most any of us, but especially Joe. And I say that as a sympathetic, fellow dithering old guy.
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Biden would have fared better if, early on, he'd said "Tonight, since CNN refuses to do any real-time fact-checking, I will not continue to respond to moderators' questions. I will spend all of my remaining time fact-checking his relentless lies." For a dithering old guy...
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Greg Sargent
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Unlike many others On Here, I don't think there's a way for Biden to bow out without it leading to extreme risks of a very different kind. We need more of an acknowledgment from the replace-Biden camp that this is not a remotely easy dilemma.
newrepublic.com/article/1832...
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