Thursday, October 20, 2016

3rd Debate P.S.

At the end, when Trump refused to say he'd accept the results if Hillary wins (he'll keep us "in suspense" - *eyeroll emoticon*), was the first time I've seen Hillary look shaken.  And she didn't seem to recover.  The personal jabs, the Wikileaks questions and hits didn't even throw her, but that did it.

I don't think there's any doubt Trump will cede the election, but that angry mob he's riled up could be a real problem.

And P.S., Mike Wallace must be disappointed beyond the grave.  Chris did nothing for the debate.  He wasted time on questions that had been asked and answered in the previous debates, and didn't go anywhere near climate change, domestic surveillance, Yemen and the expansion of  US wars, or racism. I understand he didn't want to bring up anything they agreed on, like US imperialism and domestic spying, because that would trigger the idea that there are third parties in this race and wouldn't get any fight (which, let's be honest, is one of the reasons these have been the most watched debates in television history), but climate change and racism could have been substituted for Russia/Putin, taxes and terrorism rehashing.  I give Chris a D-.  The fact that he couldn't control their bickering and talking over him doesn't count against him - that was a Herculean task - but he could have asked much better questions.

UPDATE:


Oh, yeah.  I forgot about that.  And he kept chiding the crowd all evening about keeping quiet.


I didn't get that far.

FURTHER UPDATE:


That, too.  That's exactly what his framing of the question on "entitlements" implied he wanted to hear.

FURTHER FURTHER UPDATE:

And, no media moderator wants them to talk about Israel.  Why is that do you think?



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