Post-Debate Observations No One Else Apparently Noticed

Well….post-debate….just about everything I predicted proved correct.

Some thoughts:

• Remember when even liberal journalists at a presidential debate would hold a Democratic candidate’s feet to the tire? I wrote about this two years ago.

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• Donald Trump should have and could have shown a little more discipline and gotten a lot less hot under the collar last night, but who could blame him? He was dealing with a stacked deck. Kamala Harris came across as more poised, but that’s only because the ABC debate moderators were working overtime to prop her up. As much as I love Trump, I lament sometimes that he wasn’t gifted with the same communication skills as Ronald Reagan. 

• We sure got a lot of questions about abortion and climate change, but we didn’t get enough about the things that Americans panic the most about right now: the economy, grocery prices, and the national debt. 

• In the 80s, I recall that no one TV network had complete control over any presidential debate. It was one reporter from CNN, one reporter from one of the three networks, one or two reporters from a major newspaper, etc. They took turns asking questions. We need to go back to that. Except this time we need to include someone from FOX and at least one or two other conservative Internet journalists….sitting alongside more traditional liberal journalists. Just to balance everything out. Because the people in the corporate press are not so much objective purveyors of the truth as much as they are Democratic Party activists.

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• The City Manager of Springfield, Ohio told ABC News that Haitian immigrants in that city are not eating cats, as Trump said last night. Of course, ABC “factchecked” Trump with it. For those of you who don’t know, the city manager position (in any given city) is a political hire, selected by the mayor and city council members. The city manager oversees city operations. He or she also does public relations spin to put the city in the best possible light for economic development reasons. I can’t begin to count the number of city managers I’ve caught lying to me in my 21 years as a professional journalist. In one instance, a city manager told me to my face and over the phone that something wasn’t true.  I filed an open records request to get his work emails. In them, he admitted he lied to me. If ABC really wanted to get to the truth of what’s going on in Springfield, that network would have talked to the police chief or the hundreds of people on the ground…who know what’s really going on. This, as opposed to talking to a spin doctor who sits in an office all day.

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