Since many alleged “fact checks” and “fact checkers” are actually bullshit propaganda and propagandists — completely divorced from “facts” —
I propose that any use of “fact checking” by one side in a debate (which as we have seen includes partisan “moderators”) needs to be immediately subject to cross fact checking.
Someone who won the match doesn’t spend a week complaining about the referees. Your blob lost. Get over it.
I propose we stop these ridiculous debates. In no environment will a POTUS ever have to limit their responses to 2 minutes, not have access to advisors, not be able to avail themselves of data, experts, etc... It is like asking a gymnast to win the all around gymnastics gold medal by running a 100 yard dash or fencing. You don’t use this skill set. The theatrical aspects of it are great but that isn’t what sound governance is all about. It is about getting the answers right, not delivering the best sound bite.
Someone suggested on the Dan Abrams show on POTUS Sirius XM that they televise what essentially boils down to a panel job interview. I think the word the caller used..she said was Policy Discussions. Three journalists sit at one table. The candidate, alone, sits at another one in front of them. They have the questions in advance. They have had an opportunity to research their answers. When asked the question live on TV, they look into the camera and say what they are going to do. If they just say, “We’ll replace it with something terrific” as the blob did for Obamacare...the panel can drill down and ask what that means; what are the bullet points of the plan--the one he still hasn’t come up with 9 years later by the way. LOL.
The journalists are chosen by the candidates themselves.
Just stop this ridiculous dual press conference that passes itself off as a debate. It isn’t.
There is nothing in the universe that can stop the right wing loons for playing the victim. They’ve been doing it for so long, I doubt they can ever stop at this point. But at least it would get rid of the constant bitching about the moderators. If one of the panelists corrects the statement of the candidate, they were picked BY the candidate so they have no one to blame but themselves.