I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?
Who’s surprised he’s trying to chicken out?
If he does drop out of the debate again, I bet they could get him to recommit by going all Biff Tannen on his ass:
“What’s the matter McTrump? Chicken?”
He’ll bristle, and say he’s no chicken and agree to debate Kamala.
In all seriousness, I was surprised agreed to debate her at all, given that he has nothing to gain. Best cash scenario, he tries the same approach he used with Biden, turning his mouth into a fire hose of lies, and Biden couldn’t keep up. With Kamala, she’d just laugh at his lies, and actually refute him with facts, he’d look just awful in comparison.
At this point I doubt he’ll actually show up to the debate.
One of the issues he has is that ABC and the Dems want real time fact checking.
How would real-time fact checking even work? Would the moderators actually do their job for once and call it out, or would they just do little VH1/“Pop Up Video”-style graphics where they would highlight whether they would try to correct the record on certain things being said?
Here’s my proposal.
During each candidate’s first turn to speak, no fact checks are shown, but the fact checkers will use the other candidate’s turn to come up with corrections. Then when it’s the first candidate’s turn again, the start of that their speaking time is used to read the corrections from their previous statement. If the corrections take the whole speaking slot, too bad so sad.
Would the moderators actually do their job for once and call it out
That’s actually not the job of moderators. This idea that moderators should do fact-checking only came about in 2016 because of Trump.
The network probably should have a team of fact-checkers. But fact checking in real time isn’t easy.
Hopefully both, and there’s a Lie-O-Meter that determines how truthful a statement is as its being read, and then a counter of provably false statements made
Not like a here is a one in a billion outlier so the truth is a lie. If crime is down, but up in a small, specific area, the statement “crime is down” would be true.
He can just bring in alternative fact checkers
Great. Give Harris the time slot for a big town hall speech and Q&A. Every 15 minutes, read a reminder to everyone watching that Trump declined to debate.
Keep the two podiums and put a wax figure of Trump in a chicken suit behind the other one. Put the camera on it with dead air for a few seconds every time it’s his turn to speak.
Use cheap, low density wax and it’ll slowly melt under the studio lights over to course of the program, which would be hilarious.
The chicken suit is too on the nose. And a cardboard cutout is probably way cheaper than a wax statue.
There’s no such thing as “too” on the nose when it comes to needling Trump and his gaggle of dipshits.
I agree with the cardboard cutout part, though: half-assed shoddiness represents him more authentically and he deserves no better.
I am betting that she will be there whether he is or not. No reason to miss an opportunity like that.
Just do the debate, give his time to a ticker that just says “trump was too scared to be here, I concede the rest of my time.” For every question.
Seems fair.
Christopher Hitchens once debated himself on religion when his debate opponent didn’t show up. It was pretty brilliant.
I’m trying to find the YouTube video, but I can’t find it.
Have a ticker constantly running at the bottom that #1 he backed out, #2 she only agreed to consider to debate on Fox “News” after the ABC debate which he already agreed to.
IIRC she didn’t agree to fox news. They said something like any other debates would only be considered after the scheduled one.
I didn’t expect this meme to come up again so soon. /s
It’s been such a long time I need to watch it again, but did they ever get their sausages?
5 minutes Turkish!
But he wants to debate on Fox. The station that was held legally liable for lying for him. The station that has to admit to being “entertainment” not news. Yeah, that’s a better choice.
Yep. Donald is too weak and cowardly.
