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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Biden says he'd like a real-time fact-checking service broadcast during the debates
Link to tweet
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)But fuck him anyhow.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)The art of the deal and all, y'know
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)so he will be very busy...
yonder
(9,631 posts)Perhaps most important is to keep tRump tied to his chair or podium so he doesn't roam about the stage like some latter-day Lurch.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)That should be standard practice at these things...when it's not your turn, your microphone is dead.
ooky
(8,885 posts)He would storm off the stage very quickly if he wasn't being allowed to go over his time limits and interrupt and yell lies while Biden is trying to speak.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)They should also have it set up to automatically cut the microphone when it gets to '0', and possibly sound a loud buzzer, as well. The candidates can see how much time is left, and they should know that whatever they say after their time ends will not be heard by anyone watching.
If you are going to have rules about the debates you should also have a mechanism in place to enforce them.
fierywoman
(7,641 posts)BSdetect
(8,989 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)And they should wait between candidates to have that fact checking announced, so he doesn't have to waste his minutes debunking the lies just told.
Yavin4
(35,354 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Press asks Biden what he would have said, clips end up everywhere, and PINO gets called a liar in front of everyone!
No downside!!!
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)He doesn't even need a note pad.
That guy can just rattle them off!
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)crickets
(25,896 posts)dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)Yavin4
(35,354 posts)Trump: "I am your president...." BZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
mnmoderatedem
(3,706 posts)but then I suppose trump will just claim "fake fact checkers".
steve2470
(37,456 posts)I really would like Biden, somehow, to tell Dictator-wannabe to his face that he IS a liar and that he will not respond to or dignify any lies or misleading statements. Very blunt and confrontational, yes, but we've never had a debate where one of the people was such a huge pathological liar. Even Nixon and Bush were more honest.
Cha
(295,899 posts)#trumpLies
Shermann
(7,355 posts)Hear me out on this.
Any fact-checker from the MSM will be snickered at by the right-wingers. It will amount to just more of the same.
But letting Trump pick the fact-checker would be a very bold move, putting Trump in uncharted territory.
This touches on a point that I've been making for a while. The alternative media hasn't produced a plausible fact-checking news source. Oh sure, they throw rocks at errors made by the MSM at every opportunity. But those aren't as common as you might think and simply don't add up to a comprehensive right-wing equivalent of FactCheck or PolitiFact.
So call out Trump's blustering and let him twist in the wind with that. He'll puss out entirely or come up with a blatantly biased individual or organization. It just makes Biden look more unflappable and exposes the alternative news for what it is. Maybe he'd choose FXN and risk getting Chris Wallace.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)Suspend a nozzle above both of them (to be fair), like that Nickelodeon show that used to dump whatever green stuff it was that they'd dump on people ( they called it "slime" ).
Much hilarity would ensue, counting the nanoseconds before Rump got his first delivery.
crickets
(25,896 posts)One tiny wrinkle:
Link to tweet
@JennRooney1
@c0ugar13 and @JoeBiden
People's televisions wouldn't be able to keep up and would blow up like one of those overwhelmed computers on Star Trek.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)With a federal agent in the audience who can arrest him for lying under oath.