MSNBC talking about Walker exceeding expectations

[JI7]

Just tuned in and caught a few seconds. Says the bar was very low for him and he did well based on that.

How about not setting the bar low ? (this is not directed at those discussing it as they are just discussing what is being reported).

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. And yet all I'm seeing on social media

Is memes of him standing slack-jawed with his junior g-man badge.

[Solly Mack]

2. If you're looking for an excuse, any excuse at all, to vote for Walker

then you'll claim he gave you one regardless of how he actually performed. Facts aren't playing into your decision.

Low expectations for clearly unqualified candidates are built in.

They have to be.

[PCIntern]

3. There is no bottom.

[bullimiami]

4. well he didnt shit himself. but he pulled out his cracker jack badge.

so id say he limbo'd right down to the low bar.

[DFW]

5. For Pete's sake, the guy is running for the US Senate!!! The bar SHOULD be high!!!

We don't last long if our upper deliberative body is made up of morons like Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn. In that case, we might as well put forty Senate Republicans into cold storage, have the nine who can put a sentence together on their own be allowed to speak on the floor, and have Moscow Mitch just vote for himself and cast the forty votes he never ever has to worry about. It wouldn't make a nickel's worth of difference.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Speaking of low bars,

I think Walker may be smarter than Lauren Boebert.

[mcar]

7. Ron Brownstein on CNN actually criticized the moderators

for going so easy on Walker. He pointed out that they were harder on Warnock for his personal issues than they were on Walker. As I pointed out last night, the moderator never followed up or pushed Walker when he claimed the report of him paying for a girlfriend's abortion was a lie. Never said "what about the receipts?" Nothing.

I'm not happy with some of the reported changes from CNN but MSNBC can be just as bad when it comes to horse race politics.

[Elessar Zappa]

13. I know I'm in the minority but

I still enjoy CNN for the most part. I honestly haven’t seen this rightward turn that keeps being reported.

[mcar]

15. They, like MSNBC, and every other media outlet

want a "Horse Race." They also stubbornly stick to the idea that reporting has to be equal, so they end up holding Democrats to a higher standard. It is very frustrating but I see/hear it on MSNBC all the time too.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. Yes, I do agree with that.

They want ratings.

[brush]

8. I saw that one republican woman say Walker's setting up...

low expectations before the debate was "genius". I almost threw up, and then again when no one on the panel didn't immediately jump in and say, "hold the eff on with that obvious republican talking point, no way is Walker's name ever to be put in a sentence with the word genius.

I was totally disgusted.

[WarGamer]

9. the REAL question of the day... who's a better debater, Trump or Walker?

LMAO...

[Hortensis]

10. Expect him to exceed expectations on Halloween also.

Who can doubt this?

Link to tweet

[Buns_of_Fire]

17. He needs to be wearing a football helmet to complete the ensemble, though.

It would give him the aura of statesmanship that he so richly deserves.

[onenote]

11. A lot of DUers set the bar very low

There have been plenty of posts suggesting he would be barely coherent.

[Cha]

12. HW said basically that "people

should get off Gov Healthcare and get the kind that Sen Warnock has.."

That's awfully GD Stuiod.

[jmowreader]

14. They have a point

The expectation was that he was going to blow it 25 feet out his ass.

That he only blew it 19 feet out his ass is...well, exceeding expectations.