Face it. Tapper and Bash are part of the "club"

[senseandsensibility]

Lucky them. And I'm not just talking about CNN. Of course all CNN journalists will circle the wagons and not allow ANY criticism of their debate "performance" as potted plants, but other outlets will shield them too. Even MSNBC.

They are a very select club and the agreement is not to critique each other. Outside the overpaid talkingheads club, though, they are being trashed.

[Maraya1969]

1. They really could have been replaced with a computer.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Yeah, A-1 anyone?

Usually, I'm adamantly against A-1 replacing human employees. In this case, it would be an improvement over overpaid talkingheads.

[Silent3]

8. The steak sauce?

I think you mean AI, although yes, we could replace these people with random condiments too.

[senseandsensibility]

9. Lol

Either one is fine by me.

[TheProle]

10. If the agreed-upon debate rules were programmed into AI

The result would have been the same.

[Meadowoak]

3. Or a rock, a rock that just sits there and does nothing, and let's Trump spew his bullshit and never say a word.

3 minutes in, when Trump started in on Biden, saying, "look at him, he doesn't even know where he's at.". I would have had Trump escorted off the stage.

[senseandsensibility]

4. OMG

Did he really say that? The only way I could watch the debate was if I muted cheato. If I would have heard that I would have thrown something.

[Meadowoak]

6. He absolutely did.

[RussBLib]

5. Trump's criticism of Bash and Tapper...

....is just more smoke-screen, more projection from the orange menace.

Bash and Tapper can say, look, both sides are jumping on us! We must be doing something right! (retch)

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. Not just other outlets

But the usual crowd of corporate media apologists and sycophants will defend them and others no matter how many RW talking points they parrot, no matter how many lies they tell, no matter how often they attack democrats.

[themaguffin]

11. They are irrelevant to Biden's performance though. We KNEW that they would suck. Of course they sucked.

[msongs]

12. they are not wholly responsible, agreed, but hardly irrelevant. they allowed one person to riot and refuse to

answer most questions. at any normal job after such a performance they wouldve been fired.

[SamuelTheThird]

13. From what I've seen

CNN will run stories about Trump saying something offensive. What they won't do is run a story, say, about how Trump's policies would be incredibly inflationary

[senseandsensibility]

14. Welcome to DU!

I don't watch them enough anymore to know if they've mentioned his inflationary policies, but it wouldn't surprise me if they haven't. They have a way of not getting to the crux of the matter.