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PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
3. Why are you watching TV?
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:14 PM
Oct 2024

There are other ways to watch that aren’t biased.

Corporate networks suck.

Melon

(1,525 posts)
5. Because I watched the debate...on my tv
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:20 PM
Oct 2024

Hiding from information isn’t really how I operate.

PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
7. Perhaps I was unclear
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:22 PM
Oct 2024

One can watch political events without going through the corporate channels.

Of course, we watched the debate, too. Just not on MSM.

Jack Valentino

(5,011 posts)
18. Not me--- I refuse to pay for cable anymore
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:52 PM
Oct 2024

since the price for it is now similar to what a monthly car payment was, in my early adulthood....


Actually I watched it on "Scripps News", which is a digital broadcast "sub-channel"--

dflprincess

(29,341 posts)
8. MSNBC is giving it to Walz
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:23 PM
Oct 2024

Talked about how slick Vance was but Walz was, as always, a regular guy.

Melon

(1,525 posts)
10. I watch abc/cbs
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:25 PM
Oct 2024

I personally toss msnbc and fox. Same reason different sides. MSNBC is always going left. Fox will always be right. I’m not decided on cnn anymore.

 

Self Esteem

(2,248 posts)
9. Vance was the better debater and therefore will likely be seen as the winner.
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:23 PM
Oct 2024

That's how these things are scored typically ... fair or not.

It's a big reason Trump has lost literally every presidential debate he's partaken in (outside one: the Biden debate earlier this summer and that was more Biden losing than Trump winning).

iemanja

(57,757 posts)
12. I hate to say it
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:28 PM
Oct 2024

but I agree. That, however, depends on not knowing the facts, which unfortunately is the case for many if not most people.

 

Self Esteem

(2,248 posts)
13. But it doesn't matter who wins.
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:31 PM
Oct 2024

Harris mopped the floor with Trump and it barely registered in the polls. It was the same with Clinton in 2016.

People said, "yup, Harris won the debate ... but I'm still supporting Trump."

I think people put way too much stock in debates.

iemanja

(57,757 posts)
14. I don't think anyone decides who to vote for based on a VP debate
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:33 PM
Oct 2024

unless, possibly, someone comes off like a total idiot, like Palin did.

Lovie777

(22,980 posts)
15. How far has The United States of America has falling....................
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:36 PM
Oct 2024

When a person/candidate can lie and make up shit and still be the winner of a debate.

Patton French

(1,824 posts)
11. Vance needs to be arrested while he's in the arena for his support of J6.
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 11:26 PM
Oct 2024

Is Jack smith watching. FF!

B.See

(8,502 posts)
19. As I just said, some are readily
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 12:06 AM
Oct 2024

dazzled by bullshit, especially when bullshit is pulled off in slick fashion.

Vance refused to answer a number of questions, told outright factual lies, distorted Trump's record including attempts at ending the ACA, peacefully transitioning power, banning all abortions, etc.

But that snakeoil salesman allure SHOULD'VE smacked em in their frekin mugs the moment he refused to admit that the orange fuck LOST THE ELECTION.

Which apparently doesn't matter that much to some MSM quacks, as much as how smoothly one pulls off the CON.

Which, incidentally, is precisely why/how we're dealing with a wanna be dictator in the FIRST place.

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