There’s no recap. It sucked balls.
ABCNews needs to know how much they fucked up on this one. You can call (212) 456-7777 or email them.
It was, hands down, probably the worst excuse of a debate in all of debating history. It was through no fault of the candidates. It was purely Assclown Hijinks with Chuck Gibson and Georgie-boy. Absolutely NOTHING of substance was asked of the candidates. I came in late and was still subjected to 45 minutes of non-issue questions on Rev. Wright, bitterness and flag pins. Can you guess the bias? There was one guess on Clinton’s lying habits. She actually said something like, “People are just going to have get over my habitual lying.” Oh…that part may be an tiny exaggeration.
Okay…wanna know how bad it is? Jonah “Iraq is Going Great!” Goldberg thought it was bad. When you have me agreeing with something Goldberg writes you know it’s bad. (h/t to idredit)
I’m no leftwing blogger, but I can only imagine how furious they must be with the debate so far. Nothing on any issues. Just a lot of box-checking on how the candidates will respond to various Republican talking points come the fall. Now I think a lot of those Republican talking points are valid and legitimate. But if I were a “fighting Dem” who thinks all of these topics are despicable distractions from the “real issues,” I would find this debate to be nothing but Republican water-carrying.
The responses from viewers on ABCNews gives you a better idea of how bad it was:
Jesus Christ – are you kidding! This is the worst sham for an unbiased debate I have ever seen – FIRE STEPHANOPOLOUS and GIBSON… and by-the-way, NO multi-miliion dollar severance package – make them pay a fine for torturing americans with their insane questionsPathetic job, ABC. Very sad. You had a chance to cut through the crap, but you chose to wallow in it. Lapel pins? Wright? Bosnia? All that crap’s been hashed and rehashed. And millionaire Gibson whining about capital gains taxes. What a travesty.Whatever they paid them to gang up on obama i’ll double it.they should leave the debates to the REAL news networks!!!!!What a terrible debate by ABC’s moderators. I guess this is why I never watch ABC News. About 30 minutes was spent on Rev. Wright, the bitter comment, and Hillary mis-speak(which was only about 5 of those 30 mins). We then had to sit through 30 minutes of commercials in a two hour program. That was pathetic ABC. PATHETIC.
The only good thing about it was that Obama managed to rise above it all. The live feed had an audience reaction screen. During the intensely stupid first hour, Obama did a great job of explaining that those questions were exactly the sort of stupid questions people are tired off. Audience reaction skyrocketed to the high 90s (scale goes up to 100). Then Tracy Flick Clinton had to jump in and whenever she’d hit Obama or do a pathetic oppo dump, audience reaction dumped…when she jumped in on Wright, audience reaction went down to the high 20s.
Honestly, the only thing tonight’s debate proved was that there should be no more debates. It also reinforced the notion that Gibson and Stephanopolous are both useless tools.
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