Debates Matter, or Maybe Not?

By Rich Kozlovich 

I have to start out by saying I almost never watch debates because they're all just a big show with very little substance.  I liken these debates as like digging through a ton of garbage to find a rare diamond, and of the debates I've watched, darn few were moderated with even a modicum of integrity by the moderators, and based on what Ive read,  this one was no different, and maybe worse. 

Matt Vespa's take on this side show carnival:

They live-fact-checked Trump five times to Harris’ zero. The microphones were not muted; they made sure to sneak in ridiculous questions, like asking about Kamala Harris’ race. It was election interference, and when MSNBC hosts and Bill Kristol are saying ABC News’ moderators are doing a good job, you know it’s trash. 

From the war in Ukraine, which happened under Biden-Harris, to the spike in crime, ABC News was hell on wheels to fact-check the former president, even bizarrely getting whether Trump was being sarcastic or not. When even Trump-skeptic writers from right-leaning publications are noticing that this set-up is rigged, you know it’s bad. Megyn Kelly suggested that this would backfire.  

Kamala either lied, or evaded on all issues, especially abortion, which is in reality the go to issue for Democrats, and she got a pass by that crack team of fake journalists from ABC.  As I said, a side show carnival, and it's clear Trump really isn't all that good at debating, so he didn't throw the knock out punch, but, without ABC's crack team supporting Kamala openly, it wouldn't have mattered.  The real question is: Does any of this really matter?  

Personally, I would have attacked the moderators as much as I would have attacked Kamala, and before I was done, the moderators would not have liked how it turned out. No holds barred, no mercy, and all done politely!  Trump isn't very good at that, and Kamala isn't very good at anything.

The thing I will never understand is why the Republicans fall for this crap.  They've always allow the left to rig these debates. Why?  This has been described as a three to one contest, with two moderators and Kamala against Trump.  And it still was at best a wash for Kamala. However, since that crack team of ABC moderators had such an overwhelming passion to fact check Trump 7 times, and no desire to do so Kamala, I find the rest of the world wasn't so friendly, so, perhaps we should review the "facts"! 

1. She Falsely Claims She Was Raised in the Middle Class - Mostly false. Harris had a rich Canadian upbringing, growing up in Westmount — a majority English neighborhood in the French province of Quebec.

2. Fact Check: Trump Claims Migrants ‘Taking Over’ Buildings Under Harris’s Leadership - True. A Venezuelan gang has taken over an apartment complex in Aurora.

3. Another Harris Hoax: She Claims Trump Told Putin He Could Do ‘Whatever the Hell He Wants’ - False. Trump never told Putin he could do “whatever the hell he wants,” and he never told Putin he could go into Ukraine.

4. She Absurdly Claims Putin ‘Would Be Sitting in Kyiv’ if Trump Were President - False.  Russia under Putin invaded neighbors during the George Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden administrations but not during the Trump administration.

5. Fact Check: Harris Falsely Claims She Never Called to Ban Fracking - False. Harris explicitly called to end fracking when running for president in 2019.

6. Fact Check: Harris Falsely Claims Trump Would Impose A National Sales Tax - False.  Trump has never proposed a national sales tax.
   

7. Fact Check: Kamala Harris Claims ‘Not One’ U.S. Troop in Any War Zone Around the World -False. There are currently active duty U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Syria who have been under frequent attack by Iran-backed militia forces over the past year. There are also thousands of active-duty U.S. sailors deployed to the Middle East who are facing attacks by drone strikes and missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. Earlier this year, three U.S. soldiers were killed on the border of Syria by Iran-backed forces.
   

8. Fact Check: Trump Says His Tariffs Did Not Create Inflation - True. Inflation was very low during Donald Trump’s presidency, including after his imposition of tariffs. In the first year of his presidency, prior to the imposition of tariffs, the consumer price index rose by 2.13 percent. In 2018, consumer prices rose by two percent. In 2020, prices rose by 2.5 percent. In 2021, prices rose by just 1.3 percent.
   

9. Fact Check: Kamala Harris Claims She Supports Israel -  Mostly False.Harris has hired radical anti-Israel advisers, even if she has offered rhetorical support.

10.  Fact Check: Kamala Distorts Unemployment Figures to Attack Trump - False. Unemployment was 6.4% in January 2021, not far from full employment, when Trump left office.

11. Fact Check: Kamala Harris Falsely Claims Trump Wrote ‘Love Letters’ to Kim Jong-un - False - Harris obviously meant this insult as hyperbole, not a serious accusation that Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un were engaged in a long-distance same-sex romance.
    

Final:

Trump Gives Strong Final Statement After Harris Delivers Platitudes saying, the Biden-Harris administration in his closing statement during the presidential debate on Tuesday, saying its policies hurt the American people and put the nation into “decline.” “So she just started by saying she’s gonna do this, she’s gonna do that, she’s gonna do all these wonderful things,”  Why hasn’t she done it? 

 

She’s been there for three and a half years. They’ve had three and a half years to fix the border, they’ve had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn’t she done it? She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do, but you haven’t done it and you won’t do it because you believe in things that the American people don’t believe in. You believe in things like ‘We’re not gonna frack, we’re not gonna take fossil fuel,’ things that are going to make this country strong whether you like it or not. Germany tried that, and within one year they were back to building normal energy plants. We’re not ready for it. We can’t sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision.

But I just ask one simple question, why didn’t she do it? We’re a failing nation. We’re a nation that’s in serious decline. We’re being laughed at all over the world. All over the world they’re laughing. I know the leaders very well. They’re coming to see me, they call me. We’re laughed at all over the world. They don’t understand what happened to us as a nation. We’re not a leader. We don’t have any idea what’s going on. We have wars going on in the Middle East. We have wars going on with Russia and Ukraine. We’re gonna end up in a third world war and it will be a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, the power of weaponry. I rebuilt our entire military. She gave a lot of it away to the Taliban. She gave it to Afghanistan.

In the end Kamala and Trump will have all they've said in this debate, and every utterance they make "fact checked", and now that the Pravda media is losing to alternative news sites we're finding huge numbers of Americans no longer trust them, convinced they're shills for the Democrats.  

What would we have if the left couldn't lie, project, and spew out logical fallacies?  Blessed silence!  

For some reason American Thinker, my go to news site, was late with their posts today, really late, usually they're up around 4:30 to 5:00 AM but today it was probably four hours behind, so I couldn't include them earlier.  

Here was Monica Showalter's take, which favored Trump better than most. Trump won that debate against Kamala -- with passion and humor - So many things Harris had no response to. Perhaps because she had no programming about it.....(see the Jessie Waters video), and Jack Hellner's, What ABC moderators didn’t ask, saying, "After watching the debate between President Trump and Kamala Harris, what was essentially a dynamic of three-against-one as the two moderators obviously teamed up with Harris, we’re reminded that the media is one of the biggest enemies of the American people."  And his list of unasked questions are devastating.  My question is why Trump didn't ask them?

Yep, ya really gotta give it to those Pravda media geniuses at ABC.  They really know how to put together a crack team of fake journalists.