In a triumph of hope over experience, I tried to watch the vice-presidential debate Tuesday night. I made it only until the second question was asked before punting to watch DVRd Maverick episodes and the end of some tepid playoff baseball.
I gave up on the debate when one moderator tried to prop up Tim Walz at the top and, shortly thereafter, when the second question of this debate was regarding climate change.
Climate change? There was nothing more timely and significant for Waltz and Republican JD Vance to discuss?
Iran was raining missiles on Israel earlier today, a large swath of our south is reeling from effects of a hurricane and wondering where federal help is. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted Biden-Harris has let 500,000 or so criminals into this country via our porous border, including tens of thousands of murderers and rapists.
And high on the priority list of the vapid moderators is the old reliable leftist lament of climate change, the very same topic which prompted failed presidential candidate John Kerry to rail against the First Amendment recently because it makes it so hard for the government to advance agendas the public neither wants nor needs.
That’s precisely what the First Amendment is supposed to do, Kerry. Go back to spending your wife’s money and riding in her private jet.
Walz and these moderators ought to thank their lucky stars that the First Amendment covers them when they mislead and/or outright lie.
The moderators let Walz blame all the current woes of this nation and the world on Donald Trump and, even weighed in with support of one of Walz’s ridiculous assertions saying Trump had let Iran out of the sanctions box. We got this as the moderator pre-empted a Vance response by repeating that incorrect claim.
I understand Vance later did a great job punching back at the biased moderators and, perhaps their resulting confusion explained them screwing up by asking Walz about one of his many outright lies he has been spreading, this about being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Just as with his false claims of having combat experience, Walz tried to explain away the China fib by saying he had “misspoke” on this. Later, Walz summed it all up, saying “I’m a knucklehead at times.”
At times?
By the way, the initial debate question posed to Walz was whether or not he’d approve of Israel doing a pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure due to today’s Iran missile attack on Israel.
Walz recited his rehearsed attacks on Trump, but never did answer the question.
Then, Vance got his chance. First, he gave his backstory, but he eventually got around to answering the question, his response being that Israel should be free to make its own decisions on that.
And then it was climate change time for them, and channel change time for me.
As had been my plan, I came back to watch post-debate coverage on Fox. For those who rail about Fox being one-sided, understand that Brit Hume, in the wake of the Trump-Harris presidential debate, had given the edge to Harris.
Before this VP debate, the same Hume had predicted the moderators would be one-sided, just as I had thought would be the case. Afterward, Hume said he had seen his prediction come to pass.
What surprised me was that even the Fox token panel leftist, former Democratic Congressman Harold Ford, gave Vance the edge over Walz in the debate, noting Walz had started poorly and stumbled at times. Ford praised Vance for being on-message, and perhaps more important, likeable.
Will it make a difference in the election? Probably not. I’m just glad LameStream media is so predictable that anticipating biased moderation of a debate in favor of the Democrat is such a sure bet.
Thank God this is it, for about four years.
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