Ed Morrissey10:00 PM | September 11, 2024
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Well, I watched it. Did you watch it?
I am disgusted. I am ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. David Muir and Linsey Davis did exactly what their bosses’ wanted them to do. The head of ABC News, Dana Walden, is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris who is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, meeting. They did Dana Walden’s bidding.
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It was three against one on the debate stage this evening.
Ed: Indeed,as I wrote this morningas well. If you want to watch this monologue from Megyn Kelly, the entire video is at the link.
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 11, 2024🚨 NEW: Pennsylvania voter to CNN –
“When facts come to facts, my life was better when Trump was in office.”
The choice is OBVIOUS. And voters are seeing it! pic.twitter.com/NeIxDBtcS7
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My advice to the candidates: get off the internet. Worry less about what will get you likes from people who haven’t seen sunlight in months, and more about what America’s hard-working families want and need. Forget cat-eating immigrants and cat-loving billionaires, and talk to real people, in the real world, most of whom have dogs anyway, and children. From the economy to housing to the border, America has many crises, and the people deserve a vision for how to fix them. There are 55 days left –up your game.
Ed: This is always good advice, and it's exactly the same advice I gave in my book Going Red eight years ago. I'd guess that the Trump ticket gets a lot closer to it than the Harris ticket, but it's difficult to say until after we see the election results. And then it's too late.
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“The fact is, he won’t look at her. I’m watching this again, and I’m thinking as a debate coach, turn your face! Pay attention. He’s looking either at the camera or the moderators and showing no acceptance that she’s right there,” Luntz said. “And by the way, you know what that looks like? For every woman that reminds them of their husband or their boyfriend simply ignoring what they have to say, having disrespect and contempt. And it’s agitating to women watching. Trump can’t just win with men, he’s got to get women … Donald Trump reminds women of their first husband’s divorce lawyer. That is just absolutely disastrous.”
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Dougherty pointed out that many publications put up “headline after headline like ‘Trump on the defensive’ or ‘Kamala puts Trump in a corner on this.’” But he said that, “for a lot of viewers, this just feels alienating and faked, like a faked enthusiasm. And I think it’s part and parcel of a faked enthusiasm we’ve had since the Democratic convention itself.["]
Ed:I had the same sense that the cheerleaders were trying too hard, too. But I also had the sense that naysayers were trying too hard as well. Luntz is ready to declare a disaster without even having a focus group to test the hypothesis, apparently. He's a smart guy and his advice on camera sense is good, but it's another example of being too tied to the insider aspects.
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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024🚨 MUST WATCH 🚨
CNBC's Rick Santelli GOES OFF on ABC's debate moderators over their failure to press Kamala on any of her economic "promises" — or how her policies drove prices sky-high in the first place.
"The ABC people were like a turkey shoot!" pic.twitter.com/u0Y3MHN0p4
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“As he watched post-debate commentary on cable news, Mr. Henderson said he bristled at the pundits who widely panned Mr. Trump’s performance,” the article said. “Had they watched the same debate, he wondered?”
A media with the slightest capacity for self-reflection would say to themselves, “Hmm, maybe we’re a little too preoccupied with our personal political preferences and not considering a wider variety of possible perspectives.” But that’s not our media. They’re doing the same thing now that they’ve tried doing in the last two presidential elections — declare a winner before a single vote is even cast. They’ll say and do everything they can to drag Kamala across the finish line.
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The Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presidential debate was in town and that meant a ton of new potential customers reaching out. TMZ reported that several escorts in the area told them they had spent the day on Tuesday fielding calls.
Daisy May, one of the beneficiaries of the increase in business, compared it to the Super Bowl and said the debate has been a huge boom for business.
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Biden puts on a MAGA hat while visiting firefighters in PA pic.twitter.com/YbxE5PHNvG
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 11, 2024
