Let me get this straight, CBS is refusing to fact check the VP nominee who, on TV, admitted that if he has to make up lies to get America's attention then he'd do just that?
Eat shit CBS
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They should just add "Admitted liar" to his marquee whenever he's on screen.
If there is no fact checking, Kamala needs to be ready to ask why Trump nominated someone who isn't allowed in any Ashley Furniture store in the lower 48 states and Alberta.
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Surely CBS knows that a random person cannot unilaterally revoke their broadcasting license and shut down their legal corporation.
When it happens, do you think the Supreme Court is going to side with CBS?
Yes. Who do you think has more money, trumpler, or Paramount Global (formerly Viacom)?
Depends how much of the rest of the government apparatus Trump's brown shirts manage to take control of
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In a liberal federal republic that isn't a failed state, no.
In what Republicans want and are actively working towards?
The president absolutely can. Would it be legal? Probably not. Would that matter after federal agents kick everyone out of your studio and lock it? Probably not.
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A random person - no.
A person who controls millions of narrow minded gun wielding nationalists - maybe.
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Don't act like Walz wiping the floor with Vance is a forgone conclusion, it's not. That's what people thought about Biden's debate. Whether we admit it or not, there's intelligent Republican debaters who can't be baited out there, Trump just isn't one of them.
I genuinely wonder if the best option wouldn't be to refuse the VP debate until live fact-checking is in place for both candidates. That, or correcting simple untruths didn't count toward their time. I love Tom Walz, but if he has to literally spend his entire time refuting very obvious lies continuously spewed by Vance, his time would be better spent campaigning in swing states. How much does a Vice-Presidential debate really matter, anyway?
correcting simple untruths didn’t count toward their time
This would be THE BEST rule ever for all debates of any kind.
I disagree, that'll be abused by candidates to get more screen time.
We should keep the fact checking ABC did and perhaps deduct time for candidates that are consistently caught out on lies. The fact checkers should be approved by all candidates as well, so they can't just point to the hosts as favoring one or another.
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Part of the problem is that nearly every sentence trump spoke was a lie, so fact checking was not 100%. They just fact checked random things, like, nobody is eating our pets. ProfessorWeKnowDis.gif
They fact checked the most obvious stuff on purpose. It's irrefutable. You cannot seriously claim they were biased when their two fact checks were the most basic shit. And yet that highlights just how bad Trump is.
It’s not that Trump is killing anything; no more than millenials killed anything. It’s the media that’s the problem. If we’re going to blame anybody for failed media, then let’s blame the appropriate people. Instead of giving them a scape goat, we hold their feet to the fire.
This. They made the choice not because Trump is a whiny little baby, but because they see dollar signs by allowing him to make a spectacle.
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He has no power to shut down a major news network, so one must ask why they decided to change the policy. It is not because of Trump's impotent threats.
Because they want a piece of that sweet, lucrative, "insane spectacle" money. The execs don't care, as long as they get paid.
I assume the Trump/Vance campaign privately told CBS no fact checking else Vance drops out of the debate.
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Some people are under the mistaken impression that corporate news is not run specifically by republiQans to promote conservatism.
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I kinda wanna see the entire debate evolve into ludicrous, outlandish claims back and forth. Just sheer comedy. I know this isn't the right way to fix anything, but it's what we deserve at this point for letting the situation get this far unchecked.
Imagine a candidate spilling bullshit like "Haitian immigrants are eating the dogs". That would be hilarious.
Oh don't be ridiculous, who would be stupid enough to believe something like that?
I can't fathom it.
"No, you have poopy pants!"
This is the level of discourse I've come to expect from presidential debates ever since trumpler entered the races.
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Walz needs to make outlandish, unbelievable, rumors. Couch fucking should sound normal.
Vance is technology he's own great-,grandfather/ brother. You know, he's Grafa bro! His pet ladybug is very proud of their accomplish.
That would be so fun if he would use the maga debate technic and go full lie after lie making Vance lose his time refuting everything
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Is the debate being simulcast on all the major networks? I seem to remember seeing the Trump/Harris debate on ABC, CBS and NBC (just with different talking heads before and after).
If so, ABC should broadcast the debate with fact-checking overlays (Pop-up video style?) and advertise the shit out of the fact that they'll be doing this.
Wow, it's Kennedy vs. Nixon all over again, with techno-enhanced augmentation of "facts"!
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he has no power on his own. go after the shadow drivers that hide behind his buffoonery if you really truly want to see clarity
Trump demands networks agree with him.
I feel like less people will watch the VP debate but people might still point out that jd vance is lying out of his aaa
How was Trump's threat successful?
CBS says they will not fact check the debate, some people see this is because ABC was threatened and so CBS is caving to Trumps threats
I get it now, thanks!
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