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Kaine ‘the interrupter’ hit for debate demeanor

Fletch said:
There were actually several moments where the two men were engaged in a spirited back and forth and the moderator would interrupt and say 'lets move on to another topic.' She seemed more worried about getting all her questions out than in sparking a debate.
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Not sure why Trump agreed to the moderation by leftwing loons.
 
American said:
Liberal biased media would be more accurate, since was on display in both debates.
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I forget asking questions and holding individuals up to their statements is now "bias" :roll:
Such a lame and overused ****ing talking point.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
I forget asking questions and holding individuals up to their statements is now "bias" :roll:
Such a lame and overused ****ing talking point.
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Sure, obviously you didn't watch, as Hillary was asked not one thing about any of HER scandals.
 
American said:
And the moderator did interrupt Pence, as I noticed.
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When he was deflecting away from the topic like how he started talking about taxes when the question was about north korea.

She interrupted kaine as well.
 
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poweRob said:
When he was deflecting away from the topic like how he started talking about taxes when the question was about north korea.

She interrupted Maine as well.
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What about Delaware and Vermont?
 
American said:
Kaine was busy talking over Pence a lot. I didn't watch long enough to see him interrupt the moderator. Apparently the moderator (as usual) gave the Republican candidate a hard time. Nevertheless reasonably civil.
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You didn't watch all that long, but you know the moderator gave the Republican a hard time? That just reflects on the bias behind your post.

The moderator didn't give anyone a hard time. She sucked. She lost control right out of the gate. She didn't even try raising her voice over the candidates.



Yes, Kaine behaved like a total **** in the first third. But then Pence picked up the flag and behaved like one as well. Whenever Kaine's clock started, Pence just kept talking over him - not interrupting, but literally talking non-stop to eat into his time. Pence just gave appearances of calmness while playing his version of dirty pool, leaving Kaine to look like a high-strung ass.

Neither of them behaved well.

The moderator didn't favor or not-favor anyone; the moderator was just plain bad.




I suspect you'd know all that if you'd watch the debate than read Fox articles, which (as usual) gave the Democrat the hard time.
 
I'd also note that if Republicans want moderators to not give them a hard time, they should probably stick to the subject. But the Trump campaign's plan seems to be to spout off random anti-Dem **** whenever a mic is infront of their face, and then if someone complains, cry to their minions about "bias".
 
American said:
Liberal biased media would be more accurate, since was on display in both debates.
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Always a convenient excuse for losing. So much for personal responsibility Republicans like to talk about.
 
poweRob said:
Stupid phone auto correct.
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I watched the entire debate and I can vouch for the OP for the most part.
 
American said:
Kaine ?the interrupter? hit for debate demeanor | Fox News


Kaine was busy talking over Pence a lot. I didn't watch long enough to see him interrupt the moderator. Apparently the moderator (as usual) gave the Republican candidate a hard time. Nevertheless reasonably civil.
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Most of the questions by the moderator were about Trump! She put Pence on the defense while she hardly questioned anything about Hillary.
She weakly and half-heartedly tried to stop Kane from interrupting - Pence had to tell her that he (Pence) had to respond to Kane. Pence also pointed that Kane was speaking on his (Pence) time!

What do we expect from mainstream media moderators? They're all the same.
At least Pence handled it well, and inspite of that, had won the debate!


The only consolation is that there is a big public distrust of the media now - and the ones who are being objective about this will see for themselves that the mainstream media is indeed biased.
There might be a huge backlash at the polls on November.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
Trump interrupting Clinton is fine.
Kaine interrupting Pence is mean.
Lets cry about it and then use the bull**** talking point of "liberal lamestream media".
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Who said the first example was fine? In fact, there was liberal whining about it. This is just throwing it back in your whiny liberal faces. Turn about is fair play, no?
 
CriticalThought said:
This may be the first time in history when a VP candidate hurt his ticket by winning the debate. Some of the rumblings I have been hearing from Republicans with tepid support for Trump is that they are amazed Pence refused to defend so much of what Trump has said and done and disappointed by how much he showed up Trump with his calm and tempered performance. For some of them this may actually be the final nail to stay home on election day. Pence put his own credibility ahead of Trump's and in the long run I think it will pay off for him but he definitely kept most of his eggs out of the Trump basket and that isn't going to inspire moderates to toss in theirs.
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I haven't heard that conspiracy theory, that Pence doing well and winning the debate hurt Trump.
 
poweRob said:
wahhhhhh... the mod was hard on the republican. You clearly didn't watch the debate long enough. But apparently long enough to trot out the tried and true republican conspiracy victim card.

It was a townhall style debate. So back and forth is more encouraged than standing at a podium taking turns.
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I don't care what type it was. What was clear was that most of the questions from the moderator were about Trump!
She let Kane speak on Pence's time, and to talk over Pence.

The only time she got sort of stern was when she castigated them both - near the end of the debate - when Pence was forced to keep talking even when Kane kept interrupting him (thus, both of them were talking at the same time). Before that, when it was all Kane who's interrupting, she hardly stopped him!


BIASED moderation!
 
MrPeanut said:
It will hit the hardest when the ads come out. It'll be the easiest job ever to splice in Trumps words followed by Pence's "He never said that".
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It will totally be easy to continue to take out-of-context snippets from Trump to make an illegitimate point that will only be preaching to the choir. There is a reason why trust in the media is at an all-time low. People who aren't partisan sheep see through the BS.
 
I hope viewers will penalized these plainly biased moderators by boycotting their shows - after all, when they can clearly become so blatantly biased, what credibility do they have with their opinion pieces? None whatsoever!

Punish them with their shows' ratings! That's the message they'll understand.
 
Fishking said:
It will totally be easy to continue to take out-of-context snippets from Trump to make an illegitimate point that will only be preaching to the choir. There is a reason why trust in the media is at an all-time low. People who aren't partisan sheep see through the BS.
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Kaine definitely tossed some lies into the mix, but much of what he claimed was nearly word for word. No need to pretend like reality doesn't exist. Admitting Trump has said some nasty crap isn't a bad thing.
 
MrPeanut said:
Kaine definitely tossed some lies into the mix, but much of what he claimed was nearly word for word. No need to pretend like reality doesn't exist. Admitting Trump has said some nasty crap isn't a bad thing.
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Word for word still has to have context and mixing lies or exaggerations has happened so often that many people don't pay attention to even the legitimate stuff. Most rational people can't be bothered to be outraged about things non-stop.
 
Check out the first few minutes of the debate:







Watch the first 6 minutes. Kaine started with a nice smile as he talked about Hillary, and insulted Trump.
However, that smiley face didn't last long.

Look at Kaine's hardening looks when Pence spoke about Hillary/Kaine's insult-driven campaign (timer: approx 4:00)...........seems like Kaine loves to dish out insults but hate to hear anyone countering!
The transformation is remarkable. Kaine's got a short fuse. :lol:
 
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Fishking said:
Word for word still has to have context and mixing lies or exaggerations has happened so often that many people don't pay attention to even the legitimate stuff. Most rational people can't be bothered to be outraged about things non-stop.
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I understand that context is generally important, but the things he was hitting Trump on don't really need context.

"When Mexico sends it people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

That was in the context of speaking about the problem of illegal immigration. There are two assumptions that I think are fair to make here. The first is that he believes the majority of illegal immigrants are criminals in some way beyond illegally entering the US. The second is that he believes to some degree that Mexico is sending those immigrants over to us. There is no way this looks like a logical statement.

Trump/ Anderson Cooper transcript

The above link contains the South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia nuclear weapon comment. Kaine's attack wasn't completely true on that one, but if you read the exchange Trump comments on arming them in a positive way before sort of backtracking and muddying his answer.
 
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