Debate Moderator Fact Checks

[Anonymous]

It’s an uncomfortable subject to talk about. But from the Minnesota Department of Health indicates that eight babies were born alive following botched abortions during Walz’s time as governor, three in 2019 and five in 2021. Only three of the infants, one in 2019 and two in 2021, were reported to have received “comfort care measures.” None of the infants survived. That, plus comments from former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who said that he supported measures in which “the infant would be kept comfortable” after birth until the mother decided what to do. Also, the a state legislators across the country that have pushed legislation removing all limits on the procedure.

Do you think a governor is in the delivery room with the doctor and patient? What do you expect a politician to say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The “moderators” should have either fact-checked BOTH candidates or neither. Kamala Harris told some whoppers too:

- Trump *opposes* a national abortion ban.
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-abortion-party-platform-trump-rnc-5561e857c5501df9864ab8ca666d8bc5

- He favors IVF and has even said the government should pay for it, for crying out loud!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

- He *condemned* the Charlottesville neo-Nazis. Her claim that he called them “very fine people” has been debunked.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/

Sure would be nice to watch a debate in which both candidates are treated equally. CNN did a good job in this regard.

One can ascribe any value to Trump since he has literally said everything from pro-choice to women should be punished criminally for having an abortion. The fact is, a GOP House and Senate will pass a national abortion ban. If Trump is in the white house, he will sign it.

If he favors IVF, then let's see him tell the GOP Senators to pass the IVF bill that is being deliberated right now. Crickets.

He literally said there were fine people on both sides. We all watched and knew exactly what he said.

ABC gave Trump many more minutes to speak, often times with Trump just butting in and the moderators let him. When Harris tried the same thing, they shut her down. Most people on the left were not happy with the moderators for not following their own rules where the Mic being on or off was concerned. The lies that the moderators called out were in fact appropriate, unless you are willing to show where they were wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump was given the last word on multiple topics -- a chance to respond after Harris spoke. She was not accorded the same opportunity. He was given longer to speak than Harris (by about five minutes). Seems like these facts suggest the moderators were biased in favor of Trump, not Harris.

He spoke longer because the moderators decided to ask him follow up questions. Which was awesome. Next time ask both candidates follow up questions. It’s call journalism!

Rewatch the debate. On most occasions, Trump interrupted the moderators to "get the last word in" and they let him. That wasn't the moderators asking for it. He barged in and took it. It was rude as hell, and it was only because he was so unhinged that it was remotely tolerable.

It was every occasion.

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

The bolded is a wildly false statement.

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

Vast? Ehhh, ok.

Biden had a 33% approval rating when he dropped out. So, yeah, vast.

The media had just spent the previous 6 weeks swift-boating him on his "mental faculties"

Where is the same treatment for Donald "they are eating dogs" Trump?

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

The bolded is a wildly false statement.

Apparently, the VP would disagree with you.

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

The bolded is a wildly false statement.

Apparently, the VP would disagree with you.

The vast majority of Americans do not hate the Biden policies. Not even close.

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

The bolded is a wildly false statement.

+1 Biden’s approval rating was low but his policies poll very high.

[Anonymous]

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Sigh. The Washington Post is not exactly known as an unbiased news source.

That said, Trump could have cited the moderator's bias when it came to fact checking, and how even with that bias, their facts were wrong. There are already a few well-known examples where the moderators so-called facts were incorrect (or half-true). It's almost as if ABC News knew the question, knew the answer that it thought was correct, and was prepared to fact check Trump if he gave anything but that allegedly correct answer. ABC News should apologize for getting its fact checks wrong, but it won't.

What facts did the moderators get wrong? These are definitely not well known.

The VP made several statements that were incorrect and should have been fact checked by the moderators. But the most negligent thing they did was not getting answers from the VP on her policy flips and the economy. This was the one and only time voters will see her questioned and they were unable to get answers from her on WHY the 180 degrees flip on the border wall, immigration, mandatory gun buybacks, fracking, and most importantly whether the American people are better off today than four years ago. Voters know Trump is scum. But they don’t know Kamala at all.

You didn’t answer the question. PP specifically the moderators gave incorrect facts when they were factchecking Trump. Please provide an example of an incorrect fact they provided when factchecking him.

Still waiting for someone to respond to this

No one will, because it was yet another false assertion from a MAGA who heard it in the echo chamber, repeated it here and realized they cannot back it up.

I think they are still processing how thoroughly Harris demolished Trump on the debate stage. They expected their god emperor to trounce her with his typical bombast and vitriol. In the weeks leading up to the debate, they latched onto "she's stupid and incoherent" because she wouldn't do a press interview or speak without a teleprompter/notes or publish her policy positions (never once giving her leeway to vet/select a VP, put a campaign together and fundraise from a running start in late July). The fact that a career prosecutor who has also been an AG, Senator and VP wouldn't be prepared is laughable. But they drank the Koolaid anyways and are now struggling to cope. It can't be because she was prepared and talented. It has to be because she cheated or the moderators were unfair. After all, she's a POC woman and Donald Trump is a "man's man who always tells it like it is". To think otherwise, would violate their worldview. I relish watching them struggle to cope with a younger, more talented opponent who has all of the energy and momentum right now.

Demolishing Trump wasn’t victory though. No matter how good it felt. Victory was explaining to the undecided voters why she isn’t a continuation of the Biden policies. Which the vast majority of American hate. Which she completely failed to do.

Vast? Ehhh, ok.

Biden had a 33% approval rating when he dropped out. So, yeah, vast.

The media had just spent the previous 6 weeks swift-boating him on his "mental faculties"

Where is the same treatment for Donald "they are eating dogs" Trump?

Exactly. Crickets. Who the hell is still voting for this weirdo?!?

[Anonymous]

The ultimate fact check.

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The ultimate fact check.

What active combat war zone are they in?

[Anonymous]

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The ultimate fact check.

It's gone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The “moderators” should have either fact-checked BOTH candidates or neither. Kamala Harris told some whoppers too:

- Trump *opposes* a national abortion ban.
https://apnews.com/article/republicans-abortion-party-platform-trump-rnc-5561e857c5501df9864ab8ca666d8bc5

- He favors IVF and has even said the government should pay for it, for crying out loud!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

- He *condemned* the Charlottesville neo-Nazis. Her claim that he called them “very fine people” has been debunked.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/

Sure would be nice to watch a debate in which both candidates are treated equally. CNN did a good job in this regard.

Trump is a serial liar and has been getting away with it for years because nobody's challenged him on it. He's fortunate he got off this lightly. He lost the debate because he doesn't know a single thing about policy. He lost the debate because he has a "concept of a plan" for health care that he started talking about in 2015 (i.e., he's got nothing). He lost because he couldn't control his emotions. He lost because he was talking about the imaginary eating of pets. But he's got MAGA to make excuses for his failure, of course...

You don’t have to be “MAGA” to understand that BOTH candidates - or neither - should have been fact-checked.

Honestly, the insistence of some of you in calling anyone who dares to disagree with you or puts out an opinion you don’t like, “MAGA,” is tiresome and telling. Some of you seem to have a very narrow vocabulary that relies on that term way more than it should.
DP

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The ultimate fact check.

What active combat war zone are they in?

Iraq, Syria, the Red Sea. Probably others that she should know about if she actually goes to the intel briefings.

[Anonymous]

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The ultimate fact check.

That is awesome. Such a clueless statement on her part.