Debate Moderator Fact Checks

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

Apparently she can, and does, for the most part.

https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1833966772778926581

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

The moderators don't have a "fact check AI" sitting in front of them evaluating every sentence, then deciding what to fact-check a candidate on. The lies that Trump actually got fact-checked on were so over-the-top, the moderators had no choice. Executing babies after birth? Eating household pets? He got away with his numerous run-of-the-mill lies. Trump lost the debate due to his own (extremely evident) cognitive decline and general lack of knowledge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

Apparently she can, and does, for the most part.

https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1833966772778926581

I’m not clicking through but I saw a chart, perhaps the same as your tweet, that showed that neither Trump nor Harris answered any question fully, but that Harris answered the rest of her questions mostly and DonOLD answered no questions at all.

[Anonymous]

If KH said we were murdering babies and eating pets I can guarantee she would have been fact checked. The orange guy was only fact checked on his most aggregious lies. No one fact checked him on his supposed lack of knowledge of Project 2025 where Christian nationalists want to turn the US into Afghanastan or Iran after their right wing extremists got in power

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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

I mean if MAGA is going to continue to spin, spin, spin to make excuses for him, it is what it is. His lies are so egregious that he needed to be fact-checked.

Sure. But fact-checking one candidate and not the other is the very definition of biased moderation.

Only if their lies are equal in scale and kind

LOL. Muir fact checked Trump one time on the mere fact that he “couldn’t detect the sarcasm” in trumps voice. What a whopper! This debate was a total hatchet job.

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Unfortunately, they were all too eager to fact-check Trump and in doing so, let Harris's lies slip on by. It did not go unnoticed.

They didn’t mute Trump’s mic either, and, that too did not go unnoticed. Too bad that your boy doesn’t have the self-control to mute himself— but the American people really need to see that, and to understand clearly what they’re voting for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

Apparently she can, and does, for the most part.

https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1833966772778926581

I’m not clicking through but I saw a chart, perhaps the same as your tweet, that showed that neither Trump nor Harris answered any question fully, but that Harris answered the rest of her questions mostly and DonOLD answered no questions at all.

Yup. Neither answered any questions fully. Harris ‘mostly’ answered 67% of the questions, while Trump did not. She partially answered 33%, while Trump partially answered 60%. Trump did not answer 40% of the questions.

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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.

Trump was given the last word on EVERY topic.

DP. Partially because Harris lobbed some false accusations at him that he wound up defending. Had they ALSO fact-checked her, that would not have happened. And before you ask, her false were posted by another poster this afternoon.

Nah. She attacked him with his record. Sorry you don’t like hearing it.
She’s been fact checked by multiple reputable sources, and the verdict is: she told ( mostly) the truth.
Trump was gingerly corrected on 3 outrageous lies. Cry more.

I’ve bolded the only pertinent word in your childish post. Do better.

Get bent. Your boy is a loser who lost. BIGLY. I guess it sucks that there was no chance of him NOT getting checked. He could have hewed in slightly toward the truth. He didn’t. He can’t. He’s a degenerate liar.
Oh…and I couldn’t BE BETTER! This week has been great! Thanks.😉

Ok, I see you really are twelve.

So, hurling out insults instead of addressing the content of the PP’s post. Yet another voter mirroring their chosen candidate?

[Anonymous]

They don’t fact check what the debaters say about each other’s statements and motives. The debaters must defend themselves from that. The moderators only fact check blatant lies about matters of fact. Trump said crazy shit. Harris did not.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

This is why we have primaries

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

The moderators don't have a "fact check AI" sitting in front of them evaluating every sentence, then deciding what to fact-check a candidate on. The lies that Trump actually got fact-checked on were so over-the-top, the moderators had no choice. Executing babies after birth? Eating household pets? He got away with his numerous run-of-the-mill lies. Trump lost the debate due to his own (extremely evident) cognitive decline and general lack of knowledge.

DP. No, the moderators were wrong on their fact checks. There's plenty of evidence that they were, with mainstream publications printing retractions. Harris wasn't fact checked, even where she blatantly lied.

You simply can't admit that Trump was fact checked and Harris wasn't. If the moderators are going to fact check, they do both candidates or neither. Moderators are supposed to ask questions (and follow up questions), as well as enforce the rules of the debate. They're not supposed to target one candidate over another. Would you tolerate a referee constantly calling fouls or throwing flags on one team, but not the other team? You probably would if it was the other team - which in this case it is. As a referee, you call a fair game, or you sit in the stands like the fan that you are.

Trump did lose his cool and Harris kept hers. But that wasn't unexpected when the "debate" was 3-on-1.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

I guess you missed Reagan and every presidential politician since, answering que4stions with whatever response they want. It isn't that she "can't" answer the question. She is answering the way she wants to. Just like every other politician, ever.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

The moderators don't have a "fact check AI" sitting in front of them evaluating every sentence, then deciding what to fact-check a candidate on. The lies that Trump actually got fact-checked on were so over-the-top, the moderators had no choice. Executing babies after birth? Eating household pets? He got away with his numerous run-of-the-mill lies. Trump lost the debate due to his own (extremely evident) cognitive decline and general lack of knowledge.

DP. No, the moderators were wrong on their fact checks. There's plenty of evidence that they were, with mainstream publications printing retractions. Harris wasn't fact checked, even where she blatantly lied.

You simply can't admit that Trump was fact checked and Harris wasn't. If the moderators are going to fact check, they do both candidates or neither. Moderators are supposed to ask questions (and follow up questions), as well as enforce the rules of the debate. They're not supposed to target one candidate over another. Would you tolerate a referee constantly calling fouls or throwing flags on one team, but not the other team? You probably would if it was the other team - which in this case it is. As a referee, you call a fair game, or you sit in the stands like the fan that you are.

Trump did lose his cool and Harris kept hers. But that wasn't unexpected when the "debate" was 3-on-1.

This is the second time I have read this in this thread. How or where were the moderators wrong in their fact checks? Please provide specifics. This was asked before and whoever made the allegation never responded, so since you are repeating the allegation, please provide specifics.

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This was glaring. It is good to see someone else picking up on it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious to me that people are like why didn't they fact check Harris? If she had said that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating people's pets, she would've been fact checked as well. Trump was fact checked 5 times, and they were for his most egregious lies. He had 30 or so other lies that were not fact checked. He lied over 50 times during the Biden debate that went unchecked, so maybe the few checks he had on him did rein him in a little.

DP. The fact checks weren't equal, plain and simple. She lied numerous times, but wasn't called out on it. That was clearly by design from ABC. The moderators were clearly prepared to fact check Trump. They were not prepared to fact check Harris.

Harris couldn't even answer the moderators' questions. Today's local Philadelphia ABC interview confirms that she can't.

The moderators don't have a "fact check AI" sitting in front of them evaluating every sentence, then deciding what to fact-check a candidate on. The lies that Trump actually got fact-checked on were so over-the-top, the moderators had no choice. Executing babies after birth? Eating household pets? He got away with his numerous run-of-the-mill lies. Trump lost the debate due to his own (extremely evident) cognitive decline and general lack of knowledge.

DP. No, the moderators were wrong on their fact checks. There's plenty of evidence that they were, with mainstream publications printing retractions. Harris wasn't fact checked, even where she blatantly lied.

You simply can't admit that Trump was fact checked and Harris wasn't. If the moderators are going to fact check, they do both candidates or neither. Moderators are supposed to ask questions (and follow up questions), as well as enforce the rules of the debate. They're not supposed to target one candidate over another. Would you tolerate a referee constantly calling fouls or throwing flags on one team, but not the other team? You probably would if it was the other team - which in this case it is. As a referee, you call a fair game, or you sit in the stands like the fan that you are.

Trump did lose his cool and Harris kept hers. But that wasn't unexpected when the "debate" was 3-on-1.

The "referees weren't constantly calling fouls". Trump said some absolutely batsh!t insane sh!t, and the moderators checked him on it. He got away with most of his usual bullsh!t. If they fact checked him on everything, the moderators would have spent more time talking than the candidates. Aside, this is all a red herring. He lost the debate on substance. He provided none.

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This was glaring. It is good to see someone else picking up on it.

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