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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]

This. 
He was an embarrassment. [/quote]

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