CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general election campaign’s third debate next week, says it will be up to the politicians — not the moderators — to check the facts of their opponents.

  • Arghblarg
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    2249 months ago

    Heaven forbid journalists do… you know, their jobs?

  • EleventhHour
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    9 months ago

    Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence. Walz is an adorable teddy bear with claws.

    It’ll be the cutest bloodbath we’ve ever seen, and we’ll all laugh about how the old guy from Minnesota made the dude wearing eyeliner get scared of giving trans school kids free lunches.

    Edit: I can’t wait!

    • @paf0@lemmy.world
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      Vance is like a Dollar Store version of Trump. He looks like the same product, he tells the same lies, but the parts aren’t all there. He’s a grifter but he’s not in the same league as The Donald, he even looks like he’s in pain when he lies.

      • EleventhHour
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        139 months ago

        The fucked up part is that, since you can’t get cheaper than Trump, the knockoff is actually more expensive. Worse, Vance is also (somehow), dumber, poorer, less-popular, and more insecure. He’s also - unbelievably- worse with interactions with the public and with public speaking.

        And we’re about to find out how bad he is at debate against a real politician.

        • Vance at least looks like an actual human, the Toupee’s human disguise was created by a sentient pile of excrement that only once glanced at a human from a distance.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      99 months ago

      Vance isn’t Trump. He’s a wet noodle who can barely work his way through a sentence.

      But what is Vance?

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        Helps when the pig is both extremely popular already, and the pig’s opponent is… lol… well, JD Vance lmao

        Seriously, the guy lost a debate against the opening staff at a donut shop. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

  • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    669 months ago

    Extremists (hint: not Tim Walz) will be able to just spout lies the whole time, and rational, honest candidates: (hint: not JD Vance) will have to either let them get away with complete bullshit assertions, or spend part of their time doing the job of the moderators… This is why no one believes in Journalism these days…

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      79 months ago

      Let him get away with it, there’s only so many lies that you can prepare for and getting a fact check wrong is worse than just lying

    • FuglyDuck
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      259 months ago

      Because they want to help the fascist.

      Something about ten dudes at a diner table with an eleventh who is a nazi.

  • FuglyDuck
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    519 months ago

    *CBS is announcing that it will allow the Couchfucker to Gish Gallop.

    Fixed that title for you.

    • PLAVAT🧿S
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      59 months ago

      Yeah, and a side effect of refuting gosh gallop, if you even can, is that you end up wasting your time on the floor instead of discussing your points.

  • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    509 months ago

    Ya this is a dumb move by CBS because it compromises the legitimacy of the debate… But I know Tim Walz is going to wipe the floor with this couch fucker.

  • @Marleyinoc@lemmy.world
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    CBS is owned by Paramount Global who splits their “donations” between parties (heavier toward Democrats). Are we tired of being governed by corporations, yet?

  • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    Waltz: Vance I heard you fuck couches for fun.

    Vance: NO I DON’T

    Waltz: That’s not proof. If you’re gonna fact check me you gotta provide proof! Clearly you fucked couches!

    • FuglyDuck
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      Walz would be way more subtle than that.

      hey. So glad you got off the damn couch.

      And

      Oh. Meant to ask you. How was the tour of Ashley Furniture? Find any attractive couches?

      Edit:

      didja get any good recipes from RFK?

  • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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    339 months ago

    “We just want the money, leave us the fuck out of this. We’re a news corporation. What did you expect, integrity? Ha!”

    -CBS

    • Random Dent
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      109 months ago

      I wish I could be like “yeah I’m just not gonna do my job this time” and nothing would happen to me.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      59 months ago

      I’m glad Amanda is for Democracy… But why is she (apparently) for embedding a landscape video inside her portrait video that doesn’t fit on my screen, so now it’s scaled down to 1/9th my TV’s viewable area?

      • Cethin
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        29 months ago

        The whole intro part didn’t add anything anyway, so it just made the viewing experience worse for no reason. That was frustrating. Still, every debate should be like that one.

        • HeyListenWatchOut
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          29 months ago

          Shortest vid I could find that shows the good parts. Didn’t really care what the intro was.

    • vortic
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      49 months ago

      I’m not looking forward to the day that Colorado loses Kyle but I am certainly looking forward to the day that he gets to moderate a presidential debate. Kyle is amazing.