They broke their own rules! And then Vance had to remind them.
Sen. JD Vance pushed back on the CBS News moderators who attempted to fact-check him in a contentious moment during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday.
Despite CBS announcing that it would not allow live fact-checking during the debate, moderator Margaret Brennan, interjected to correct Vance after he suggested that illegal immigrants are overwhelming resources in Springfield, Ohio.
"Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary protected status," Brennan said. When Vance tried to push back on the fact-check, Brennan and her co-moderator Norah O'Donnell attempted to speak over Vance, insisting that they had to move on to the next question.
"The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check," Vance reminded them. "And since you are fact-checking me, I think it's important to say what's actually going on."
While explaining the process of obtaining legal status and tying it to a Harris-backed immigration policy, the moderators again spoke over Vance, thanking him for "describing the legal process" before they cut off his microphone as Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz attempted to argue with him.I speak American English, so my pronunciation sounds like, “I” RAN and “I” RACK. Carte blanche
Re: The guys were good but those dam CBS moderators!
The bigger issue for me is that they always seem to have time to ask about Jan. 6, abortion, guns, and climate change, but not Ukraine or China for some reason.Damn, Tim Walz really really really wants to be a U.S. Senator pretty badly.
on October 2, 2024, 12:47 am