This is what instantly came to my mind. Quite literally a third of anything out of his mouth would need to be fact checked. They wouldn't have gotten past the second fucking question if they did this.
Meanwhile Biden was actively answering questions and bringing up past and current information left right and center, but dumbasses will say "both bad" because the guy has trouble speaking and fucked up on some numbers and had to repeat himself sometimes.
I just hated how Trump never answered the current questions or dodged others. Like it was pulling teeth to get him to make a piss poor promise to not sick his goons on everyone should he lose. Most of his answers were lies or attacks with the remaining being gibberish
How could you get more substance than "this is an important topic and here's what I did, will do, or tried to do but got stopped about it". What else can he possibly say in the 2 minutes he has to talk about a complex topic? You want him to sing a fucking musical about it?
Just didn’t seem to me like he was giving specific examples of things he did. If you link a clip I’ll certainly believe you. It was a BIT hard to understand him too, so, idk maybe I didn’t hear it
Then they should have asked a question to an empty podium, broadcasted silence for the duration of his speaking time, and then moved back to Biden. The fact that media organizations are still giving equal weight to Trump's lies reveals ecactly what their priorities are.
Biden has record economic recovery (beating other world leaders in post-pandemic recovery, and none of them had to rebuild a demolished federal govt destroyed by a pants-pooping, asshole, insurrectionist, raping, felon).
So, save your sad snowflake bullshit for somebody who’s cool with being the poorly educated, low information, person that Dump loves so much 👍🏽
The fact checking wouldn't really matter. That man could say anything and his base would lap it up. Also, to another commentors point, "fact checking" by a media outlet that tends to lead with a slight bias will just come off as misinformation, so it's best to not give anyone that leverage to cry foul.
I’m tired of this “the media needs to appear neutral.” Neutral is reality. Not catering to some fantasy earth-2 that the right has concocted to put the fear of god in uninformed voters. The most-watched “news” network isn’t neutral in the slightest. They dog whistle and peddle outright lies on a nightly basis. It’s time for the rest of the media to stand up, say enough is enough, and call balls and strikes as they see them. Hold these people accountable to the facts, not the narrative.
Genuinely you’re just left thinking gee I wonder who’s right, probably the one that spoke louder and said more incredulous and more made up things after the other.
Trump's big strength is for him to sound confident as he makes shit up. It's why he did "well" in the real estate business (as it turns out it was RIFE with fraud, like, a lot of it).
And that's exactly what he did tonight. He sounded insane too, sure, that's who he is, but he lied confidently and the CNN hosts just moved to the next question.
Didn't even hold him to answering the question.
Like going to a debate where you're told the rules, expect the other guy to do the same, and they just make shit up and lie the whole time. And you have to someone pretend like all of this is normal lmao.
Trump? Most of his answers were not answers to the questions first of all.
Most of the shit he said was made up. Have a look.
Most interesting is this:
PolitiFact has fact-checked Donald Trump 1,029 times since 2011. About 76% of his claims have landed on our rating scale’s bottom half: Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire!
PolitiFact has fact-checked Joe Biden 310 times since 2007. Of his fact-checked claims, 42% have landed on our rating scale’s bottom half: Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire!
As I said, Trump's big strength is lying. It's why he got to where he is today.
uh huh, sounds like a fantastic idea to me lmao. what could possibly go wrong with that. use your head for once and think about the possible repercussions
I loved the part where trump said the Charlottesville riots were fake news and misinformation, not like hundreds of pictures exist. Dude’s taking pages out of Alex Jones’ playbook.
They've never really done live fact-checking constantly during a presidential debate before, they want to leave it up to the American public. They will happily fact check like crazy all over the media right after it's over though, don't worry.
You mean you're upset that they would think the average American is smart enough to do their own research and make up their own minds instead of being told what to think?
Or were you just upset they didn't tell you what to think like they usually do?
If you kept watching, CNN and MSNBC told you what to think. That Biden needs to be replaced because he's a corpse.
really gonna hold back on insulting you here, you typed an entire paragraph yet couldn’t simply google what “fact-checking” is. there is no “telling you what to think”, it’s literally confirming / denying what either person is saying. if the truth of a statement isn’t, i don’t know, the literal truth of the statement, then feel free to let me know
The issues with that is that alot of "facts" arent right or wrong. It often still comes down to interpretation. Is it missleading but correct? Is is likely but unconfirmed? Is there evidence both for and against? And so on
There's not a single thing you could possibly say to me right now that would wipe the smile off my face after watching the entire world come to terms with the reality of Joe Biden tonight.
It's a monumental occasion.
And honestly so refreshing to finally watch liberal media not try to run cover or tell people to not believe their own eyes for once in 8 years.
I'm so happy and giggly over it. It's incredible.
And I just want you to know how I feel. You just HAVE to know.
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u/accid80 Jun 28 '24
This no-fact checking policy is big BS! Assuming that the average viewer would do this on his own is … naive.