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.
This would he concerning if I wasn’t convince that Walz would sit him down and correct him like a disappointed father.
If anyone could make a politician seem like a child to their face it’d be him, and especially if that politician is Vance.
So CBS news has zero integrity.
Facts? Integrity? What the hell are you talking about? We need a ratings bump.
CBS executives, probably.
Anyway Walz is gonna eat Vance’s face for dinner and then shit down his throat hole. I look forward to catching the highlights reel online.
Walz just has to be himself and he will vastly outclass any pathetic attempts at appearing charismatic that Vance will be trying to conjure up.
Then Vance will repeat Trump’s bullshit but more coherent and Walz will talk actual policy, probably appearing like the well-meaning teacher talking to the problem kid in class.
“We just want the money, leave us the fuck out of this. We’re a news corporation. What did you expect, integrity? Ha!”
-CBS
I wish I could be like “yeah I’m just not gonna do my job this time” and nothing would happen to me.
Those were some of the best moments though! When the Linsey Davis (moderator) deadpan said, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born." I fell off my couch laughing at Trump. He didn’t know what to do, he was like a fish out of water.
I guess the GOP made it a deal breaker for the VP debate.
Walz should quote Vance’s statement about making things up and make the point that he will not be fact checking someone who is on record stating they will lie. Even make the minguistic point that while Vance said he’d “make stuff up” there is another word for that: “lie”.
“So since my opponent has alresdy admitted they lie to reporters and about the price of eggs, I ask that the viewers tonight know that we can’t trust anything he says is true. He has no credibility.”
Remember when journalism was a respected profession?
I really think most ‘journalist’ are “news influencers”
No, I genuinely do not.
I know we had Watergate, but before that we had Hearst, and a bunch of other rich assholes using their money to spread propaganda, Murdoch isn’t remotely creative, we just got complacent.
Reagan, the original Ghoul
CBS is owned by Paramount Global who splits their “donations” between parties (heavier toward Democrats). Are we tired of being governed by corporations, yet?
So what the fuck do we need CBS for again?
Colbert?
Hey, let’s get Stephen to do the live fact-checking!
Have two mods. Late Night Steven and Colbert Report Steven.
Fair and Unbalanced
Shut up and take my money
I would pay money to watch that
He did a live show after the Trump-Harris debate. Perhaps he’ll do another!
Yep, he’s planning on doing a live show right after the VP debate. He announced it on a recent episode.
Oh, how splendid!
But they aren’t doing any fact checking
If CBS suddenly disappeared, Colbert could go anywhere he wants I bet.
No bet. Colbert would be juuuuust fine.
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…
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
Yeah but when you know what they’re messaging on you can absolutely prepare for the worst ones like After Birth Abortion and Immigrants eating pets. Which were the two big fact checks.
The reverse gish gallop!
Heaven forbid journalists do… you know, their jobs?
We Report, You Decide
We report what we want you to decide
*CBS is announcing that it will allow the Couchfucker to Gish Gallop.
Fixed that title for you.
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.
Bunch of weak ass bullshit.
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.
It compromises the legitimacy of CBS. How can they be okay with blatant lies being aspired on its network?
Fucking cowards. We saw how quickly fascists crumble when you fact check them. Why won’t CBS want to do that?
Because they want to help the fascist.
Something about ten dudes at a diner table with an eleventh who is a nazi.
