CBS Moderators Trample All Over Debate Rules to Fight with GOP VP

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 2, 2024
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While objectively not as bad a ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago, which should go down as the worst debate performance by the moderators in U.S. history, CBS’s vice presidential debate Tuesday night didn’t fare much better. Liberal moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell were so desperate to make Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) look bad, that they repeatedly broke the rules of the debate to fact-check him. And their so-called fact-checks were so wrong that Vance had to call them out for it.

That’s not to mention the completely slanted and combative questions flung at the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Seemingly added in response to the unprofessionalism of the ABC moderators, CBS News agreed that they would not fact-check either candidate and would leave it up to the debaters to do that. But throughout the debate, the moderators either offered up fact-checks against Vance or fact-checks disguised as questions to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D-MN).

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