CBS’s Dickerson, King Excuse Biden Debate Meltdowns by Arguing He’s Not the President Yet

Curtis Houck | September 30, 2020
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Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters!

With some ABC journalists rhetorically reporting from Mars, CBS’s post-debate coverage found itself Tuesday night along similar lines as NBC, which likewise placed the lion’s share of blame on the President (instead of Joe Biden or Chris Wallace) for the debate having spun out of control.

So, what CBS’s argument for blaming Trump wielding “a saw tooth” and Biden leaning more towards being blameless? Well, dear readers, Biden isn’t the president. In other words, it was one of the laziest and most tiresome excuses employed in this Trump era (where it usually crops up on CNN).