The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was not a fan of his CBS colleagues’ decision to refrain from fact-checking during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. However, his concerns were one-sided because he implicitly approved of Tim Walz not being fact-checked about his claim that a Donald Trump victory means pregnant women will have to register with the federal government. Later, when MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joined the program, he claimed it was “delicious” when the moderators went back on their word and started to pick a fight with JD Vance on immigration.
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Later, Hayes admitted Walz did not look the best, but tried to spin that as a positive, “Walz was so clearly very nervous, which I always very endearing and human when you hear that constriction in the throat. Kamala Harris's first answer in the last debate was the same way, you could just hear it.”
Colbert also asked him about the fact-checking rule, “What do you make of that rule? Do you think that's the right way to go? And what would you have wanted to fact-check.”
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