‘Let’s All Talk Over Each Other!’ CNN Mocks CBS for Debate Chaos

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 26, 2020
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Arguably, the biggest takeaway from the Democratic debate on Tuesday was that CBS News didn’t know how to moderate. CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and This Morning co-host Gayle King had almost no control as the debate would often descend into a cacophony of shrieking candidates. Their incompetence was so blatant that the panel on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 couldn’t help but periodically mock the spectacle. Including one who playfully suggested they “all talk over each other.”

As he began the program, host Anderson Cooper needed to bust out the Yiddish to encapsulate the nonsense he had just witnessed. “The final Democratic debate before the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday is now history. And it goes into the books as both a potentially decisive moment of the race for many voters, as well as something of a brawl or a mishigas,” he joked, to the laughter of chief political analyst Gloria Borger.

For her part, Borger lamented how “the candidates generally were not well served by the debate itself,” and noted how “there were points that unfortunately the moderators seemed to lose control of the debate” as it unraveled into a series of “free for alls.”

Her colleagues agreed.

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