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On Tuesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander provided viewers with a timeline of vice presidential debates over the years. However, the one-sided segment repeatedly portrayed Democratic running mates as victors while dismissing the Republicans as sexist, bungling, or full of “malarkey.”
Alexander began the report: “Vice presidential debates are never as consequential as presidential ones, but they can still have an impact. Just consider how many of these moments still ring a bell.” He started the look back in 1984, when “George H.W. Bush took heat from Geraldine Ferraro, who slammed him for being condescending.” A soundbite played of Walter Mondale’s VP: “I almost resent, Vice President Bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy.”