Network news media outlets continue to offer obvious home field advantages to Democrats in this year’s election debates, as they have for as long as I’ve observed politics.
But Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, delivered a masterclass in how to deal with biased moderators in his vice-presidential showdown with Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday night.
Not only did Vance handle obviously skewed questions, but he refused to allow the moderators—“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan—live “fact check” him without calling them out on it.
More on that in a bit.
There’s no doubt that the NBC moderators of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate were nearly as biased as the CBS moderators in the September presidential debate. Their questions were mostly cherry-picked…
