During last night’s live blog, I received the same basic message from multiple people: Why couldn’t these two be running at the top of their tickets? That reaction came less from a desire to see either be president, but more from an appreciation of the return of the traditional debate, comity, and at several times, mutual graciousness.
None of that helped Tim Walz, however. And neither did CBS News and its moderators, Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan — although Lord knows they tried to do their best to rescue the Democrat.
David Muir and Linsey Davis got a deluge of criticism for interfering in the one presidential debate on ABC News with one-sided “fact-checks,” clearly corrupting the process in favor of Kamala Harris. CBS News promised its moderators would not conduct any fact-checking. It took them less than 20 minutes to violate that, interjecting at least twice to…
