Trump-Biden Presidential Debate, Chris Wallace Moderating
Donald Trump and Joe Biden participated in the first 2020 presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, moderated by Chris Wallace. Media outlets characterized the event as a chaotic "shit show," leading the Commission on Presidential Debates to consider rule changes such as cutting candidate microphones. The venue, the Samson Pavilion at the Cleveland Clinic, was originally designated as a COVID-19 surge facility named Hope Hospital.
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00:00 There's hope for Joe. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Thursday October 1st 2020 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 1282 This is no agenda Celebrating the shit show and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin Texas capital of The Drone Star State In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm freshly back from listening to the Trump-Wallace debates. I'm John C. DeVorey. Yeah, well that was Trump and Chris Wallace debating. Oh! Chris Wallace yes yes Well let's do a quick 13 second around the horn Let's see what the mainstream media thought of it That was a shit show The American people lost tonight because that was horrific You used some high-minded language I'm just gonna say it like it is That was a shit show That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck
01:13 Because that was horrific. Oh yes, everybody! It was horrific! It was the worst ever! What shall we do? All the humanity!! Well this is a prelude to what they really want to do and I have a clip... I know exactly- We probably have the same clip which it's about the microphones all bet No, I don't have that clip but I know what you're talking about. Oh hold on a second Let me grab this for you So, this was such a disgrace. We have to change something and you know these debates are arranged by the National Debate Committee or some...
01:54 Yeah, some organization that the Women's League of Voters didn't want to have. Uh oh here we go ladies and gentlemen. Eight even on the Zephyr! This is your official Zephyr economic report everybody we have eight cars economy is stable. Bitcoin 10,856 Oh my god! Well, here's the prelude to what I caught which came in this morning. While the commission has not formally voted on changes, an informed source tells CBS News members believe they need to act in the coming days after being inundated with complaints about a chaotic debate. Among the possible changes are the rules cutting off a candidate's microphone if that person ignores the rules and interrupts another candidate or moderator. Oh my! How will they decide who is going to turn off which mic?
03:04 Let's get more now on those strict new rules the debate commission is considering issuing in the coming days including cutting off a candidates microphone CBS's chief Washington correspondent major Garrett joins us now and major many are demanding this dramatic rule change demanding The Commission can do it, Nora. It is empowered to set the rules for the debates and they do that in collaboration with the campaigns and they did that for the first debate but those rules were quite obviously flouted That gives the Commission more leverage Here's another technical point of leverage The Commission controls the audio feed. The networks handle the TV part so in these negotiations with the campaigns They can say if you don't do what we want We can cut your sound off! That IS on the table whatever the commission decides Nora. It hopes to inform the country in the coming days
03:45 Here's what I'd like to understand about this genius idea, this shut-up slave idea. Because God forbid we have a debate or discussion open discussion when you have this setting in an auditorium with pretty much no one 70 people are they going to turn off the amplification in the room so that you don't hear it there as well? How will a candidate know if his microphone is turned off how will he know There probably a red light or something. This is just it's a dumb idea they should put them in A glass cage and when they need to shut up Just close the door Right away soundproof booth actually actually
04:32 Your idea is not too far from being a decent one. Listen to this the way I would do it Okay, there are these glass panels you can get that you have electrical they have electrical capabilities You push the button and they go opaque you put both candidates in these glass cages No And then when one of them is talking the other one poof its goes opaque and you can't even see the guy no No We're both way off how stupid are we? There's only one solution Yes shock collar All right, just like so they. So we have to look at this because I knew that it wasn't a great debate but it wasn't the worst thing in the world I've ever seen and I think these guys were exaggerating but what are they after? They didn't like Biden's performance because Biden was bringing up the same old points over and over again and so what you end up with suddenly you start to hear when you hear...I have two sub clips very short versions of what were longer clips
05:29 with Judy, Judy Woodruff on the PBS News Hour and listened as you got two different guests. And she asked a guest number one this question. This is Judy spelled J-Y-D-Y for some reason wanting debates to end one. So Chan should the debates continue? I mean is there more the American people can learn from these debates that commission is saying today it's going to change the rules in some way what do you think Bye. So this guy goes on with, well I don't know. I think it's fine but you know they can change some rules and we'll see what happens so she didn't get the answer she wanted so she goes to guest number two through these debates I mean for the American people should there be more debates? Well Judy there is more to be learned because... Ah yes! We really don't want a debate that we want to stop the debates that's what it's all about okay and that's what they're after and these are talking points Judy's right in on him and she's pushing them
06:28 she's getting very old and so she can't be subtle anymore. And so, she is very aggressive about this and in many ways most of the conversations you have with these two guys one was from Washington Post obviously because it is always the Washington Post and the other one was from Los Angeles Times and she was beating around the bush and beating around the bush She got marching orders to let's end these debates because we don't want any more. We don't want Biden out there again, he is either juiced or has got some issues He was not performing up the par and you know it just I thought that Trump did the worst job he could have possibly done especially when compared to his Hillary debates which always looked like Hillary won and he did
07:18 But in this case, he was I think he must have been doing this unless he's losing a step which i believe is possible. Because if you remember the Hillary debates, she would use this trick where she'd be yakking about something like Biden did and instead of jumping in and arguing with her, he would just go right up to the mic and go wrong! Wrong! So the problem with this In my mind, and I think we should just look at it. It was a bad television show this was the biggest problem It wasn't so much about forget about what was said
07:56 People at home just did not have a nice viewing experience, and that is... because there was lots of stuff that was said. If you break it down—I've watched it now three times—if you really break it down there were some interesting things that were said there were some truths that were told something's that were debatable but it was just not a good television show and two things about that The format is wrong This is not a modern format for a quote-unquote, modern presidency. This is just not how it works anymore and if you say you're going to have two minutes to yourself uninterrupted... And by the way, it was Biden who started interrupting during Trump's first two minutes okay neither here nor there and then its open discussion
08:42 In my mind, open discussion does not mean when you're interrupting the other person and you're debating. You're discussing it's a heated debate It's not the moderators job to say oh no stop interrupting him No! If you and I have an argument And we've had some What happens? We'll yell back and forth or I'll yell, you go... within 30 seconds or a minute. Yes! I describe it. I'm yelling, you're going... but then eventually one of us says okay I'm listening what do you have to say
09:20 I mean, that was not possible because the moderator was horrible. And the moderator asked questions that—I timed it—were almost two minutes by themselves sometimes! No no this format is done... Did Fox produce this or is it? I guess it's uh...no I guess it's a... No that commission produced it. The commission produces it. Shitty stage. Fox really had nothing to do with it except for... Shit stage. Now the whole thing was shit stage. I'm sorry and- Where are the flags?! Where's the damn flags? But there was something very interesting about the venue, which was... What was the name of that auditorium? Hold on a second. I thought I had it here. It was—oh here it is! Check this out. This is kind of the funniest part of the whole setup. On behalf of Cleveland Clinic, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the city of Cleveland
10:17 Tonight, you join us in the beautiful Samson Pavilion of the Health Education Campus at Cleveland Clinic. We share this campus with our partners from Case Western Reserve University This building is very special to us It was opened just a year ago as a place for students medical nursing and dental to begin their professional journeys by learning together as teams At that time as we were opening this campus, none of us could have imagined that we would soon face a worldwide pandemic. When it happened, we converted this building into a COVID-19 surge hospital. It was known as Hope Hospital! The whole irony of it is there's so little COVID that they converted their emergency hospital into a debate stage
11:14 Yeah, come on. That's very funny. And that's dumb that Trump didn't have that. Is this guy a Dutch guy? Where is his accent from he's running things? I don't know. God! I have from Jesse Coy Nelson a summary of the entire debate in 35 seconds which i think will be worth it for some people who didn't want to watch it or just missed it or whatever It kind of sums it all up And we did a great thing by shutting it down. Wait a minute, Chad. Let me shut you down for a second, Chad. Just for one second... I'm not gonna answer the question because the question is... The question is... Would you shut up man? Folks, folks, do you have any idea what this clown's doing? Well, you get the idea. Yeah, I have something similar but different. Sure sure you do. Now
