Who Won The Debate?

[Belsnickel]

(09-28-2016, 12:44 PM)GMDino Wrote: But when Candidate A says "I love ice cream!  Always have!" And candidate B retorts "You said in 2012 you hated ice cream and we have the tweet to prove it" the people watching at home who already think candidate B is a liar will just think they are lying.  And let's face it, Trump can lie with the best of them and his supporters are sure Clinton lies more.

If the moderator says it at least they are to be considered mostly neutral.

IMHO.

Of course in this case Trump thought Holt was a Democrat so he would be biased against him and he's actually a Republican.  

So maybe the truth doesn't even matter to so many people it would be a waste of time?

That's the answer, right there. In all seriousness, to a lot of people, facts don't matter. Part of it is because I truly doubt a lot of these people understand what a fact actually is.

I get what you're saying in this, though, and it's true that my stance on this is geared more towards an actual debate rather than the public display of asshattery that comes along in the election cycles. Maybe there should be behind the scenes fact checkers that are doing it real time and each candidate has a display on their podium that gives a giant red 'X' and buzzes when they lie.