Who Won The Debate?

[Belsnickel]

(09-28-2016, 12:42 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I'd rather not have the moderator do the fact checking because it gives the candidates an out if they're perceived as the loser of the debate. Imagine you have a guy who always tells the truth versus a guy who always lies. If the moderator fact checks, he'd only fact check one and even though the guy is a liar, it would look like the moderator is in league with one of the candidates. Now, this would never happen in real life, I know, but it is possible that one candidate might be more prone to non-factual statements leading to more fact checking than his/her opponent which would still lead to the possibility of the appearance of impropriety by the moderator. It's why I think it best to let the candidates and pundits afterwards, do the fact checking. Either that or have 2 moderators, one for each candidate picked by the other candidate. Like have Sean Hannity question/fact check Hillary and have Christ Matthews question/fact check Trump. Would definitely be interesting.

Saw this after my above post. I like the idea of behind-the-scenes fact check team, names published, and chosen from a number of different sources, fact checking the candidates and making a rather obvious display of it. Maybe not the 'X' on the podium, but a big screen behind or in front of them that they can add quotes to and display whether they were true or false, right there on the stage.