{"id":7473,"date":"2012-10-12T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7473"},"modified":"2012-10-12T09:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:32:02","slug":"friday-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/10\/12\/friday-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a little bit of last night’s debate, but not too much of it. By all accounts, Joe Biden was the big winner. If, by all accounts, you exclude CNN (“call it a draw<\/a>” they say, though their Republican-skewed poll showed Ryan the winner, 48%-44%), and NPR (on the way in, their report said, “both sides claim victory”). CBS says Biden won among “uncommitted” voters<\/a> (those who aren’t in a mental institution, I guess), but their story never tells you what percent Biden got (unless you watch the video).<\/p>\n

Of the 431 polled immediately following the debate, 31 percent deemed Ryan the winner, and 19 percent said they felt it was a tie. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess one could do the math on that and come up with 50%, but it seems an odd item to exclude.<\/p>\n

Fox News said Biden was a big old meanie.<\/p>\n

STEPHEN HAYES: “When he thanked Joe Biden, Biden was smirking. And I just think that came across as very disrespectful.”
\nBRIT HUME: “It looked like a cranky old man, to some extent, debating a polite young man.”<\/p>\n

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: “The smiles, the sneers … it made Vice President Joe Biden — someone who I typically like — I thought he was very unlikable.”<\/p>\n

CHRIS WALLACE: “I don’t believe I have ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other.”<\/p>\n

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “It was so disrespectful.”<\/p>\n

SEAN HANNITY: “At times, it was so uncontrollable, I was beginning to worry about him [Biden].”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Fucker Carlson? <\/p>\n

“Have you ever felt that way when you just want to deck somebody?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why, yes. Yes I have.<\/p>\n

Oh well, guess you just can’t please everybody, Joe.<\/p>\n

Except that everybody<\/em><\/strong> agrees that Martha Raddatz was the big winner as a moderator (except for Sarah Palin, of course, who said she let Biden run all over poor little Eddie Munster).<\/p>\n

Speaking of Martha, weren’t they making a big deal about Candy Crowley being the first woman to moderate a debate since Christ was a corporal or something? I guess the VP debates don’t count.<\/p>\n

Current apparently analyzed the debate to determine at what reading level the questions and answers were on<\/a>. Preznit and Vice-Preznit are pretty lofty positions, so I’m assuming it was pretty high level stuff.<\/p>\n

We analyzed the questions asked by moderator Martha Raddatz, ABC’s senior foreign correspondent, along with the responses from Biden and Ryan to determine their reading level.<\/p>\n

In a similar look at the first presidential debate President Obama responded at a ninth-grade level, Mitt Romney responded at a sixth-grade level and moderator Jim Lehrer asked questions at a fifth-grade level. <\/p>\n

It turns out the entire vice presidential debate was at a sixth-grade reading level.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh. \ud83d\ude10 <\/p>\n

No wonder Obama did so poorly. He was talkin’ like a smarty-pants high school freshman.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, next up is the second Presidential debate. Here’s my prediction: Romney will dial it down a notch or two, Obama will actually look like he’s alive and breathing, and the media will declare that Obama looked “crazy, angry, and desperate,” while Romney looked “confident and ‘Presidential’.”<\/p>\n

There, now you don’t have to bother watching. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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