The final debate before Election Day is scheduled for this evening, October 22 at 9pm. You can tune into CBS. You can go to Conservative Treehouse for livestream links to CNN and to RSBN (UPDATED link here.) (Our household always goes to Right Side Broadcast News just to show support for their efforts.) Or, if you have had it with these debates, you can let Mr. Vodkapundit, a/k/a Stephen Green watch it for you and follow his live drunkblogging of the event here (UPDATED link here).
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Thomas Lifson at American Thinker is outraged at the corruption of the Presidential debates. As well he should be. Among his criticisms is the choice of “moderator”:
Two recent actions by the Commission
on Presidential Debates reveal the outrageous information control strategy
being implemented. Kristen Welker, the debate moderator, is a highly
partisan Democrat working for highly partisan NBC News. Welker even
celebrated Christmas at the Obama White House with her parents, major
donors to Obama.
And she gets to choose the topics – favorable to Biden, of
course.
Foreign policy, where President
Trump has triumphed in the Middle East, is verboten. And any mention
of Hunter Biden's activities as bagman for his father in selling American
foreign policy — despite being the major theme of Trump's campaign activities —
is MIA. But once again, climate change, already discussed in debate
#1and far down on the list of issues that most concern Americans, is on the
agenda.
But it just got worse — much
worse. The AP reports:
The nonpartisan Commission on
Presidential Debates announced Monday that the second and final debate between
the two candidates will have each nominee muted while the other delivers his
two-minute remarks at the outset of each of the six debate topics. The
remainder of each 15-minute block will be open discussion, without any muting,
the commission said.
Welker's handpicked, Dem-favoring
topics will get a monopoly in establishing the character of each segment of the
debate. This obviously is intended to force Trump to stick to the
subject Dems want covered. And pardon me if I do not trust this
assurance that the mute button, whose very existence is an outrage, will not be
further employed to silence Trump if he brings up Hunter's crooked deals on
behalf of his father, who gets a cut of 10 to 50 percent on the proceeds,
according to a text Hunter sent.
Mr. Lifson’s article is here.
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