Presidential Debate: Satire is Now Truth in American Politics
ABC let Kamala Harris lie her face off – sans fact checking
By Katy Grimes, September 10, 2024 10:05 pm
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” That’s a pretty straight forward question that most Americans are able to answer with an unequivocal “No.”
Vice President Kamala Harris refused to answer that question in Tuesday’s Presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. Instead she talked about how she was born to a middle class family and would help other families – even though she’s been one-half of the Biden/Harris presidential administration for three and 1/2 years, and ushered in record inflation, record energy prices, causing millions of American families actual hardship.
I didn’t have high expectations of the ABC moderated debate, yet even I was surprised at how they let Kamala lied her face off sans fact-checking the entire debate – she lied saying 140 police were injured on January 6, 2021, regurgitates the “fine people on both sides” lie in Charlottesville, Project 2025, the “bloodbath” hoax, how Trump will become a dictator… where does it end?
Harris failed to address record inflation, the war on energy – even after delivering the tie-breaking vote to pass the Green New Deal hidden in the Inflation Reduction package – and the wide open border and the crime, murders, sex trafficking, and gang violence.
And when Trump called Harris a Marxist, it was crickets from her side of the stage.
ABC’s David Muir and Linsey Davis insisted on “moving on” every time Trump was nailing an answer.
Muir even asked Donald Trump whether he would support Ukraine – a war that broke out under the Biden/Harris administration. There was no mention that tomorrow is September 11th, or other national security discussion.
Kamala Harris came off as scripted, trite, and delivered the same on important policy issues.
Or as the Babylon Bee said, “ABC Moderators call timeout to huddle and discuss strategy with Kamala.”
Often called the real newspaper of record, the Babylon Bee wasn’t far off. The ABC moderators were complicit in Kamala Harris’ debate performance devoid of facts whether the question involved abortion, defund-the-police, ICE, or the open border.
Harris is even running campaign ads showing Trump’s border wall, claiming she now wants to close the border – after 3 1/2 years of letting 20+ million illegal aliens cross into the U.S.
When the ABC moderators brought up abortion, Harris refused to answer if she would back abortions in the 7th, 8th, 9th month or up to the moment of birth. Instead, the ABC moderators jumped in to save Harris.
Trump, however addressed abortion head on: “For 50 years they’ve been trying to get Roe v. Wade into the states,” he said referring to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision to send Roe v. Wade back to the states as abortion is not a right, and states should vote on it individually. Trump even said that 85% of Americans believe in some restrictions to mid-to-late-term abortions.
“Each individual state is voting on it,” Trump said. Before he got out the last word, ABC moderator Linsey Davis interrupted saying, “it isn’t legal to kill a baby in any state.”
ABC then reneged on the agreed-to deal to mute the microphones, and allowed Harris to talk over Trump. “Trump abortion ban – Donald Trump shouldn’t be telling women what to do with their own body. If Donald Trump is elected, he will be monitoring your abortion.”
“There she goes again,” Trump said. “I’m not signing a ban. Every legal scholar wanted abortion to be back in the states. The states are now voting…”
Moderator Linsey Davis interrupted him again: “JD Vance says you will not veto a ban…”
Plenty of journalists recognized what was going on.
“David Muir is criticizing and attacking Trump more than Kamala is. Kamala can relax because the ABC ‘moderators’ are handling the debate for her,” Glenn Greenwald Tweeted.
Greenwald wasn’t alone:
And some saw the absurdity.
“This is the abc playbook: Moderators: ‘Mr T, you did or said smthg that was absolutely terrible. Aren’t you terrible?’ DT answers. To KH: ‘would you like to weigh in on how terrible he is?’ ‘Thank you,’” Megyn Kelly Tweeted.
At one point Kamala Harris interrupted Trump during border debate, when he mocked her lackluster rallies and her campaign having to bus people in to events. When she interrupted, Trump said, “I’m talking now. Does that sound familiar?”
As satisfying as that was, Trump got right back to the border: “She’s had 3 1/2 years to fix the border – why hasn’t she done it?”
There was no answer, and no demand by the moderators that she answer.
Incumbent Kamala Harris was never held to account. ABC helped her out throughout the debate.
Even on the gun confiscation issue – Kamala Harris denied being a gun control advocate, yet said point blank she supported mandatory gun buy back plans in 2020. “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” she said, NBC News reported.
Even MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace admitted that the ABC News moderators were in the tank for Kamala Harris.
America deserved a legitimate debate on crucial issues. But the left can’t allow that, and lies and manipulates every step of the way. We hope the American people are fed up with this way of life.
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Who fact checks the moderators? The debate moderators were visibly on Kamala’s side- so much so that it was very uncomfortable to watch. According to the moderators, crime is down, the national debt is no problem, the economy is fine, Ukraine is a “democracy” and is “winning”20 million illegal migrants aren’t eating geese in Springfield or gangs taking over apartments in Colorado, the border is closed, babies are never left to die on the operating table, and Kamala’s proposed price controls and higher taxes on capital gains isn’t even worth asking a question about.
And as a result, we learned little or nothing about Kamala’s current positions on the issues or on why she changed her mind on so many issues. That, in the end, was the point.
The fake mainstream media and some of the “conservatives” are now saying that Kackala “got under Trump’s skin” but what really happened is that Trump was reacting to the way the moderators were clearly letting Harris get away with lying, and NOT fact checking HER. He knew right away that the fix was in.
Thinking maybe she had the questions in advance?
Naughty, naughty breaking the rules, go sit in the corner for 15 minutes.
Ha, a joke, the entire thing a complete farce.
GET TRUMP! Save the swamp! Our golden goose will get butchered!
Katy Grimes said it all here about the jaw-dropping lies, the outrageous unfairness, the fake “fact-checking,” etc. All apparently designed by them to further mislead the gullible, but also to raise the blood pressure of Americans, and for bonus points take a shot at getting Trump’s goat. They failed miserably on that last one. Donald Trump projected magnificent STRENGTH and he once again skillfully condensed complicated issues to successfully get the key message across. Few people are able to do that, it’s an underrated skill, and Trump is the best at it.
The X post below further straightens out what ABC news so childishly sought to muddle. That today is 9-11 is likely to cause even more Americans to not exactly “think kindly” of these twisted network “stars” who have too much undeserved power in their hands. As so many do..
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1833869730735603919
These aren’t moderators. They’re campaigners. In the next debate, the human moderators should be replaced with an AI computer. Just have the computer dish out the questions, and then a “time’s up” comes out over the speakers with the microphone input changed to the next candidate. We don’t need these so called moderators. They are useless.
Satire is pretty much impossible these days. No matter how ridiculous the Babylon Bee gets their stories keep coming true. If you want next weeks news today read the BB.
Sadly Trump’s approach has not been to address the issues facing the country; rather ruminate on and embellish and elaborate on his successes and importance.
Personal attacks and the mention of the racial aspect of any issue suicide.
Trump also appeared as haggard: Maybe fearful Harris.
Prepping for a Harris presidency May be in order.
EYEINTHESKY must be one of the many pathetic trolls on the Harris campaign payroll?
Sir:
I’ve remained a Trump supporter since his successful presidential win however Donald is failing miserably in the art of fueling his opponent’s own destruction.
He’s not sticking to the issues only: Instead he’s selfengrandising himself and indulging in personal attacks not to mention his intro of the racial aspects of issues.
His ability to focus on issue resolution only lacking. Looks like he’s panicked.
Yeah whatever, you’re not fooling anyone. We’ve seen your posts before. You always trash President Trump and you’ve never once have had a bad word to say about cackling comrade Kamala or the rest of your Democrat masters.
You leftist Democrats always resort to creating division by focusing on race, ethnicity and gender issues. Cackling comrade Kamala, whose wealthy Jamaican ancestors on her father’s side owned Black slaves, is a master at attacking others and accusing them of being racists like she did with Joe Biden during the 2020 Democrat presidential debates.
Now run along and go back to watching lamestream propaganda outlets like CNN and reading propaganda rags like the LA Times and NY Times.
Love it.
Not sure why President Trump agreed to this farce of a debate? ABC is nothing more than a deep-state propaganda outlet for the DNC and Disney executive Dana Walden, who oversees ABC News, is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris.
So blatant were ABC’s moderators bias against President Donald Trump during the debate that even Megyn Kelly — not exactly Trump’s biggest fan — has called out Dana Walden, saying she is helping lead the effort to “steal this election. They’re openly working to sink him.” Kelly went on to say that “I’m ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris, that is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting,” Kelly said. “They did Dana Walden’s bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage.”
Dana Walden has donated to Harris numerous times throughout her political career and has hosted Harris fundraisers at her home in Los Angeles. Most glaringly, Walden remains close friends with Kamala Harris and her husband, entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff. Harris once credited Dana Walden and her husband, Matt, for her marriage during a 2022 fundraiser. There’s a definite conflict of interest there?
Meanwhile, a smiling Joe Biden donned a red Trump campaign hat in Pennsylvania today after first responders in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, demanded he wear the hat. President Trump quipped “Kamala did so bad in last night’s debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat.” LOL!
(https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1833946879173746933)
Here’s the photo with article of Biden’s visit to Shanksville on 9-11 to which TJ referred above.
Looks like every kid in the photo was wearing pro-Trump gear! You gotta love it.
“Biden poses with pro-Trump children”
https://www.aol.com/biden-poses-children-pro-trump-041501434.html
Sickening. Thanks for posting this TJ; information about obviously disqualifying connections re Kamala et al. I didn’t know although I probably should have. Oh, but I forgot —- this sort of thing is only disqualifying if you’re a decent person, and Kamala is not that, so never mind I guess!
I’d call these people scum but that would be too nice.
Loved the MAGA hat-wearing Biden X post and Trump’s response! Ha ha
I can’t take it any more! The title “mainstream media” is SO misused today. This prestigious title used to belong to major, professional news organizations who reported the news in an unbiased, truthful, fact-checked manner. Those organizations no longer exist, as evidenced by, not only last presidential debate “moderators”, but their organizations’ daily reporting overall.
These propaganda-spewing organizations don’t deserve to be called “mainstream” because they aren’t. They don’t report on honest, unbiased news, they openly support the far-left, radical agenda. This is not “mainstream” news reporting, it’s propaganda. I’m starting to use an alternative name that’s more in line with what they truly are: the “Propaganda-Stream Media”. Now, I know that’s maybe a little bit long, so I usually shorten the name to “P-STREAM MEDIA”, an even more descriptive title, don’t you think?
Ms Grimes, you fail to note two of the most humanly important facts of Trump-MAGA politics. These two facts of living for Trump and MAGA supporters are remorseless individual selfishness and a consistent choice to act in bad faith. Are these choices and attitudes what makes America America? Of course these choices are a curse in any community.
Get honest Ms Grimes.
The debate provides an opportunity for Trump to capture the conflicting statements between VP Harris’ stated positions and those made on the debate stage. (for example., the mandatory gun buyback). Trump could make a full campaign ad. His campaign ads need to tell a story about where VP Harris actual positions are.