General Discussion

by the media. They hyped it for weeks as a debate, and then scored it as a performance. A few people did read the transcript, at least here on DU. And my second two points were meant to be funny--I thought we could all use a small laugh. (Curses! Foiled again!) Biden, then, had to play by the rules, of debate, of serious government, of formal public communication. the trump creature was, as he always has been, unconstrained by any rules. He could say whatever he wanted. In fact, the "reviews" of Biden's "performance" were lousy reviews, since there was no mention of his opponent's performance, and no specifics of what Biden messed up. Those who looked at the whole debate, or read the transcripts, didn't think the President had anything to apologize for at all. But the media are playing to their base, who don't do transcripts, are a little fuzzy on what debates are, and have attention spans of six seconds, tops.