James S. Robbins
11:50 p.m. EDT September 26, 2016
Like Reagan in 1980, viewers saw a Trump who was better than the liberal talking points.
You can’t fact check leadership, and tonight Donald Trump showed himself a leader.
...
Fact-checking has never been an accepted role for debate moderators. Janet Brown, head of the
Commission on Presidential Debates, said that a moderator should not “serve as the
Encyclopedia Britannica.” And moderator
Candy Crowley’s
ill-advised intervention against
Mitt Romney in 2012 showed why fact checking on the fly is a bad idea.
It
was strange that the truth-challenged Clinton would want to make an
issue of facts. But there was certainly no shortage of checking. Veteran
debate moderator
Bob Schieffer said that “the
chief fact-checkers
are the candidates,” and Clinton and Trump agreed, vigorously
challenging each other over facts, policies and opinions. In addition,
the social media hive-mind was scrutinizing every word in real time.
Anyone who needed to track down a fact had the entire connected world at
their disposal.
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