2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumChris Wallace Won’t Call Candidates On Their Lies During Last Presidential Debate
Chris Wallace says it wont be his job to separate truth from fiction in his historic role as moderator of the final debate before the November election.
Wallace, who earlier this month became the first journalist from Fox News to be chosen to moderate a presidential debate , spoke to the networks Howard Kurtz about the difficulties of the job and his aim to ask smart questions and engage the two [candidates] in conversation.
But when Kurtz asked how Wallace planned to negotiate a campaign fraught with falsehoods and unfounded accusations, Wallaces answer was less than comforting.
Thats not my job, Wallace, who hosts Fox News Sunday, said. I do not believe that its my job to be a truth squad. Its up to the other person to catch them on that. I certainly am going to try to maintain some semblance of equal time if one of them is filibustering, Im going to try to break in respectfully and give the other person a chance to talk.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chris-wallace-presidential-debate_us_57ccc67ce4b0a22de0967652?ybxyb9rh39dqs38fr
Aristus
(66,437 posts)Without the interposition of "is not a".
oberliner
(58,724 posts)By far.
Aristus
(66,437 posts)His father would have been ashamed of him.
If Mike Wallace had heard that "It's not my job to ask tough questions" shit, he would have started looking for a window to throw him out of.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Most of the interviewers on that channel are just preposterous. Sean Hannity, in particular.
I'm surprised the Trump team didn't demand him as a moderator.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)It's really NOT the job of the moderator to catch lies, mainly because some are partial lies, some are half truths, and a moderators would have to insert himself into the conversation way too much, and most likely get into an argument as well. We ALL want the media to call the candidates out for lies, but that should be done every day during their interviews with them, not during a debate.
TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)The Gish Gallop (also known as proof by verbosity) is the fallacious debating tactic of simply drowning your opponent in such a torrent of small, interlocking arguments that your opponent cannot possibly rebut each one in real time. It is similar to the on the spot fallacy, because it's unreasonable for someone to have an answer immediately available to every single argument presented.
Although it is a trivial amount of effort on the galloper's part to make each point before skipping to the next (particularly if they cite from a pre-concocted list of gallop arguments), a refutation of the same gallop may likely take much longer and require significantly more effort (per the basic principle that it's always easier to make a mess than to clean it back up again).
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RonniePudding
(889 posts)It provided a very important moment in the race. Wallace's response is chicken shit. The reason he won't call it out has nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with the fact he's not going to do anything to jeapordize the GOP's chances, or upset the audience that provides him with a generous income.
oasis
(49,398 posts)unblock
(52,288 posts)One of the 99
(2,280 posts)unblock
(52,288 posts)the republican league.
ok, he's an all-star liar even within the republican league.
TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)TrishaJ
(798 posts)is no need to watch it, is there? Won't be a real "debate" about the issues. So why bother....
Blue Idaho
(5,052 posts)He now insists the Libratarian - regardless of his poll numbers - be included or he won't debate Hillary.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Link?
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Why not let Hillary do the eviscerating? She's more than capable of it and the purpose of the debate is to hear the candidates, not the moderators.
Loki
(3,825 posts)perhaps some well timed emails to the debate commission in Las Vegas. Let your voices be heard.
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Tony Allen
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We don't want this kind of shit anymore.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)Donald, on the other hand, is going to be allow to say whatever he wants without factual pushback.