{"id":11870,"date":"2016-10-05T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T00:19:34","slug":"avalanche-of-lies-the-pencekaine-vp-debate-bradcast-1052016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11870","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche of Lies: The Pence\/Kaine VP Debate: ‘BradCast’ 10\/5\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, coverage and analysis of this year’s one and only (thank God!) Vice Presidential Debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia on Tuesday night between Hillary Clinton’s centrist Democratic running mate Sen. Tim Kaine of VA and Donald Trump’s religious right Republican running mate Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana. [Audio link is posted below.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

It was, in my opinion, as I noted on The Twitters<\/a> last night, the worst Presidential or Vice Presidential debate in modern U.S. history, thanks in no small part to the disastrously horrible moderator, CBS News’ Elaine Quijano. Her questions seem to come straight off of Fox “News” (where CBS News chief David Rhodes previously worked<\/a>, coincidentally), failed to follow up any answers, failed to either keep decorum between the two candidates or at least get out of their way, and failed to raise real issues of note — such as gun violence, race issues, health care, global warming, LGBT issues, campaign finance or voting rights, to name just a few — effecting the actual everyday lives of Americans.<\/p>\n

Mike Pence is a man who has argued smoking doesn’t cause cancer, denies climate change, couldn’t run for President himself in 2016 because he screwed up so badly on the anti-LGBT bill he signed in Indiana, in December of just last year tweeted “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional” in response to Trump’s call for same — and, yet, Quijano couldn’t muster up a single question on any<\/i> of those incredibly disturbing things from Pence’s career.<\/p>\n

But it was also the remarkable avalanche of lies, as offered by the very impressive if astonishingly dishonest GOP Veep nominee, which made the evening simply jaw-dropping at times. Some of those lies were rebutted by a struggling, over-eager Kaine. Others have since been left to those in the media who care to sort such things out.<\/p>\n

That’s where we come in, I guess. I’m joined today to try and make sense of all of the above by Heather Digby Parton<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and the Hullabaloo blog<\/a>, John Amato<\/b>, founder of the Crooks and Liars<\/a> blog and, of course, our own Desi Doyen.<\/p>\n

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