{"id":13581,"date":"2020-09-30T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13581"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:41:12","slug":"american-shitshow-trump-biden-debate-in-cleveland-goes-off-the-rails-bradcast-9302020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13581","title":{"rendered":"American ‘Shitshow’: Trump, Biden ‘Debate’ in Cleveland Goes Off the Rails: ‘BradCast’ 9\/30\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: What else? Special coverage of what we’ll call the Presidential “debate” in Cleveland, OH on Wednesday night between Donald Trump and Joe Biden as nominally “moderated” by Chris Wallace of Fox “News”. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

It was, perhaps, best described<\/a> by CNN’s Dana Bash as “a shitshow”, though her colleague Jake Tapper didn’t do bad either in his description of “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow saw it as a “monstrous cavalcade of increasingly wild and obscene lies” and an “unintelligible display of logorrhea,” mostly from the unhinged, unbalanced, unfit, wholly unqualified President of the United States. Stephen Colbert also did a helluva job<\/a> in his own description of the train wreck as well on CBS’ Late Show<\/em>, though you’ll have to tune in for that one.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Trump 2000 Campaign Manager Bill Stepien called<\/a> Trump’s effort “the greatest debate performance in presidential history,” and Fox “News” observed on their chyron: “BIDEN STUMBLES HIS WAY THROUGH FIRST DEBATE”. So there’s that.<\/p>\n

We’re joined today to try and make sense of whatever<\/i> you may want to call Wednesday’s embarrassing spectacle, by two of our favorite post-debate sense-makers, HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> and ERIC BOEHLERT<\/b> of Press Run<\/a>, who argues in his column today<\/a> that, unless the Presidential Debate Commission changes the format to, at a minimum, allow Trump’s mic to be cut off (which, it looks like, they may<\/a>), the next two Presidential debates should be called off entirely. Parton, who also wrote about<\/a> Trump’s “massive failure” today, agrees. But I don’t, and we debate (ya know, an actual<\/i> debate) as to why.<\/p>\n

We also discuss and\/or debate whether Biden should or shouldn’t disclose his position on doing away with the Senate filibuster in order to expand the GOP’s stolen U.S. Supreme Court and much much more, including Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacy, his deadly criminal failure to contain the coronavirus, his very serious threat to American democracy itself, and whether either of the two candidates accomplished what they needed to.<\/p>\n

As Parton sums up whatever went down in Cleveland on Wednesday night: “We had one mainstream, normal politician and an alien from outer space, debating on the same stage. And that didn’t work out really well.” She observes that all of this is “bad for the country” and goes on to cite Trump’s “extra-Constitutional, extra-judicial” threat to “steal” the November election as “one of the most dangerous things any President has tried to do.”<\/p>\n

Says Boehlert about Trump performance: “He was dramatically different last night than he was in 2016. And he was awful<\/i> in 2016,” before going on to describe the reason as “creeping authoritarianism” in which “Trump is building a bonfire every day, every hour.”<\/p>\n

If you loved the first 2020 Presidential Debate, you may or may not love our show today. If you were as troubled by what you saw as we were, then you may take some comfort — and even get a few much-needed laughs — out of our special coverage today…<\/p>\n

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