Campaign 2016 Part XIX: Escape from the Planet of Debates

[burd]

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Trump is behaving like a freaking child. It takes a mountain of confirmation bias to overcome that evidence. This election is a reminder of just how powerful the monkey brain in us still is.

[Wisko McBadgerton]

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lol... CNN breaking news is that Trump did in fact have a faulty mic at the debate.

I chuckle because the big red Breaking News banner on the website is usually something like a plane crash...

[The Rube]

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It's CNN. Despite Trump calling it the "Clinton News Network" they have been concentrating on him, good and bad, for the past friggin' year. It's unwatchable unless they are live-covering a protest/plane crash/shooting/etc. If it's not live, it's Trump. Period.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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lol... CNN breaking news is that Trump did in fact have a faulty mic at the debate.

I chuckle because the big red Breaking News banner on the website is usually something like a plane crash...

Actually CNN frequently uses their "Breaking News" banner for things far more mundane than a plane crash. And they report it as "breaking news" sometimes for hours. Which is of course nonsense. It is breaking news the first time you report it, and no longer. I could even understand if they kept it up for a while, but you can literally tune in hours and hours after an event and they will term the most simple of recaps -- with nothing new in the last 6 hours -- as "breaking news."

[The Sicatoka]

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lol... CNN breaking news is that Trump did in fact have a faulty mic at the debate.

I chuckle because the big red Breaking News banner on the website is usually something like a plane crash...

Anything for viewership. Are their numbers so bad that they are trying to lure in < gasp > deplorables!?!?!

< /snark >

The Commission on Presidential Debates revealed in a one-sentence statement Friday that Donald Trump's audio was impacted earlier in the week.

"Regarding the first debate, there were issues regarding Donald Trump's audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall," the commission said in a statement. No other details were immediately made available.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/politi...ues/index.html


My only question is how did CNN get this before DrudgeReport? I figured the Trumpettes had to know this when it was released by the Debate Commission and would've immediately fed it there.

[MaizeRage]

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This is a fairly disgusting comment. Seeking to discredit a statement you disagree with through implying racism is both offensive and unoriginal.

I'm sorry if you thought I was implying it.

[French Rage]

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How did this faulty mic affect things? I do not recall any point in the debate where he could not be heard loud and clear. In fact a mic that randomly shut off probably would have helped him by lowering the number of interruptions.

[The Rube]

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How did this faulty mic affect things? I do not recall any point in the debate where he could not be heard loud and clear. In fact a mic that randomly shut off probably would have helped him by lowering the number of interruptions.

I didn't watch the debate, but something about the sniffles/etc? And Trump attributed it to a faulty mic making sounds/picking up other sounds?

[unofan]

I didn't watch the debate, but something about the sniffles/etc? And Trump attributed it to a faulty mic making sounds/picking up other sounds?

Yes, the mic that was too soft to pick up his voice was working so well that it picked up his sniffles. Let's go with that...

[French Rage]

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According to the CNN article, it affected what people in the debate hall heard, but not those watching on TV. You know, the .01% of the total audience. Clearly Hillary is a diabolical genius.

[The Rube]

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Yes, the mic that was too soft to pick up his voice was working so well that it picked up his sniffles. Let's go with that...

As I said, I didn't watch, just heard comments in the waves of aftermath. Not accusing nor defending anything about MicrophoneGate.

[Wisko McBadgerton]

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The media gets away with crap like that cause people are stupid.

I don't know that people are any stupider than they ever were. They're probably busier and and are definitely reliant on the convenience of sound bites and talking head summaries and click bait headlines for a lot of their info. Plus all the recirculated conspiracies on email and facebook etc. Who has the time to sort out facts from all the fiction? Just go with what you think sounds good.

When the internet was young it quickly made the world smaller and a bit more empathetic, I think, as regular folks could, for the first time really, have conversations and interactions with other regular folks from all over the world. Wow!
Now you still can but it's not nearly so novel and instead one could argue that facebook, et al, are systems that are more often agents of strengthening ties between small groups of like thinking people, and diminishing ties between those who think differently. (Just delete the jerks from your friend list!) Perhaps it's just plain easier to be divided today, and yet still be part of a group that happily reinforces biases among themselves. That's not the direction I hoped things would go.

[Rover]

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How would his mike cause the sniffles? I'm a little confused here? I could certainly hear him loud and clear on the telecast.

[burd]

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I don't know that people are any stupider than they ever were. They're probably busier and and are definitely reliant on the convenience of sound bites and talking head summaries and click bait headlines for a lot of their info. Plus all the recirculated conspiracies on email and facebook etc. Who has the time to sort out facts from all the fiction? Just go with what you think sounds good.

When the internet was young it quickly made the world smaller and a bit more empathetic, I think, as regular folks could, for the first time really, have conversations and interactions with other regular folks from all over the world. Wow!
Now you still can but it's not nearly so novel and instead one could argue that facebook, et al, are systems that are more often agents of strengthening ties between small groups of like thinking people, and diminishing ties between those who think differently. (Just delete the jerks from your friend list!) Perhaps it's just plain easier to be divided today, and yet still be part of a group that happily reinforces biases among themselves. That's not the direction I hoped things would go.

I think you are right, Wisko.

Though the thought of all those long-armed, slope-headed Badger fans talking just to each other might be comforting for the rest of us.

[The Sicatoka]

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Trump campaign reports that at the next debate they'll supply their own microphone and it'll be a really, really great microphone and people are already saying it'll be a great microphone. When asked if it'll have a "spit stopper" they replied yes, and that it'll be yuuuge.

Clinton campaign reports already claim that Trump has called the microphone fat and claim he wants to send it back because it's foreign and didn't come with documentation. Clinton campaign officials had nothing else to offer.