Dem "debate" CNN 13 Oct Las Vegas

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In Serious Gaffe, Sanders Treats Opponent with Dignity and Respect

LAS VEGAS — In a major slip that may prove fatal to his Presidential ambitions, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont treated his principal opponent for the Democratic nomination with dignity and respect on Tuesday night.

Calling it a gaffe of historic proportions, many political insiders were still scratching their heads Wednesday morning over Sanders’s bizarre decision to act toward his opponent as if she were a fellow human being.

“I chalk it up to pressure,” the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said. “Sanders has never been on such a big stage before, and in the heat of the moment he cracked and behaved with nobility.”

“It was one of those moments where everyone in politics was like, ‘What was he thinking?’ ” Dorrinson added.

Carol Foyler, a veteran political operative, said that Sanders has one more debate, “at the most,” to prove that his respect gaffe was just that—a regrettable but forgivable slip of the tongue, not to be repeated.

“Bernie Sanders’s behavior towards Hillary Clinton Tuesday night has raised some grave questions about him in voters’ minds,” Foyler said. “If he treats people with decency and civility now, what kind of President would he be?”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...NzgxOTM2Njc4S0

[hater]

Saw that clip. Holy Hillarys laugh is so fake and forced.

I ing hate that bictb

[DarrinS]

In Serious Gaffe, Sanders Treats Opponent with Dignity and Respect

LAS VEGAS — In a major slip that may prove fatal to his Presidential ambitions, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont treated his principal opponent for the Democratic nomination with dignity and respect on Tuesday night.

Calling it a gaffe of historic proportions, many political insiders were still scratching their heads Wednesday morning over Sanders’s bizarre decision to act toward his opponent as if she were a fellow human being.

“I chalk it up to pressure,” the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said. “Sanders has never been on such a big stage before, and in the heat of the moment he cracked and behaved with nobility.”

“It was one of those moments where everyone in politics was like, ‘What was he thinking?’ ” Dorrinson added.

Carol Foyler, a veteran political operative, said that Sanders has one more debate, “at the most,” to prove that his respect gaffe was just that—a regrettable but forgivable slip of the tongue, not to be repeated.

“Bernie Sanders’s behavior towards Hillary Clinton Tuesday night has raised some grave questions about him in voters’ minds,” Foyler said. “If he treats people with decency and civility now, what kind of President would he be?”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...NzgxOTM2Njc4S0

Why is your source link so tiny? Lol, Borowitz

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Christian Taliban/American Supremacist/asshole tweet during the debate

I trust bernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador! #DemDebate

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/...iticus+USA+%29

[DarrinS]

Christian Taliban/American Supremacist/asshole tweet during the debate

I trust bernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador! #DemDebate

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/...iticus+USA+%29

Old. Besides, I don't know what's so racial about it. Some Koreans do eat dogs.

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Cringe Worthy Moment

Black lives matter question. Not until the 3rd candidate spoke (Webb) did he proclaim ALL LIVES MATTER


Look, Dems are the lesser of two evils when it comes to American foreign policy but domestically their values are cuckold. Liberal Euros dont even pander to ethnics this bad

[Spurminator]

The obvious plan was to bait responses about racism so he could play the Victim-of-Liberal-PC card. He needs the attention.

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Old. Besides, I don't know what's so racial about it. Some Koreans do eat dogs.

sure, Huck is your guy, so he gets a pass. Poor people eat what they can get, dogs, rats, racoons, squirrels, possums, horses. I suppose you trust the Christian Taliban like Huck with your tax dollars?

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sure, Huck is your guy, so he gets a pass. Poor people eat what they can get, dogs, rats, racoons, squirrels, possums, horses. I suppose you trust the Christian Taliban like Huck with your tax dollars?

I don't like Huckabee, but his joke isn't the least bit racist.

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sure, Huck is your guy, so he gets a pass. Poor people eat what they can get, dogs, rats, racoons, squirrels, possums, horses. I suppose you trust the Christian Taliban like Huck with your tax dollars?

Actually refugees in Dutch camps are complaining the food is boring and possibly not halal.

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DC insiders think Bernie Sanders lost the debate. Here's why they might be wrong.

1) After the first Republican debate in August, Marco Rubio was generally acclaimed asthe winner. Practically no one in the media thought Ben Carson had won, because his performance seemed so stylistically unimpressive. Yet it was Carson who suddenly surged in the polls, up to second place, where he currently remains. DC insiders totally missed it.

2) Big majorities of post-debate focus groups conducted by CNN, Fox News, and Fusionall judged Bernie Sanders to be the winner. Now, focus groups are hardly scientific — the Fox News one after the first GOP debate thought Donald Trump had collapsed, yet he actually went up in the polls afterward. Still, it's interesting that all three came to the same conclusion.

3) Sanders has risen to second place in primary polls by repeating a few basic themes: He wants to challenge the power of the wealthy, to take on Wall Street and corporations, and to make America more like the social democratic Nordic countries. He hit those themes hard, and clearly, throughout the debate — in political parlance, he was "on message."

4) Political commentators like me have been covering Sanders for months, and his message is old hat to us at this point. So we give him no credit for repeating those basic themes that have made him so popular on the left, and focus instead on moments where something "new" happens, like his awkward handling of the gun issue.

5) But many voters haven't been following the race so closely. Beforehand, a third of Democrats said they didn't yet know enough about Sanders to have an opinion on him. Even many of those who did know about him likely hadn't been exposed to him all that much. So when Sanders makes the case at length for why he's a democratic socialist, many of these voters might not have heard that before — and might like it.

6) One of Sanders's most important moments in the debate — his defense of Clintonand criticism of the media over the email issue — was generally scored by pundits as a victory for Clinton. My colleague Ezra Klein, for instance, suggested it showed Sanders didn't have the instinct for the jugular that will be necessary to take down the frontrunner.

7) But to Democratic voters, it could also speak to Sanders's character, and mark him as a different kind of politician, who's not interested in negative campaigning. Indeed, Fox News's focus group wildly praised Sanders for this — it was their favorite moment in the entire debate.

8) Sanders won the most new Facebook followers, according to data from Crowdtangle. He added more than 35,000, increasing his following by 2 percent, to 1.69 million. Clinton added about 18,000, increasing her following by 1 percent, to 1.54 million.

9) Sanders also dominated in Google search traffic of the candidates who were onstage. Political scientist John Sides wisely cautions that we have no idea why people were searching for Sanders, and what they might have thought of the results. Still, one of the biggest challenges for a non-frontrunner is to capture the interest of the public — and Sanders clearly did that.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore...tz=Etc/GMT%2B4

10) Overall, we won't know how or whether the debate moved the polls for some time. But over fifteen million people watched it — enough to make it easily the most-watched Democratic debate in history. And it's worth remembering that those millions of people might be impressed by very different things than DC insiders.

?http://www.vox.com/2015/10/14/9530603/bernie-sanders-debate

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Based on Last Night

1) Bernie
2) Hillary

3) O'Malley
4) Webb

5) Whoever that stump was

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biggest win for Bernie was the exposure, side by side with HRC.

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Bernie Won All the Focus Groups & Online Polls - So Why Is the Media Saying Hillary Won the Debate?

What the public wants out of a candidate and what the beltway press does appear to be two entirely different things.

Bernie Sanders by all objective measures won the debate. Hands down. I don’t say this as a personal analysis of the debate - the very idea of “winning” a debate is silly to me. I say this because based on the only objective metrics we have, online polls and focus groups, he did win. And it’s not even close.

Sanders won the CNN focus group,

the Fusion focus group, and

the Fox News focus group - in the latter, he even converted several Hillary supporters.

He won

the Slate online poll,

the CNN/Time online poll,

9News Colorado,

The Street online poll,

Fox5 poll,

the conservative Drudge online poll and

the liberal Daily Kos online poll.

There wasn’t, to this writer's knowledge, a poll he didn’t win by at least an 18 point margin.

http://www.alternet.org/media/bernie-won-all-focus-groups-online-polls-so-why-media-saying-hillary-won-debate?akid=13575.187590.19Pkhy&rd=1&src=newslette r1044066&t=2

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"the WSJ his new proposals would increase spending by $18 trillion over 10 years"

... 18 has been debunked by many sources. WSJ is political toilet paper,

LOL it hasn't been debunked. You posted a tt article that attempted to do so but failed miserably

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LOL it hasn't been debunked. You posted a tt article that attempted to do so but failed miserably

it's been debunked

[spurraider21]

it's been debunked

You Lie.

[Ignignokt]

Already better than listening to Cuckald Dump, Christie Christina, Jeb Bsh, Ted Cruz, Dr. Ben Coonson

nice try cucky. but we all know your party preps the bull 24/7.

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Based on Last Night

1) Bernie
2) Hillary

3) O'Malley
4) Webb

5) Whoever that stump was

I doubt he'll (#5) even be invited back.

[TheGreatYacht]

nice try cucky. but we all know your party preps the bull 24/7.

My party saved the economy, while yours is too busy pandering to dull WWE fans....

every verse on the bible is my favorite

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I liked O'Malley and Webb best, but they have no chance. Bernie says that makes the left moist, but his dream of turning America into Denmark or Sweden or (insert any uber white Euro socialist country here) is unhinged from reality.

As someone that voted Dem twice, I also liked Webb. Switched to Fox News post debate to see their reaction and they had that thinking tank segment: Room full of Democrats and they voice their thoughts. They basically agreed that Webb shouldn't be invited back. LOL, he was the only one that even mentioned White people/culture and picked up the Democratic Party fumble on the question of BlackLivesMatter


My reaction to Bernie
Tax the rich & give to the Middle Class - Okay okay, I'm listening
Bend over to the Poor - You are diluting your message
Suck off the Blacks - Go away bernie



I guarantee that Hillary will defeat Bernie. Sanders will carry the most vocal [Liberal] voices but Hillary was the most centered candidate on stage last night [beyond Webb who was ignored]. People will ultimately reference Bill being involved in some parameter & her experience in high positions of Power. Meanwhile Bernie will crumble under his cuckolding of any/everything Non-White.

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I doubt he'll (#5) even be invited back.

I dunno, Liberals didn't seem too keen on Webb. He was even blatantly ignored by the CNN Panel.

[Dancelot]

My party saved the economy, while yours is too busy pandering to dull WWE fans....

every verse on the bible is my favorite

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Texas Republican’s idiotic tweet: Jewish Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist – just like the Nazis

State Rep. Jason Villalba said it was “ridiculous” to say he compared the Democratic party to the fascist dictator party responsible for the 20th century’s most well-known massacre of Jewish people.

“That awkward moment when… 1. Bernie Sanders admits he’s a democratic socialist 2. Nazis were democratic socialists 3. America fought an entire world war to stop the advance of democratic socialists. Sincerely, sane Americans.”

Under it, Villalba wrote, “The modern Democrat Party is filled with Democratic Socialists and soft socialists. Is this where we are in America?”

Villalba admitted that the Nazis were in fact “national socialists,” not democratic socialists.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/texa...e+Raw+Story%29

[TheSanityAnnex]

CNN’s Double-Standards on Debates

For decades, mainstream U.S. news outlets have bent over backwards to appease conservatives and avoid the stigma “liberal media,” but there has been no similar accommodation for progressives, as Jeff Cohen notes about CNN’s handling of the upcoming Democratic debate.

By Jeff Cohen

At the CNN-sponsored Republican Party debate last month at the Reagan presidential library, one of the three panelists CNN selected to question the candidates was conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, affiliated with the proudly right-wing Salem Radio Network. But at Tuesday’s upcoming Democratic Party debate, CNN is not planning to include a single progressive advocate among its panel of four questioners.

It’s clear that who gets to pose questions has impact on the tenor of the debate. For example, Hewitt used September’s Republican debate to declare that President Obama’s “knees buckled” over Syria and that every Republican candidate was “more qualified than” Hillary Clinton.

Hewitt pressed Jeb Bush from the right over his comment about making sure guns are not in the hands of the mentally ill:

“Where does it go from what you said last week, how far into people’s lives to take guns away from them?”

Along with Hewitt, the panel at CNN’s GOP debate was composed of two journalists CNN presents as neutral or objective: CNN anchor Jake Tapper and CNN correspondent Dana Bash. (Hewitt’s appearance was reportedly part of an agreement by which CNN and the right-wing Salem Media company are teaming up on three GOP presidential debates.)

At CNN’s upcoming Democratic debate, the panel is to be composed of four journalists CNN presents as neutral: CNN’s Bash and three CNN anchors (Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, and Juan Carlos Lopez of CNN en Espanol.) Glaringly missing from this proposed lineup is an unabashed progressive advocate.

There are many qualified journalists for this seat — from respected progressive media ins utions that haven’t taken sides in the Democratic primaries (like The Nation or Mother Jones, to name just two).

Today, the online activism group RootsAction.org (which I cofounded) launched a one-sentence pe ion to CNN: “For the sake of basic fairness and balance, you should add to your panel an unapologetic progressive for Tuesday’s debate.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/10/0...ds-on-debates/

Double Standard for sure, and Anderson Cooper admits it. CNN is a joke, both debates should have been run the same.



Before the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library Sept. 16, CNN promised to stage what it called "actual debating."

"Is one of the goals for you … to spur more actual debating?" CNN's Brian Stelter asked debate moderator Jake Tapper a few days before the event. Stelter pointed to a moment in the August Fox News debate in which two candidates, Chris Christie and Rand Paul, had an extended and heated — and illuminating — exchange with each other.*

"That was my favorite moment from the debate," Tapper said. "Let's have as many of those as possible. So, yes, what the team and I have been doing is trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other, specific candidates on the stage, on issues where they disagree, whether it's policy or politics or leadership. Let's actually have them discuss and debate."


That was then. Now, another CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, will be moderating a debate, this time among Democrats, and he says there will be none of that raucous "actual debating" this time around.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2573943