Chris Wallace won't fact check Trump and Biden during the debate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: CNN

The presidential debates for the 2020 election kick off Tuesday in Cleveland, and many Americans are uncertain about what to expect. One thing is for sure: Fox News Sunday anchor and moderator Chris Wallace will not be tasked with fact-checking the candidates in real-time.

"We don't expect Chris or our other moderators to be fact checkers," Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., co-chair, The Commission on Presidential Debates, told CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "The minute the TV is off there will be plenty of fact checkers."

The topics for Tuesday's debate, selected by Wallace himself, include: Trump and Biden's records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election.

If one of the candidates says something incorrect onstage Tuesday, it is the other candidate's job to raise concern and essentially fact check live, Fahrenkopf said.

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[beachbumbob]

1. be up to Biden as expected to call out trumps lies everyttime face to face, actually

will work out better for Biden and democrats as he will sound and look like a leader not taking trumps bullshit

[Laelth]

2. Then Biden will have to spend a ton of time correcting Trump's lies.

I don’t like this development at all.

-Laelth

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Nearly All His Time

My suggestion is he start each turn with, "If I spend time telling everyone what was untrue about what my opponent just said, I won't have time to access the question at hand. So,..."
Just use a few seconds to point out that PINO is a liar, then move on.
That way he controls his own parts of the debate.

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. It's always been that way.

Fact checking isn't the moderator's job.

[StClone]

3. I've sort of changed my mind on Biden's debate tactics

For the most part ignore T-Wrecks lying and just make illustrations to the truths and what Biden has and will do for the good. BUT at times make very well-contrasted and evidentiary accounts of Ts extorting reality for his own gains.

[soothsayer]

4. Guess he'll have to start many sentences with, "The truth is..."

[marybourg]

20. I like: "That's the usual Trump lie. The truth is . . . "

[jaxexpat]

25. How about, "there you go again?"

[soothsayer]

26. I think I'd prefer reasonable, factual Joe to snarky Joe

But I’d have to see it.

[jaxexpat]

30. I just put that out there to remind the world of the snarky crap that Reagan did to Carter.

And became a favorite of the media in so doing. Not only NOT fact checking but getting a big surge in notoriety(and ratings) by casually dismissing the crucial points of his opponent with an off hand and inappropriate dismissal of the very sort of details he would miscue and screw up for 8 years. The christening of the USS Dumbing Down with chuckle-headed media accompaniment by the "teflon-for-ever" trio (CBS, NBC, ABC) was done and our national course charted to these dangerous waters.

But I too will hope "Factual Joe" can carry the night. As this time may be the last opportunity to stage-craft our way from the abyss.

[soothsayer]

31. That's the other prob -- I can't unhear Reagan's voice ha

[jaxexpat]

38. Ah, Reagan's an asshole trauma syndrome. RAATS.

Crippling the psyche of two generations and counting.

[GoneOffShore]

5. pmurT does the Gish Gallop and Shapiro Shuffle, along with 3D Disco.

Deflect, deny, denigrate.

Tough to keep track of the vacuous crap.

I’m like a rabbit suddenly trapped,
In the blinding headlights of vacuous crap.
....despite my derision,
Keeps firing off clichés with startling precision,
Like a sniper using bollocks for ammunition.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Tell Wallace he's in the pocket for Trump. If he objects, tell him: No Fact Checking! nt

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Trump spews lies and fact checks with more lies? What could go wrong? /nt

[yaesu]

8. so tRump can brag about all the Nobel peace prizes he never received. nt

[mucifer]

9. No way I am gonna watch that shit then. So each side will believe the "facts" they hear from

their candidate. Pure bullshit!

[stillcool]

10. how about lie checkers?..

it's up to the American people to figure out what a lie is and what is the truth, because 'the minute the tv is off there will be plenty of fact checkers'.. where? What a joke.

[Fla Dem]

11. Biden needs to be blunt. Whenever Trump lies, Biden should say, "Another lie from Mr. Trump"

"The truth is" and respond with his position on the subject. Or he could say"There he goes again, another lie."

[oldsoftie]

13. Yes.

[Mr.Bill]

16. "Another lie from Dumb Donny" n/t

[TwilightZone]

34. Childish name-calling would be a really dumb strategy.

The idea is to demonstrate the difference, not meet Trump in fifth grade.

[Mr.Bill]

35. Of course you're right.

But it would be fun just once.

[oldsoftie]

12. Fact checking is not the job of a debate moderator. We all know that.

[Raven123]

14. Fact-checking has it's limitations. Joe needs to make his own case clear.

Fact-checking Trump is a full-time job. Wallace knows it’s a waste of time and would feed into Trump’s desire for distraction, disruption and feed his whining about the unfair media. People are pretty tuned into the election this year. Joe just needs to be calm, and avoid his own tendency to stop in the middle of sentences to start new ones. Be clear, concise, and take no prisoners.

[marybourg]

19. The stopping in the middle of a sentence and starting a new one is a

tried and true tactic for squelching a stutter. He was taught to do this, it works, and it sounds a lot better than stuttering.

[Mr.Bill]

36. I was a stutterer myself and it takes a lot of work to get around it.

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A lot of it is expanding your vocabulary so when you sense a stutter coming on you can pick a synonym. Making that seamless and unnoticed takes years of work. I speak about 99% normal now, and it's not because stuttering just wears off. I've admired Joe Biden for it for a long time.

[Raven123]

42. Thanks for the info.. Then just don't stray from the point of the previous sentence.

[Roy Rolling]

15. The clock

The clock is Trump’s enemy, he likes to rant on and on and on about nothing. It isn’t because it’s deliberate, it’s because he can’t think quickly. A clock will cut him off, leaving him in mid-sentence.

Fact-checking will be subconscious, seeing Trump fumble will make him look untruthful and incompetent. Let Trump demonstrate himself how Biden is comparatively better.

Trumps devotees will be unmoved, but if anybody is still undecided it won’t be a good outing for Trump. He’s an over-the-hill reality-TV actor who is now in charge of casting decisions. He arrogantly selects himself for the role as a leading man, But Trump is way, way past his prime.

[Mr. Sparkle]

17. Thats disgusting!

[Sneederbunk]

18. Remember when Candy Crowley was criticized for fact checking Romney?

[IcyPeas]

21. whatever the question is Trump is just going to rif off his usual script

I can predict everything he is going to say already and so can we all.

[Lasher]

22. Chris Cuomo will do real time fact checking on CNN

I betcha

[Yeehah]

23. If any of the phony reporters from Fox "News" fact-checked a republican

they would burst into flames.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

24. WTF is trump TV host Wallace doing as a moderator...who made that asshole a moderator??

[Bayard]

27. I understand Biden refuting the lies

As long as Wallace strictly limits trump's response time.

[Rebl2]

28. I think

the news anchors should fact check trump in real time even if they interrupt the debate. I know that won’t happen, but they should do so right after the debate is over even if it takes ALL NIGHT!

[DallasNE]

29. Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr

Is a former Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Why is such a partisan in that position? No wonder the rules are doctored in Trump's favor. Why does everything have to be rotten to the core?

After the TV lights are off the audience (who the fact checking benefits) is dispersed so the lies are what gets remembered. Corruption is everywhere you turn.

[cstanleytech]

32. They want to give Trump free reign to spread as many lies as possible to the Republican base many

of whom are either to lazy or stupid to confirm what he might lie about so if course they won't fact check.
Fox has after all never been a legitimate news agency that fact checks any Republican and it never will be.

[andym]

37. Well, given how much Trump lies it would require most of the scheduled time

so it isn't practical. The networks should have a chyron with instant fact-checking-- not sure they are up to it though.

[Joe Bacon]

40. Did we expect anyone from 19th Century Fox to fact-check Trump?

Nope.

But I fully expect Wallace will do nothing but toss softballs at Trump.

[old guy]

41. Doesn't really bother me as I have no intention of watching.

All tRump has to do is walk on stage without falling and say one word without slurring and the debate is his. He will be very presidential for this and the media will swoon. No thanks.

[Karma13612]

43. He will bloviate,

Lie, deflect, rant and be incoherent as well.

This situation allows him to be off script which is dangerous.
You honestly think he is going to stand at his podium like an adult?

No, he is going to be as bad as 2016.