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2016 Postmortem

Vattel

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4. Even worse, the MSM do exactly that all too often.

Reply to stillwaiting (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:30 PM

Oct 2015

Remember when the MSM touted Reagan as beating Mondale in a debate because he made a good joke about age? It didn't matter that Reagan had nothing to say of any substance.

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So I talked to some people I know [View all] LWolf Oct 2015 OP

Sounds pretty on-target to me. n/t winter is coming Oct 2015 #1

I can see why they had those impressions. Vattel Oct 2015 #2

It seems many judge the debate based on who gave the best SALES performance. stillwaiting Oct 2015 #3

Even worse, the MSM do exactly that all too often. Vattel Oct 2015 #4

I overwhelmingly reject the way these people judge the "winners" of a debate. stillwaiting Oct 2015 #6

Words matter artislife Oct 2015 #7

The idea Clinton was solid much less won and even less dominated the foreign policy discussion TheKentuckian Oct 2015 #5

That was my take as well. LWolf Oct 2015 #8