Joe Biden, His Fraudulency

Chris Wallace of Fox News got perturbed the other day when HHS Secretary Alex Azar did not refer to Joe Biden as 'President-Elect.'

There's a better term for Joe Biden, His Fraudulency, which actually dates back to the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States. 

Back then, as is now, the election in 1876 was disputed. The Democrats referred to Hayes as 'His Fraudulency' and 'Rutherfraud'.

Joe Biden and Chris Wallace

 This has to be the funniest post-debate meme photo out there.

Trump-Biden One: Closest Thing To A True Debate Ever

Well, the debate tonight between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden was certainly a far cry from the Reagan-Carter debate of 1980.

If anyone wanted to see the closest thing to a true debate, rather than a glorified press conference, this was it. Both men "took it" to each other, sometimes bordering on fierceness.

Moderator Chris Wallace showed his bias against President Trump when he would admonish Trump for his interruptions, but not when Biden interrupted. Wallace is being skewered on this on social media.

Trump was being Trump. Since he was essentially debating both Wallace and Biden, I can understand why he had to interrupt to get his points in. Trump, I felt, was more effective when he held back and let Biden ramble on. I wished he didn't interrupt so much. But Biden is not off the hook on that either.

Biden rarely directly answered the questions put to him. He would have be far better off if he showed respect, if not to Trump, but at least to the office. Telling Trump to "shut up" and calling him a "clown" hurt his cause. He came off as a nasty old man. He clearly lost his cool in telling the President to "shut up." Not good. He also talked over the President while he was speaking, but Wallace hardly rebuked him. 

Still, despite the bias by Wallace, this was the closest thing to seeing a true debate we've ever seen on television for the presidency since the invention of television. Each man gave as good as he got.

I don't think too many minds were changed tonight. It'll be interesting to hear El Rushbo's take tomorrow. I'll be adding the more interesting reactions as I see them.

Meanwhile, Rush's brother David Limbaugh posted:

I don’t quite understand why some on our side expect Trump to have a personality transplant at every tense moment in the campaign. He is what he is. he’s a warrior. But as far as governance — OMG he’s been outstanding.

Actor James Woods posted:

 Donald Trump is a blood and guts gladiator. Joe Biden is a tired old husk.

Commentator Mark Levin:

Biden got away with endless lies and cheap shots.  The questions were mostly asked from a left perspective  ("the science of climate change," what's wrong with "critical race theory" training," etc.) and Biden went unchallenged by the moderator far too often.   For example, for months Biden was silent about the riots, he has no real plan for the coronavirus, he supports public funding for abortion, etc.  I'd also be interested in seeing the time allocation as well as it certainly seemed to me that Biden had more time.  The president had to force his way into the discussion at times, he was quite good on specifics and getting his issues into the debate.  Biden unleashed repeated personal attacks, including resorting to name-calling,  like "clown," "racist," "shut up," etc.  And Biden looked 10-years older than his 77 years.  More thoughts tomorrow.

  

Conservative Dana Loesch wrote on Twitter:

Never allow Chris Wallace to moderate another debate again. This was an absolute shit show. The viewer wasn’t even a secondary concern.

Bill O'Reilly:

Chris Wallace doesn’t have the facts at his command about the Ukraine payments made to Biden’s son that Trump brought up. Big mistake by Mr. Wallace.

2016's Last Debate

Tonight's debate ended minutes ago.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced each other in debate for the last time during this campaign. There were far less fireworks tonight than in the last debate that had a townhall format. This one had the same format as the first.

My reaction is that much of it was generally a rehashing of prior debate points by both candidates, particularly by Hillary Clinton. She did not present anything new. Trump did present some things that hadn't been brought up previously: WikiLeaks, the Democrat financing of violent thugs to attend Trump rallies and the "pay to play" schemes of the Clinton Foundation. Clinton tried her best to not answer questions on any of them. WikiLeaks was brought up sufficiently enough, in my view, to cause curious people to look up the revelations that have come out.

This debate was largely even between the two with Trump getting in better jabs. Trump missed a great opportunity to go after Clinton for her treatment of the women her husband abused when she attacked him for Trump's alleged mistreatment of women. Hillary was the "attack dog" against them when her husband's "bimbo eruptions" took place. Trump could and should have pointed that out. A sample group of undecided voters were not enthralled with Clinton's rant about Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, they were put off from it.

I thought Fox News' Chris Wallace handled this debate better than any of the previous moderators. He asked both tough questions and kept the debate in better control and admonished the studio audience to keep quiet several times.

For tonight, I would give Trump a slight edge. If he needed a knockout punch, he didn't provide one. But, as I said, he got in more and better jabs than did Clinton.