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Chris Cuomo Torches CBS Moderators for Fact-Checking, Cutting Vance’s Mic

NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo chastised CBS News vice presidential debate moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan for inserting themselves into the conversation rather than simply letting the scene play itself out.

Cuomo gave his feedback after the Tuesday night debate — between Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) and Senator JD Vance (R-OH) — was over, and he focused on one exchange between Vance and the moderators. In that specific instance, despite announcing prior to the debate that they would not fact-check the candidates, they had opted to interrupt and challenge Vance anyway — and when he rebutted that challenge, he was in the right.

Watch:

“When they were talking, at one point, Vance wanted to correct something about how Haitians got into this country and he was right and the moderators wouldn’t let him correct it,” Cuomo said. “It’s very interesting.”

Cuomo then rolled a clip from the debate showing the exchange in question and argued that the moderators had disrupted what could have been an informative conversation between the two candidates and had instead made themselves the story.

Both Brennan and O’Donnell repeatedly interrupted Vance and talked over him, trying to move on to the next topic. “We’re going to turn now to the economy, thank you,” O’Donnell said.

“The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check, and since you’re fact-checking me, I think it’s important to say what’s actually going on.”

When he went on to lay out the facts, they interrupted him again. “Thank you, Senator … thank you, Senator, for describing the legal process …” Brennan interjected, adding, “We have so much to get to, Senator.”

When Walz cut in briefly, Brennan immediately stopped talking so that he could be heard, but when Vance pushed back, they cut off the candidates’ microphones.

“Vance was right, okay? There’s nuance to it, but the bigger problem is why he was moved on? ‘We’ve got so much to get to.’ Says who?” Cuomo objected. “What is the schedule here? You have a list of topics? That’s not what this is about. It’s about how the American people can access these two men and the two theories and the narratives and you’ve got to let them have their speak, because now you created a story where you’re the problem.”

READ 20 COMMENTS
  • Wes says:

    CBS and ABC moderators are not objective facilitators hosting the debates but rather they have become participants in the debate choosing to support one candidate over the other. This demonstrates how these left-wing media outlets have no credibility because they have radically biased views!

  • Don says:

    What would you expect from the Communist Broadcast Network?

  • Jeffrey Bodine says:

    I believe that each guest on the debate should be allowed to pick one person/moderator to be asking the questions and it be just 2 moderators no more. You put a third moderator in and it will lean one way. This should definitely be in the Presidential debates and each party should be able to ask half of the questions or submit them a day before the debates. Let the party’s ask the questions for the opposite party as that would make sure that the tuff questions are asked. The moderators should get 25 questions and they have to ask the questions the way they are written and no different. And make sure that there’s no earring speakers and no way for anyone to help the people debating on stage. If it comes down to it let there only be the cameramen and sound people and the lighting people besides the moderators and the debaters and the responsibility for the running of everything should be split evenly between the parties. That, to me, sounds like a way that will never happen because it would make it too hard to protect the debaters from hard questions and they wouldn’t be able to cut the mikes of the other side and they could only ask the questions and cannot make statements or answer the questions for their own people.

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