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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC talking about Walker exceeding expectations
Just tuned in and caught a few seconds. Says the bar was very low for him and he did well based on that.
How about not setting the bar low ? (this is not directed at those discussing it as they are just discussing what is being reported).
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,026 posts)Is memes of him standing slack-jawed with his junior g-man badge.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)then you'll claim he gave you one regardless of how he actually performed. Facts aren't playing into your decision.
Low expectations for clearly unqualified candidates are built in.
They have to be.
PCIntern
(25,553 posts)bullimiami
(13,095 posts)so id say he limbo'd right down to the low bar.
DFW
(54,399 posts)We don't last long if our upper deliberative body is made up of morons like Tommy Tuberville and Marsha Blackburn. In that case, we might as well put forty Senate Republicans into cold storage, have the nine who can put a sentence together on their own be allowed to speak on the floor, and have Moscow Mitch just vote for himself and cast the forty votes he never ever has to worry about. It wouldn't make a nickel's worth of difference.
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)I think Walker may be smarter than Lauren Boebert.
mcar
(42,334 posts)for going so easy on Walker. He pointed out that they were harder on Warnock for his personal issues than they were on Walker. As I pointed out last night, the moderator never followed up or pushed Walker when he claimed the report of him paying for a girlfriend's abortion was a lie. Never said "what about the receipts?" Nothing.
I'm not happy with some of the reported changes from CNN but MSNBC can be just as bad when it comes to horse race politics.
Elessar Zappa
(14,000 posts)I still enjoy CNN for the most part. I honestly havent seen this rightward turn that keeps being reported.
mcar
(42,334 posts)want a "Horse Race." They also stubbornly stick to the idea that reporting has to be equal, so they end up holding Democrats to a higher standard. It is very frustrating but I see/hear it on MSNBC all the time too.
Elessar Zappa
(14,000 posts)They want ratings.
brush
(53,784 posts)low expectations before the debate was "genius". I almost threw up, and then again when no one on the panel didn't immediately jump in and say, "hold the eff on with that obvious republican talking point, no way is Walker's name ever to be put in a sentence with the word genius.
I was totally disgusted.
WarGamer
(12,445 posts)LMAO...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)It would give him the aura of statesmanship that he so richly deserves.
onenote
(42,704 posts)There have been plenty of posts suggesting he would be barely coherent.
Cha
(297,275 posts)That's awfully GD Stuiod.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)The expectation was that he was going to blow it 25 feet out his ass.
That he only blew it 19 feet out his ass is...well, exceeding expectations.