{"id":88433,"date":"2024-10-02T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88433"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:38:58","slug":"in-case-you-were-wondering-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88433","title":{"rendered":"In Case You Were Wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And <em>that, <\/em>ladies and gentlemen, is why Tim Walz ducked all meaningful debates in the 2022 cycle.  <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">LOL!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/akZj2joDsS\">pic.twitter.com\/akZj2joDsS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gunther Eagleman\u2122 (@GuntherEagleman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1841416322334195801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights of the evening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vance calling the moderators on their fairly naked bias<\/strong>:  After the moderators used their interstitial bits to finish Walz&#8217;s point for him while trying to &#8220;fact-check&#8221; Vance, Vance finally had enough, and beat them down pretty brutally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Misspoke&#8221;:  <\/strong>Oh, yeah.  Bias notwithstanding, the mods asked Walz to answer MPR&#8217;s reporting that he was <em>not<\/em>, in fact, in Hong Kong during the Tienanmen Square massare.  And it was pretty glorious:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When they ask you about your trip to Hong Kong: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EK6iHZUtdv\">pic.twitter.com\/EK6iHZUtdv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrageDustin\/status\/1841292459319443469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And his first answer was &#8220;I was born into a middle class family&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, really &#8211; although he&#8217;s spent his past eighteen years telling people every detail of that time in China, down to what he ate and which Communist-logo sweatshirt Gwen wore, he slammed on the brakes and phumphered away claiming that he was old knucklehead and had &#8220;misspoken&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:  <\/strong>Vance was able to shred Walz in detail on a few issues, including his signing of Minnesota&#8217;s radical abortion laws &#8211; which put Walz back on his heels (and showed us that Tom Emmer was in fact, a pretty effective debate prepper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the #1 highlight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walz was weird; Vance was not<\/strong>:  Walz had his moments &#8211; but Vance never lost his cool, stayed on message.  Walz did, and did not.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/10\/j-d-vances-big-night\/\">Vance won on style <em>and <\/em>substance<\/a>, and it wasn&#8217;t even close.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this may have been the first Vice Presidential debate of my lifetime that might have an actual impact on the election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fingers crossed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Tim Walz ducked all meaningful debates in the 2022 cycle. 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