BTRTN: See That Shiny Timepiece? Kamala Harris Just Cleaned Donald Trump's Clock.
Born To Run The Numbers provides its overnight analysis of the Presidential Debate.
https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2024/09/11/btrtn-see-that-shiny-timepiece-kamala-harris-just-cleaned-donald-trumps-clock/
Excerpts: "Last night, in relentless two minute salvos, Kamala Harris cleaned Donald Trump’s clock. Crushed him. Baited him. Toyed with him. But more than that, she revealed him. She revealed him to be a poser, a weakling, a lazy person who had no facts to support his hallucinatory assertions, a man who was used to getting away with making up stuff, believing – like Goebbels – that if you just repeat the same lie often enough and loud enough, it will magically become true...
"Over and over, Kamala Harris teed Donald Trump up and watched him take the bait, throwing him off topic, triggering his anger, and causing him to populate a full railroad yard with lost trains of thought. In the split screen, you’d then see her watch in mild bemusement as Trump squandered his two minutes of air-time in defensive, reactive, and unsubstantiated bloviation. The powerful visual told the story of who was in command...She took down the bully, and then smiled pleasantly – relaxed and enjoying the evening — as Trump flopped about frantically, helplessly, and increasingly desperate, like a freshly-caught fish in the bottom of a boat.
"For one, gleaming, magical evening, we did not have to search for West Wing reruns to see Aaron Sorkin-grade rhetoric flowing in brilliantly cadenced rhythms, as Kamala Harris piled damning phrase upon damning insight, always vigilant to pivot with fifteen seconds left on her clock to remind viewers that she was only in the fight to be 'for the people,' to turn the page on bitter division, and to secure a better future for all Americans.
"Let us pause for a moment and add that David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News gave their counterparts at CNN a lesson in journalistic standards. Muir and Davis were obviously thoroughly prepared for the most egregious of Trump’s deceits, and they did not allow Trump to use their television network to spread deceit. One only hopes that Jake Tapper and CNN learned a lesson in broadcast journalism from the ABC team..."