Title : The effort to rescue Biden from the demand to debate continues apace.
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The effort to rescue Biden from the demand to debate continues apace.
I was just talking about this a couple weeks ago, when WaPo had a column "It’s time to rethink the presidential debates." The columnist, I said, was "only proposing that the debates take place in a TV studio with no audience, but I expect to see a push to eliminate the debates. Not campaigning has been working well for Biden, and not debating is another step in the do-nothing game. Will he look worse doing the debate or worse avoiding the debate? I think the press will do what it can to make him look especially principled, lofty, and judicious as he declines to appear in the presence of the orange monster."And now we've got Thomas Friedman in the NYT, with "Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless …/Here are two conditions the Democrat should set." It's not an outright argument to keep Biden out of the debates, but that's where it's headed. Friedman begins with his "worry":
I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump. He should do it only under two conditions. Otherwise, he’s giving Trump unfair advantages.The first condition has nothing to do with the nature of the debate. It's just a demand that Trump release his tax returns, so that just seems like generating an excuse not to debate. Friedman tries to make this demand relate to the debate by saying that Biden has released his tax returns and that was "gifting Trump something he can attack." It's not a level playing field, you see.
The second condition is a ridiculous proposal — "a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates." Friedman imagines that these beings would — "10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. That way no one in that massive television audience can go away easily misled."
Don't let people be "easily misled" when they can difficultly misled. Bring on the experts! And make them work under breakneck pressure and announce truths before the deadline.
Friedman pronounces it "incredibly sad" that we need to "make truth-telling an explicit condition," but such are the times in which we live. Trump times. It's just not fair, we're told, that Biden should "have to spend a majority of his time correcting Trump before making his own points." I read between the lines: It's just not good for Biden to have to understand and communicate in real time about the flaws in whatever might happen to be said by Trump.
Put Biden to the test! Here Friedman is openly talking about how worried he is that Biden can perform in the debate setting. Either Biden must have the assistance of an expert team typing out a crawl text along the bottom of the screen or Biden shouldn't set foot on the debate stage at all. How pathetically weak! And this at a time when many — most? all? — of us wonder if Biden has what it takes mentally to be President! I will interpret the failure to debate as a concession that Biden is mentally deficient and better off hiding out and taking whatever hits he'll get for not proving his ability. Certainly, Washington Post and NYT columnists will bend over backwards to say that Biden is really smart doing this and it's highly honorable to refuse to dignify Trump by standing next to him and talking right to him.
That is not a good way for Biden to reintroduce himself to the American people. And, let’s not kid ourselves, these debates will be his reintroduction to most Americans, who have neither seen nor heard from him for months if not years.Garner!
Because of Covid-19, Biden has been sticking close to home, wearing a mask and social distancing.... [T]he three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever....
So Biden needs to make Trump pay for [the debates] in the currency of transparency and fact-checking — universal principles that will level the playing field for him and illuminate and enrich the debates for all citizens.If only we could have a Committee of Universal Principles to level everything, we citizens could sing and dance and play in a world of illumination and richness.
Of course, Trump will stomp and protest and say, “No way.”He'll stomp. Like that giant baby he is. Friedman laughs at the orange fool caught in Friedman's clever trap: "Fine. Let Trump cancel." He imagines the American people would say that Trump is the one who is refusing to debate. Trump must accept the Friedman conditions!
That kind of debate and only that kind of debate would be worthy of voters’ consideration and Biden’s participation.Imagine thinking it sounds lofty and wise for a columnist to issue an order: Joe, stay in your basement.
Otherwise, Joe, stay in your basement.
These imperious columnists must love themselves, and I'm sure they have plenty of readers who are applauding the grandeur of Joe, stay in your basement. But I say we need to see Joe perform in real time, on his feet, intensely challenged. He cannot weasel out.
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