God help me, I watched all of the debate tonight. I’m not sure why, but I did, and I’ll say something about it in an overall sense tomorrow. It occurs to me, though, that one moment after the debate sums up everything that has gone wrong with this country over the last N years.<\/p>\n
I watched on PBS, so as to get the minimum possible amount of wanker punditry, but the amount was not zero, and they had Mark Shields and David Brooks commenting on the debate immediately afterward. One of them– I don’t recall which– said (approximately) of the overall tone:<\/p>\n
\nThese two acted like they were having a real debate, and talked about issues the whole time<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And he said it like that was a bad thing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
On PBS<\/strong>, for God’s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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