11 Sep 2024

But I wanted to focus in on the shameless bias of the moderators in favour of
Harris. The framing of questions to each candidate was far more hostile towards
Trump.

...

But whereas various nonsenses spouted by Trump were "fact-checked" by the
moderators, Harris's completely clueless propaganda was endorsed and reinforced.

Trump however ought to have been able to counter by talking of the purpose of
promoting domestic production and encouraging domestic industry and
agriculture. His inability to do so - and indeed to counterpunch with logical
refutation on anything - made this deeply unsatisfying watching.

...

All in all, extremely dispiriting. Harris came over as an entirely unprincipled
political operator who will adopt whatever positions serve her career, but is
rather more intellectually competent than previously expected. Trump came over
as a loose cannon which nobody has loaded.

As with Starmer, there is no doubt that Harris is the Deep State shoo-in
candidate, and the priming of the debate in her favour is hardly unexpected. It
does require an effort of textual analysis to pin it down, and I hope I have
given you a start on that.
-- Cont'd at https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/that-harris-trump-debate/