i fell asleep early

[barbtries]

and would like to watch the full debate, but cannot seem to find a link to it anywhere. If you have any ideas, please let me know. thank you!

[JI7]

1. i don't think you missed anything .

[barbtries]

3. thanks.

i'm going to try and stay up tonight though so i can see if Castro knocks my socks off again

[Hortensis]

2. Here you go. The questions all alone tell you most of what happened,

and this site shows them on the screen, one after another. Extremely revealing from, as another article described, "...conflict-starved moderators..." Our candidates had 30 to 60 seconds to answer these trolling-for-attacks questions, with many earnest answers cut off.

CNN blew any chance at worthwhile debate, but never forgetting 2016 we should fully expect that that's what CNN's upper management/owners intended.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/cnns-democratic-debate-questions-were-embarrassing.html

[Cha]

4. "...controversy crazed moderators..."

Well put!

Mahalo, Hortensis

[Hortensis]

6. Yes, imo, Slate's Ashley Feinberg's takeaway is exactly on point.

CNN's "debate" served up what amounts to a conservative hit job. More from the article linked above:

CNN’s Debate Questions Were for Losers: Highlights of an all-night attack ad.

... And so the moderators peppered the candidates with questions that were evidently designed to produce bad answers in the short format. Question after question was framed up from the ideological perspective of a Heritage Foundation intern or otherwise crafted as a gotcha to generate a 15-second clip for Republican attack ads down the line.

On the one hand, it was a gross display of cynical political theater that wasted everyone’s time. On the other, congratulations to CNN’s Chris Cillizza on what was undoubtedly a phenomenal night of stunted politics-like content. Here, straight from the screen, are the questions CNN decided America needed to hear.

[Cha]

8. Thanks! I guess this display of

a political hit job from a couple of cnn pundits should help tonight's candidates in knowing what to expect, anyway.

[Hortensis]

9. Yes. Last night's I'm sure weren't too surprised either, or

totally helpless. The constraints of the structure and contents of the questions did keep them from being able to fight effectively, though. Viewers expected them to answer the many questions which were themselves attacks designed to keep them all on the defensive, and offensive. CNN "ran the clock" by filing the program with that stuff, and candidates typically had virtually no time to turn discussion to things that needed to be said.

[samnsara]

5. you did better than i did..i couldnt even find them.

[barbtries]

7. CNN streamed it free.

but i was sleeping. Now it seems they are not rerunning it free and all I'm finding are clips and commentary, which I don't really care to hear. I'd rather make up my own mind about who won.