Somehow the NY Times site sent me to the Oct 3 fact checks instead of today’s. Here are today’s.
See here:
The hosts on the cable news channel friendliest to President Obama, MSNBC, groped to find anything friendly to say after the debate on Wednesday night.
Liberal hosts like Ed Schultz were taken aback by what they thought was a weak performance by Mr. Obama. Mr. Schultz, who earlier said he was stunned that Mr. Obama was “off his game,” later threw up his arms and asked, “Where was the president tonight?”
His exasperated colleague Chris Matthews said, “Obama should watch MSNBC.” Mr. Matthews said he felt that Mr. Obama went into the debate “disarmed” and suggested that he would learn something by watching his show, “Hardball,” and MSNBC’s other programs.
“He would learn something about this debate,” Mr. Matthews said. “There’s a hot debate going on in this country. You know where it’s been held? Here on this network is where we’re having the debate. We have our knives out. We go after the people and the facts. What was he doing tonight? He went in there disarmed!”
Or…
Was President Obama surprisingly flat?
Even Stephanie Cutter, the deputy campaign manager for the president, acknowledged that Mr. Romney won the debate on style points, saying so in an interview on CNN.
Mr. Obama has a reputation for being professorial to a fault. During the four years of his presidency, Mr. Obama has often gotten lost in the weeds during town hall meetings or at White House press conferences.
The president who showed up at the debate was similar to the one who Americans have seen day-in and day-out for the last several years.
These are comments are not about tonight’s debate right? I remember hearing them after the first debate (Wed night).
The link to tonight’s fact-checking shows the Fishwrap of Record to be every bit as we’d expect… Pravda reborn…
So far most of what I’m seeing when I click that link is pro Obama spin. There was one claiming repealing Obamacare would increase the deficit by citing CBO numbers, failing to mention the CBO was fed underlying economic assumptions by the Democrats and can only calculate results based on the assumptions they’re given, no matter how ridiculous those are. Another one showed opinion polls of US approval rating in the world, showing the wave of adulation Obama’s election brought and the slow steady decline since. (interestingly Israel is not included in that graph. Wonder why?)
The worst one I’ve seen is hem claiming the apology tour is false. They claim he wasn’t apologizing for “american values” yeah whatever. Tell that to the film maker whose first amendment rights you blamed your failures on.
There are countless others, but I’d say it’s even at best.
I actually watched the debate with my son, 8th grader. It was good exposure for him; he learned a lot.
Obama seemed kind of twitchy and b-tchy about stuff, snide remarks about jobs shipped overseas and investing China. Romney seemed fairly calm, had some knowledgeable straight moments.
Both guys: WAY too much cutting in on the other. That is NOT a debate, in my opinion, but more like semi-chaos.
I wonder what the undecided voters will retain. It’s like a vector math exercise: which component of the semi-chaos gets picked out by the undecided voter eigenvector.