Wednesday October 2, 2024; 11:11 AM EDT
- Vance behaved as if this was a gotcha moment. He called out the journalist for fact checking when the rules of the debate said that they wouldn’t be doing that sort of fact checking.#
- A less corrupt and dishonest politician would have noticed that the gotcha moment was actually when the journalist pointed out his intentional deception about large numbers of legal residents of Springfield, Ohio.#
- Called out? No problem, he had a cloud of jargony details to cloak the issue in, all ready to go. He may not have Trump’s (for some audiences) magnetism, but he lies much prettier than Trump lies.#