to convince America that this debate was a referndudm on Biden’s, and not Trump’s fitness for office?
Their attempt to reframe the narrative will be one of the actual stories deduced from the debate debacle–beware of the initial hysteria ginned up on cue by custodians of conventional wisdom.
In part because of their hunger for ratings above all else, the corporate media attaches much more importance to debates than to actual presidential performance, as Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out last night.
And because their world is so self-referential they believe televised debates mean more to the electorate than they actually do.
And besides, does the punditry think that America that didn’t see that Trump, more than always, is an obstreperous, ignorant, dishonest blowhard? As well as, as Biden did remind them, a convicted felon.