Those of us on the conservative/libertarian side of the political spectrum understand how unfair presidential and vice-presidential debates can be, and as evidence, we need to look no further than the September 10th debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, in which Trump was tag-teamed by Kamala Harris and debate "moderators" Davie Muir and Linsey Davis, both of ABC News. These two... people gave one of the most appallingly biased, unfair, and partisan performances by any moderator(s) in the history of presidential debates. The VP debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, hosted by CBS and "moderated" by Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, is unlikely to be any better. Unless I miss my guess, JD Vance will be fending off attacks from Walz as well as the moderators, but I have a funny feeling he'll do all right.

As for poor old Tim Walz, he of the clean pink hands and pristine flannel shirts, he's been suffering under the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune the last few days, and the Democrats, fearing the worst likely, are "managing expectations."

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Even so, the legacy media is, well, the legacy media, and we can count on them to carry water for the Democrats in any such debate. This begs the question: What would it take to get CBS, ABC, NBC, and the balance of the legacy media to admit that Tim Walz came out of this thing the loser? Well, I have some thoughts.

1. Tim Walz actually drools down his shirt on stage. This is something we'd be more inclined to expect from Joe Biden, and we have to allow that Tim Walz is sharper than Joe Biden, but that is setting the bar so low that you'd need a DSRV to find it. But such a display might force the most partisan moderators — and we certainly have seen some of the most partisan moderators — to admit that Tim Walz has lost it.
2. Tim Walz's forehead reflects the stage lights into the moderator's eyes, blinding them and making it impossible to read their notes with all the "gotcha" questions they had written down to zing JD Vance with.
3. Tim Walz has a Nixonian sweating breakdown. Nobody likes overly sweaty dudes.
4. A sudden beam of blindingly bright light illuminates JD Vance on the stage, following which his suit falls away to reveal stunning red robes; he rises into the air and reveals himself to actually be the Roman god Mars, God of War and Protector of the Republic, who then announces that he has come down from Olympus to recognize the United States as the heir to Rome and that we are now under his eternal protection.

Short of this? Expect the legacy media to be singing the praises of Tim Walz, no matter how incoherent he is, no matter how factually challenged his statements are, no matter how nervous he appears; he will be proclaimed to be a reincarnation of Cicero and the most brilliant VP candidate in history. That assessment will hold until Election Day, and if the Harris/Walz ticket loses, maybe — just maybe — the legacy media, as part of their post-mortem, may re-evaluate this performance.

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