Some of the blame for CBS News’s chaotic, messy Democratic Party primary debate Tuesday night can be laid at the feet of the party itself — to a degree, CBS was depicting the chaos and mess of a pa…
’s chaotic, messy Democratic Party primary debate Tuesday night can be laid at the feet of the party itself — to a degree, CBS was depicting the chaos and mess of a party badly divided in the midst of a bruising campaign. But a share of ignominy also goes to CBS itself, which botched its time in the spotlight in part by insisting that it, and not the candidates, deserved that spotlight.
The debate’s time restrictions were imposed in part to toggle at random between a suite of topics that jumped randomly and at times mindlessly: Was it worth cutting off derailing, say, Elizabeth Warren on the topic of student debt in order to allow time, later, for King to ask Michael Bloomberg if New Yorkers are “living longer because of your policies” on oversized sodas and public smoking? That question seems to represent, in miniature, the odd lean of this debate, at times seemingly designed...
A debate in which the candidates met one another in hostility and viciousness might have served its newsgathering purpose more effectively by meeting them in turn with clarity. Even in asking the candidates about their “personal mottoes” in the woebegone not-quite-final segment , King could not restrain herself from talking over the prolix but deeply felt statements of Amy Klobuchar and of Joe Biden.
This, again, isn’t all on the candidates. Some of the questions were intended as quick hits on Sanders. Others seemed apparently intended as simple random toggles to the next thing, sacrificing ample opportunity for the conversation to push past first-order insults. The candidates wanted to dig in, and when — rarely — granted time to do so, managed to make real points.
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