National Review’s Rich Lowry and Andrew C. McCarthy On “Just How Bad Was ABC/Disney On Tuesday Night?”

Two of the most respected, longest serving voices in the world of traditional, mainstream conservativism are National Review’s Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry and former SDNY prosecutor-turned-author and columnist Andrew C. McCarthy. They co-host “The McCarthy Report” podcast which is among my “must listens (as is NRO’s The Editors” which Rich hosts as well. They joined me today to review the debate Tuesday night with a focus on moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis and the brass at ABC and Disney. (Disney owns ABC.)

As I note in the interview below, I have co-moderated five GOP presidential primary debates with big networks as the representative of Salem Media –four with CNN in 2015-16, and one with NBC this past November and I know how these...

The Tide Turns…

…But I wonder if it was ever really where they said it was.  The host is opening the show, as I write, about the fact that as yesterday wore on people started to realize that Harris may not have walked away with the debate victory everybody said it was.  The host focuses on the fact that “the fix was in” with the moderators.  Later in the day yesterday outlets like the NYTimes and BBC released stories with headlines like “

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Immoderate “Moderators,” A Lost Temper and Humiliation

Not a debate, a circus.  OK, did not watch – too late, too silly and debates are usually just spin fodder anyway.  Been reading and listening for a while now.  It seems to be universal opinion that Trump had a bad night.  But in all the reading that is a very superficial analysis.  The moderators were biased beyond biased, and Harris did not look all that good either.

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