Afew days after that historic presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I thought I would try foreign-media sources to get their reaction. Mostly it was to get away from the hysterical screaming of America’s liberal media. The Irish Times’ Inside Politics podcast brought on its Washington, D.C., correspondent, who along with the host and another political reporter began discussing what they had seen.
There was an “absolute meltdown across liberal media,” host Hugh Linehan noted, before speculating that we would not know the full story behind the debate “until the books come out.” And there was an attempt at formal analysis, how the televisual format did Biden no favors. There was some shock that Biden’s debate preppers hadn’t practiced out of him his “slack-jawed expression.” And then in an attempt at fairness, they noted that Donald Trump’s answers had been aggressively fact-checked and found wanting. But very quickly, it was agreed across the panel that the spectacle was “difficult to watch.” Donald Trump was standing next to someone “not really in the room.” Someone who was “a frail, elderly man.”
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