Is There Anything These Manly Men Won’t Whine About? – Esquire

Is There Anything These Manly Men Won’t Whine About?  Esquire

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On Wednesday, the Commission on Presidential Debates named its moderators for the three scheduled debates between Joe Biden and El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. From ABC News:

Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” will host the first debate on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The second debate will be moderated by Steve Scully, the senior executive producer and political editor at C-SPAN. It will be held Thursday, Oct. 15 in Miami, Florida. Scully was a back-up moderator for all of the presidential debates in 2016…The third debate, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, will be moderated by Kristen Welker, a White House correspondent and anchor at NBC News, on Thursday, Oct. 22.

The announcement was greeted by the president’s campaign with the cool, sweet reason to which we have become accustomed.

“These are not the moderators we would have recommended if the campaign had been allowed to have any input. Some can be identified as clear opponents of President Trump, meaning Joe Biden will actually have a teammate on stage most of the time to help him excuse the radical, leftist agenda he is carrying. One thing is sure: Chris Wallace’s selection ensures that Biden will finally see him face-to-face after dodging his interview requests. That is, if Biden actually shows up,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said.

Is there nothing about which this these manly men will not whine like an unruly passel of Veruca Salts? At the beginning of August, the president*’s campaign put out a list of possible moderators, and it was hilarious. The list included Hugh Hewitt, Christian anchordude David Brody, and half the Fox News evening lineup. It’s time to set an over/under number on how many debates actually will happen. These guys don’t want to work the refs. They want to hire their own.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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