# \*\*\*Join the SDMB panel of experts for live debate coverage - 9/26/2016\*\*\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 26, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946 "2016-09-26T17:39:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/41 "2016-09-27T00:34:52Z")
I do think we’ll see some of Trumph the Insult Comic Dog. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/42 "2016-09-27T00:36:18Z")
Got some red wine ready. I swore that this was the week I’d go back to the gym and lay off the booze – not to be I guess. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/43 "2016-09-27T00:37:18Z")
Watching MNF. Is roughing the passer on a flea-flicker a BS penalty? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/44 "2016-09-27T00:39:54Z")
Okay, if we can get people to leave the bar area and take their seats please. We’re about 20 minutes from starting. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/45 "2016-09-27T00:42:19Z")
The debate chairmen are warning the audience to keep their mouths shut. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/46 "2016-09-27T00:42:22Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Starting with a pretty good local amber ale. I figure if I need the hard stuff, there’s always the bottle of aged mescal. Got some mescal tucked away, too (I used to live in Oaxaca) … probably will break it out on Election Night. Russ Feingold was very sweet with my 5-year-old son. We biked back home, Mom cooked us some delicious curried beef, we’re tucking the kid in now, and then it’s time to rock’n’roll. As Happy hilariously and aptly put it, it will feel like watching a woman give birth on the roof of the Sears Tower. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/47 "2016-09-27T00:44:00Z")
On my second mug of mulled cider with bourbon and it’s not even kickoff. Kow-a-yipee, lesgo! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/48 "2016-09-27T00:47:06Z")
So what other tabs do you all have open? For me: Twitter Andrew Sullivan liveblog on New York Magazine ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/49 "2016-09-27T00:48:20Z")
For those not watching, the stage is raised about 3 feet above the audience. There are 2 podiums placed about 12 to 15 feet apart. The audience is present, all seats appear to be filled. Candidates are in the green room. Moments away from starting. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/50 "2016-09-27T00:48:25Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The debate chairmen are warning the audience to keep their mouths shut. So they are drinking through straws? ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/51 "2016-09-27T00:49:12Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Starting with a pretty good local amber ale. I figure if I need the hard stuff, there’s always the bottle of aged mescal. Haig Club scotch for me. For now. May need to upshift to absinthe depending on how things go. Also, I ended up looking at the YouTube livestream chat for about thirty seconds and it burned my soul. It was like an overflowing toilet. The idiocy just kept coming. It wouldn’t stop. It wouldn’t stop. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/52 "2016-09-27T00:51:09Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > For those not watching, the stage is raised about 3 feet above the audience. There are 2 podiums placed about 12 to 15 feet apart. The audience is present, all seats appear to be filled. Candidates are in the green room. Moments away from starting. Thank you. Do fill in the visuals. It will be like listening to Gramma tell a bedtime story. Before the apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/53 "2016-09-27T00:51:40Z")
These are two of the worst hype men that I’ve ever seen. They’re going to need to set off a firecracker before the candidates come out. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/54 "2016-09-27T00:54:30Z")
More rules, no cell phones, photography, introducing the spouces of the candidates. Trump’s family makes an entrance, receiving line like. Bill Clinton. Introducing moderator Holt. Chelsea there next to Bill ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/55 "2016-09-27T00:54:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Thank you. Do fill in the visuals. It will be like listening to Gramma tell a bedtime story. Before the apocalypse. It feels like watching the moon landing live, if Apollo 11 was a mission to destroy the moon before it destroyed the Earth. Historical, but also fantastically terrifying, with all the stress and tension of knowing that one wrong move could mean imminent disaster for the entire planet. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/56 "2016-09-27T00:54:45Z")
> [@oft\_wears\_hats](#): > > Haig Club scotch for me. For now. May need to upshift to absinthe depending on how things go. Also, I ended up looking at the YouTube livestream chat for about thirty seconds and it burned my soul. It was like an overflowing toilet. The idiocy just kept coming. It wouldn’t stop. It wouldn’t stop. Well, decided to start with an Aberfeldy 12, but I’ve still got the El Senorio reposado mescal and I might finally open the Cava de Oro extra anejo tequila on Election Night. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/57 "2016-09-27T00:55:24Z")
Lester Holt has been introduced. Debate goes “live” in just a minute or so. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/58 "2016-09-27T00:57:27Z")
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. New start time 9:03:30 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/59 "2016-09-27T00:57:57Z")
I am wearing my Cthulhu for President 2016 shirt. I pledge to wear it while I watch each of this year’s debates. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/60 "2016-09-27T00:59:04Z")
Posted this in another thread but it’s relevant here: I hate that we grade debates on a curve. “Oh, we expected Trump to lose by a lot, and he only lost moderately. That means he’s really the winner!” We treat debates like the D-student who manages a C once did better than the A student that scored an A- once. Instead of letting it confirm that the A student is a better option than the D student. So dumb. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946.md?page=4)