# \*\*\*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:** 31
**Author:** ![Reyemile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@Reyemile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reyemile)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/601 "2016-09-27T02:59:30Z")
Post-debate interview with Trump: “I’m just glad that I was able to hold back on Bill’s indiscretions” because of his respect for Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/602 "2016-09-27T02:59:36Z")
“We can’t protect Japan…” Oh, Brilliant, Non-ald… > **[Japan scrambles jets as China warplanes fly through Okinawa strait](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/26/national/politics-diplomacy/fighter-scrambled-near-okinawa-china-air-force-planes-pass-miyako-strait/)** > > The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled aircraft on Sunday as at least eight Chinese fighters and bombers — and possibly more than 40 — passed through a criti ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/603 "2016-09-27T03:00:51Z")
That was such a one-sided mauling that it really was embarrassing for the Donald. He got his ass handed to him. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/604 "2016-09-27T03:01:22Z")
> [@Reyemile](#): > > Post-debate interview with Trump: “I’m just glad that I was able to hold back on Bill’s indiscretions” because of his respect for Chelsea. NO! You’re _shitting_ me! Neutron density _chutzpah!_ ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/605 "2016-09-27T03:01:53Z")
Good Christ! Was Trump crying at the end because Hilary was mean to him? Man up Trump and put your big boy pants on. Sad. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/606 "2016-09-27T03:02:44Z")
In the hallway, Trump responded to a reporter that “he was proud that he did not go after HC on ‘Bill’s scandals’, and implied that he 'knows stuff, unbelievable stuff. Maybe he’ll bring it up at the next debate”. He is actually plugging the next debate like it’s the next episode of his reality show.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/607 "2016-09-27T03:03:35Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > Just so I’m clear…this is meant as satire, right? You liberals are so far inside your bubble of anti-reality, that you can’t even fathom the idea of somebody sincerely disagreeing with you. The only thing you can come up with is “satire.” > [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > If both did well, and there was no clear winner, why has your uncomfortableness with voting Trump decreased but not your uncomfortableness with Clinton? Because Clinton has a 23-year unbroken record of dishonesty, bad ideas, growing government, and untrustworthiness. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/608 "2016-09-27T03:03:52Z")
Yeah, but it doesn’t matter. He appealed to the types of folk who are willing to support him. We just better hope fewer of them show up come Nov. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/609 "2016-09-27T03:04:06Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I feel even better about Hilary than I already did. Not completely sure I agree with it all, but it does seem like she’s overwhelmingly winning the post-debate so far. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/610 "2016-09-27T03:04:18Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Has Tom Brokaw developed a speech impediment? His diction sounded a little slurred. He’s sounded like that for several years now, sometimes to the point that he’s difficult to understand. I don’t know if it’s due to age or a condition. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/611 "2016-09-27T03:06:25Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Night all. Great group effort. I’m feeling better about HC’s chances now. She was energetic and held it together for 90 minutes, never appearing tired of confused. I certainly hope so. She’s not an alzheimer’s patient. She’s a presidential candidate. > [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Trump did especially bad on race issues. I can’t imagine him winning a single black vote from this performance. Agreed. He equated black issues with crime, strongly supported stop and frisk, and implied that while white people+guns=America, “those people”+guns=stop at any cost. I half expected him to say he had investments in black neighborhoods. > [@dropzone](#): > > Short for “cybersex.” > Brought to you by John Stossel, even. Well that’s not necessarily a bad thing… as long as it’s not your spouse doing it. Trump made “The Cyber” sound like a bad thing 😉 ---
**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, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/612 "2016-09-27T03:07:15Z")
Brokaw has been fighting multiple myeloma for 3 years now. Maybe that affects his speech somehow? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/613 "2016-09-27T03:07:29Z")
I don’t think this was a slam-dunk, unambiguous victory for Secretary Clinton, but that’s only because of the weird standards that existed with this matchup. If this were a first viewing of a debate between Candidate C and Candidate T, in my view Candidate C won on the merits. But somehow the rule is that Trump merely had to avoid soiling his trousers, and Clinton had to evolve into a being of pure energy. Under those rules, I suppose it was a draw. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/614 "2016-09-27T03:07:30Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Trump said stupid things, and he got caught in the weeds trying to defend himself, whch was a bad idea. > > But he won the debate. He won because the main thing he had to accomplish was to plant the idea in the minds of the public that he could be President. The bar for him was incredibly low, and he managed to drag himself over it. > > If the public starts thinking of him as a real Presidential contender and not as a reality show host on a lark, he comes out ahead. In a way, it was hard for him to lose once he was on that stage unkess he said something so ludicrous that even the average non-political viewer would have said, 'Holy shit, that guy can never be President!" He avoided doing that - somehow. You’re better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/615 "2016-09-27T03:07:35Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Because Clinton has a 23-year unbroken record of dishonesty, bad ideas, growing government, and untrustworthiness. Wow, five pieces of bullshit in one post. It must be some sort of record. ---
**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, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/616 "2016-09-27T03:09:31Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow, five pieces of bullshit in one post. It must be some sort of record. You’ve been on the SDMB long enough to know it’s nowhere close. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/617 "2016-09-27T03:09:56Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Because Clinton has a 23-year unbroken record of dishonesty, bad ideas, growing government, and untrustworthiness. and she is meeaan to Trump. and prolly killed a guy, amiright? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/618 "2016-09-27T03:10:37Z")
I’m looking forward to seeing a video of all Trump’s sniffing edited together. It had to be more than a minute of sniffing. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/619 "2016-09-27T03:11:44Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > It’s a funny thing, I listened to the first half on the radio in my car. It seemed Trump was holding his own and got in a few good jabs. I saw most of the second half on television and thought Hillary gutted him like a fish. . David Brooks said much the same thing on PBS — that Donald did quite well for the first 30 minutes…and then completely fell apart. I think the word he used to describe Donald’s birther defense was “abysmal”. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946/620 "2016-09-27T03:12:00Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > I’m looking forward to seeing a video of all Trump’s sniffing edited together. It had to be more than a minute of sniffing. Trevor Noah on The Daily Show showed a quick five-second run-on with the sniffles; pretty funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/join-the-sdmb-panel-of-experts-for-live-debate-coverage-9-26-2016/766946.md?page=32)