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CBS News Protected Tim Walz by Not Asking Any of These Questions

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“I’m a knucklehead at times.”

That pretty much summed up Gov. Tim Walz’s night during the vice presidential debate in New York City on Tuesday. He clumsily evaded questions about discrepancies in his personal record, his flip-flopping, and what the Biden-Harris administration has done for America and ended up with the viral gaffe of the night when he said (hopefully mistakenly) that he’d become friends with school shooters.

It was, in other words, a resounding loss for Walz. And yet, he still managed to be protected from the full force of a disastrous performance — all because the moderators for CBS News decided where to keep the questions and what the tone of the debate was going to be.

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Topics of Expertise
American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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