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Media Matters
Next time a presidential debate features a mute button, why not let the moderator control it? NBC’s Kristen Welker might agree. At the last Biden-Trump debate, a member of the debate commission was in control, as it were, of the mute button.
We know that presidential debates are typically more performance art than “debate,” but it’s still worth seeing the candidates juxtaposed. But let’s not concede more than we should; let’s not, as Welker did and others have done, introduce a presidential debate as “the show.” It can become self-fulfilling.
“(Dr. Anthony Fauci) seems to get more airtime than anybody since the late, great, Bob Hope.” Yes, that was the airtimer-in-chief.