Since Liberal Media Won’t, Vance Should Ask Walz These 15 Questions in Veep Debate

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The bias of the moderators of ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago against Donald Trump was so blatant that even the opening skit of this past weekend’s season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” skewered it.

“I had hoped the takeaway of the debate I moderated would be my striking good looks,” quipped neatly coiffed “SNL” cast member Andrew Dismukes, portraying ABC News anchor David Muir, “but unfortunately, it was whether or not I was biased towards the Democrats … which, duh!

Muir and his co-moderator, Linsey Davis, were so widely (and deservedly) criticized that CBS announced that, at tonight’s vice presidential debate, it would instead let the VP candidates, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “fact-check” each other in real time.  

Since Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Walz are shunning formal news conferences or even media scrums to allow reporters to ask questions, tonight’s debate might be the only opportunity the American voters will have to get answers to important questions about the policies they support so they aren’t casting their ballots blindly and buying the proverbial pig in a poke.

Given that an analysis by the Media Research Center found that 85% of CBS’ news coverage of the Harris-Walz campaign has been positive, while 81% of its reporting on the Trump-Vance ticket has been negative, we shouldn’t count on CBS’ debate moderators, anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan to ask Walz the following questions.

If need be, Vance should do it himself.

Originally published at WashingtonTimes.com