The most important moment in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate was not spoken.
You can’t put quote marks around it, because it was said visually, not in words.
If you didn’t watch the debate, the only way to truly absorb it is to go back and watch the tape.
So do make sure you watch it.
Because it transcended the event itself and the present campaign. It told you something important about the most powerful and disruptive political force in this country over the last half-century.
It came as JD Vance pulled the brakes on the debate itself, and challenged CBS News “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan for violating the rules of the game.
This was supposed to be a debate without fact checks — or so CBS led the candidates, other media and the public to believe.
CBS news anchors had fact-checked in real time the presidential debate on Sept. 10 in such lopsided fashion that it left many Republicans believing Donald Trump was debating three people — Kamala Harris and the moderators.
Now again on Tuesday night it seemed the CBS brain trust was running the same drill.
Only JD Vance was the wiser having watched the presidential debate.
When Brennan asserted that Haitian immigrants had, in fact, come legally to Springfield, Ohio and surrounding communities (in numbers as high as 15,000), Vance spoke up.
“Margaret. The rules were that you guys were (not) going to fact check, and since you're fact-checking me, I think it's important to say what's actually going on.”
The only reason........