Martin Schneider: The subtext of all pre-debate spin is that major media outlets are completely full of shit. “Our opponent is the most eloquent man in the solar system, we’ll be lucky if we can piece four sentences together!” Thereby hoping to sucker Peter Jennings into saying your guy did really good.

The subtext of all pre-debate spin is that major media outlets are completely full of shit. “Our opponent is the most eloquent man in the solar system, we’ll be lucky if we can piece four sentences together!” Thereby hoping to sucker Peter Jennings into saying your guy did really good.

But the sad part of it is that the Jenningses of the world invariably agree with this picture of events.

The only fair conclusion is that the major media outlets are completely full of shit.

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