So, apparently of all people Alex Trebek was brought in to moderate the one and only gubernatorial debate here in Pennsylvania and it was a complete trainwreck.
Trebek spent at least 30 minutes of the 45 minute debate being a blowhard and pontificating and not allowing the candidates to actually debate each other and caught so much shit that he had to issue an apology where he claims he "didn't realize what his role was there." LMAO!
It got so bad that audience members started booing and Trebek tried to scold them, and Governor Wolf (the Democrat) actually said "I think they are booing YOU!"
Here he was trying to editorialize about a severance tax for Pennsylvania gas drillers:
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He's a naturalized US citizen, and I am inclined to give him a pass on this debate thing. Had he ever before moderated a debate? If not, well, he's acknowledged his error and has apologized.
I like Trebek, however this is an example of where we are in the political debate. There's a generation that's been inculcated to believe entertainers/celebrities are relevant to the national discourse. Just about every channel on TV has a current events/news show hosted by a comedian...Daily Show, Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, etc. It's all the same, and the end result is a snide and cynical outlook on politics and the actual facts are...lost.
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he had to issue an apology where he claims he "didn't realize what his role was there.
Shit Trebek, what part of moderator of a debate do you not understand, if you're getting air time, then you're not doing your job.
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Originally posted by ChuckWall: Did hey answer the questions in the form of questions?
He wouldn't shut up long enough for them to be able to answer questions, that was the issue. Made the debate all about HIMSELF, not the Gov or the guy running against him.
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He should have know he was going to be in trouble when neither of the candidates would agree that all their responses be in the form of a question.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
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Originally posted by Rey HRH: He should have know he was going to be in trouble when neither of the candidates would agree that all their responses be in the form of a question.
For the win!
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