…but I'm actually watching a half-dozen websites that are live-blogging it. My favorite comment so far came from Albert Brooks on Twitter…
My problem with this debate — with all these debates; I'm sure there'll be some of this in the Democratic ones — is that all these candidates not only have their own set of views but their own sets of facts that support them. A real-time fact-checker would go crazy trying to clarify or correct. Can a person be "pro-life" and yet believe that much of what is being claimed about Planned Parenthood is untrue? Guess not. That would show weakness, not fairness.
Tomorrow, Politifact and other such sites will list dozens of factual assertions that were just plain wrong. And not one person who has a favorite candidate will think less of their guy (or gal) or the position because of that.