When scoring debates, lies only count against the speaker when their opponent refutes them in the context of the debate.
Scored as a debate, one could easily justify the conclusion it was a draw. The aftermath, though, with Crowley’s intervention proved to be a lie on Obama’s behalf, probably puts it in the record books as a win for Romney (with an asterisk) on pure debate-scoring grounds.
As a political event, it went to Romney as both the Fox and MSNBC focus groups show. And that tilt will become more apparent as the number of lies Obama told becomes more apparent. I watched online via the BBC — I had some sort of glitch when connecting to C-SPAN — and bounced between actually watching and looking at the NYTimes “live fact-check” which, amazingly considering the source, supported Romney on every point, except for posting a stupid graphic of the $5 trillion dollar static scoring of Romney’s tax proposals with no accounting for the $25K deduction cut-off as if the cut in rates without broadening the tax base were the sum content of his proposals.
“When scoring debates, lies only count against the speaker when their opponent refutes them in the context of the debate.”
Thank you. I see what you are saying. The key words are “refutes them in the context of the debate.”
I understand now.