The News with Shepard Smith is CNBC's nightly newscast providing deep, non-partisan coverage and perspective on the day's most important stories.
Shepard Smith, a former news journalist from Fox News, has recently joined MSNBC where he now serves as the chief general news anchor and also has a primetime slot. In his first monologue and broadcast with a new network, Shep gets to discuss the first Presidential debate. Something that many people are calling, a dumpster fire, a shit show, and a train wreck. He discusses how the President told white supremacists to “stand by” and how the former Vice President called the current president a clown and told him to shut up. These are things that we have never seen in a presidential debate, and now the Commission on Presidential Debates are implementing new measures so not only the American people can properly hear each nominee, but so the nominees no longer talk over each other. The 2020 general election is the most important election in our lifetimes, and for many it is their first presidential election, mine included, and watching these debates is helping not only myself but millions of Americans decide who they are going to vote for. So perhaps, following this shit show of a debate, one of the nominees will realize that if they treat the other with the respect that they wish to receive they will gain voters and maybe see a bump in their polls.
As we have discussed numerous times throughout the entire semester, justice means something different to everyone, but maybe in the instance of a presidential debate, justice should mean following the golden rule. That you treat those around you the way you wish to be treated. Maybe this would solve the problems that Chris Wallace encountered throughout Tuesday night. Because lord knows that man didn't want to be three between those two arguing.