by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, October 5. Also, check out Mike Pence saying Tim Kaine “whipped out that Mexican thing again.” In sum, Pence dodged, evaded and lied all night; Kaine aggressively quoted Trump and asked Pence over and over again if he agreed or not, and…it probably all didn’t matter much, because it was the Vice Presidential debate and also because the moderator never jumped in and called out Pence for his lying.
- Rachel Maddow: Pence Has A “Really Radical Position” On LGBT Issues And “It Didn’t Come Up At All” In VP Debate (I found that very striking, really bizarre that it didn’t come up. Fact is, Pence is an extremist with a non-extreme demeanor.)
- The Paris Agreement is really happening — and it’s about more than climate change (“The agreement is one of more than 17,000 similar pacts that rely on a foundation of trust among allies.”)
- Media Hammer Mike Pence For Denying His Running Mate’s Past Statements During VP Debate
- Bahamas next up for Matthew after destructive path in Haiti
- A President Trump could wreck progress on global warming
- Mike Pence struggles to defend the indefensible
- The vice-presidential debate deteriorates into a messy brawl (“Tim Kaine tried to drive a wedge between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, while the Indiana governor sought to evade.”)
- Colbert ridicules Mike Pence’s ‘Mexican thing’ remark: ‘It has a name, governor — I call it Pedro’
- Mike Pence’s Fantasy Running Mate (“His Donald Trump bore little resemblance to reality.”)
- Mike Pence’s Galling Amnesia (“Donald Trump’s running mate made no apologies during a tense vice-presidential debate.”)
- 2 winners and 4 losers from the vice presidential debate (“It’s really, really hard to adequately explain how reliant Pence was on lying and denying that Trump said things that he clearly said.”)
- 7 criticisms of Trump that Mike Pence refused to answer
- Mike Pence was not interested in defending Donald Trump (“The GOP’s revisionist history of the Trump candidacy began tonight.”)
- 6 things Trump definitely said that Pence claimed he didn’t (In short, Pence just lied and lied through his teeth, and idiots like Chris Cillizza focused 100% on style.)
- Debate moderator outsourced all of her questions on the economy to a group of fiscal conservatives (“1988 called, it wants its debate topics back.”)
- Pence actually tried to defend Trump’s ‘rapists’ comments on Mexico (“Senator, you whipped out that Mexican thing again.”)
- Tim Kaine didn’t win Mr. Congeniality — but he got the job done in V.P. debate
- This Wasn’t a Debate. This Was a National Gaslighting. (“If Mike Pence ‘won,’ it’s because he was shameless about denying reality.”)
- Moderator Elaine Quijano Made the VP Debate a Lot Worse Than It Had to Be (“Quijano lost control of the debate early on, and never regained it.”)
- Lie, Shake Head, Deny Reality, Repeat: Mike Pence’s Infuriating Debate Performance in One Video
- 5 takeaways from the debate that didn’t matter(“Pence disappoints Trump, Kaine over-rehearses, and Quijano whiffs.”)
- Virginia’s nice-guy Tim Kaine comes out slashing in debate with Mike Pence
- Analysis: No more Mr. Nice Guy as Kaine, Pence clash in VP debate at Longwood
- At Longwood Kaine, Pence spar over trustworthiness and taxes in contentious debate
- ‘DMV is not responsible’: Va. denies claim it unfairly suspends driver’s licenses (“A class action said more than 940,000 people had licenses suspended for nonpayment.”)
- Va. elections commissioner defends integrity of voting system
- Tim Kaine surprises supporters at post-debate Democratic rally
- State Democrats rally to root for Tim Kaine in vice presidential debate
- Projected budget shortfalls in Fairfax County become a plea for a new meals tax
- Hurricane Matthew has potential to rank among Hampton Roads’ most destructive storms
- Editorial Degner’s pipeline charge against Goodlatte is off-base
- Barbara Comstock and LuAnn Bennett on the issues
- State of the Region report again says Hampton Roads cities must work together to grow
- Justice coal operations agree to $900,000 civil penalty to settle environmental lawsuit (“Jim Justice’s Roanoke-based Southern Coal Corp. has agreed to pay a $900,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that its mining operations illegally polluted Appalachian rivers and streams.”)
- Vote on new arena deal in Virginia Beach fails, casting uncertainty over project’s future
- Pleasant weather through Friday; possible weekend impacts from Hurricane Matthew
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