Debate Recap (Hey, I Didn't Watch It Either)

I don't have a television, so I went to Decatur's Thinking Man Tavern last night, assuming that along with my weekly trivia loss, I could at least catch some of the closed captioning for the final debate. It's called the Thinking Man Tavern after all. On their two television screens: Comedy Central and Basketball which switched at some point to a Peanuts Christmas Special.

The food sucked last night, too, so that's about all I have to say about the Thinking Man today....

So here's a debate recap, from the web. I really like William Saletan's writing. He's curmudgeonly, pointed, sometimes even silly, but mostly he has no patience for crap and I dig it. So read and enjoy.

The Washington Post has a nice long piece about the process that led Ted Koppel to apparently go crazy in the format style. Koppel's a weird one, but that's just my opinion. Maybe too long in the biz.

NYT has this, a run-down of how the candidates tried to downplay the importance of the Gore endorsement without offending Gore supporters across the country. Politics is a hard business, man!

Don't take my word for it; the NYT also has the text of the debate. Good of them....