scenery In preparation for tonight’s presidential debate between President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, CNN has confirmed the rules for the event, which will take place without an audience or real-time fact-checking.
The event will also feature special microphones that are muted when it is not a candidate’s turn to speak.
Joy Behar said scenery She said she thought the muted microphones weren’t enough. She explained, “The idea that if Trump continues to talk, the microphone is turned off, that’s not good enough, because Joe Biden can still hear him.”
Pointing to Whoopi Goldberg, who was sitting just a few feet away, Behar said, “You keep talking and I can hear you. They should be put in some kind of quiz show isolation pod.”
As the show progressed and Sara Haines expressed her opinion on who the debate would be most beneficial for – namely, “disgruntled” voters rather than undecided voters – Goldberg could be heard asking “What?” and Haines’ opinion was interrupted as the camera panned to crew member Paul, who motioned for the show to end.
“Are you talking to me?” Goldberg asked as Haynes struggled to continue his thought. Goldberg again said, “Why are you talking to me now? Is this what you’re doing?” before Paul twirled his finger in the air to signal that he needed to end the conversation.
“But it can be distracting,” Alyssa Farrah Griffin said, referencing Behar’s earlier point about listening to Goldberg’s commentary from the other side of the table.
Goldberg asked again, “Is this what we’re doing?” and then, seemingly out of respect for tonight’s debate, mouthed the rest of his comments, appearing increasingly infuriated.
When Haynes joked, “Maybe this is a debate because I’m so distracted by Paul,” Goldberg got even more angrier, widening his eyes and rising from his seat in mock anger, while Paul laughed gleefully, smiled, waved, and mouthed, “I’ve got to go,” pointing at executive producer Brian Teta, who seemed less than impressed by Goldberg’s mock tantrum.
Defeated, Goldberg sat back down and picked up a cue card that read, “Be right back,” which, curiously, she had ready to use — proof that her “tantrum” was just another funny bit of Goldberg material.
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