I made an executive decision not to watch any of the after debate coverage because I knew it would bother me more than the actual debate.  From the readings we did for class it was easy to predict that it would be a lot of coverage about the body language or the way a candidate was standing rather than anything factual about what was actually said. I checked TPM today, which only confirmed this statement. There is a video posted on TPM about a commentator on MSNBC going on for two minutes about how John McCain did not make eye contact with Obama. Was he angry? Was he trying to belittle his opponent? What I want to know is what questions like that have to do with the actual debate. I think this is a classic case of large media refusing to actually make a point of addressing the issues for whatever reason and instead choosing to conveniently play the “who looks like they won” card. What I found most upsetting was that an independent site like TPM played into it by posting readers own comments about McCain’s lack of eye contact. One reader actually said that McCain could not look at Obama because he was afraid of him. Really??