http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37766-a-fool-s-folly-donny-t-s-big-bad-night
"The most telling moment of the evening did not come under the hot lights of the debate stage, but backstage in the spin room after the deal went down. Donald Trump went charging into the maw of reporters and microphones to argue that he hadn't actually blown it in front of millions of people. A candidate who races to the spin room post-debate is a candidate very worried about their performance. At one point he was asked if he thought he'd won. His response was classic: "They also gave me a defective mic, did you notice that? My mic was defective within the room. I wonder, was that on purpose? Was that on purpose? I had a mic that wasn't working properly." Yeah, Donny, that's the ticket. The world heard you loud and clear, but somehow you got this magical pro-Hillary microphone fobbed off on you that turned your well-reasoned erudite profundities into, "I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable," at which point a significant segment of the viewing audience turned to their spouses and said, "What does that mean, Marjorie? Is his 10-year-old son going to protect us from 'the cyber'? Must be that damn microphone." For more original Truthout election coverage, check out our election section, "Beyond the Sound Bites: Election 2016." It was that kind of a night. Trump flailed around the spin room keeping as much of a game face as could be managed under the circumstances, until his people bundled him out of the room before he could blame everything on the moon being in Leo."
