“It was the presidential debate as barroom brawl, as television shoutfest, as exhausting insult derby.
To the frustration of moderator Chris Wallace, and perhaps much of the television audience, much of the Cleveland faceoff–and there’s no other way to put it–went off the rails.
Given the polarized nature of the country, few minds were likely changed unless the candidates were being graded on politeness.
Substance occasionally broke through, but by and large it was a night of sound and fury and, from start to finish, great frustration”. (Fox News. Read more here.)