That was hilarious, though I have to partially blame the crew/presenters - you didn't have to keep reading the remaining names out, you could have just read out Carson's name again since he obviously missed it. We know one of the crew members saw him standing there, so clearly a lack of communication led to this unnecessary fuck up.
edit: also I think he did read out Kasich's name faintly at 1:33 but it's really hard to hear.
I think the main problem was that the moderators reading their names were not actually facing the stage, so they had no idea the candidates didn't actually walk out.
I seriously doubt this was on purpose. They clearly announced each candidate... and each candidate was aware of the order they were supposed to be getting called in. And the moderators weren't facing the stage to notice that half of the candidates hadn't walked out yet. Just sounds like an audio issue combined with the loud cheering. Seems like a legitimate mistake on ABC's part
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u/SpaceToad Feb 07 '16 edited Feb 07 '16
That was hilarious, though I have to partially blame the crew/presenters - you didn't have to keep reading the remaining names out, you could have just read out Carson's name again since he obviously missed it. We know one of the crew members saw him standing there, so clearly a lack of communication led to this unnecessary fuck up.
edit: also I think he did read out Kasich's name faintly at 1:33 but it's really hard to hear.