We all know that after every debate, surrogates from both the left and the right will try to spin the debate any way they can to make their guy look good. Just turn on Fox News or CNN today and watch for five minutes.

However, on Current TV last night, former Vice President Al Gore came up with the lamest defense ever for a subpar debate performance – Denver’s high altitude.

“Obama arrived in Denver at 2 PM today. Just a few hours before the debate started,” Gore said last night. “Romney did his debate prep in Denver. When you go to 5,000 feet and you only have a few hours to adjust — I don’t know.”

Here’s the video. Is it just me, or is Current TV’s screen layout terrible? There seems to be more space devoted to a twitter live-feed and other nonsense there there is for the experts you’re supposed to be tuning in to hear.

Viewers turning in to see a firey, zinger-filled debate were treated to an event columnist Peter Funt said “was such bad television that many Americans, including the prized “undecided voters,” probably gave up and changed the channel.”

One of the most talked-about nuggets to come out of the debate was Romney’s renewed call to cut funding to PBS, despite the fact it only accounts for 0.012 percent of the budget (check out all our Defunding PBS cartoons). Here’s the cartoon I drew at the time Republicans proposed defunding PBS as a way to help balance the budget:

Rob Tornoe’s cartoon from last night also weighs in on the desire to give the budgetary axe to Sesame Street. Poor Big Bird:

Our conservative bomb-thrower Gary McCoy predicted how the so-called “mainstream media” would try to spin last night’s debate results:

While Mobile Press-Register cartoonist JD Crowe dug past the soundbytes to try and find the truth fact checkers seemed so desperate to uncover:

Speaking of fact checkers, Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant figures with all the misstatments during last night’s debate, they’re about ready for the funny farm:

Meanwhile, Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News reminds us what follows every presidential debate: