Best Performance and Average Input Oscars on Bloomberg's Debate

Blogges and Personal ^ | 12 Oct 11 | Xzins

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Last night's Meet the Media Question and Answer Session with Bloomberg.com will not get rave reviews.

First, Limited access to this Q&A was insured by Bloomberg's minor presence on TV and Radio. While there was also access via the internet (buffering....buffering), it seems a safe bet to assume that many went without seeing this additional attempt by the media to determine the Republican nominee for POTUS.

The overall Q&A itself was entirely predictable. Those who've seen the other Q&As could have pre-scripted this one. There were no surprising questions, answers, or techniques employed. Absolutely nothing jumped out. Some were probably sad they made the effort to connect via the internet. The diet for the evening was the standard list of bullets already expected from each candidate.

With no new substance to discuss, we are left to talk about performance -- as if this were Oscar night and actors were gushing over their producers and directors.

Oscars go to: Cain, Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum.

AverageOscars go to: Perry, Huntsman, Paul, and Bachmann.

FailureOscars go to: Bloomberg and this boring rehash.

Translating the above goes as follows. Oscar winners held their own. Gingrich, as usual, did better than the others. Cain was clearly next in line followed by the "clear enunciation award" shared between Romney and a feisty Santorum.

All the other candidates kept to their points and made no mistakes.

Dear Mayor Bloomberg....this was such a disappointment. They'll not be naming Oscar night after you any time soon.

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Can’t disagree. If there was a highlight last night, that exchange would be on the play-of-the-week rerun.

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Pick a better one out of the list? The question was which one was the best in the last 40 years, wasn’t it?