[MRiley]

A thorough and balanced report on the debate blow-by-blow.

[Obadiah]

Time!

[Tim Long]

Tell me about it. Did anyone watch the post-debate coverage. It seems that he just invents statistics. He thinks that most Americans are pro-abortion, which would be hard to be believe considering all the voting blocks that are not. He also stated most Americans are Darwinists, which polls contradict.

I also hated that snide joke about whether Tom Tancredo knew that SAM 27000 wasn't the current Air Force One. What a blatant leftist.

[oldbill]

No, the Republicans are the dumbest candidates anywhere for putting up with Matthews and Politico and the left wing MSM and treating them as serious journalism.

Give credit to the Democrats - they made sure that only favorable media get to run their debates - and they paid no price for quitting the Fox News debates.

What is sad is that none of the 10 Republicans stood up to Matthews and his nonsense. They meekly accepted his “still beat your wife questions” and interruptions. It would have been nice if just one of them spoke up and said “that is a stupid, moronic question Mr. Matthews, and it’s time you grew up and got a brain” No, they just took it, and even worse, gave credibility to the questions by answering them.

Matthews must be gloating over how he got the entire active Republcan presidential field eating out of his hand. If Fred Thompson would enter the fray and do one of his “This is getting out of control” lectures (Hunt for Red October) he’d get my vote.

I remember a Massachusetts press conference when then Governor Romney told a snotty reporter who said he (the reporter) represented the people “No, I represent the people - you represent the press”.

Where was that Romney last night?

[Spiff]

Abso-freakin-lutely!! And the questions last night were hostile. They seemed to have been written by Democrats and not Republicans. This IS a Republican Primary - save the Democrat questions for the General Election.

[cripplecreek]

Could have been moderated by Bill Press.

[cripplecreek]

Could have been moderated by Bill Press.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

The coverage of the debate is much more important than the debate itself as far as the electorate goes. Until they winnow the field down to the top two or three, its sound bite central, not anything even approaching a debate. We could learn at least one thing from the French, they know what real debate is.

[CIDKauf]

yes

[omnivore]

Either worst moderator ever or best-behaved demon ever.

[river rat]

Prissy Chrissy is what he has always been — a self important and self indulgent leftist elitist a$$hole.

The stupid party earned their nickname by agreeing to “debate” on a leftist network with Prissy Chrissy as “tormentor”

[TADSLOS]

This is an SNL skit waiting to happen tonight.

[Libloather]

From another website -

Erin Burnett just finished her report, and Chris says, "Erin, lean in toward the camera." She says, "Whaaa..? He repeats it and she starts to lean in and then asks, "What's this about?" He says, "You look GREAT" and then mumbles something else...

She did not look all that amused at the on-air embarrassment for his benefit...

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