Posted on 10/05/2004 4:00:47 PM PDT by jbwbubba
Keep the below in mind when you watch the VP debate
PBS¡¯s Gwen Ifill: No Moderate Moderator
As we learned in the first debate, moderators can help shape the outcome. PBS host Jim Lehrer asked tough questions to President Bush about his record, but failed to do the same for John Kerry. He asked Kerry to list Bush's ¡°colossal misjudgments,¡± and then to list the President's lies. But he never once asked Kerry about his 20-year Senate record. Will PBS¡¯s Gwen Ifill do better in the running-mate debate? The evidence suggests here comes liberal moderator number two:
¡ö Don¡¯t Bash Coke Dealers. ¡°Why are people particularly outraged when people with last names like Cabrera, and people from India and Korea, and Indonesia and China, all of a sudden get, there just seems to be a lot of foreigner bashing as a subtext in some of the criticism.¡± ¡ª Then-NBC reporter Ifill on PBS¡¯s Washington Week in Review, October 25, 1996, dismissing the Clinton campaign-money scandal, including DNC donor and cocaine smuggler Jorge Cabrera, arrested in a bust netting nearly three tons of cocaine. He had photos taken with Hillary and Al Gore.
¡ö Clinton¡¯s Not Liberal Enough. ¡°Is this welfare bill your great vulnerability on this subject? Your supporters, your critics, they all say that, perhaps, you are abandoning minorities and the poor.¡± ¡ª Ifill interviewing President Clinton on race relations, June 16, 1997 Today.
¡ö Campaign ¡°Reform¡± Opponents Like Terrorists. ¡°It was a bill that was doomed to die. The last time you heard people so eager to claim responsiblity for something like this, they were terrorists.¡± ¡ª Ifill on opponents of a campaign ¡°reform¡± bill, Washington Week, Feb. 27, 1998.
¡ö Republican Assassins. ¡°In the end it was a procedural assassination. Republicans drove up the cost of the bill by attaching unrelated amendments, then said it was too expensive.¡± ¡ª Ifill on Today, June 18, 1998.
¡ö Ken Starr¡¯s ¡°Truck Bomb.¡± ¡°There's very little they can do about this, when someone drives, as one House Judiciary Committee member put this some weeks ago, a truck bomb up to the steps of the Capitol and just dumps it on them....it is in some ways, politically, a very violent action for Ken Starr to leave this on them weeks before an election when they're trying to decide how to deal with it.¡± ¡ª Ifill during live MSNBC coverage of the Starr Report arriving on Capitol Hill, September 9, 1998.
¡ö Red-Baiting Century. ¡°After World War II, then we went through decades of Red-hunting, Red-baiting, fear of communists, and then all of a sudden the Berlin Wall, that symbol of everything that happened, fell.¡± ¡ª PBS host Ifill reviewing the century on Washington Week, December 31, 1999.
¡ö ¡°Record High¡± Misery? ¡°The unemployment rate is at record highs, and somehow he [Bush] says this is Congress's fault.¡± ¡ª PBS host Ifill somehow forgetting the Great Depression in describing 6.1 percent unemployment, Washington Week, May 2, 2003.
It would be nice if the campaigns and commissions could find a moderator capable of asking a few questions conservative voters would like answered, instead of just the soggy, Kerry-protecting consensus of the liberal elites.
¡ª Tim Graham and Rich Noyes
¡ö Hmmmmm¡¯s ¡°Interesting.¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°
I thought this was giong to be about the FR Moderators!
It is ins't it?
LOL me too!
And just the other day I was describing APL to someone!
I thought this was going to be about the FR Moderators!
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Me too. Here I went and took a shower, deleted all my objectionable images from my hard drive and came here all ready to make nice. |
Gawd almighty! What is this, the all-PBS commielib debates? Why don't they ask Mark Russell to moderate one? At least then it will be entertaining. If they insist on using PBS folks they could use John McLaughlin with a 30 minute Bush / Kerry / Cheney / Edwards free-for all. "ISSUE ONE - THE GLOBAL TEST!!!"
Welcome to Bizarro World.
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This proves that liberals came from another world.
Aliens are among us, you heard that Kerry wants a other-worldly test now
Can you imagine the questions that Dennis Miller, as moderator, would ask?
Earlier over at DemocraticUnderground.com, those idiots were complaining that she is good friends with Condi Rice. The even accused Gwen of being a lesbian lover of Condi's. Methinks that Gwen will be one over by the lovable Cheney and will be okay...
¡ö ¡°It¡± Is|? ¡°¡ö/ ¡°But it¡± is written¡°? ¡°!|\¡ö ¡°in |~secret¡ö ¡°anti-moderator¡ö¡° code¡± ? ¡°
I can never find those middle keys on my board.
¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°That's¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°un¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°friggin'¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°believable!¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°
Baker was once a strong highpowered lawyer but he is visably aging and no longer has the horsepower he once had.
I would love to see Hugh Hewitt moderate a debate.
"PBS host Jim Lehrer asked tough questions to President Bush about his record, but failed to do the same for John Kerry. He asked Kerry to list Bush's ¡°colossal misjudgments,¡± and then to list the President's lies. But he never once asked Kerry about his 20-year Senate record."
If Bush was more effective (skilled) as a debator, HE COULD HAVE restated the questions, and then answered his own restated questions.
I know Bush is intelligent enough to do this; but it is not his general style to be that aggressive.
But let's face it: Kerry is skilled and agile, the moderators are biased.
To offset those factors, Bush SHOULD restate unfair questions, then answer same.
Bush can use his response time any way he likes. He can just answer the dumb questions, or he can make his own case.
Part of making his own case, is to contrast how weak Kerry has been during his career, about defense issues.
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