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
"So, Mr. Kerry, do you intend to be Carthaginian or more Etruscan in your approach to the entire milieu of international transactional procedures?"
Unfortunately nobody east of Indio knows who he is.
That would be perfect. He's one of the best interviewers ever. If the point of asking a question is to actually get an answer.
Well, let's just be realistic. They didn't have any nationally-known conservative or unbiased black journalist women to choose from.
Sounds about right - LOL!
Art Bell
Mr Kerry when you were in Cambodia did you see any UFOs?
President Bush do your cows have Mad Cow Disease?
I'd *LOVE* to see Dennis Miller moderate this one!
So, is the MRC going to apologize for misjudging Ifill's professionalism?
I thought Gwen Ifill did a very good job, aside from the occassional mix-up on who was due to speak.
She made Lehrer look like a boob.
I'm afraid Scheifer may be the worst of all after watching him on Larry King and tonight on with Dan Rather (for about 5 minutes)...
I know, all of the mods are liberals in these debates. Charles Gibson is next. Sheesh.
Those guys also think that Judy Woodruff is a "media whore". . .I don't really even know what that means, but it doesn't sound nice. For the life of me, though, I can't imagine what problem the left would have with a twit like Woodruff.
I can't tell much about the article posted, but I actually thought tonight's moderator wasn't half-bad. Hell of a lot better than Lehrer, though I agree with another poster that Bush could have done more with some of Lehrer's questions.
I'd rather have her for all debates instead of the pansies we're getting in the others. It's not like we're ever going to get Brit Hume.
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Re#33 Good Morning. Yes, the DU'rs dislike for Woodruff is curious--she's in the 'rat camp. I love watching her disdain when the 'rats lose. As to the debate, Gwen Ifill (sp?)did a very good job. I was very pleased with her...
LOL. But I differ with the conclusion. Cheney rocked...
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I agree. She did good and asked some tough questions to Edwards.
You know, I'm as quick and ready as anyone to quick-draw on the unsubtle and subtle displays of bias -- but I thought last night Gwen was about as even-handed as one could hope. She asked Cheney tough ones, AND she asked Edwards tough ones. She even directly quoted Kerry after Edwards lied about what he'd said.
I expected to be sicked, and ended up impressed.
You?
Dan
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