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To: t_skoz

That was Rudy laughing?!? I assumed it was some backstage or crowd mike that some producer forgot to shut down. Wow, what an embarrassment. He was annoying enough in the debates by running far, far over his time limit every time he opened his mouth. No other candidate started doing that until Rudy had done it several times and it was clear the moderators weren’t going to do a thing about it.

Personally, I would have programmed the candidates’ mikes to cut off automatically five seconds after the bell sounded, and instruct the moderators to ask the next candidate his question as soon as that happened. Only the mike of the candidate who has the floor would be on at any given time. Granted, if that happened we wouldn’t have heard Ron Paul’s smackdown of Mike Huckabee, which I thought was one of the most entertaining parts of the debate, but it’s really annoying to have one candidate completely ignore the rules of the debate without penalty, and therefore cause everyone to ignore the rules if they want any chance of getting heard.


87 posted on 09/06/2007 7:50:13 AM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: Turbopilot
That was Rudy laughing?!? I assumed it was some backstage or crowd mike that some producer forgot to shut down. Wow, what an embarrassment. He was annoying enough in the debates by running far, far over his time limit every time he opened his mouth. No other candidate started doing that until Rudy had done it several times and it was clear the moderators weren’t going to do a thing about it.

It's one of his tricks, worked often in NYC. But he's finding out that NYC isn't America or the GOP.

As for the Fox News moderators and Hannity, they spend most of their time tapping their wingtips, dreaming of catching up with Rudi in a men's room. It's embarrassing to even watch. And Fox News is the network that has singled us out to be labeled as a hate site. Sean Hannity has made very disparaging remarks about us. And John Lott examined their campaign donations at the FEC and demonstrated they are just like the other libmedia, contributing over 80% to Democrats.
99 posted on 09/06/2007 8:37:28 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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