....'nough said.
Posted on 04/17/2008 8:18:08 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News drew both record ratings and a heap of complaints about how Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos moderated the Democratic presidential debate, criticism that Stephanopoulos on Thursday called a sign of how much people care.
By midafternoon Thursday, more than 15,600 comments were posted on ABC News' Web site, the tone overwhelmingly negative. A prominent TV critic, Tom Shales of The Washington Post, said Gibson and Stephanopoulos "turned in shoddy, despicable performances."
There was some positive feedback, with columnist David Brooks of The New York Times giving ABC News' performance an "A."
The prime-time debate from Philadelphia on Wednesday was seen by 10.7 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research. That's the most of any debate this election cycle -- topping the 9.3 million who watched the Democrats on ABC Jan. 5 -- and proving that the lull in primaries before Tuesday's in Pennsylvania hasn't dulled interest in the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
"The questions were tough and fair and appropriate and relevant," Stephanopoulos told The Associated Press. "We wanted to focus at first on the issues that were not focused on during the last debates."[snip]
Will Bunch, a Philadelphia Daily News writer, posted an open letter to Gibson and Stephanopoulos on his blog. He wrote that he was so angry that "it's hard to even type accurately because my hands are shaking." He said the ABC newsmen spent too much time on trivial matters that didn't concern most voters.
"By so badly botching arguably the most critical debate of such an important election, in a time of both war and economic misery, you disgraced the American voters, and in fact even disgraced democracy itself," Bunch wrote......"
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It’s not genuine critisism. It is just a diversion by leftist groupthink mindguards to give Democrats a reason to discount what they saw last night; two inarticulate America hating marxist general election losers.
Exactly....and B. Hussen does NOT handle it very well.
Tom Shales?
Who takes that sis seriously?
so the debate left both pillory and omama looking bad?
who would not expect the thousands of crazy lefty nutbags
to ‘complain’
were the questions ‘unfair’?
Or maybe not as articulate as the you-tube debate questions?
bunch of morons
when somebody does something that reflects on their character, and the job they are trying to get needs someone with a good character, doggone right they get asked the questions they might not like about what they did or said.
after all, as the left wing press says time and again when they divulge state secrets, the public has a right to know
I didn’t think asking Obama about his association with a terrorist who bombed the capitol building and pentagon was gossip.
....'nough said.
How dare you not throw Democrat candidates easy questions.
I'm loving it. More people saw how bad the Dims were.
Imagine that—a debate with tough questions!
You know, the kind that Republicans get asked all the time.
And the nerve of Stephie and Gibson to actually ask follow-up questions.
And the Pant Suit and the Empty Suit wilted under fire and exposed themselves for the not-ready-for-primetime posers they really are.
Boo-frickety hoo.
Ah, the media Obamites self-identifying themselves. As if we didn’t already know who they were.
>>A prominent TV critic, Tom Shales of The Washington Post, said Gibson and Stephanopoulos “turned in shoddy, despicable performances.”
Wait a minute here. This is a guy whose main job is telling us about the new season of American Idol and Grey’s Anatomy.
Why does anyone care what he thinks about political issues?
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