Because the Pubbies play by the Queensbury rules...
Democrats play by the Chicago rules...
Posted on 10/10/2012 2:49:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Posted By Bryan Preston On October 10, 2012 @ 8:29 am In media,Politics | 52 Comments
The Daily Caller has a disturbing story up today. The outline goes like this: The moderator of Thursday's vice presidential debate is Martha Raddatz of ABC News. She is the network's senior foreign correspondent, and she is the sole moderator of the veep debate, which will center on foreign policy.
Raddatz has a connection with Barack Obama going all the way back to their days at Harvard. They worked on the Harvard Law Review together, and Obama attended her 1991 wedding. Fast forward to the present, and President Obama has appointed Raddatz's husband, Julius Genachowski, to the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski is also an Obama campaign bundler, meaning that he is a major fundraiser for the president's re-election effort. That storyline alone raises questions of corruption and rewarding political supporters with powerful federal posts. Yet ABC insists that Raddatz has no conflict of interest in moderating the debate.
As if that all wasn't bad enough, the Caller raised all of this with ABC on Monday but the network stonewalled. It finally admitted Raddatz’s connections to Obama, but only after ABC went to Politico, the Daily Beast, and the Huffington Post to get some damage control printed on those liberal sites first.
Is this how an allegedly neutral news network should behave?
This is the kind of story a Jake Tapper would ordinarily raise in a White House press briefing, but whoops! Tapper works for ABC. And whoops! the Obama White House quietly scuttled press briefings a couple of weeks ago. The White House press corps didn’t even raise a fuss about that.
Thursday’s debate, as I mentioned earlier, is supposed to center on foreign policy. Right now the Obama administration is embroiled in what looks very much like a cover-up regarding the sacking in Benghazi. But Vice President Biden has, so far, managed to escape any scrutiny or questions about what happened in Benghazi and who knew what and when. Will moderator Martha Raddatz grill Biden about this very serious foreign policy question, or will she let him off the hook?
In the wake of last week’s presidential debate, many on the left assailed debate moderator Jim Lehrer for his performance as a way of distracting from President Obama’s weak showing. Raddatz surely knows this. Her husband’s status with the Obama campaign plus her own longstanding connection to the president himself suggests where her political sympathies lie. She has to know that if she aggressively questions Biden, she stands a strong chance of being ripped by the left as Lehrer was.
Her and her husband’s connections to Obama plus ABC’s behavior suggest that there is a fix in for Thursday’s vice presidential debate. If Raddatz does not press Biden hard about Libya, America will know that that debate was rigged to favor the Obama administration.
Candy Crowley is the 2nd prez debate mod
Lighten up dude, Grammar is begging for mercy... ;-)
Wut?
No matter what the moderator’s question is, Paul Ryan can discuss what he wants to, and I would love to see him go after Biden with question after question about the current mess in Libya. In other words, ignore the moderator and debate Biden. What better way to show his ability to lead by avoiding being led by an obvious democrat hack. If he leans on Biden hard enough Old Joe will let something out of the bag I’m sure. Ryan just needs to be himself, and do what he’s been doing on the campaign trail, telling the truth to the American people. If he does that and rebuts every lie that Biden tells, like Romney did with Obama, he’ll do just fine.
Foreign policy? I think not.
Another line I’m sure will be hurled in the debate is Obama’s one-liner that Romney already gave up on half the country before he was elected (47%).
I expect Biden to do O’s dirty work so hang on.
Here's how it should go:
Moderator:
Senator Ryan. How do you feel about rape and incest as it relates to abortion and have you ever committed either?
Senator Ryan:
Thank you. That is a very good question, and here is how I would answer that. Mr. Vice president. Did you confer with President Obama before, or after he ordered the attack on our Embassy in Libya, and is that the outcome that you had planned for? It appears that you were trying to wag the dog by his ears instead of my his tail, and unfortunately his ears were just too weak to do the job. Also can you tell the American people about the last time you shined the president's shoes?
Next question.
Agree. If Biden acts like a dolt everyone will see. If the moderator acts like an Obama hack, people will see, the world will see. They can’t hide what they are. They will try to spin it away, but it will be there regardless.
In other words, you recommend Ryan to ignore the question...
Did you watch the Palin/Biden debate? Sarah Palin clearly won that debate, but not in the minds of the media.
Why does the GOP keep agreeing to superannuated, fundamentally biased, lefty moonbats as moderators?
I want Krauthammer! “Please cut the crap, Mr. Vice President, and answer the question.”
R. Emmett Tyrrell: “President Obama. Hello? Are you there, sir? No sir, we can’t move on. The penultimate question again, phrased slightly differently, “Antiquarian scholars .... “
George Will: “The Cardinals have three men on base. You are third base coach. OK, do you ... “
Because the Pubbies play by the Queensbury rules...
Exactly. Questions like that are designed to be unanswerable in a way that is realistic. It's nothing but a "gotcha" opportunity. Ryan should discuss the issues that are the most pressing such as, national security, jobs, the economy, energy independence, freedom, adherence to the Constitution, and avoid being trapped into a long winded discussion about questions that are not forefront to Obama's sorry job as president. It's his debate to control but he has to be aggressive in challenging Biden. In other words,"Do not let the moderator lead where you don't want to go".
She already does that, get top invites, etc. She would become the TV equivalent of ‘box office poison’ if it was plainly evident that she was favoring Biden over Ryan. Her contract would not be renewed. She would probably go to MSNBC if they would hire her, but most likely would wind up on PBS. That’s where liberal journalists go when their politics becomes too evident............
Just giving him the questions in advance may allow him to prepare HIS responses, but does not prepare him for a response to RYAN’S responses.................
Looks like I was 3 for 3, but I was half heartedly joking, not thinking they really would use these far left liberal moderators. Who decides this crap?
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