Posted on 10/11/2012 5:40:28 AM PDT by opentalk
Martha Raddatz is the moderator of tonight’s vice presidential debate. In 1991, Barack Obama attended her wedding. A year later, her then-husband, now a high level administration appointee and a personal friend of the president, attended the Obamas’ wedding. Irrelevant information?
Put it this way: If Raddatz were a judge, she’d likely have to recuse herself from cases pertaining to the Obamas.
We’re not arguing that Raddatz will slant tonight’s debate in the Obama campaign’s favor —any more than a member of Congress would automatically vote for an appropriation simply because it helps a campaign contributor.
We are arguing that the public has a right to know the facts about Raddatz’s relationship to the president.
...Remember when former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos opened the GOP primary debate he moderated with a bizarre string of questions about birth control —questions that just happened to dovetail with the Obama campaign’s newly-minted “war on women” theme?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Yep! Lots of energy will be expended filling the round filing bin on the floor.
My local Fox station (network Owned & Operated) didn’t even mention it as they praised Biden on foreign policy acumen and seeming like a nice guy unlike that Ryan misfit.
Genachowski (current FCC head, ex husband) worked with Obama on Harvard Law Review and graduated with Obama.
Raddatz dropped out of University of Utah
That was, again, ABC.
I think if I'm a Republican candidate, I stay far, far away from stinking ABC.
I would guess ABC slipped the Ubama team the questions.
ABC is slimy enough.
Have family in Ohio and the answer is Yes......they get FOX news too.
Because of showmanship requirements? You’ll need someone who can read coherently in front an audience and otherwise not make a complete ass of themselves. I certainly wouldn’t be qualified...
It was another form of MSM (ABC) censorship and activism. --using the time for questions, issues that dont matter to keep sun light off Obama's record. Creating a new diversion.
Romney already humiliated the empty suit one on one. He will now face a two against one challenge with the empty suit being propped up by the moderator and planted question.
That resume requirement is not limited to Big Media talking heads.
Cool! Didn’t know it was on Fox. That is great news!
Great job GOPe. Couldn’t have these great debate moderators without your help.
Romney and Ryan NEEDED the debates, so they had to accept the garbage dished out by the Commission.Yeah - in any negotiation, “If you need it bad, you’ll get it bad!Or do you think that Team Obama would have gone to debates hosted by Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc.?
35 posted on October 11, 2012 10:13:06 AM EDT by Little Ray
The only way to ever change that would be to pass a law making broadcasting debates - debates without moderators, excepting only for a chess timer to divvy up the microphone time equally - a condition for broadcast license renewal.
The existence of any moderator at all, be he never so neutral, is objectionable in principle because it “positions” the moderator above the future POTUS. Democrats aren’t bothered by that, of course, because the moderator is always “neutral” on the side of the Democratic candidate.
It is stretching it to call these things debates.
It’s more like some weird press conference with only one reporter.
The GOPe has a lot to answer for tonight. It was a disaster agreeing to let this horrible woman moderate. Ryan was fighting two people on that stage. And it was perfectly predictable.
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