Moderator Role Under Scrutiny – Before the Debate

Time ^ | 10/14/12111 | Mark Halperin

[RitaOK]

How funny! Crowley has avoided interviewing Michele, lens and all, fearing a calorie discussion.

[JohnBrowdie]

you created a fascinating combination of long since abandoned stereotypes there, mr. sophisticated. I haven’t heard one of them since junior high.

Do you police the entire internet, or just the parts that don’t serve donuts and ice cream?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Knock it off...we are better than that.

No we're not. She's not allowed on my TV.

The screen isn't big enough.

[Revolting cat!]

we are better than that.

Who's "we", honkie?!

[hole_n_one]

Moderator Role Under Scrutiny............

Good thing Role isn't Roll.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Interrupt Romney at the moment he gains momentum just as biatch ‘moderator turned 0bamabot’ Martha Ratsass did?

[tsowellfan]

What we need is another debate with Rush Limbaugh to ask questions and perhaps Zell Miller to represent the democrats with his own questioning

[freekitty]

It is not Candy Crowley role to set the rules for the debate. She is only the moderator although she is leaning heavily toward the left or should I say communism.

[Revolting cat!]

Yes. We know though that this Moderator will literally Roll (or be Rolled) into the debate hall.

[Seaplaner]

Also, my suspicions will be piqued if Mister Obama seems hyper-rehearsed (as opposed to spontaneous).

If he sounds as if he were reading a teleprompter, then one suspects that the questions have been compromised; and he's reciting rote material rather than thinking and answering truthfully.

I'd like to hear Dick Morris weigh in on this. IIRC correctly, he described a time in which the Clinton intermediaries and the nets met to pre-decide questions for an interview. The forthcoming debate is a bigger deal than an interview, and Mister Obama seems no less dishonest than Mister Clinton

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[JohnBrowdie]

interrupt Romney at the moment he gains momentum just as biatch ‘moderator turned 0bamabot’ Martha Ratsass did?

Yep. That was pretty much the way it went. but keep in mind that Cramdy is a million times more full of herself *rimshot*

[Tamzee]

I love the debates, but despise the fact that the moderators are always liberal at best, full-blown socialist at worst.

[dagogo redux]

” . . . we are better than that.”

The favorite FR battle cry of a moron.

[paul51]

what do they even need a moderator for. These egomaniac moderators get it in their head the debate is about them

[oldbrowser]

Why not drop all pretense and just get someone from Obama's own cabinet to referee the debate.

Joe Biden?

[paul51]

OMG. Are you kidding me? She's liable to eat a candidate

[Tex-Con-Man]

Lehrer got it right!

Stop trying to “fix it”, FFS!!!!

[tumblindice]

I think I knocked boots with her in Gallup, New Mexico about 1999.
Only she wasn’t wearing boots and she was in chute number 2.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

Rules for PD moderators:

Moderate Romney, facilitate Obama!

Delicious Candy is on it like a fat gal on a first date. Aiming to please!

[Iron Munro]

Another giant ego on the same stage with Obama - This might get interesting.