Steyn you could not possibly be more wrong. This salient issues in this race right now are issues of character and record that are furiously in contest between the two men in the center of the stage. And you want to hear about what? And Williams kept quite a low profile and let the candidates go at it.
The MSM moderators of these things are boring on purpose. They ask their sound-bite setups and then they want to bore people into tuning out, for two reasons. 1) It's a Republican debate and they are all vanity leftists. 2) They want to tell everybody their version of what happened, and not be contradicted by people who really saw what happened.
Williams and the like are trapped by the fact that they can't raise any substantive issues which will put these candidates in a better light than our incumbent president. That leaves a dreadfully short roster of issues on which to make the Republican candidates look foolish, which is why these debates only contain any starch when it becomes candidate versus moderator.
Yes. And that's what I fear when the Presidential "debates" (beauty contests) come around in the fall. The "horse race" will be as follows: Questions designed to make the moderators look erudite and designed to keep the Republican candidate corralled in the starting gate as Commandante Sub-Zero is allowed to sprint down a pre-defined track.
Brian Williams is making me long for Diane Sawyer and her purse full of happy pills.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSteyn you could not possibly be more wrong. This salient issues in this race right now are issues of character and record that are furiously in contest between the two men in the center of the stage. And you want to hear about what? And Williams kept quite a low profile and let the candidates go at it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRight Mark. Dull as hell.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHorserace questions keep the debate away from Obama and the issues, and force the candidates to look petty sniping at each other.
Nothing on Keystone XL/F&F/debt/Solyndra. Topics include Terry Schaivo, sugar tariffs, and English as the official language.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe MSM moderators of these things are boring on purpose. They ask their sound-bite setups and then they want to bore people into tuning out, for two reasons. 1) It's a Republican debate and they are all vanity leftists. 2) They want to tell everybody their version of what happened, and not be contradicted by people who really saw what happened.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBrian is bad alright, BUT, that new guy on CEEBEE ess, Stuart Smelly, is it, hits new heights
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseas an oh-so-pleased-with-my-self smug libtard.
Williams and the like are trapped by the fact that they can't raise any substantive issues which will put these candidates in a better light than our incumbent president. That leaves a dreadfully short roster of issues on which to make the Republican candidates look foolish, which is why these debates only contain any starch when it becomes candidate versus moderator.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYes. And that's what I fear when the Presidential "debates" (beauty contests) come around in the fall. The "horse race" will be as follows: Questions designed to make the moderators look erudite and designed to keep the Republican candidate corralled in the starting gate as Commandante Sub-Zero is allowed to sprint down a pre-defined track.
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