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April 17, 2008 at 06:24:21

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51 to 11: The Odds That ABC Knows How To Run A Presidential Debate

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I sat at my press seat at the Philadelphia Kimmel Center checking my watch.  It was either running fast or I had been swept into a space time-continuum that was about to swallow up any semblance of a learning experience.
Unfortunately, it was the latter.
It took fifty-two minutes before ABC anchor and debate moderator, Charlie Gibson, decided to ask an actual policy question.  The fifty-one minutes prior were filled with questions concerning verbal gaffes, personal associations and whether each candidate would select each candidate as their Vice President (which anyone with half a moderator's mind would know how the candidates would answer).
The first policy question of policy concerned Iraq and that tit-for-tat lasted exactly eleven minutes.
51 to 11.
51 minutes involving Reverend Wright, William Ayers, flag pins and Bosnia fables.
11 minutes on how to deal with what had cost hundred of thousands of deaths, hundreds of billions in dollars and devastation of out military readiness
51 to 11
Major issue asymmetry or the odds against the country making an intelligent decision for President?
51 to 11
Important presidential debate?  More like talk radio minutia.  Somewhere at FoxNews, my buddy Sean Hannity had to be popping champagne.  He and the rest of Lords of Loud had shaped the Democratic debate.  No fault of Hannity.  He's just doing his job.  Too bad Gibson and Stephanopolis didn't do theirs.
51 to 11
An insult to intelligence, the American voter and time.
Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (www.greatfailure.com) that now needs an extra chapter to cover last night.

 

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Yes by John Sanchez Jr. on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:25:07 AM
Irrelevant Questions - Moderators' Terrible Job by Bonnie Niebruegge on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:32:08 AM
Lucked out on the Left Coast by Sandy Sand on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:29:53 AM
Did I learn anything new? by Hope Hofmann on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:35:42 AM
Sen. Joseph McCarthy would be proud by Laurence A. Toenjes on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:49:01 AM
More choices, more voices by Kevin Gosztola on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:22:14 AM
Garbage corpstream media by Rob Kall on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:00:54 AM
Big media's complicit by jeffreyleonard on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:28:44 PM
It's past the time to boycott the National News on ABC, etc, by Rufus2 on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:15:38 PM
For that matter, it's well past time for a General Strike, by Richard Mynick on Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:46:54 PM
Karl Rove... by Plenum on Friday, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:23:15 AM
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