how about Bozo the Clown too...
Posted on 08/21/2015 2:55:49 PM PDT by Dave346
Just two weeks after the broadcast networks mourned “cultural icon” Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show, Friday’s NBC Today and CBS This Morning touted an online petition on the liberal Change.org website urging the Commission on Presidential Debates to select the left-wing comedian as a 2016 debate moderator.
On Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered: “Could the presidential race be in Jon Stewart's future?” Fill-in weatherperson Dylan Dryer followed: “Well, that’s the hope of a lot of people....A Change.org petition requesting Stewart moderate one of the 2016 presidential debates has been signed almost 140,000 times and that number is growing by the second.”
Dryer promoted the argument from Stewart’s fans:
The petition reads, “Over the last 16 years Jon Stewart has played an influential and iconic role in covering US politics and media.” As further support, the petition claims that Jon Stewart's past interviews have included 15 heads of state, 22 cabinet members, 32 senators, and 7 representatives.
Wrapping up the minute-and-a-half-long segment, Dryer noted that “a mix of news journalists” moderated the debates in the 2012 presidential campaign, “None of whom take the satirical reporting approach that Jon Stewart is known for.”
On August 3, the hosts of Today lamented that the “saddest thing” about Stewart stepping down as Daily Show host was that he would not be around to attack Republicans after the first GOP debate.
On This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose offered a news brief on the topic:
Time reports on a growing effort to let Jon Stewart host a presidential debate. His fans launched a petition shortly after Stewart left The Daily Show. They want the Commission on Presidential Debates to consider letting Stewart moderate a debate. The petition has more than 140,000 signatures.
The media infatuation with Stewart has gotten to a point where journalists have become eager to abdicate their role in presidential politics to a comedian.
Whatta bunch clowns.
We should start a petition to not have him host a debate.
In any case, why do real debaters need a “moderator”?
Let the candidates take turns making an assertion, the other rebuts, then cross-examination. There just needs to be a timekeeper.
Just say no
Stewart is nothing more than the left’s Lord Haw-Haw.
Let him be the moderator...
...to an stage with ten unattended lecterns.
He’s well qualified to stand up, turn around, and admit to the audience why.
It isn’t about the moderator. It’s about the candidates.
If he is chosen, the candidates should look for an alternate event to attend, together. Just mock the hell out of the Leftists.
Anyone who agrees to a debate hosted by a fake news man, with a fake name from a comedy networks should be barred from politics.
If he is selected, the GOP should simply refuse to participate.
Why should the conservative candidate participate in these rigged debates? Tell them what they can do to themselves and go right to the American people.
Stewart is a debate moderator? Good idea, because clowns make great moderators.
Just look back to the historic JFK-Nixon debate. Moderators Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, and Lou Costello all did an excellent job. Bud Abbott was a bit off. But that’s not surprising, as he was a straight man.
Any conservative who consents to engage in a debate with Jon Stewart as a “moderator” is a complete fool and unworthy of your vote. Why not just paint “Allah sucks” on your bare butt and run naked through Pakistan?
Bozo the Clown would be more sane.
So, you are looking for a ROBOT MODERATOR!!!!!
What is good for the middle class is most assuredly good for ‘journalism’. Guy goes over his time, his mike gets cut off and the camera goes somewhere else.
As for the questions, post them prior to the debate. Let everyone know what they are going to be ahead of time.
Then let them talk.
Failing that, put a general, a small business owner, an accountant, a plumber, a CEO, a teacher, a lawyer, and an economist (definitely not the same as an accountant) into a room and let them come up with the questions. You have to use AT LEAST ONE of everyone’s questions, and not more than 3.
Can’t stand Stewart. Never could.
Not surprising. Clown galleries always want clowns to lead.
how about Bozo the Clown too...
Sounds great. Again, I think the essence of a real debate is allowing the candidates to cross-ex one another. Let’s see how well they can think on their feet.
Who cares if he's selected, Trump surpasses his capability.
Trump will decimate him, and or any questions he might spin.
Trump has shown that it's not the interviewer or moderator, it's the candidates.
Until now we've had defective candidates.
I think Stewart should moderate a debate.
Between the democrat candidates
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