[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

What???

Call them out, Ann!

[MeganC]

There are not debates that we’ve seen. They’re just a modified press conference is all where the liberal media gets to ask GOTCHA!! questions of Trump and softballs of everyone else.

In an actual debate the candidates would all be asked the same questions and then given time to respond. Haven’t seen that in this election cycle.

[Jim Noble]

Ann Coulter: Why Do We Have Debate Moderators at All?

To make sure nothing ever can change?

[BenLurkin]

[Impy]

These aren’t actually debates, they are more like joint press conferences.

[miss marmelstein]

Ask Rinse that, Ann. Not us.

Repubs never wake up. Never.

[Navin Johnson]

Coulter is totally right on this one. And it is exceptionally relevant tonight with that puke Matt Lauer involved.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I want them to do a cage match.

[lee martell]

Good question, Ann. We don’t really need them. We may need someone or something to read the questions out loud, make sure everyone is on the same page, but we already have subtitles for the hearing impaired. A Traffic Light system can govern who speaks when. The microphone has to either shut off when a candidates turn ends or we will allow the candidates to overtalk and spill over into the other one’s timeslot. I say give it a try.

[Blue Jays]

If it was not a rigged system we would see Graham Ledger and Sean Hannity as moderators in some of the debates.
Ann Coulter is correct, the candidates would be fine posing questions directly to each other with minimal moderation.

[Fungi]

“Moderators” are there to drive the debate to their pre-disposed direction and end, not to facilitate the airing of truth between the candidates. Let the candidates ask the questions of each other, there you will see a real “debate” and let the results fall where they may.

[Fiddlstix]

RULES

[savagesusie]

She is SO correct.....there should be ONLY a DEBATE between the TWO candidates. Someone to introduce them and give them their timing rules...etc....LIKE A TRUE DEBATE.

Now-—the PRESSTITUTES are featured....and WHY should these idiots have MORE CONTROL over what can and can not be talked about!!!!!

Our system has been so corrupted, it is NOT funny!!!!

[Vaquero]

Did Lincoln-Douglas have a moderator?

[airborne]

Better question -

What the heck was Ann Coulter doing on the stage at the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe???

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Please allow me to reuse a comment I posted last May.

“Wouldn’t it be refreshing if there were no “moderator” (as that role has come to be defined) — just a time-keeper, to (attempt to) ensure roughly equal time allocation.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3434011/posts

[Jim W N]

Answer:

Rule 1: The Left is in charge and it’s all about the Left and their media minions.

Rule 2: It is NEVER a true debate, only a slanted Q&A session aimed to take down Trump with the “moderators” hogging as much of the attention as possible. Remember Rule 1: it’s ALL about the Left.

Rule 3: How else could the Left set up a firing squad aimed at Trump? Just call them something like “moderators.”

[bigbob]

Because it’s not a debate, it’s a for-profit reality TV program where the political candidates and moderator are the cast.

[x]

“Lincoln and Douglas didn’t have moderators,” she pointed out.

No moderators = civil war?

[RetiredTexasVet]

We have moderators (aka MSM pimps and pimpettes) to help the lame Democrats through the trying times of a debate.

[Organic Panic]

I agree. A robot and a non negotiable timer on the mics. One second over the mic is cut.