[Thrusher]

¡ö Hmmmmm¡¯s ¡°Interesting.¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°

[DefCon]

[NYC GOP Chick]

I thought this was giong to be about the FR Moderators!

[FlJoePa]

She looks on the up and up to me (/sarcasm)

[Question Liberal Authority]

Gawd almighty! What is this, the all-PBS commielib debates? Why don't they ask Mark Russell to moderate one? At least then it will be entertaining. If they insist on using PBS folks they could use John McLaughlin with a 30 minute Bush / Kerry / Cheney / Edwards free-for all. "ISSUE ONE - THE GLOBAL TEST!!!"

[Free ThinkerNY]

Welcome to Bizarro World.

[eureka!]

Earlier over at DemocraticUnderground.com, those idiots were complaining that she is good friends with Condi Rice. The even accused Gwen of being a lesbian lover of Condi's. Methinks that Gwen will be one over by the lovable Cheney and will be okay...

[Petronski]

¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°That's¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°un¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°friggin'¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°believable!¡± ¡°¡ö ¡#$.¡± ¡°

[David]

The Bushes still rely on Jim Baker to do these deals--agreement to adverse parties as moderator is clearly dumb. Baker had maximum bargaining leverage and should have required the dems to agree to a pro Republican moderator.

Baker was once a strong highpowered lawyer but he is visably aging and no longer has the horsepower he once had.

[truth_seeker]

"PBS host Jim Lehrer asked tough questions to President Bush about his record, but failed to do the same for John Kerry. He asked Kerry to list Bush's ¡°colossal misjudgments,¡± and then to list the President's lies. But he never once asked Kerry about his 20-year Senate record."

If Bush was more effective (skilled) as a debator, HE COULD HAVE restated the questions, and then answered his own restated questions.

I know Bush is intelligent enough to do this; but it is not his general style to be that aggressive.

But let's face it: Kerry is skilled and agile, the moderators are biased.

To offset those factors, Bush SHOULD restate unfair questions, then answer same.

Bush can use his response time any way he likes. He can just answer the dumb questions, or he can make his own case.

Part of making his own case, is to contrast how weak Kerry has been during his career, about defense issues.

[Dog Gone]

Well, let's just be realistic. They didn't have any nationally-known conservative or unbiased black journalist women to choose from.

[xm177e2]

So, is the MRC going to apologize for misjudging Ifill's professionalism?

[zoyd]

I thought Gwen Ifill did a very good job, aside from the occassional mix-up on who was due to speak.

She made Lehrer look like a boob.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I'm afraid Scheifer may be the worst of all after watching him on Larry King and tonight on with Dan Rather (for about 5 minutes)...