Posted on 10/06/2004 6:27:19 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Quote: Gwen was far better than Lehrer....which is NOT HARD to ACCOMPLISH!!!!
I don't know what debate they were watching......I was impresed by Ifill's fairness and actual use of brainpower in making the questions.
All that you have to do is what I do on Friday evenings. I surf by Washington Week on PBS, which is a panel show (subsidized by the taxpayers) "moderated" by Gwen Ifill. I do that to check to see if she ever has a panelist that has ever, ever voted for a Republican. I've been doing it for years, and there has yet to be a panelist that anyone would think ever, ever voted for a Republican.
I have emailed her numerous times and never got a reply until I got a bit nasty. She didn't answer my question but just told me not to bother watching her program - in spite of the fact that in every email I had told her that I never watch, I just surf by to see who is on the panel.
Gwen Ifill stated, before the debate started, that she had composed the questions herself.
Not only did he shrug it off after he did it a few times, he did it with a smarmy smirk on his face, as if to say, "So what? You can't do anything to me."
... I'm surprised she was chosen as moderator....? THINK ABOUT THAT FOR JUST A MOMENT....
Imagine if Edwards got some of Cheney`s questions and vice versa...they wouldn`t have needed a moderator they`d have needed a coroner. I vow when I hit the powerball I`m buying into big media and firing 93% of them.
I don't know if the moderators "craft" their own questions, but I had my fill of Ifill by 7:11 p.m. PDST. That's when she started in on AIDS fatalities being highest among African-Americans 18-44 or something like that. It was right after she asked Edwards whether he felt "personally attacked by the V.P."
Powerline raved about how wonderful she was. What debate did he watch? Her demeanor and questions were SO BLATANTLY BIASED against Cheney and for the Dimwit. It seemed to get more and more personal for her, as when she asked about the 30% of Cleveland citizens living in "poverty."
She's way too self-important, acted like she could get up and slap the boys around if she felt like it. Just ask the questions, stupid.
The debates are a farce anyway, like the 9/11 commission, they're a forum for promoting anti-American leftist propaganda and manipulating the outcome of the so-called impartial "debate." Maybe I'm in the minority here, but when I got fed up last night, I wanted to tell the Prez the cancel to rest of the debates. It's stacked against us more than ever. These liberal mods need to be brought down a few pegs.
In spite of all this, Cheney hit it out of the park every time. While Edwards couldn't even bunt and stumbled over his shoelaces.
Very well said!!!
What we should be doing is bombarding the Commission on Presidential Debates. Unfortunately, they don't give any help in identifying a means to contact them.
It would be a good thing for FR and others to do their damndest to get rid of this commission. Period. And the so--called Republican co-chair, Frank Fahrenkoff (SP?). He's obviously out of it.
Most of us thought Ifill was "fair" because we are so used to media bias we EXPECT questions that beat up on us ...
If the mods were really fair, we'd get a few questions like:
"SENATOR, ZELL MILLER CALLED YOU WEAK, WOBBLY AND WRONG ON DEFENSE DURING YOUR 20 YEARS IN THE SENATE. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE IN THE SENATE THAT WOULD REBUT THAT CHARGE?"
"SENATOR, DO YOU REGRET VOTING AGAINST THE GULF WAR AUTHORIZATION? WHY OR WHY NOT?"
"SENATOR, YOU OPPOSED THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT IN 1996. IF YOU HAD TO DO IT OVER AGAIN, WOULD YOU VOTE THAT WAY?"
"SENATOR, IN 1986 YOU SAID IT WAS "SEARED IN YOUR MEMORY" THAT YOU WERE IN CAMBODIA ON CHRISTMAS 1968. WAS THAT "SEARED MEMORY" REAL OR FICTIONAL?"
I could swear that Ifill told both debaters that they were not to address each other directly, and the first moment Edwards opened his mouth, it was directed to Cheney personally. Did anyone else notice this?
You got that right!
Cheney nailed it every round.
More proof this is the Democrat B-team.
When the media is so obviously biased - Bush/Cheney might be able to humorously use this to advantage, highlighting the bias and addressing the subject issue, by rephrasing the question to what it should have been. For example:
Moderator: "So, now that we are losing in Iraq, the world hates us, and everything's going to hell in the mideast - tell me what you're going to do fix all that."
Bush/Cheney: "Thank you for asking about our progress in fighting terrorism. We indeed are making Iraq a more stable country, which will serve as the lynchpin for democracy in the middle east. And as you mentioned, the war effort is indeed going very well, with the pacification of the vast majority of provinces in Iraq, and the steady eradication of radical forces who are fighting the new government and democratic progress in Iraq."
Yes! - That and edwards speaking out of turn!!!
Thanks. I didn't see most of the debate.
Cheney looked like the big bulldog and Edwards was the little squeak yapping all around him. Edwards was coached so badly, he came out and attacked Cheney in his first statement. Rookie mistake - Edwards is outclassed, outgunned, and generally out of his league.
How about... "SENATOR KERRY, IN 1994 YOU PERSISTED IN YOUR EFFORTS TO LIFT THE TRADE EMBARGO AGAINST VIETNAM, BASED ON THEIR COOPERATION ON THE POW/MIA ISSUE. SHORTLY AFTERWARD COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL, YOUR COUSIN C.STEWART FORBES`S COMPANY WAS GIVEN A $905 MILLION DEAL TO BUILD A DEEP SEA PORT IN VIETNAM. BASED ON YOUR ATTACKS AGAINST THE V.P. AND HALLIBURTON, WERE YOUR ACTIONS FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED?"
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