Fred Wins, Iowa Loses [Why Carolyn Washburn should keep her day job]

The Weekly Standard ^ | Dec. 12, 2007 | by Dean Barnett

[jdm]

Ping.

[Windcatcher]

Clearly she’s a liberal hack (I’m being extraordinarily kind here) with an agenda to push and an axe to grind.

[TornadoAlley3]

She is moderating the Dem debate, watch her play nice with them.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Des Moines Register is to the left of Pravda! Why in the world would the GOP let them and PUBLIC TELEVISION sponsor a debate?! International ANSWER and Daily Kos would probably be more fair and balanced!

[WOSG]

THE WINNER was Fred Thompson. Fred came to play. He also had the obvious moment of the day when he took on the officious moderator, refusing to go along with one of those idiotic "raise your hands" questions. Given the hour that the debate took place, a lot of people will probably see only a highlight package of the debate. The unquestioned highlight was Fred slapping down the moderator. Even putting that aside, Fred had his best day of the campaign. He was serious, thoughtful, and authoritative. It was a wonderful day for him.

THE SILVER MEDALIST was Mitt Romney. Romney continued his fine run. Actually, the overly dry format played to his advantage. His wonkiness shines through on virtually every issue, and because there was no interplay, this debate was all about the wonkiness. His answer on education nearly broke the Luntz-o-meter

Glad to hear the grownups did well, and also glad to hear that the biggest losers and worst players in all these debates - Chris Matthews, CNN, and this - have been the liberal MSM 'moderators'. A pox on 'em.

[seekthetruth]

Fred did great in his shut down of the liberal climate/global warming question! Too bad he wasn’t allowed a minute to give an answer! The following is what Fred said on this subject back when he was sitting in for Paul Harvey. It would have been a GREAT one minute answer! :)
This is what Fred said when he was sitting in for Paul Harvey some time ago. :)

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTQzYWY1MGM5NTkyZTM2YWVlMDMzMDlhMzQwNThhNDU=

[NeoCaveman]

For what it's worth, Washburn brought all the charm to her assignment of a latter-day Nurse Ratched.

I really like Barnett, aka Chowda, but that really is Rush's line. He uses it all the time about HillRodham.

[Rome2000]

Oh come on, she was wearing a rad Mao jacket!

Probably had a copy of a certain little red book in her bag.

[Old Sarge]

But if the local media are going to hijack the process and ruin it, as Carolyn Washburn surely ruined today's debate, then the parties are going to have to rethink parts of the process, if not the entire thing.

Problem is, it's not LOCAL media, it's the Media as a whole. They have literally announced their allegiance to a political party, and are now nothing more than activists.

Between paid plants, inept moderators, and transparent shills, the Left feels they have reached critical mass and will do what they will, without fear of reprisal from America.

[silentreignofheroes]

good answer..

[sourcery]

This author has a clue, and is not politically tone deaf (unlike some of the other journalists who have commented on this debate.)

[The Pack Knight]

Not the best forum, but Fred made it work anyway.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Fred broke his foot off.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Fred broke his foot off."

Huh? I'm not familiar with that term...

[The Pack Knight]

I believe he meant to say that Fred broke his foot off somewhere in the vicinity of Washburn’s 4th point of contact.

[HiramQuick]

The funny thing is she is tooooooo stupid to understand that Fred Thompson made her look even more moronic than she is. She is probably gloating right this very instant “boy, I sure showed him.”

Gawd help the imbecilic media .... they are slowly destroying themselves. can you say implosion?

[2ndDivisionVet]

As in: “Fred done broke his foot off’n her ___? Okay, I agree with that 200%!

[MinuteGal]

A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse, of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. FRed

Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
He's always on a steady course
That's our Mr. FRed

People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mr. FRed will seldom speak unless he has something to say

A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And this one'll talk 'til his drawl is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?
Well, listen to him, he's our "Mr. FRed!

Leni

[SaxxonWoods]

Fred did fantastic, but could have added on the scam question, “If you think Global Warming is important enough to rate a question, why is it not important enough for comment?”

He implied that though, good enough.

It’s too bad that people think he is “tired” because he has wrinkles and doesn’t talk fast like Yankees do. In doing business with a lot of slow-talking Southerners I have learned not to underestimate them. Some of them are most dangerous when they sound like they are about to fall asleep.