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Is There a Fix in for the Vice Presidential Debate?
Pajamas Media ^ | 10/10/2012 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 10/10/2012 2:49:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Posted By Bryan Preston On October 10, 2012 @ 8:29 am In media,Politics | 52 Comments

The Daily Caller has a disturbing story up today. The outline goes like this: The moderator of Thursday's vice presidential debate is Martha Raddatz of ABC News. She is the network's senior foreign correspondent, and she is the sole moderator of the veep debate, which will center on foreign policy.

Raddatz has a connection with Barack Obama going all the way back to their days at Harvard. They worked on the Harvard Law Review together, and Obama attended her 1991 wedding. Fast forward to the present, and President Obama has appointed Raddatz's husband, Julius Genachowski, to the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski is also an Obama campaign bundler, meaning that he is a major fundraiser for the president's re-election effort. That storyline alone raises questions of corruption and rewarding political supporters with powerful federal posts. Yet ABC insists that Raddatz has no conflict of interest in moderating the debate.

As if that all wasn't bad enough, the Caller raised all of this with ABC on Monday but the network stonewalled. It finally admitted Raddatz’s connections to Obama, but only after ABC went to Politico, the Daily Beast, and the Huffington Post to get some damage control printed on those liberal sites first.

Is this how an allegedly neutral news network should behave?

This is the kind of story a Jake Tapper would ordinarily raise in a White House press briefing, but whoops! Tapper works for ABC. And whoops! the Obama White House quietly scuttled press briefings a couple of weeks ago. The White House press corps didn’t even raise a fuss about that.

Thursday’s debate, as I mentioned earlier, is supposed to center on foreign policy. Right now the Obama administration is embroiled in what looks very much like a cover-up regarding the sacking in Benghazi. But Vice President Biden has, so far, managed to escape any scrutiny or questions about what happened in Benghazi and who knew what and when. Will moderator Martha Raddatz grill Biden about this very serious foreign policy question, or will she let him off the hook?

In the wake of last week’s presidential debate, many on the left assailed debate moderator Jim Lehrer for his performance as a way of distracting from President Obama’s weak showing. Raddatz surely knows this. Her husband’s status with the Obama campaign plus her own longstanding connection to the president himself suggests where her political sympathies lie. She has to know that if she aggressively questions Biden, she stands a strong chance of being ripped by the left as Lehrer was.

Her and her husband’s connections to Obama plus ABC’s behavior suggest that there is a fix in for Thursday’s vice presidential debate. If Raddatz does not press Biden hard about Libya, America will know that that debate was rigged to favor the Obama administration.



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To: SeekAndFind
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that in the three remaining debates R&R will be absolutely crushed.

According to the MSM that is.

21 posted on 10/10/2012 3:04:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: Nachum
I've seen Biden perform on the Senate judiciary committee for years. He is a clod for sure, but he's not to be underestimated when it comes to playing to the gallery.

He'll smile with a twinkle in his eye like ol' Lunchbox Joe, but he's as big a bastard as there is when he wants to be.

22 posted on 10/10/2012 3:04:36 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: madison10

The FIX? Joe has already been fed the questions to be asked.


23 posted on 10/10/2012 3:04:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Nachum

Lots of errors here. Genachowski was on the Harvard Law Review with O not Raddatz. He’s also her ex husband ,she’s married to some guy from NPR. The lady does get around, one of her husbands was Ben Bradlee’s son.
The lady has an attitude and I doubt very much she’ll be unbiased.


24 posted on 10/10/2012 3:05:13 PM PDT by surrey
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To: SeekAndFind
We will know soon enough if idiot seems normal..Or Obama’s friend that will be giving out the questions does something..

Did you know that the person that is the moderator is a friend of Obama’s he even went to her wedding..I heard that on news today..And you know it wasn't the communist news..

25 posted on 10/10/2012 3:05:47 PM PDT by PLD
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To: SeekAndFind

May God give Paul Ryan the words to say so that all may see the clear difference between he and Joe Biden.


26 posted on 10/10/2012 3:06:31 PM PDT by teletech (Say NO to RINOS!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why the hockey sticks doesn't the RNC hold their OWN debates?

Can't find a camera and a tripod?

Cerially!!!! We don't NEED them anymore!

Why hold the primaries sham show? We have the ability to telecommute the entire nation at once. Why do we hold on to wasteful and harmful processes?

Tradition?

It's a new century. Let's act like it!

27 posted on 10/10/2012 3:08:15 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Logical me

the more time Biden talks, the better.


28 posted on 10/10/2012 3:08:51 PM PDT by MNDude (OWS Movement RIP)
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To: SeekAndFind
She is the network's senior foreign correspondent, and she is the sole moderator of the veep debate, which will center on foreign policy.

The VP debate is suppose to be on both, foreign and domestic.

29 posted on 10/10/2012 3:09:30 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: SeekAndFind

Who involved with producing are running the debate is smart enough to pull it off with it being obvious?


30 posted on 10/10/2012 3:09:35 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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To: SeekAndFind

Question for Vice President Biden: “some say” you rival Winston Churchill as a statesman. Please tell the audience how you honed your awesome diplomatic skills.

...

Question for Congressman Ryan: As you may know — but probably don’t — the country of Kyrgyzstan is a former Soviet republic. Spell it, and list and spell each of its enclaves, and name and spell the leaders of each enclave.


31 posted on 10/10/2012 3:11:08 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: PLD

President Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned. Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School classmates at the time and members of the Harvard Law Review.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/10/abc-news-scrambles-to-cover-up-barack-obamas-attendance-at-vp-debate-moderators-wedding/


32 posted on 10/10/2012 3:11:39 PM PDT by PLD
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To: SeekAndFind

Having Raddatz be the moderator is just another symptoms of the liberal disease. That is, one of their biggest problems is having a focus on style, process and packaging rather than on substance.

Lack of substance is the explanation for Obama’s poor debate performance.

Trying to manipulate the process by putting in pro-Obama moderators is a continuation of this error.

It’s an error they can never fix, because liberalism is defined by lack of substance.


33 posted on 10/10/2012 3:11:58 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: teletech
May God give Paul Ryan the words to say so that all may see the clear difference between he and Joe Biden.

Amen! Agreeing with you in the Name of Jesus!

34 posted on 10/10/2012 3:12:17 PM PDT by Faith
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To: SeekAndFind
She worked for PBS for five years before ABC, may be a big bird question, since Obama campaign is stuck on this.
35 posted on 10/10/2012 3:14:12 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: rawcatslyentist

>> Why the hockey sticks doesn’t the RNC hold their OWN debates?

Have you ever seen one of those French debates? Just the two candidates, seated at a round table — not too big, not too small :-) — and they ask each OTHER questions. No time limits. NO moderator.

Ryan would wipe the floor with Plugs in such a format.


36 posted on 10/10/2012 3:14:12 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: Nachum
The fly in the ointment is probably Raddatz herself ~ she may have dumped Goober's boy toy for obvious reasons ~ so who knows where she really comes down on this guy and his friends anymore.

She should have backed out of the deal herself ~ which any person with integrity would have done.

Her husband's career is an entertaining read. Far leftwingtard fanatic does business and makes money ~ that'd be a title for his bio.

This guy is as phoney as his old buddy Chucky Schumer

37 posted on 10/10/2012 3:14:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SeekAndFind

I think Ryan will be able to deflect any and all of that kind of crap. He’ can pull a Newt and turn the tables back in their face easily.


38 posted on 10/10/2012 3:14:53 PM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: Banjoguy
How and why do the Pubbies always get set up like this?

That's what I want to know. I agree w/ Newt. Let there be Lincoln/Douglas debate formats for all of them and screw the left wing media altogether!

39 posted on 10/10/2012 3:16:10 PM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would any of that domestic rape nonsense or medicare be featured in a debate on foreign policy?


40 posted on 10/10/2012 3:17:57 PM PDT by soycd
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