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I just caught something I thought very interesting. At the beginning of each of the debates, the moderator announced that they hadn't told anyone the questions.

A few minutes ago on CBS's Sunday morning program, Bob Scieffer gave credit to a 25 year old female producer (I didn't catch the name) for the question about strong women. Paraphrasing: A few days before the debate (during a meeting) my 25 year old producer said, "You don't have a single question about women." Obviously, she knew the questions.

I trusted the moderators to not compromise their integrity by sharing the questions with a campaign. I would not extend that trust to the entire organization. For the record, that is like trusting Mary Mapes (another CBS producer) to not share the questions.

I caught that too. Scieffer is a liar.
Rudy is on now with Scieffer. Rudy just inferred that Scieffer is a liar, when Scieffer stated that Bush didn't answer question " How is Bush going to pay for deficit?"
Rudy answered matter of factly - "The President did answer the question"
I know alot of Freepers don't agree with some of Rudy's positions, but in my opionion, Rudy has been the best spokesman for President Bush.

A few minutes ago on CBS's Sunday morning program, Bob Scieffer gave credit to a 25 year old female producer (I didn't catch the name) for the question about strong women. Paraphrasing: A few days before the debate (during a meeting) my 25 year old producer said, "You don't have a single question about women." Obviously, she knew the questions

Hot coffee and donuts to you, you win the Sunday morning outtake award. This is the most interesting thing said today.

You caught this:

"A few minutes ago on CBS's Sunday morning program, Bob Scieffer gave credit to a 25 year old female producer (I didn't catch the name) for the question about strong women. Paraphrasing: A few days before the debate (during a meeting) my 25 year old producer said, "You don't have a single question about women." Obviously, she knew the questions."

You made a BRILLIANT point in catching Scheiffer's "oops"....I DO HOPE it's picked up and mentioned by Brit Hume tomorrow night....but let's not take a chance.. PLEASE email him and ask him to read the Face The Nation transcript!!! While it won't make a tinker's damn worth of difference in the over all scheme of things, it should provide another nail in CBS's credibility coffin.

"I'll moderate our discussion under detailed rules agreed to by the candidates, but the questions and the areas to be covered were chosen by me. I have not told the candidates or anyone else what they are."

Above is Schieffer (from Cspan.org transcript). So it appears that if he said what you said he did, at minimum, he reviewed all the potential questions with others. Since his eventual subset of questions was taken from that "potential" group, he was not being honest. That's like telling his staff 'I will be using one of these thirty words as a password', then going on TV and saying 'I have not told anyone what password I will use.' Yes you have, it is one of those thirty. If you admit you've told others all the potential questions, it is a FACT that you've told them the questions you will be asking.