[Attention Surplus Disorder]

What he said.

[Amntn]

I absolutely agree.

The debates should be set up and run by the parties not the media.

The media should be invited to cover it the same way they cover live sporting events but not run them.

[Redbob]

There are other ways: the GOP should insist that their OWN people moderate the debates - there are at least 3 prominent GOP leaders who are both (a) not candidates, and (b) could be reasonably trusted to be even-handed in their questioning.

Unlike the blonde beeyotch from Fox...

[Old Sarge]

SLAP!

[Jim Scott]

If a Republican presidential candidate can’t handle tough questions from Megyn Kelly, how are they going to deal with Putin and the Iranian Ayatollahs?

The upcoming debates won’t get any easier. The Fox News debate was a good way to get used to responding cogently to pointed questions. If Levin thinks it should have been a softball game for the candidates he has little respect for the formidable Republican field.

The inference that the RNC-approved debate should have been little more than a two-hour campaign ad for Republicans is dismissive of Fox News as a credible news network and not the Republican party propaganda outfit the left claims.

[Carry_Okie]

This was not to be the Fox debate but the first REPUBLICAN PARTY sanctioned debate. We Republicans are trying to decide who to support in the primaries through this process. Fox was given an opportunity to moderate the first debate. It wasn't to be "the Fox debate." Meanwhile, they've been relentlessly touting their ratings to the public and advertisers from the debate because that was their objective. Well, cable ratings be damned. Their corporate objectives are not our objectives. We, the people, learned next to nothing. These are serious times and they perverted the format. Of course the New York Times and CNN praised them.

One of the best summary statements I have ever seen out of Levin. Fox suffers from an inferiority complex re the big broadcast networks and is angling for status against them. They let that agenda blind them seeking to "test" the candidates for how they might perform in the MSM limelight.

That's not their job. They forgot their purpose.

[Will88]

Meanwhile, they've been relentlessly touting their ratings to the public and advertisers from the debate because that was their objective.

Not Fox's ratings, more like Trump's ratings, at least the huge incremental increase in the audience size over debates from past years belongs to Trump.

Fox is to host two more debates. Wouldn't surprise me if The Donald sat one of them out. Fox Business Channel will also host one debate.

[Fightin Whitey]

Mistah Kurtz...he dumb.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I watched Howard yesterday trying to walk Chrissy Wallace and Bret Baier across the bridge to redemption. I didn’t buy it.