Why spoil a perfect record? Doesn't seem as though I missed anything, except another chance to see the pathetic attempts at journalism that seem to infest our public discourse these days. From Greg Mitchell at HuffPo:
In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate in years, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in Philadelphia. They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the health care and mortgage crises, the overall state of the economy and dozens of other pressing issues had to wait for their few moments in the sun as Obama was pressed to explain his recent "bitter" gaffe and relationship with Rev. Wright (seemingly a dead issue) and not wearing a flag pin -- while Clinton had to answer again for her Bosnia trip exaggerations.
Mitchell also notes David Brooks' comment:
To top it off, here is David Brooks' review at The New York Times: "I thought the questions were excellent." He gives ABC an "A." Of course, "A" can stand for many things.
John Aravosis has a summary of the comments from the blogosphere. Pam Spaulding has partial transcripts. As of this posting there were 11320 comments at ABC's site. Viewers weren't happy.
In fact, word is that the moderators were so bad that they were booed. Not the candidates -- the moderators.
How pathetic is that?
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