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I didn't watch the debate last night between Obama and Clinton, and apparently didn't miss much. Can we create a new class of yapping heads for 2009 in a laboratory somewhere? Our current batch is a bunch of twiddle-dees.
When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances.
For the first 52 minutes of the two-hour, commercial-crammed show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.
[Click to read more of Tom Shales - In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC - washingtonpost.com]
Almost like the moderators had an interest in McCain winning the election....
The topics of the debate- "Bittergate", flag lapels, Rev. Wright, Bosnia sniper fire, etc. None of these are real issues, just bogus media controversies. No discussion of Iraq, economics, environment, you know, real issues.
