“Clocking in at around 300 pounds, CNN celebrity host Candy Crowley bulldozed her way into the debate to deliberately kneecap the hapless and doomed Mitt Romney.”
I almost stopped reading at that point. What does her weight have to do with anything? Feel free to attack her on substance, attack her on bias she’s shown, attack her on the job she did as a debate moderator in 2012, but her weight? Really? That is about as juvenile as when Trump supporters attacked Megyn Kelly because of her new short hair do. And FWIW, Trump supporters have no room to criticize someone’s hair.
“Breitbart News is reporting that it’s a foregone conclusion that Holt is going to be the designated Trump slayer in the first match-up with Hollerin’ Hillary around whom the media and moderators will form a protective phalanx.”
Breitbart News is reporting...
I am reserving judgement on Lester Holt until after the debate is over.
I would have a problem if he only lobs softball questions to Clinton and doesn’t challenge any of her answers or lies with a follow up question but aggressively goes after Trump. And vice versa. We shall see in a few hours.
If he ends up being fair and balanced but tough on both and not allowing either of them give answers that should not necessarily go unchallenged with a challenge or follow up, then I won’t have a problem with that. This is after all a job interview.
I’ve been a hiring manager and have interviewed many people over the years. In my experience sometimes you as an interviewer catch an inconsistency or vague answer such as when asking -
why did you leave your last job and not work for the next year?” I am also out of work right now and have been interviewing and a few of them have been brutal, but having been on the other side of the table, nothing that what I would consider unfair.
If someone wants a debate moderator who just ask questions off of a list of questions and only be there to make sure the candidates don’t go over their allotted time, that’s fine. I get that. But I for one have no problem with some fact checking and follow up questions as long as 1) it is really a fact checking and 2) is applied to both candidates equally.
