Debate moderators - 4 libs
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CBS "Face The Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer - liberal, on a hyper-liberal anti-Bush news network. But he may be the most fair of the group.
ABC co-anchor of "PrimeTime Thursday" and "Good Morning America" co-host Charles Gibson - liberal, along with morning co-host Diane Sawyer. Very openly and snidely anti-Bush in attitude. A recent episode had him endlessly ridiculing George Bush Sr. during the Sr.'s birthday tandem parachute jump. Gibson went on and on, and was so over the top, that the tandem jumper he was interviewing completely stopped responding to Gibson's barbs, and out of politeness simply pretended to be having earphone technical trouble, as Gibson kept snidely pestering him to joke with him in his derisive comments about the Bush landing style.
PBS "The NewsHour" host Jim Lehrer - liberal. May be fair, but the ingrained PBS liberal bias is well known, especially on the News Hour, which tends to focus intensely on the Palestinian plight, along with it's broadcast sister NPR, as the most important cause in the world.
PBS moderator and managing editor of "Washington Week" and senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," Gwen Ifill - liberal. Two from PBS? Two from News Hour? Well, she moved over from New York Times, and then NBC News, and is one of the few prominent black journalists, so diversity is always a plus. But, liberal.
But why not Tony Snow, from Fox?
Or Tim Russert?
Or even George Stephanopolous, who has proven to be able to hide his bias, if any, a heck of a lot better than Charlie Gibson, from the same network.
Why all TV personalities?
Why not someone from Wall Street Journal?
Or perhaps a professional debate moderator, one not from a liberal university, perhaps?
Anyway, this is the group hosting the debates, who made all that fuss earlier about losing their non-profit status, because of RNC language in the debate agreement. I guess they finally got over that, whatever it was.
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The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners.
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