#debate moderators

[ezrasf]

What i love about this Vance-Walz debate is the moderators re-asking unanswered questions.

[thesexypolitico]

Heat vs Light

Gotcha questions.

Sound bites.

Pre-planned zingers.

Softball questions.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Debates need not be moderated by news people who are interested in generating more heat than light.

Imagine a panel of debate moderators consisting of historians Joanne Freeman, Henry Louis Gates jr., Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Douglas Brinkley.

Or, imagine a panel of…

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[dr-archeville]

I wish the debate moderator was able to cut off a candidate's microphone when they talk over their limit, or talk over the other candidate.

[2bpoliticallycurious]

source: The New York Times

If only presidential debate moderators would insist that politicians be honest in their answers, would ask follow-up questions when they lie,  and would be willing to cut them off if they change the subject and don’t really answer the question.  I’d love to see a Saturday Night Live sketch where Hillary and Trump are hooked up to lie detectors during a debate and each time the detector goes off it makes a horrible buzzing noise and the moderator gets to cut them off.

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(It would add extra drama if they received a slight electric shock each time the lie detector went off.  Trump’s hair would probably look even weirder than it usually does by the end of the debate! 😉)

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[ofpolicies-blog]

No Debate Moderators

Donald Trump wants to debate Hillary Clinton — but he doesn’t want a moderator on stage with them.  “I think we should have a debate with no moderator, just Hillary and I sitting there talking,” Trump said Monday morning in a phone interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” The Republican presidential candidate said that criticism of NBC’s Matt Lauer following last week’s candidate forum in New York City…

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[reviewbeats]

'See how non-partisan they are?' NBC News reporter spotted 'promoting a Hillary Clinton attack ad'

‘See how non-partisan they are?’ NBC News reporter spotted ‘promoting a Hillary Clinton attack ad’

While some in the news media just don’t understand why Republicans should be allowed to take proactive action in the wake of egregious displays of bias, the examples keep piling up.

To get things started, Hillary Clinton’s campaign tweeted this Halloween video:

Marco Rubio barely finished referring to the mainstream media as a Democrat Super PAC when an NBC News reporter confirmed the claim:

As…

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[raemd95]

"The Irony Of Turkeys Being Excluded": Here Comes The New (Old) Whine About GOP Debates

“The Irony Of Turkeys Being Excluded”: Here Comes The New (Old) Whine About GOP Debates

Just as the intended lynch mob aimed at Republican debate moderators began to disperse in disarray, we have a new source of candidate complaints and it’s the one that generated the fine old whine we heard earlier in the cycle: the thresholds set for participation in the Main and “undercard” events using national polls. What’s changed are the candidates most affected.

According to CNN Money, two…

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[raemd95]

"The GOP’s Deranged List Of Debate Demands": Somebody Save Us From Reporters Asking Rude Questions

“The GOP’s Deranged List Of Debate Demands”: Somebody Save Us From Reporters Asking Rude Questions

The Republican debates have been a disaster for some candidates, a boon for others and an uninspiring spectacle for the nation to witness. But don’t blame it all on the moderators.

Not that the questioners are blameless, mind you. It’s true that some of the queries at last week’s CNBC encounter seemed designed to provokerather than elucidate. Ted Cruz’s memorable characterization of the questions…

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