Memo to GOP candidates on debates

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Don't do it on certain networks.
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Nor will one-minute rebuttals provide any more clarity to the slogan-and-quip-line answer to those questions, even when the moderators play it straight.

But of course, that rarely happens any longer. In fact, with one exception this cycle, media "moderators" turn out to be partisan advocates itching to debate rather than moderate. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve credit for managing to restrain themselves from the "fact checking" exercise in the first presidential debate, but David Muir, Linsey Davis, Norah O'Donnell, and Margaret Brennan thought they belonged on the stage more than the two nominees. Their preening, partisan, and perjurious interventions all ran in the same direction -- to derail your candidate and protect your opponents.

The most recent debate had rules set against that as a condition of the agreement, which CBS News ignored. And then when your candidate called them out for their perfidy and attempted to correct the record, CBS cut their mics and Brennan smirked about it on camera. When they didn't bald-facedly call your candidates liars while ignoring falsehoods from your opponents, they framed the follow-ups to push Republican candidates away from a direct response during their rebuttal time, while simply allowing the Democrats to directly rebut what your candidates had argued. Brennan and O'Donnell did that all night long on Tuesday.

ABC, C.BS and NBC are merely partisan mouthpieces for the democrat party. There's no point in allowing them any say in hosting a Presidential or any other debate. I never thought I'd actually give kudos to C freaking NN for being the most fair in anything...and yet here we are.

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