Debate debacle

By Libby

After an exhausting day yesterday, I tuned in about 15 minutes late and saw a few minutes of Obama talking before I passed out cold. He looked a little shaky and he was clearly answering a stupid question about the phony scandals the mindless media had been flogging. Looking at the reviews this morning, Greg Mitchell gives a good rundown, I'm not sorry I missed it. I don't think my blood pressure would have fared well.

Crooks and Liars has a mash-up of some of the most egegrious moments and notes that it wasn't well received by the public at large, if the 10,000 comments at the ABC site are any indication. And I hear Gibson got booed by the audience at the end. I think the only thing made clear last night is the electorate is not served by having the insipid talking heads ask the questions. It's time to bring back the League of Women Voters or some neutral entity, whose agenda has nothing to do with ratings and promoting their overpaid media stars, to run these events again.

But I'd love to hear from some of you who managed to get through it. Was it as awful as the reviews say? Did either candidate "win?"

Comments

[BJ]

I got through about half of it before turning off in disgust. As I said on my site, you can get an indication of how bloody ridiculous the whole thing was in the fact that Jonah Goldberg is making sense!

[Libby Spencer]

Jeez BJ. That is frightening.

[J. Thomas Duffy]

Libby

It was dreadful

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Boy, And We Thought Russert and Williams Sucked
http://puregarlic.blogspot.com/2008/04/boy-and-we-thought-russert-and-williams.html

Peace
JTD

[Wendell]

It was extra dreadful. The candidate who won, beyond any possible argument, is named McCain. (And, though not a candidate (Allah IS merciful and compassionate!), Rush Limbaugh, with his Operation Chaos)

Isn't there ANYONE who can ask these candidates something novel and important, like, oh, interrogation policy, or U.S. exercise of "soft power" or who they would put into Karen Hughes old office, or loose nukes or what earlier or present Supreme Court Justice they would like to have nominated, or why our Ag policy is so atrocious or ...

[john in nc]

I will not vote for either of them because of that Theater of Bamboozle. At first I thought they were victims but now I can see that they were willing and active participants. I will vote Libertarian instead.

[Libby Spencer]

Well it sounds like falling asleep was the best plan. I probably would have stroked out if I had watched it awake. I might mention I had really horrible dreams last night, no doubt because I crashed with the TV still on. I suppose I was listening with my subconscious.