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Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:37 PM
| By
Christopher Beam
Here was Charles Krauthammer weighing in yesterday on moderator Carolyn Washburn's performance:
"That was not just the worst debate of 2007, that was the worst debate
in western history, and that includes the ancient Greeks. There was no
record in any major European record of a debate this transcendently and
crushingly dull. It was an astonishment. The best line of the day was
Fred [Barnes] in commenting after the debate where he said the
moderator was Nurse Ratched. This moderator had the candidates
shackled, handcuffed, and gagged with these absurd 15-second responses,
30 second responses. … [S]he had taken the major issues of any
interest—Iraq and immigration—off the table at the beginning and never
asked about the NIE or Iran or proliferation or interrogation— anything
on our minds today."
He should have seen today's ...
[Via Politico]
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