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Townhall
Only Republican
Gaffes Dominate Presidential Coverage
by Matt Towery
Oct 18, 2012
Most political pundits know that presidential debates, particularly
these absurd "town hall" debacles, are more about who makes a gaffe or
has an "oops moment" than about who brings the better policy to the
table.
But before I make my case with regard to the pushing of "gaffes" in one
particular direction, let me disarm the same media I will later take to
task (of course, you can never really disarm them ... they have a
permanent round of journalistic bullets to fire).
I know conservatives and Republicans are upset over the perceived bias
of Tuesday's debate moderator, Candy Crowley. But I really don't blame
her for her performance. First, these stupid town hall settings are as
unwieldy as the open floor space the candidates are left to roam about
like lost cats. And Crowley was left to do the impossible, herding them.
No, she should not have been the "official fact-checker" of the debate.
But observers seemed to only hear her validate a few words that Obama
actually did say after the attack on diplomats in Libya but chose to
ignore Crowley's acknowledgment that the administration took weeks to
shake off the myth that our ambassador was killed as part of an
overreaction to a movie trailer.
And even the most left-leaning of media sources admitted that President
Obama had a terrible first debate. But they had to, or they would have
lost the credibility needed to make mountains out of molehills when it
came to alleged gaffes by Mitt Romney.
Read the rest of the article at Townhall
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