Tabloid Democratic Presidential Debate in Philly----Gotcha Debate

I have been watching presidential television debates since the great Nixon-Kennedy debates of 1960.. The Gong-Show spectacle held on Wednesday night, April 16th between the salivating Hillary Clinton and the unbelieving Barack Obama was the worst moderated political debate in modern history. Indeed Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos borrowed and adopted some of the same Neo-Nazi tabloid, soap opera tactics of the right wing media like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and CBS in a vain futile attempt to smear Barack Obama. Mr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, would have been very proud of your performance, Mr. Gibson and Mr. Stephanopoulos, and the only thing missing from your attire was the absence of the brown shirts.
Furthermore, Gibson and Stephanopoulos were both unprepared and unprofessional in their relentless racially charged questioning of Mr. Obama on such issues as wearing the American flag pin on his lapel, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his patriotism, Mr. Obama’s “bitter” comments and with Mr. Obama’s association with Bill Ayers, a former “Weather Underground” leader. ABC News and moderators Gibson and Stephanopoulos failed miserably in this debate and gave an appearance that they were in bed with the Clinton camp. Mr. Obama’s campaign should have refused to debate knowing that a former Clinton castoff, George Stephanopoulos would be one of the moderators. Why did the Obama campaign permit this horrific blunder of having Stephanopoulos as a moderator.? This was a major foul on the part of ABC news, and I will personally refuse to watch any and all ABC news programs and hopefully all like-minded individuals will follow my lead and vigorously boycott ABC and their sponsors.
The bodacious moderators were deliberately trying to distract the American voters from the real pressing issues such as a failing economy, escalating gasoline and food prices, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, lack of universal health care, global warming/energy policy, U.S. missile defense system in Eastern Europe, failure to capture Osama Bin Laden, nuclear proliferation, free and fair trade agreements, high cost of higher education, mortgage foreclosure crisis, genocide in Darfur, boycotting the opening ceremonies for the Olympics and a whole host of other issues. The inept moderators spent about 45 minutes talking about soap opera tabloid issues that were not relevant to the voters of the Keystone State. This was yellow journalism at its best. The question from the woman from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, who appeared to be the female version of Archie Bunker, inquired to Mr. Obama on why he refused to wear the American flag pin on his lapel which that line of questioning bordered on the absurd.
How can one rate this debate when it was obviously biased and slanted towards the sleazy Hillary? Barack had to fight three opponents on Wednesday night as they pummeled him on the ropes. Barack fought hard off the ropes, but the deck was stacked against him because he had to fight the two referees, Gibson and Stephanopoulos plus the combatant Hillary.
This Gong-Show debate was a total farce. But I give the victory to Mr. Obama because the two biased referees, Gibson and Stephanopoulos were disqualified along with Hillary who constantly hit below the belt. Perhaps Hillary promised the moderator Stephanopoulos the position of press secretary in her administration which I would not put pass the Clintons. Mr. Stephanopoulos apparently learned his lessons well while in the Clinton administration. That’s why he was so effective in working in concert with Hillary in their “kitchen sink” strategy.