This is typical liberal "style over substance."

What do they expect to get from this?

OK, consider the matter "protested.'

Now, what's for supper?

PS...if you're passing out flag pins, you might want to save one Sen. Obama.....

This is hilarious.  The "dailykos liberals" are the biggest whiners I have ever witnessed either present-day or in the history books I studied in school.  These freaks have no problem lambasting the President, the Vice President, or any OTHER Republican or Conservative; however, you ask one of their candidates anything other than the weather, what their favorite food is or where they went to school and they become OUTRAGED!

The AMAZING thing is that it isn't Republican's doing the questioning. No, it is "other democrats" and "liberals".  I can only imagine how outraged these "American-socialists" are going to be when McCain starts asking some questions of his own. 

Oh, poor babies, they just don’t get no respect.

Very well analyzed Noel. Indeed, it was very odd that Steph sort of asked a tough question and very surprising that Charlie Gibson chased Obama on the capital gains tax issue; almost sounded like he was hounding a Republican, for a minute.

But in all honesty, this was not a hard hitting debate. I didn't hear either one of them come out and ask Hillary if or when she was going to stop lying. And neither of them challenged Obama over Rev. Wrights attack on Hillary and Bill Clinton - nor did they ask Hillary how she felt about it:

In this clip the Reverend Wright is ranting in hatred, as he thrusts his pelvic forward, suggesting  that Hillary would only be as Bill Clinton had been; Bill had f---ed the blacks just as he did Monica Lewinski. Rev. Wright hates the Clinton's.  He presents what many have said, Clinton did the talk - but did not do the walk. Contrary to MSM's imagination, Bill Clinton effectively did nothing for the black community. 

Now, this would have livened up the debate. Roll the tape and the transcript, please:

Jeremiah Wright on Bill Clinton 

Rev. Wright:  Hillary is married to Bill and Bill have been good to us? No, he ain't! Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky! 

Congregation:  (cheers)

Rev. Wright:  He was riding dirty!

If John McCain's pastor had said such a thing about another candidate, we can rest assured that MoveOn.org would have been all over it - demanding the the media keep it front and center.

If you pay attention to media heat the last few years, you can see the thread connecting it together with things like this: it is a sign of agony over losing more and more of the ability to control what is "imporant" and "correct" in the public discourse.

For a long time, this group of people were able to control things like the media and academia and thus control what was put out in the public domain as proper, worthy and correct.

They hoped, perhaps, that good common sense would one day seep into the bedrock of America, but in the meantime, they didn't have to worry much about the (bitter), ignorant, redneck masses in flyover country, because they controlled the public domain.

Cable, satlites, the Internet, and better radio has destoryed that over the last 20 years ---- especially the last 10 years --- and it is killing them.

You see it in their rabid verbal assault on, and thoughts about, Fox News.

Fox is conservative. Yes. That doesn't bother them that much. They can dismiss that. What they can't stand is the fact Fox is conservative + can get a message out.

It is the same with their cries about talk radio and the need for the government to do something about it.

And it is the same with the over-the-top reaction to ABC's debate hosts.

They know they cannot control what the masses of middle America thinks. They had written those boobs off awhile ago.

But, they can't stand the fact that they can no longer control what those boobs hear in greater public.

They are already losing the battle to define Obama's recent controversies as "non-issues" --- because the Internet and talk radio and Fox have given the masses of Americans the chance to hear about those controversies and thus decide for themselves if they are real issues or not.

But now, they have some of their own becoming turncoats:

how can they hope to regain control of the public discourse if their own on ABC run off the reservation?

And think about all of this in the light of another event:

Trent Lott said some things in his tribute to Strom Thurmond that deserved questioning.

That alone ---- that  what he said casued a need for him to define what he meant by what he said ---- that what he said caused questions about Lott's possible connection to ideas segragation that Thrumond championed back in the time period Lott was referring to ---- was enough for Lott's head to roll.

Lott's head rolled simply because a remark he made caused concern about his relationship to Thurmond's past ideas.

But, Obama's long term relationship with Rev. Wright and his connections to an unrepentant domestic terrorist are ---- so clearly non-issues, the very fact you would ask questions about them sends members of the media and the left into high dudgeon.

That is very telling.  It shows just how much they demand to control what America hears. 

 Moveon.org reminds me of one of those  communist fronts from those bad 50's movies and Soros as the slick head comrade in charge.  Pretty funny if they didn't hijack the Democrat party and really do have some influence on this country.  Wouldn't be surprised to see Stephanopolous and Gibson apologize for being fair.  Actually I hope they keep this going to show  what radical leftists they really are.

"Don't let the bastards grind you down"

Red

I sent an email praising Charles, George and ABC for asking the questions the LSM was afraid to ask.  I'm tired of the LSM protecting the libs and permitting their bias to influence the news.  The issues were answered in the first 11 debates and it appears to me that they are both very left of center so the only thing that can separate them is their character.....crap !!!! they both seem very lacking in that arena as well....

Isn't that like applying the primer after the paint has been applied?

I think what the dems are really worried about is the fact that both of the their party's candidates are essentially unelectable duds at the national level, and that delicious fact (sorry, Noel) is now really beginning to sink in with many of them.

As I see it, this "protest" is an attempt to draw attention away from that obvious fact.

Al Gore, anyone?

Theme for Election '08: Who cares?