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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Lehrer Forced To Report On His Own Botched Debate Moderator Performance On Tonight's 'NewsHour'
?1180NEW YORKAfter conducting the first of the 2012 presidential debates earlier this week, former anchor Jim Lehrer hosted PBS NewsHours political analysis roundtable on Friday, an appearance that forced him to discuss the quality of his widely panned performance as moderator. The consensus among commentators is that Jim Lehrer completely lost control of this debate, failed to make the candidates adhere to its format, and generally allowed them to spend the full hour and a half reciting talking points on any subject they wished. Your thoughts? Lehrer asked fellow commentators Mark Shields and David Brooks, both of whom agreed with their colleagues scathing assessment of himself. As someone who has reported on every presidential debate since 1960 and moderated 12 of them, including Wednesday nights horribly handled contest between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, Im simply at a loss. It was frankly painful to watch the two debaters walk all over Mr. Lehrer, and Im sure that, in hindsight, he wishes to God he had never signed on for the job. Shields and Brooks spent the remaining 59 minutes of the broadcast providing a wide-range of political analysis and seldom allowing Lehrer to get a word in edgewise.
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Jim Lehrer Forced To Report On His Own Botched Debate Moderator Performance On Tonight's 'NewsHour' (Original Post)
trailmonkee
Oct 2012
OP
i think they may be planning on 'taking him out' in a lawn bowling accident...
trailmonkee
Oct 2012
#5
i found the biggest logo possible? why do I have to show it in the post title...
trailmonkee
Oct 2012
#8
longship
(40,416 posts)1. As usual, The Onion cuts to the truth.
R&
freshwest
(53,661 posts)2. As effed up as everything is in media, I was relieved to see the Onion logo.
Cha
(297,323 posts)3. "Both sides do it" yeah..right
Glad it was the Onion.
NBachers
(17,123 posts)4. Statler and Waldorf are not happy with Jim Lehrer's performance
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)5. i think they may be planning on 'taking him out' in a lawn bowling accident...
They have that look in their eyes
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)6. I wish people
would identify satire or "onion" in headline.
Raine
(30,540 posts)7. I do too, I would like to know before I open the thread. nt
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)8. i found the biggest logo possible? why do I have to show it in the post title...
It's not like i am posting in lbn