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Denver presidential
debate: In defense of
moderator Jim Lehrer

Global Post [Boston], by David Case Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 10:29:11 PM Post Reply

Boston - “It looks like we have a backup NFL official moderating,” said one Iowa City viewer within earshot of GlobalPost's Jean MacKenzie. Jim Lehrer has been roundly and almost unanimously panned for his performance during last night's debate. From the get-go, Lehrer lost control of the discussion. He allowed the candidates to violate time limits, dismiss his questions and ignore the debate format. The New York Times' Allesandra Stanley wrote that Lehrer "presided over [the debate] with courtesy, fairness and absolutely no flair for enlivening the discussion." She suggested that Lehrer's performance was the best case for eliminating PBS

Matthews Meltdown Mirrors
Mainstream Media Panic

Investor's Business Daily, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: HollowLeg- 10/4/2012 10:28:25 PM Post Reply

Bias: Their ideological champion having been verbally undressed by a competent challenger, the tingles that used to run up the legs of the mainstream media have been replaced by the mother of all anxiety attacks. Perhaps Clint Eastwood's chair would have given a better and less-wooden debate performance than President Obama did Wednesday in Denver, site of his coronation in 2008 amid faux Greek columns and with a full set of TelePrompters loaded with slogans on hope and change. As GOP challenger Mitt Romney masterfully and relentlessly pummeled an emperor revealed to have no clothes

Maddow Asks Plouffe if
Debate Strategy Was For
Obama to Be a Wimp

NewsBusters, by Jack Coleman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:25:31 PM Post Reply

Give the woman credit, this would explain it. After last night's debate in Denver, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow asked Obama adviser David Plouffe to be "candid" in explaining the president's lackluster performance (video after page break) Plouffe seemed to take umbrage at what Maddow was suggesting -- MADDOW: One last question for you and it is a little bit on the style of this and I realize that you are a policy guy as much as you are a candidate guy. But I do just have to ask you to be candid on this -- was there a

Unhinged: Harper’s Mag
accuses Romney of ‘sly’
racist jab at Obama

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:18:41 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney “slyly” proved he’s a racist last night while describing his tax plan. Did you notice? No? Anyone? Harper’s Magazine’s Kevin Baker embarrassed himself in accusing Romney of trying to lock down his allegedly-racist base during last night’s debate. “[Obama]didn’t show a spark of anger, even when Romney slyly found a way to call him a boy, comparing Obama’s statements to the sorts of childish lies his ‘five boys’ used to tell,” Baker laments today. “How the right’s hard-core racists must have howled at that! Mitt, at long last, has secured his base.” Actually, the entire debate

Matthews Goes On Mini-Tingle Rant:
‘Objectively’ Hails Obama’s ‘Scope,’
‘Relevance’ And High I.Q.

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:11:14 PM Post Reply

On Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown performed a postmortem on Wednesday night’s presidential debate which most political observers agreed President Barack Obama lost. Matthews was confused how, “objectively,” a man with such “scope,” “relevance,” and an “I.Q. in the hundred and whatever range” lost the debate. Brown said that he thought Obama was concerned that if he took on Mitt Romney, the public may have perceived him as “taking advantage of a lesser.” (Snip) Matthews asked Brown if there was hope for the president to not cede too much ground to

HHS Awards Another Multi-Million-
Dollar Obamacare PR Contract

Heritage, by Lachlan Markay Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 10:04:52 PM Post Reply

As Congress probes expensive public-relations contracts to market the unpopular Obamacare law to the American public, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that it has inked a deal worth more than $3 million to promote Obamacare’s “exchanges.” CMS, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, will pay PR firm Weber Shandwick at least $3.1 million for the new contract, according to a report in PR Week. Weber will promote state-based health care “exchanges” established by Obamacare. The contract is the second major HHS contract landed by Weber.

Obama Also Discussed Katrina
Racism in 2005 Speech

Daily Caller, by Vince Coglianese Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:50:10 PM Post Reply

Sen. Barack Obama once told a Cambridge, Mass., audience that he only disagreed with Kanye West’s “phrasing” when he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” According to Breitbart.com’s Lee Stranahan, the video his site has resurfaced of the future president was shot Sept. 17, 2005 at a Harvard Law School Association Award Luncheon. The video’s description says Obama was delivering the keynote speech at the “Celebration of Black Alumni” weekend. “You know, after the hurricane and its aftermath, there was a lot of discussion about the fact that those who were impacted by the achingly

Fox News beats broadcast nets,
crushes cable competitors
in debate viewership

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:43:01 PM Post Reply

On the heels of its ratings dominance during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., the Fox News Channel consistently trounced both its cable and broadcast competitors throughout Wednesday night’s presidential debate. According to overnight numbers provided by Nielsen Media Research, FNC beat all broadcast and cable news networks yesterday evening. It averaged 10.4 million viewers from 9:00-10:30 p.m. EST, with nearly three million viewers in the key 25-54-year old demographic. FNC nearly doubled CNN’s audience of 6 million viewers and more than doubled MSNBC’s viewership of 4.7 million. It also handily beat CBS,

Media offers questions, advice
to top Obama campaign strategist

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/4/2012 9:38:04 PM Post Reply

Surrounded by whooping Republicans and suddenly unfavorable data, chief Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod called in the media cavalry today. And several reporters on the 11:15 a.m. phone conference promptly offered questions that bordered on advice. “Axe, I’m not sure you can hear me, David,” said NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, when she was invited to ask a question Oct. 4. “I’m wondering whether the president, whether you have rethought the strategy of not bringing up either women’s issues, or the 47 percent or some of the other issues that have worked so well for you in your campaign advertising

Romney: 'Victory is in
sight' after first debate

Associated Press, by David Espo & Kasie Hunt* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 9:26:12 PM Post Reply

Denver — Buoyed by a powerful debate showing, Mitt Romney said Thursday he offers "prosperity that comes through freedom" to a country struggling to shed a weak economy. President Barack Obama accused the former Massachusetts governor of running from his own record in pursuit of political power. Both men unleashed new attack ads in the battleground states in a race with little more than a month to run, Obama suggesting Romney couldn't be trusted with the presidency, and the Republican accusing the president of backing a large tax increase on the middle class. The debate reached 67.2 million viewers

Gates: Strike on Iran could
make US pay dearly

PressTV (Iran), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 10/4/2012 9:08:12 PM Post Reply

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has warned that an Israeli or US military strike on Iran could have disastrous consequences which could haunt Washington’s dealings in the Middle East for years to come. "The results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world," Gates said on Wednesday in a speech in Norfolk, Virginia.

Big Bird Richer Than
Mitt Romney

Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 8:51:04 PM Post Reply

Big Bird makes more money than Mitt Romney, but is still on the government dole. In the aftermath of getting massacred in last night's debate, both President Obama and the corrupt media are trying to salvage a little something by taking issue with Governor Mitt Romney's promise to end taxpayer funding of PBS. At a campaign rally today, Obama The Bald-Faced Liar said of Romney, "He's going to get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he'll crack down on Sesame Street." (Romney is not going "to get rid of" Wall Street regulations.) As if that wasn't bad enough,

Lehrer: My job was 'to
stay out of the way'

Politico, by Dylan Byers Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 8:28:29 PM Post Reply

Jim Lehrer has been widely criticized for the passive role he played as moderator of last night's first presidential debate. But in a statement sent via a PBS spokesperson, Lehrer said part of his job was simply "to stay out of the way," and that he "had no problems with doing so" "I thought the format accomplished its purpose, which was to facilitate direct, extended exchanges between the candidates about issues of substance," Lehrer said. "Part of my moderator mission was to stay out of the way of the flow and I had no problems with doing so.

Was Obama rattled by
developing donor scandal story?

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 8:27:28 PM Post Reply

President Obama reelection campaign, rattled by his Wednesday night debate performance, could be in for even worse news. According to knowlegable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story. Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday. According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases

Meningitis fears prompt
US medical warning

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/4/2012 8:22:31 PM Post Reply

Doctors and hospitals in the US are being urged to stop using products from a firm linked to a widening outbreak of a rare form of fungal meningitis. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says investigators found contamination in a sealed steroid vial at the New England Compounding Center. Over 30 people in six states have been ill from the disease. Five have died. The firm recalled the steroid doses and has shut down operations, but the vials have been shipped to 23 states. It is not yet clear how many patients may have been exposed to any contamination, and

The smile that says
it all: Romney celebrates
debate win as top Obama
aide admits defeat and
promises change of strategy

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden & Hugo Gye Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 8:21:50 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama's top strategist said that the campaign will take a 'hard look' at how to approach future debates in the light of last night's failure - and appealed to the media to challenge Mitt Romney on the issues which the President avoided in Denver. All but stating that the Republican had won the debate, David Axelrod conceded that the performance aspect was 'not the President's strong suit in these events' but insisted that 'I don't see us adding huge amounts of additional prep time.' The remarks came after the Obama campaign was left reeling

Revitalised Romney
rewrites the script

Telegraph [UK], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/4/2012 8:12:52 PM Post Reply

Sharp and full of energy, the Republican scored a comfortable TV debating win over a weary-looking Mr Obama. Those Britons who took the time to watch the first American presidential TV debate may have been surprised to discover that Mitt Romney is not in reality some blood-soaked pantomime villain. For months, the Republican challenger has been systematically--and effectively--demonised by his opponents as a flint-hearted, job-shedding plutocrat hell-bent on cutting taxes for his rich chums. A month from polling day, on the basis of weak poll ratings and some painful campaign stumbles--not least, his suggestion that London was not ready

US mayor: Somalis,
leave culture at door

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 8:12:22 PM Post Reply

Lewiston (Maine) - A US mayor says his city's Somali immigrants should "accept our culture and leave your culture at the door," and critics say he should resign. The Maine People's Alliance says it has collected hundreds of signatures calling for Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald to step down over his comments to the BBC. About 6 000 Somali immigrants have settled in the town in search of affordable housing and a safe place to live. (Snip) Macdonald has tried to clarify his comments, saying immigrants should try and assimilate into American culture, not that they need to give up their

Exclusive: Former CIA Official:
Obama 'October Surprise'
Airstrike in Libya 'Would Be Criminal'

Breitbart's Big Peace, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 8:07:15 PM Post Reply

This morning, Breitbart News spoke with a former senior CIA official with specific knowledge of the ongoing issues in Libya, who spelled out the risks associated with the Obama administration’s rumored prospective airstrikes on targets in Libya. (Snip) The former senior CIA official told Breitbart News that with America’s lack of intelligence on the ground in Libya, the fallout for any sort of airstrike could be catastrophic, leading to civilian casualties, and more broadly, to the fall of a weak but moderate Libyan government. He pointed out that the government in Pakistan has been forced to answer for US airstrikes

Parole granted to former Manson
family member Bruce Davis

Reuters, by Alex Dobuzinskis Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/4/2012 7:54:49 PM Post Reply

A former member of the notorious Manson Family and a two-time convicted killer was granted parole on Thursday, but there was no definitive word on whether he might be released from prison because the ruling is subject to a mandatory review, California prison officials said. Bruce Davis, 69, has been in state prison since his 1972 conviction. He was previously granted parole in 2010 but remained in prison after that decision was reversed by then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.

Confident Romney wins admirers
by defeating great orator Obama

Sydney Morning Herald [AU], by Nick O'Malley Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 7:46:37 PM Post Reply

It took Mitt Romney just 90 minutes to change the perception that his two-year campaign for the White House had tanked a month before the election. In the first presidential debate, Mr Romney was well-briefed and energetic. He was articulate and polished. He gave answers laden with detail. He was aggressive but poised. Most of all, he appeared to be enjoying himself. Not so the President. The famous orator rambled through answers. He cast his eyes down at the copious notes he was taking during Mr Romney's answers, he grinned and occasionally grimaced and shook his head. At times he

About 67 million people
watch first presidential debate

Washington Post, by Lisa de Moraes Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 7:43:44 PM Post Reply

More than 67 million people watched the first presidential debate of this election cycle — nearly 15 million more people than watched the first presidential debate four years ago. That 67 million, however, falls very short of the Mother of All Presidential Debates: the Oct. 28, 1980 smackdown between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which had drawn a whopping 81 million viewers. About 12 million of the 67 mil who watched President Obama square off with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the University of Denver were aged 18-34 years. Nearly 31 million of them were 55 years

KitchenAid apologizes for
tweet insulting Obama

CNN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 7:43:18 PM Post Reply

The home appliance brand KitchenAid apologized Wednesday evening for a political tweet sent out from its official account during the presidential debate. The tweet has been removed but at least a dozen retweets of the post showed it read, "Obamas gma even knew it was going 2 b bad! 'She died 3 days b4 he became president.'" The company apologized in a later post from the same account. "Deepest apologies for an irresponsible tweet that is in no way a representation of the brand's opinion," the tweet read in part. (Snip) Cynthia Soledad, KitchenAid's senior director of marketing, said in

Analysis: Romney seizes the story

CNN, by Rebecca Sinderbrand Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/4/2012 7:40:44 PM Post Reply

Heading into Wednesday, majorities of Americans in virtually every major poll predicted President Barack Obama would come out on top in this year's presidential debates. Even majorities of Republicans and Romney supporters thought the GOP nominee was in for a rough night. But not all of them. (Snip) Since the question of which candidate did better in a presidential debate was first asked by Gallup in 1984, no candidate has ever scored more than 60% on the question, until Wednesday night, when 67% of the voters in CNN's post-debate poll gave Romney the edge. It was a relatively placid debate

Obama faces another hurdle:
Friday's jobless report

Reuters, by Patricia Zengerle Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/4/2012 7:31:11 PM Post Reply

Washington - President Barack Obama has survived months of lackluster reports on the nation's unemployment with little effect on his approval ratings or his poll lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney, but that could change on Friday. After a subpar performance Wednesday night against a sharp Romney in their first presidential debate, Obama suddenly seems vulnerable to any bad news. That makes the Labor Department's jobs report for September, which will be released Friday morning, a potential hurdle for Obama in the presidential race. Polls have indicated that the weak U.S. economy and the high jobless rate

Romney tries to build on
debate momentum

Los Angeles Times, by Maeve Reston Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/4/2012 6:58:45 PM Post Reply

FISHERSVILLE, Va. — Mitt Romney’s advisors moved quickly to try to capitalize on his strong debate performance as the candidate headed to Virginia’s Shenadoah Valley on Thursday, announcing a series of new ads and a renewed push to build their small donor base. Campaign officials were clearly elated by Romney’s performance — toasting with drinks at the candidate’s hotel post-debate — after a rough few weeks in which Romney began sliding in key swing state polls. “Wasn’t that fabulous?” Romney’s brother Scott was overheard telling a friend at the candidate’s hotel.

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