See what happens when grownups run the debate?
Posted May 15th, 2007 at 11:19 PM by Jon HamFox News’ excellent hosting of the GOP presidential candidates’ debate tonight was a stark contrast to the GOP debate hosted recently by MSNBC. Chris Matthews and the Washington Post castoff guys at Politico.com acted like 14-year-olds let loose in a studio in the MSNBC debate, asking blatantly biased questions of the candidates and doing their damnedest to turn it into a production of the Democratic National Committee. And they say Fox is biased.
But tonight Brit Hume, Chris Wallace and Wendell Goler showed how professionals operate. The contrast between Fox and the MSM reporters echoes, frankly, the contrast between immature Democrats and mature Republicans, petulant liberals and thoughtful conservatives.
And to top it all off, former N.C. Senator John Edwards was the butt of the biggest joke of the night when former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, discussing his disappointment in what he thought was going to be a penny-pinching Republican Congress: “Instead, we had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards in a beauty shop.”
UPDATE: I’m not the only one who used the children vs. adults analogy to describe the Chris Matthews-MSNBC-Politico debate hosting on May 3 as opposed to the Fox News production last night. After this, the notion that Fox News is somehow the minor leagues compared to the insufferable MSM just doesn’t fly.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Mind you, I really missed Matthews asking the candidates wouldn’t they rather Bill Clinton was still president and later yammering about the cultural difference between sophisticated urban liberals, who yearn for the days of that great humanitarian, and those darn Republicans, who all laughed at the question.