Thank god for Frank Rich:
"I can’t remember a debate that became such an instant national gag, earning reviews more appropriate to a slasher movie like “Prom Night” than a civic event held in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center...
"[V]iewers of all political persuasions were affronted by the moderators’ failure to ask about the mortgage crisis, health care, the environment, torture, education, China policy, the pending G.I. bill to aid veterans, or the war we’re losing in Afghanistan.
"Ludicrous as the whole spectacle was, ABC would not have been so widely pilloried had it not tapped into a larger national discontent with news media fatuousness.
"However out of touch Mr. Obama is with 'ordinary Americans,' many Americans, ordinary and not, have concluded that the talking heads blathering about blue-collar men, religion, guns and those incomprehensible 'YouTube young people' are even more condescending and out of touch. When a Washington doyenne like Mary Matalin, freighted with jewelry, starts railing about elitists on 'Meet the Press,' as she did last Sunday, it’s pure farce. It’s typical of the syndrome that the man who plays a raging populist on CNN, Lou Dobbs, dismissed Mr. Obama last week by saying 'we don’t need another Ivy League-educated knucklehead.' Mr. Dobbs must know whereof he speaks, since he’s Harvard ’67.
"The unequivocally good news is that ABC’s debacle had the largest audience of any debate in this campaign. That’s a lot of viewers who are now mad as hell and won’t take it anymore."
"[V]iewers of all political persuasions were affronted by the moderators’ failure to ask about the mortgage crisis, health care, the environment, torture, education, China policy, the pending G.I. bill to aid veterans, or the war we’re losing in Afghanistan.
"Ludicrous as the whole spectacle was, ABC would not have been so widely pilloried had it not tapped into a larger national discontent with news media fatuousness.
"However out of touch Mr. Obama is with 'ordinary Americans,' many Americans, ordinary and not, have concluded that the talking heads blathering about blue-collar men, religion, guns and those incomprehensible 'YouTube young people' are even more condescending and out of touch. When a Washington doyenne like Mary Matalin, freighted with jewelry, starts railing about elitists on 'Meet the Press,' as she did last Sunday, it’s pure farce. It’s typical of the syndrome that the man who plays a raging populist on CNN, Lou Dobbs, dismissed Mr. Obama last week by saying 'we don’t need another Ivy League-educated knucklehead.' Mr. Dobbs must know whereof he speaks, since he’s Harvard ’67.
"The unequivocally good news is that ABC’s debacle had the largest audience of any debate in this campaign. That’s a lot of viewers who are now mad as hell and won’t take it anymore."
Read the whole thing here.
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Fuckin' A, that last part is the beauty.
ABC stepped on their dicks with that move, big time.
The Democratic party couldn't write a check big enough for that kind of publicity.
It also underlined what a bunch of cunts we have in the media who have no fucking idea as to what is going on at ground level out here.
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