A little bit of Scratch

A gang by any other name would still be Democrats.

Of course Ryan will know this. He's fast on his feet and will certainly be ready with this as just one bolt in his quiver. The moderator will be careful not to open herself up to being "Newt Gingriched" by showing blantant bias.

I usually watch The Five on Fox until Beckel the Hutt begins to sicken me. His constant mocking response to media bias is to ask sarcastically about the "conference call" involving the White House and the media. He knows that wouldn't even be necessary, and is constantly told that, but I guess it passes for a response.

Well, now we know who she will be trying to help in the debate.

Sometimes I think it's a miracle a Republican ever gets elected at all...

When it comes to the walking-dead of the MSM, I would be surprised if there weren't linkages at least this strong for the vast majority of the "profession". Ryan knows they're all walkers.

Really this is not exactely new intelligence.

Everybody with half a brain knew Romney would have 2 opponents in the debate...

All Romney did was show once again that 0 + 0 = 0.

Let's go over the facts.

Obama attended a wedding for one of his friends 21 years ago.

His friend and the bride subequently got divorced.

The bride will be moderator of Thursday's debate.

Run for the hills!!!! It's a conspiracy!!!!

I fully agree with "set you free". Although there are plenty of reasons to claim Democrat bias, as I have said before (in reference to Obama's U.N. speech), people are just wasting their time supporting/believing these kind of paranoid articles and just end up looking like right wing cracker cases.

syf, you missed the point. It's not a conspiracy. It's a small inbred clique. It would require effort to find an
MSM moderator that is not associated.

Yeah, walter, whatever.

Where there are only two tribes, there's bound to be some familiarity.

So what?

I thought I would surf and check how the MSM is covering the election these days. i went to ABC and their cover page was;
1) Romney drops SEAL story after mother complains
2) Romney ignores Healthcare
3) Mitt Romney's Abortion Evolution
4) Romney softens Abortion Stance

versus

Obama....I was just too polite.

Apparently Benghazi, Illegal donations, Fast & Furious, or the real world has no attraction.

"Run for the hills!!!! It's a conspiracy!!!!"
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This is either disingenuous, or uninformed.

The issue isn't whether the moderator is biased. The issue is disclosure.

There are many situations where adverse parties engage with a neutral third party in the resolution of disputes. If you are a litigant, you will argue your case to judges, mediators, and arbitrators. Debaters work with a moderator. Warring couples might see a counselor.

In every case, what matters is the "appearance of impropriety." The relevant question is, could someone reasonably question a third party's neutrality if they were given full knowledge?

Whether or not this woman is biased isn't an issue at this stage. The point is, the fact that Obama attended her wedding should have been disclosed. With that disclosure, the parties could then investigate the situation, and decide whether or not to continue with that particular third party.

Without such disclosure, the unknowing party never gets the chance to check for itself.

I doubt that this situation would lead to Ryan revoking his acceptance of her as the debate moderator, but that's not the point. He was never given the chance.

Failure to disclose this fact in a legal situation would be an ethical violation, on the parts of both the moderator, and the one adverse party with knowledge of the fact.

Unless both of these assertions are true:

- this woman completely forgot that the man who is now the President of the United States attended her wedding; and

- Barrack Obama forgot that he attended the wedding of this woman who went on to become a nationally-known reporter

then their failure to disclose this fact is damning to both of them.

She needs to recuse herself from this debate, if only because her honor has been called into question by her own failure to disclose.

As to Obama's failure to disclose - well, I'm not sure what honor he has left to impugn anyway.