Let Jeremy Paxman Moderate All Our Debates
by Damozel | Why do we allow---or insist that---debate moderators grovel instead of grilling? How, please, is that in anyone's interest? It's a mystery.
Want to see what a real journalist/political interviewer/debate moderator does?
That's what a real journalist, interviewer, and debate moderator does. Watch Jeremy "'Why is this lying bastard lying to me?" Paxman's approach to evasion----and imagine him with McCain, Obama, Biden, and Palin. Clarity by definition is NEVER warm and fuzzy.
We're so insistent on making everyone pretend to be friends that we have to rely on SNL to point out the candidates' evasions and on FactCheck.org to Monday-morning-quarterback misstatements. Why, oh why, does our toothless media consist solely mainly of smirking, preening talking heads, dancing poodles, bland bores, posturing prats, and mean-spirited hissy-fit-throwing partisans, none of whom have anything to offer but ill-informed bloviating? No wonder we turn to "the satiro-industrial complex" for information; comedians (and Rachel Maddow) are the only pundits Americans have any reason to trust.
Watch Paxman tell a debater: "You can't be serious."
Go here to watch him famously ask a candidate for office the same question TWELVE TIMES. Note to Chris Matthews: this is how you play "hardball," Tweety.
And here, because every American should get to see how entertaining---because we gotta have that--- the news could be in the hands of a real journalist, is a complete round-up of Paxman's greatest moments.
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