TV Newser: Olbermann/Debate Reviews

[DeepModem Mom]

Olbermann/Debate: The Reviews
Comments, comments on Keith Olbermann's role as moderator of last night's AFL-CIO Presidential Forum here in the Windy City:

The Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz: "How did Olbermann do? He asked substantive questions, kept things moving crisply and followed up. But I have to say that he seemed less aggressive than he does when picking apart President Bush's record on "Countdown." He mostly threw straight policy pitches that the candidates hit easily, with no curveballs about contradictions in their records."

Newsbusters.org's Brad Wilmouth: "Did the sweltering Chicago temperatures somehow get to him? The MSNBC host who is notorious for anti-Bush, anti-conservative rants employed a more balanced approach when he moderated Tuesday's 90-minute plus debate. While audience members posed numerous left-leaning questions to the candidates, Olbermann asked a number of challenging or contrarian questions, a few even from the right."

And check out another installment of HuffPost's Debate Liveblog Series. "In terms of moderators, I feel like Olbermann is the best we've seen thus far. He's serious, but equally interested in letting the candidates have their (reasonable) say as he is in keeping within the time limits."

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[WCGreen]

1. Because Countdown is half news and half commentary...

Only an idiot would think otherwise...

KO did his job as a moderator and let the candidates be the story...

[Kagemusha]

2. Guess some people want an interrogator instead.

Perhaps an "extremerator" instead of a moderator.

[sueh]

3. Keith did a great job.

And he didn't get real cranky with the audience when we "took up his time" by expressing our feelings out loud, okay, real loud :smile:

[FrenchieCat]

4. The difference is that KO doesn't take himself as seriously as the

media zoo animals like Wolf and Tweety!

[AtomicKitten]

5. they congregate on the lower branches

[WCGreen]

6. Damn, they got the whole CNN team together for a photo op....