Decius wrote:
] ] Some detected animus toward Edwards in Ifill's
] ] interrogations but for me the overwhelming impression,
] ] which I've gathered over the years from watching her on
] ] PBS's Wash Week in Review, is that this is a person with
] ] a case of the cutes. There's a preening coyness to her,
] ] as if she's smiling at herself rather than at the camera
] ] and expecting a cookie.
]
] She did a good job of putting them both on the spot, but on
] the other hand, the "without using his name" bit was quite
] silly. This isn't a game show. (At least its not supposed to
] be.)

I actually quite liked that part. To me, it was the perfect way to illuminate which candidates were able to form original sentences, and which ones were just on auto-pilot and repeating sentences they'd already used a thousand times before. I think the interviewer did a great job, and if she's being attacked, I see a lot of political motivation there. "If the candidate didn't do well answering the interviewer's questions, let's attack the interviewer." Bah. Are we going to do the same in the Town Forum, where if one of the candidates stumbles when answering a question, we're going to blame the person who asked it for "not asking a real question"?

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