{"id":194980,"date":"2008-08-05T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/05\/debate-moderators-announced\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T22:46:00","slug":"debate-moderators-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/05\/debate-moderators-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate Moderators Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2008\/08\/debate_moderators_announced.html\">the usual suspicts<\/a>, which is to say at least half of them should not be doing this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First presidential debate<br \/>Friday, September 26<br \/>The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.<br \/>Jim Lehrer<br \/>Executive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s impartial, but he does not call out lies, he just has two people on with opposing view points.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice presidential debate<br \/>Thursday, October 2<br \/>Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.<br \/>Gwen Ifill<br \/>Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, PBS<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rumored to be Condi Rice&#8217;s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Second presidential debate (town meeting)<br \/>Tuesday, October 7<br \/>Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.<br \/>Tom Brokaw<br \/>Special Correspondent, NBC News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No real comment from me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Third presidential debate<br \/>Wednesday, October 15<br \/>Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.<br \/>Bob Schieffer<br \/>CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Host, Face the Nation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personal friend of GW Bush, and his brother has been appointed to a couple of ambassador positions by GW Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s mostly the usual suspicts, which is to say at least half of them should not be doing this. First presidential debateFriday, September 26The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.Jim LehrerExecutive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBS He&#8217;s impartial, but he does not call out lies, he just has two people on with opposing view &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}