MEMO TO: RNC, Republican candidates, campaign managers
FROM: Rando pixel-stained wretch
cc: All interested readers
Well, we’ve gone through another election cycle, and we have once again experienced the Lucy-and-the-football phenomenon in media-platformed debates. Put aside the fact that the structure of these debates is entirely absurd; voters will not get anything of substance in a two-minute response to, “What’s your economic plan?” Nor will one-minute rebuttals provide any more clarity to the slogan-and-quip-line answer to those questions, even when the moderators play it straight.
But of course, that rarely happens any longer. In fact, with one exception this cycle, media “moderators” turn out to be partisan advocates itching to debate rather than moderate. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash deserve credit for managing to restrain themselves from the “fact checking” exercise in the first…
