ABC News Defends VP Debate Moderator Martha Raddatz From Accusations Of Political Bias

[Tx4obama]

ABC News Defends VP Debate Moderator Martha Raddatz From Accusations Of Political Bias

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz will be moderating the vice presidential debate this week between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan, but conservative critics have spoken out against the choice of Raddatz, alleging she has a clear political bias. Back in August when she was announced as moderator, the conservative blogosphere quickly ran post after post arguing that Raddatz is too biased to be an objective moderator. With the spotlight back on Raddatz this week, and given how critical the media was of Jim Lehrer last week, ABC News is getting ahead of the game and defending Raddatz’s objectivity.

One of the key pieces of evidence highlighted by blogs like The Daily Caller was the fact that Raddatz was once married to Julius Genachowski, the man whom President Obama appointed to head up the Federal Communications Commission.

Blogger Andrew Sullivan wrote earlier today that The Daily Caller is currently working on a piece to further discredit Raddatz’s objectivity by going through her marital history, in a post Sullivan titled “The Decline And Fall Of Tucker Carlson.” Carlson responded with the following statement to TVNewser: “Andrew Sullivan is a nutcase. Please quote me.”

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Full article with statement from ABC here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/abc-news-defends-vp-debate-moderator-martha-raddatz-from-accusations-of-political-bias/

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[bigdarryl]

1. I never even heard of her these moderators suck for all 4 debates

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. If you've never heard of her....

....how do you know she sucks?

[elleng]

16. Zacly.

She's a real pro, lots of foreign policy experience and not likely to be intimidated by the b.s., imo.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Standard operating procedure

Slam the moderator and hope they kowtow by softballing the right-winger.

[fugop]

4. Gaming the refs again...

I fucking hate Republicans so much. Who's more biased than Candy Crowley?

And they did the same thing to Gwen Ifill is 2008. She made the mistake of being born black. Then she totally caved after all the rightie whining. Same shit, different elevtion.

[Cha]

5. Interesting! I thought ABC would be defending her

from being a rw. Pres Obama and mittLies have Crowley and we know how she's leaned over the years.

I read Jim Lerher went on Hannity the other night..wonder how that went?

[madinmaryland]

6. The height of irony: Tucker Carlson calling someone a nutcase.

What a fucking douchebag.

[bushisanidiot]

20. +1

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[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Attack the "skewed polls," soon get the results you want...attack the "biased" moderator

Soon get the result you want.

Karl Rove from top to bottom.

[Indpndnt]

8. So, Sullivan and Bow Tie Boy are taunting each other?

Hooray for mature, public discourse! Wherever it may be hiding.

[SoapBox]

9. We always thought she swung to the right...

[theKed]

13. These are the type of people

crying about Fox News having a liberal bias.

So, you know, yeah.

I'm sure unless the moderator comes out with a Ted Nugent tour shirt on, draped in a confederate flag, carrying the head of a freshly killed animal, while chanting scripture...they'll be panned as "too liberal".

[GallopingGhost]

21. n/t

[Sugarcoated]

10. Boy that Clucker Carlson is a toxic piece of filth

It was so sweet when Jon Stewart made him look like a fool and he lost his CNN show.

[SoapBox]

15. Clucker Carlson...

I've never heard that.

[hexola]

11. Political? Worse...it's personal bias...Obama attended her wedding...

There probably is a better choice...

If Romney had attended a moderators wedding - we would go nuts...

[Tx4obama]

12. Obama only went to the wedding because he knew the man who is now the ex-husband.

“This is absurd. Martha Raddatz is known for her tough, fair reporting, which is why it was no surprise to her colleagues inside and outside ABC News that she was chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates for this assignment. Barack Obama was a law school classmate of Raddatz’s ex-husband Julius Genachowski at Harvard. At the time Barack Obama was a student and president of the Law Review. He attended their wedding over two decades ago along with nearly the entire Law Review, many of whom went onto successful careers including some in the Bush administration. Raddatz and Mr. Genachowski divorced in 1997 and both are now remarried.”

The Republicans are playing the BS game of 'guilty by association'.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

14. GOP trying to work the refs

accuse them before the debate of having "a lib'rul bias," and then hope moderator gets afraid of being perceived that way and goes out of their way to slant debate to the right and use Romney-Ryan framing

[davidpdx]

17. It wouldn't surprise me if The Daily Caller was working on a hit piece

And they use Yahoo to spread their propaganda. The debate is still a few days away. It will be interesting to see if an article does get published now that Sullivan has said something.

[bushisanidiot]

18. Cry baby republicans are already complaining, because he likes SESAME STREET?

Geez. You'd think Sesame Street was some sort of satanic childrens show
by the way the republicans seem to be trashing it lately.

why do republicans hate kids? and teachers? and immigrants? and blacks? and gays? and women? and veterans?

[WI_DEM]

19. this is their tactic, to call bias in hopes that to show they aren't bias they'll

be harder on democrats.

[bushisanidiot]

22. Yep. they are whiney cry babies.

they will be livid tomorrow night and next week.

i may actually be tempted to watch fox "news" just to watch the fall out.