Is the Media Inadvertently Setting Bush Up to Bomb in Debate #2??

[DemocracyInaction]

Media right now is in panic mode (expect them to try to hype Dickie today even though he did not win). They keep telling us that Friday's townhall format is where Bush will shine because he is so "folksy". Did they forget that these towhall meetings Bush is having on the campaign trail are not only by invitation to the ultra faithful, but have people planted in the audience to praise "Ceasar" not to question him? Do they forget their own few news conferences with him where questions had to be submitted in advance so he could be scripted and fell apart when someone threw him a curveball??

He's coming to the debate in his usual paranoid state with his rule book under his arm. This time he has additional, added pressure. Kerry is relaxed after scoring big in the first debate. John can work a crowd and actually say something intelligent to them. It's easier to accuse and offer solutions than to defend disasters of one's own making. Bush will bomb-----but watch carefully for the media to try to scream "but he was so folksey". It isn't going to work.

[bushisanidiot]

1. The Bar has been set very high after last night's debate. AWOL will look

like a deer caught in headlights with no notes to sneak in and no podium to fidget behind.

[TomClash]

2. Kerry relaxed . . .

. . . is a bad thing. Kerry should be focused, direct and strong, just like he was in the first debate. Relaxed is what he was in August - I don't like relaxed.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. I don't know...CBS is doing a good job this morning of refuting Cheney

and making him look like the lying S.O.B. that we know he is. I think, without jinxing it, they (meaning the media) are beginning to realize just what side their bread might be buttered on come Nov 2...

[Catshrink]

4. I just heard NPR do it too..

although they refuted Edwards a couple of minor points, for the most part the story took The Dick apart.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. It's great, isn't it? I honestly had to scoop my molars up off the

floorboards. :hi:

[life_long_dem]

6. I can't figure the media out. They are flip-floppers.

I saw Matthews questioning Ginsberg over Cheney's statement about Iraq and 9/11 and he pretty much made Ginsberg look foolish. It was a GRAND SLAM for us.
There were a few threads about this last night.