Presidential Debate Moderators Announced: Are the Moderators Picked Fair to Both Sides?

This statement from the league of Women
voters says it all !

The Commission has moderated the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 debates. Prior to this, the League of Women Voters moderated the 1976, 1980, 1984 debates before it withdrew from the position as debate moderator with this statement after the 1988
Presidential debates:

"the demands of the (two campaign organizations) would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter."

The Commission was then taken over by the (Democratic and Republican) parties forming today's version of the CPD.

You must be kidding, right?

I was thinking President Obama would not get a fair shot but after reading all the comments, I think he will get a fair opportunity.

Not many moderators would be unbiased, if you wanted someone who was unbiased you would have to get someone from another country and even then they will develop opinions

never have been never will

These are not journalists , Nor moderators, they are the Stepford Liberals, mouthpieces for the left. Where is the fair and balanced, they need O'Reilly on there!

of course not...it has been weighted in favor of socialists since the first one in 1960

Are the mediators going to go against the liberal hand that feeds them? That should be a "no brainer" for anyone!

Just more proof of the mainstream media's bias.

I really dont know much about the moderators to be fair, but I do like a miss match, It is not hard to see that the moderator shows thier true colors. The debates, so so watching how the moderators actions are is the best show.

There is no such thing as fair. One should expect there would be.

i think candy would be fair to gov christy because she really relates to being too fat.

There is no such thing as fair, it is a subjective measure made by those who perceive an event. It is BS, just like the rest of the dependency party crap. Regarding Christy and his obesity, I would contend that for the majority of this nation's history our most heralded leaders were obese men.

Everyone has an agenda.

And interestingly, nobody has actually won the republican nomination yet.

A bunch of Brain Dead Liberals. Nothing more, nothing less. Sounds about right. Just proves that Journalism is Dead in America.

who knows who pays off who through favors or money

All Lame stream Media. Obama is scared to death to face anyone fair and balanced. He'll get his a** kicked anyway.

Those communist networks are never fair. CBS (Communist Broadcasting System). ABC (A Bunch of Communists). NBC (Nothing But Communists). MSNBC (Marxists, Socialists, & Nothing But Communists.) CNN (Communist Network News.) PBS (Psychotic Broadcasting Service.)

Great , I love it!

I don't know about the Candy Crowley from CNN but with Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS, you have to be kidding. Fairness is the furthest thing from the minds of those two far-left "journalists".

First, Schieffer is from CBS - former home of Dan Rather who used a fraudulent document to try and change the outcome of a presidential election - and it wasn't in the Republican's favor! More recently, CBS's much vaunted "60 Minutes" conveniently cut about 20 seconds from an interview with Paul Ryan, wherein he had made the point that his plan to reform Medicare would not affect those who have relied upon it in their retirement plans, it would not affect anyone over the age of 55 - he mentioned his own retired mother in Florida. You see, it would have been inconvenient for the liar in the White House that CBS and the other networks have supported so vociferously over the past four years to have his lies proven wrong on CBS - leave that to some other, more honest outlet!!! Jim Lehrer, PBS??? What can you say?? Have you ever listened to the leftist, liberal drivel coming out of PBS???

The moderators are a joke!

Why are third parties shut out of the debates?

What are they going to debate?

Who loves "clean coal" the most?

Who is a bigger friend to Israel?

Our trade deficit with Communist China?

I will not be wasting my time on those two corporate pitchmen.

Absolutely not!

I very highly doubt it. Obama, with what he has done as President for the past 3 1/2 years, he shouldn't even get a second chance at President. He should be immediately impeached and his citizenship revoked. Send him off to Iran or maybe some other socialist country that he wants to turn us into

Socialism? Where the hell do you get that? He works for Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.

Look who he has surrounded himself with.

Are there commies at Goldman?

As a quote from the article, a person added some honest notes: "Marc Posner" · says--->
"Debate moderators were chosen for diversity - a network liberal, a cable liberal, a PBS liberal and a female liberal."

You are an idiot if you think they are.

If I were Romney, I would strongly object to those 3 Liberals as Moderator.

Why would anyone even dream that leftists from MSM might be "fair"? In 2008 none of them (that includes Lehrer) asked a single question about the economy - and that was not long after Bush and Paulson and Bernanke appeared in tears and invented TARP. Nor did anyone question Obama's birth in Kenya or his eligibility or even his citizenship.

It's obviously one sided. All liberals moderators? And you had to ask? LOL.......

All of them are biased left and notice the one that was chosen for the VP is a foreign Correspsondent--where Biden is strongest--I am so sure that is just pure coincidence--yeah right! The leftist media is stacked against romney and ryan so will the question be.

Why do we leave it up to the liberals to pick the moderators? Thats like asking the gang members to be on the jury. Why don't we pick our own moderators and invite the opposition to debate at our venue?

Ought to be as in legal arbitration - a panel of three.. Each candidate chooses one and that pair chooses the third.

Oh well, a debate between equal evils is a big joke anyway.

Good! Now how do we make it so?

I really don't care to play Ruler. To be a network CEO, I'd probably have to pay the network to let me aboard!

The left is so full of hate for the right that they can't do an unbiased job...I can't wait to watch and listen to the questions that the left winged moderators will pick out to slam the right while softballing the left...business as usual.