"Moderated" by the Forgery Broadcast System

I absolutely could not believe Bob Shiefer tonight. Easily 3/4 of the questions he asked were taken almost word-for-word from GWT y PP's campaign talking points! It's as though Dan Rather's shadow anchor at CBS "News" (Schiefer) dropped by the Kedwards campaign and asked for a list of questions to ask. And yet... on roughly sixteen of twenty questions asked, I score President Bush a winner. Why (apart from the fact that by now I know sKerry is a liar and a poltroon)? Because skerry avoided actually addressing a majority of the questions directly and because the answers he gave (even the portions of answers that did address the questions) were 1.) Simply his pre-rehearsed stump speeches ("Thank you, Bob, for asking for that particular speech.") 2.) Often "wrong on facts" (scare quotes used because "wrong on facts" is code for "lying") 3.) Weird and creepy, or simply in exteremely poor taste (another reference to Cheney's lesbian daughter, for example) But, gee, folks, somebody needs to call a modern day Hercules to clean out the Augean stables at 555 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 ( CBS "News").