Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell:
In perhaps the most embarrassing performance by the media in a major presidential debate this year, ABC News hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous focused mainly on trivial issues as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in Philadelphia.
We all got that. But here's the part that I don't understand:
More time was spent on all of this than segments on getting out of Iraq and keeping people from losing their homes and other key issues. Gibson only got excited when he complained about anyone daring to raise taxes on his capital gains. Yet neither candidate had the courage to ask the moderators to turn to those far more important issues.
The emphasis is mine -- I honestly don't understand why Democrats haven't learned to ignore the bullshit substance-less questions and simply say, "Okay, that's a dumb question. Let's talk about something people care about, like the housing crisis."
Just bypass the idiotic questioners and talk about the things that the Democratic primary electorate actually want to talk about.
Trust me, they'll get brownie points, and the idiot questioners will look like idiots in the process.