Hatchet Job

Last night's Pennsylvania debate moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News could not have delivered a more effective hatchet job on Sen. Barack Obama - and thereby giving Sen. Hillary Clinton a free pass - short of being employed directly by the Clinton campaign. For much of the first hour they focused unrelentingly on every tangential issue - Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's "bitter" comment, Obama's patriotism - calculated to drive voters away from Obama, so much so that at times it was three on one. The Field Negro, a Philadelphia based blogger, put it best:

These two clowns were a joke. I like a tough moderator, but come on George, I know you used to work for the Clintons, but could you have at least tried to put a journalist hat on? What a fucking disgrace! I bet the little motherfucker really felt like Napoleon tonight. Affirmative action, guns, all the wedge issues to fire up certain white folks and turn them off from a certain black candidate even more. If the former first lady was a baseball player she would be the league MVP after tonight's debate with all the soft balls she had thrown her way.