{"id":2336,"date":"2004-08-13T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2336.html"},"modified":"2004-08-13T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T19:01:41","slug":"debate-panel-appears-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/debate-panel-appears-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate panel appears set"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t mind Lehrer going solo for the debates in 2000 and 1996, but this year, he’s getting some help<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jim Lehrer, host of PBS’s “News Hour,” will be a moderator for the presidential debates, but unlike past election years, he will divide the work with ABC’s Charlie Gibson and CBS’s Bob Schieffer. <\/p>\n

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced its selection of the three Friday, along with the choice of Gwen Ifill, a “News Hour” correspondent and moderator of PBS’ “Washington Week,” as moderator for the debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Sen. John Edwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve always found Schieffer to be fair, but Gibson may pose a problem. As many of you probably remember, he was the one who got into quite a little dust-up with Kerry in April<\/a> over whether Kerry threw “medals” or “ribbons” as part of a Vietnam protest in 1971.<\/p>\n

Of course, I should note this line-up isn’t final.<\/p>\n

The announcement from the commission is somewhat preliminary as representatives for Bush and Kerry are still negotiating the number of debates and format.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t mind Lehrer going solo for the debates in 2000 and 1996, but this year, he’s getting some help. Jim Lehrer, host of PBS’s “News Hour,” will be a moderator for the presidential debates, but unlike past election years, he will divide the work with ABC’s Charlie Gibson and CBS’s Bob Schieffer. The Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}