{"id":30624,"date":"2012-10-16T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/questions-to-be-answered-political-debate-wise.html"},"modified":"2012-10-17T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:54:04","slug":"questions-to-be-answered-political-debate-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/questions-to-be-answered-political-debate-wise.html","title":{"rendered":"Questions to be answered, political-debate-wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it became fairly clear early on that the questions in the debate were sequenced \/ arranged to have the person receiving the question be the pointed target of it. \u00a0So Romney got asked how he was different from Dubya, and Obama got asked about the Benghazi killings, etc. Seemed pretty even-handed to me. Plenty of opportunity for both candidates to recite their talking points, pivot to the attacks they wanted to make, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think maybe your guy didn&#39;t do so well, maybe you go on the attack and start conjuring conspiracies and unfairness and all of that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2FRomney-OBama-Debate-e1350396901906_tp3-feature-single-three.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/10\/16\/1029911\/32-seconds-after-the-debate-ended-fox-started-blaming-the-questions\/'>32 Seconds After The Debate Ended, Fox Started Blaming The Questions<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExactly 32 seconds after the debate ended, Fox anchor Megyn Kelly began spinning the debate as biased as a consequence of the questions asked by the undecided voters in the audience. Here\u2019s what she s&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YJH4nqbjkJt' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it became fairly clear early on that the questions in the debate were sequenced \/ arranged to have the person receiving the question be the pointed target of it. \u00a0So Romney got asked how he was different from Dubya, and Obama got asked about the Benghazi killings, etc. Seemed pretty even-handed to me. Plenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/questions-to-be-answered-political-debate-wise.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Questions to be answered, political-debate-wise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/trump-thinks-the-first-debate-had-unfair-questions.html","url_meta":{"origin":30624,"position":0},"title":"Trump thinks the first debate had &quot;unfair&quot; questions","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Sep-16 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"The man wants to run the country, but can't stand some politely phrased questions from a low-key moderator. 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