talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/18/2008
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Remember that woman from the debate last night who the moderators showed videotape of asking whether Barack Obama "believes in the flag"? Her name is Nash McCabe. I remember thinking it was sort of odd to have a couple one-off uses of ordinary voter questions when it didn't really seem like it was part of the format. But I was too distracted by the general inanity of the debate to focus on ...
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Our Sham Debates May Be Even Shammier Than We Thought!
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... " during Wednesday's debate, turns out to be a little less ordinary than originally assumed: She was the subject of a Times article two weeks ago in which she asked , "How can I vote for a president who won't wear a flag pin?" This is apparently some kind of huge scandal, according to the folks at Talking Points Memo , who are concerned that picking an ordinary citizen with a predisclosed bias to ask a question might violate the integrity of the ludicrously scripted dog-and-pony shows American television debate format. Which, we all can agree, would be a real tragedy.
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... The woman who, during this week’s Pennsylvania debate, asked Barack Obama why he didn’t wear an American flag pin, making her the only regular citizen to ask a question, is also the woman who was ...
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