| All three cable news networks do it, and it is abominable. These folks want to be part of the spectacle and influence the outcome of the game. Their role should be no greater than that of umpire in a baseball game, but they don't seem to see it that way. I recall idiots at Fox explaining the proper positions for Republican candidates to take (as if to say that taking other positions would deem them something other than Republican), and going to extraordinary measures to ridicule a candidate they fear, all during an actual debate. I recall Chris Matthews actually taking Fred Thompson to task by explaining how he should have answered a debate question, during the debate. The complaints voiced in the Op/Ed piece in the LA Times don't seem to reach quite that level, although I'll admit that I did not see the debate myself. |