Yesterday on MSNBC, Tim Russert made a big deal about Hillary Clinton's charge of media bias, or her assertion that she always seems to get the first questions at the debates. Hillary-hater Tim Russert claimed that in the most recent sham of a debate, his 'gotcha' question about Russia was not directed at either candidate, but 'the bitch' aggressively seized the question.
CNN's Lou Dobbs tells a different story. Dobbs says that after viewing the clip, it was clear that when Russert posed the question, Sen. Obama looked over at Hillary, and she took the question because he basically asked her to.
If you saw the recent debate on the Misogyny Channel, you know that when Obama did weigh in on the subject of Russia, he merely repeated what Hillary said. Obama followed this pattern throughout the night, often saying, "I agree with Hillary." Obviously, the problem with Hillary going first is that we already know that she knows lots of stuff, but we don't know if Obama knows much of anything.
The New York Times looks at how often Hillary has been targeted with the first question:
Mrs. Clinton has received the first question of the night in all three of her one-on-one debates with Mr. Obama… In other debates before the Democratic field narrowed, she received the first question at 6 of the 10 most recent events. And in the one-on-one debate last Thursday, she received the first question on the overwhelming majority of topics and thus spoke first about twice as often as he did. . .
In the previous debate, on CNN, the moderators said they selected one candidate at random and offered that candidate the choice of giving the first or second opening statement. Mr. Obama won the draw, and he chose to speak after Mrs. Clinton.
Like they say, women have to be twice as good as the men just to get in the game, and still the men get the glory.
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