Oh. Yay.

I'm sorry, but is this supposed to be good news?

Jim Lehrer, the gutless, leans-right wanker, is a doddering old fool whose idea of moderating is to cut people off when they try to respond to lies. You will recall this from 2000. Bob Schieffer is the moron who sat there stupidly while Bush walked around the stage and smirked his abominable smirk while chortling "want some wood?" in response to John Kerry's completely accurate and true statement that Bush got a small business tax break for owning a tree farm. Bob Schieffer, in a word, is a fucking worthless asshole and he cannot die soon enough. Tom Brokaw I have no problem with -- which is to say, I like Harry Shearer's impersonation of Tom Brokaw's speech impediment -- except that, as my friend Dan says, Brokaw will find a way to work in a question about THE GREATEST GENERATION and that can only benefit McCain, who is the only dusty dog turd from THE GREATEST GENERATION in the running. And Gwen Ifill. What can we say about her that I haven't already said? This is the same person who once asked John Edwards what he thought about Dick Cheney's gaybo daughter, and then asked Dick Cheney, later, what he thought about John Edwards' answer to a question about Edwards' personal life. That was the only time I ever laughed at something Dick Cheney said (well, until he shrieks, as he will, "I'm dying of poisonous ant bites from inside my colon!"), "You want me to talk about his experiences?"

These things are already rigged in McCain's favor; three of the four moderators, so-called, are too genteel (read: dumb) to allow Obama to go on the attack against Mothball McCain; the fourth moderator is just a fucking cunt who thinks NPR means "qualified to talk down to the public" and who can't keep her head long enough to remember what the question was.