Incompetency, By Definition, Produces an Inconsistent Product.

I mentioned Tim Rutten’s article in the LA Times, earlier today. Captain Ed makes note of the same bit and says in part as regards the causes of the debate debacle:

Corruption?  Rutten doesn’t make the case.  As my partner

It took thirteen pages of a fourteen page diatribe from Franklin Foer… most of which were him trying to save his job, but TNR has finally admitted that Beauchamp COULD have lied.

Bob Owens, of the Confederate Yankee, has

Hewitt calls CNN:

“The Most Busted Name in News”

No serious anchor would want to be where Cooper is today, at the center of a vast train wreck which cannot be explained away as the inevitable result of the sudden

I note with some amusement that Red State and Human events are proposing a do-over for the Republican YouTube debate.

Red State adds an interesting twist:

 Let’s see which of the Republican candidates really want to take questions from real

The Grapevine at Fox last night…(Hume on vacation:)

A new Harvard University study says nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust campaign coverage by the news media — and more than 60 percent believe it is politically biased.

The interviews

Michelle has the vid.

Dan Riehl says:

Good grief, it doesn’t end.

Ace says:

Bringing the total number of questioners with undisclosed affiliations to anti-Republican parties and organizations to NINE.

[UPDATE – PA]
I think we need to start a

Bit and I had a disagreement of the CNN debate debacle.  Bit argued that CNN’s screening process was faulty.  I argued that the only thing a whore screen is the money.

Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard, shows that CNN’s plants

I’ve spent the last several hours, devouring everything I can get my hands on from the news sites, and the blogs, about the obviously planted questions from the Democrats last night.

….and that’s my conclusion, I don’t think there’s any

Tease from Matt Drudge:

MSNBC HOST: ‘Total crap to suggest that nobody in CNN knew’…

Even MSNBC can grasp the obvious.  So it would seem.  Have not been able to link to the story.

Addendum: (Bit) Newsbusters has VID 

But

So, the Democrats managed to ‘slip one by’ CNN’s screening process? It appears so.

Adam Yoshida notes it, this morning:

So, the fellow who just asked the Republican candidates about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, retired Brigader General Keith Kerr,

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read “Who killed him?”The caption appeared to be

Gateway Pundit:

Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, one Mansoor Ijaz, attempts to skewer Mitt Romney for his answer to a question that Ijaz provides no evidence was ever asked:

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans

Confederate Yankee reminds us that Franklin Foer and the staff at TNR still has yet to pay the price….

It All Comes Down to This.

Does The New Republic have the solid factual evidence to support these stories?

Did the

I find it interesting that a rumor of Trent Lott having an homosexual; affair is treated as news, albeit for a short time.  Whereas a rumor of Mrs. William Clinton having a homosexual affair is only reported as an ugly