What a great job she did. She held both their feet to the fire, which is what we need.
Came in late, so not sure if she asked a climate question. Anyone know if she did?
Huffpo
Martha Raddatz drew widespread praise for her moderating of Thursday's vice presidential debate.
Raddatz immediately proved that she was going to be a more active, feisty moderator than Jim Lehrer was in the first presidential debate. Whereas he opened each segment with broad questions about what the "differences" between the candidates on various issues were, Raddatz asked specific questions. Though Lehrer said in interviews that the new debate format, which features more freewheeling segments, was supposed to reduce the role of the moderator, Raddatz mixed it up eagerly with Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Speaking to Biden about the controversy over the attacks in Libya, she asked, "Wasn't this a massive intelligence failure?"
Speaking to Ryan about Mitt Romney's response to the attacks, she asked, "Was that really appropriate right in the middle of the crisis?"
Whereas Lehrer appeared to have trouble corralling Obama and Romney, Raddatz managed to cut them off repeatedly. "Let's move to Iran," she said, and they did. When Biden said Ryan was talking "a bunch of stuff," she asked, "What does that mean, 'a bunch of stuff?'"
"I think we've gone over this quite enough," she said as she moved onto another topic.
Conspiracy thou art my friend
You can bet the Repubs will be crying foul tomorrow, already began with Drudge..
MediaMatters
Hey Drudge, Daily Caller: This Is What A Real Moderator Conflict Of Interest Looks Like
Blog ››› October 10, 2012 3:51 PM EDT ››› OLIVER WILLIS
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The Daily Caller and the Drudge Report are hyping the fact that Barack Obama attended vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz's wedding to Julius Genachowski (now the head of the FCC) in 1991 as evidence of a conflict of interest.
CNBC/New York Times journalist John Harwood dismissed the complaints from what he described as "'bias' babies," noting the couple "divorced years ago" (in 1997). Peter Eyre, an adviser to the debate commission, told USA Today that "The notion that that somehow affects her ability is not something we have given a moment's thought to." Fox's Greta Van Susteren reports that Rep. Paul Ryan's campaign "has no concerns" about Raddatz moderating, adding, "this should end any complaints about ABC's Martha Raddatz moderating tomorrow night's VP debate."
The Caller/Drudge allegations appear even weaker when compared to the case of Bob Schieffer, who moderated the third presidential debate in 2004 and faced an actual conflict of interest.
A year before that debate, Schieffer told Howard Kurtz that "it's always difficult to cover someone you know personally," a reference to what Mother Jones described as "a golfing friendship" between Schieffer and President George W. Bush that had developed during the 1990s. Mother Jones also noted that Schieffer claimed Bush had been asked "tough questions" in the lead-up to the Iraq War and argued that "the notion that Bush is a Bible-thumping conservative Republican of that ilk is something that's sort of hard to believe" when then-candidate Bush visited the controversial Bob Jones University in 2000 (at the time, the school had a ban on interracial dating in place.)
Dipshits.
Good job, Martha!