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MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:
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> With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
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> Monday September 18, 2000; 10:03 AM EDT
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> Stephanopoulos: Debate Moderator Jim Lehrer is Our Guy
>
> Jim Lehrer, the PBS News Hour anchorman tapped by the so-called
> "bi-partisan" Presidential Debate Commission to preside over
> three October face-offs between Vice President Al Gore and Texas
> Governor George Bush, is so friendly towards the White House that
> a former top Clinton-Gore official once described him as "our
> moderator."
>
> Lehrer hosted two Clinton-Dole presidential commission debates
> and one Gore-Kemp vice presidential debate in 1996. At no point
> did the PBS newsman specifically raise the administration's
> Filegate scandal, which had broken just two four months before,
> or the burgeoning Chinagate scandal, which was then on the front
> pages of every newspaper in the country.
>
> A year after Clinton-Gore handily defeated Dole-Kemp at the
> polls, senior White House aide George Stephanopoulos admitted
> that the debate deck had been stacked against the GOP despite the
> commission's pretense towards bipartisanship:
>
> "We wanted the debates to be a non-event," Stephanopoulos
> revealed during a 1997 panel discussion on presidential politics.
> "As long as we would agree to Perot not being in it, we could get
> everything else we wanted going in. We got out time frame, we got
> our length, we got our moderator."
>
> PBS's pro-Democrat bias became even more apparent in July 1999,
> when several of its taxpayer funded outlets were caught helping
> the Democratic National Committee.
>
> After repeated denials of impropriety, two of the network's
> flagship stations, WGBH in Boston and WETA in Washington, D.C.,
> admitted sharing their donor lists with the DNC. Others PBS
> outlets were also implicated in the federally subsidized
> fund-raising scam.
>
> The Presidential Debate Commission is currently involved in a
> joint venture with McNeil-Lehrer productions to produce a
> documentary on the history of presidential debates.
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