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Debate moderator Jim Lehrer roundly criticized

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By Pat Cunningham

Barack Obama can perhaps take solace in the fact that Jim Lehrer, the moderator of last night’s presidential debate, also had a BAD NIGHT:

“I’m not going to say I’ve done a poor job…”

That was Jim Lehrer’s assessment of his performance as the moderator of the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Sadly for him, many disagreed.

It was Lehrer’s 12th time moderating, but he was largely unsuccessful in his attempts to corral the candidates. Both President Obama and Mitt Romney rolled right over him as, with increasing plaintiveness, he tried to get them to stop talking. ...

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