Wolf Blitzer Lost Control At Last Night’s Debate

The one thing everybody can agree on about last night’s GOP schoolyard rumble is how Wolf Blitzer utterly failed as moderator. Via Politico:



There were many dramatic, finger-wagging encounters. But often they devolved into cross talk and bickering as Blitzer, or his co-panelists, tried to call out “Gentlemen, gentlemen,” to calm them down.

“Wolf, you said I got a response,” Cruz demanded at one point, when Blitzer tried to pivot to questions from Arraras on ISIS. Blitzer interjected that he’d have a chance later.

“You’re saying I can’t respond to being called a liar?” Cruz asked incredulously. The moderator relented, leading to a five-minute exchange that devolved at one point into Trump and Cruz squabbling uncontrollably.

“This debate could have used a moderator,” tweeted The Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg. “Very intrigued by Wolf Blitzer’s moderating strategy of ‘do absolutely nothing at any time’ ” tweeted New York Times reporter Dave Itzikoff.

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