After seeing this video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18 /stephanopoulos-once-criti_n_97363.html

I'm even more angry over that pitiful excuse for a debate that ABC held.

Especially MSNBC and CNN debates - people just hate Clintons. I suggest you start you protests with MSNBC and than go to CNN. We will see what the will say, but I think SNL already said what we all know.

And by the way: Hillary won all debates, and Obama lost all of them

I'm genuinely embarassed to be a Democrat today.

I'm still baffled by this, frankly.

This debate was tame and on-track compared to other debates.  Tim Russert in particular comes to mind.  It really amazes me to see how emotional Obama supporters get when their candidate is asked a question.

This false outrage will not save your candidate from the GOP war machine.  They invented false outrage, and are much better at it.

In the meantime, you stampede over good men like Tavis Smiley.  No casualty matters in your Holy War on the Democratic party.

To be agree about a bad debate this late in the game is pathetic.  Poor Obama was treated harder - true, so what?  It was a bad debate, but there have been several bad debates.  Todd, it sounds like your 'debate value system' is tied more to your protective feelings regarding Obama and less about quality debates.

This is short hand, and it needs to be said loudly and clearly "Issues on the minds of inbred brain dead oxcontin addicted idiots whose only other television appearance was on an episode of Cops."

Selective outrage won't advance us toward a better, fairer political media.

So once, just once, Obama gets a "disproportionate" amount of the tough questions, and all hell breaks loose?

Do you people understand that this is why others think of the Obama side as completely entitled and spoiled?

Really, too many Obama supporters remind me of these  privileged, pushy parents who show up for Parents Night at the local school and really do think that their child must be treated as a little demigod -- screw the children of everyone else.

Heaven forfend that anyone might presume to criticize their child! No amount of harassment of the teachers or the administrators will assuage their anger. Heads must roll. Lawyers must be hired. A great and unforgivable injustice must be corrected!

hmm , no.

if he can't handle tough questioning he has no business running for president.

I think it helped Barack

and it silenced Hillary's argument to the supers

1. the Wright Fiasco , Ayers rezko, bitter backlash Barack survived all of them Hillary plummeted after Tuzla  

2. the nail in the Coffin when asked Directly can Barack beat McCain in the GE she said YES YES YES he can beat him

3. Barack strongest critics can no longer claim the media is going easy on Barack

Hillary won the debate she is the better Politician  but that is the problem right there, Politicians are not perceived to be trustworthy and will say anything to get your vote or donation. Barack is not a experienced Politician nor is he trying to be ...he is trying to be a leader and so far he is doing a better job of showing us how he is not only different from Clinton  but he is Different from you "typical" politician

Please don't waste your time and energy protesting its not helping  and its making Barack look weak. If you really want to help Barack or even Hillary donate or volunteer

I cannot believe the things people will protest.

This just gives Democrats, in total, a bad name when they are protesting ABC for the debate.  It was not that bad.  Sure, it was sucky in many ways, but have you watched debates in the past?  They are often BS

it's time for supporters of the late lamented campaign of Hillary Clinton to get off the GOP bandwagon, come back to the party, and join the attack on the sensationalist bullshit media. this is your fight, too, no Dem ideas will ever get coverage if the MSM is playing "gotcha" all day. bad media is bad media. an hour without ANY substance in a political debate is bad for the country, YOU KNOW THIS.

so, if you haven't followed Clinton not ReThugland, start fighting ON THE RIGHT SIDE,  for a change.

I think it's funny, but I don't see the point of it.

John McCain is going to be on George Stephanopoulis' show this Sunday.  GS's excuse was that electability is what is on voter's minds, and people want to know how candidates handle tough questions.

So I'm sure on Sunday, he's going to ask John McCain about his reputation as a serial adulterer.  Or ask him why he left a woman who waited for him for years while he was in Vietnam when she was disfigured in an accident, and married an heiress who bankrolled his Senate career.  After all, these questions are going to come up in November.  

Ask him about the Keating 5.  Ask him why he's not wearing a flag pin on his lapel.

Oh, and of course ask him why he's not supporting the new GI Bill.

I love the reactions of some people here.  If the system's broke, but it favors my candidate, then it's all good.  I trust they'd be singing the same tune if they were on the receiving end of a pro-McCain debate.

Protesting ABC is stupid.

Good for them.

Where was the outrage from Huf Post and Kos at the bias, to say the least, against HRC in earlier debates?  Obama has had a free ride for way too long.  It's about time he has received some scrutiny -- should have happened a lot earlier.

This is a really weird protest.  If someone challenged me to put on a flag pin... I would probably put it on.  I don't see how that's supposed to be an effective way of making the point.

I am thrilled to see the Obama supporters finally on board with holding the media accountable for its incessant focus on trivia.  For those with short memories, this is how the blogosphere used to be.

I love you ABC

I hate you MCNBC

I love you CNBC but I am boycotting GE anyway.

Funny when HRC was getting trashed by the questions asked in the debate i didnt hear much.  Maybe BO supporters can do the same thing to ABC that they did to Travis Smally.  Or John Lewis.

david

Since these flag wavers have been annointed by the media as political gods, who the hell are they? It wouldn't be that hard to get some people to answer a survey declaring their love of flag pins, and then run criminal background checks on them. No consent required! I'm guessing we'd find an usually high number of crack smoking, drunk driving, child molesting types in this crowd. But since we literally have no idea who they are, why are the worth quoting? oh wait, because ABC loves them.

how about the questions to Chelsea about how her mom handled the Monica Lewinsky situation?  Those were defended as valid by many even though Chelsea wasn't even involved in that situation.  So if any question is "fair game" then why is Obama exempt from being asked questions, even if they are stupid?  Jeesh is the guy too wussy to even answer questions, or to say "that is a dumb question"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZJex9Ge2 -Q

Copy and paste, great video of Obama brushing off sholders to Rap music, pretty cool!

Better go after CNN for running the Ayers story too.

Should be interesting if they go after McCain this weekend . This pressure could help for that.

Of course, it is corporate media and they will not hand over power to any Dem without a fight.

for the biased, distorted and heavy handed coverage, let alone the debates we've been seeing for over a year.

...bias indeed.

Hillary was treated to that kind of abuse in debate after debate...

Where was the outrage then?

Now that the "chosen one" finally came under a little harsh scrutiny,  all of a sudden the left has a problem with the trivialization of political discourse...

Too transparent to take seriously

This has nothing to do with demanding a fair and balanced media.  Rather, this is all about "don't be mean to Barack"!

The same people supporting this march are the same people who have aided and abetted NBC and MSNBC during their non-stop Clinton bashing during this entire campaign.  

Woe to those who dare to question The Precious!

I'm not sure I see protesting the press's idiocy in this debate serves any purpose.  

It is good, however, to see that the seeds of a very activist Democratic presidential campaign are there for this one once we get though this increasngly repulsive primary.  Not sure about the cause in this instance, but love the passion.

Quit Picking on Obama!!!!

where is that kid that did that vid for Britney?  I think we need him here...

lol

What I still don't get about this debate is that Steph said they chose to focus on issues that had come up since the last debate.

But if we were going to wade waist deep into Bosnia, flag pins and 60's radicals, why no mention of the Columbian trade deal? Demoting your chief strategist is kind of a big deal not to mention having your former president husband collecting money from these people. But it never even came up.

When and where Obamanation is holding its anti-Pennsylvania protest next week.  I look forward to the continuing theme of "rally the troops against tough questions and small towns."

I've said this before but again, some Clinton supporters don't seem to understand is this debate was an insult to you also. The questions asked suggest that what 'Mainstream America' cares about is vapid, tabloid fodder. Remember in an early debate when Hillary was asked if she preferred diamonds or pearls? Would they ask McCain if he prefers boxers or briefs? Remember Hillary's cackle and her cleavage? Bosnia? Gore's flop sweat? Kerry's windsurfing tights? These are the kinds of things that are meant to distract from real issues. I feel bad for the woman who was taped asking the question about the flag pin. She was made a fool of. No wonder independents are taking another look at McCain. No wonder people voted republican when they wanted to 'restore dignity to the White House.' We as DEMOCRATS must elevate this discussion or we will lose again in November.

Stop watching any ABC programming to prove a point.  Spend your time protesting about something important.

  So much love for ABC on this thread.  I really thought Clinton supporters would at least back us on this, since they seemed so mad about the media anyway.  I was wrong.  I mean come on: "Does your former marine pastor love America?"  You don't have to hate everything associated with Obama to support Clinton.  Very silly.

Seems a little trashy to be harassing the employees of the company considering I doubt that any of them had anything to do with what was asked during the debate. If anyone tried to harass me coming out of work like this, it would make me disrespect them, since the thing they are whining about doesn't have anything to do with me.

Won't it be great when George Stephanopolous does his interview with Mcain and brings out all possible Democrat attacks against him.  In the interest of fairness, I'm sure we can expect him to properly "vet" the Senator so he knows what to expect from the General.  But don't hold your breath guys.  The idea is that Dems are always so weak they can't handle an election against those tough republican hawks.

Because let's be honest our biggest and scariest opponent is the so-called liberal media.  They choose the narrative, they frame the debate, and they decided in a shocking display of elitism, that the biggest concern in the minds of americans is the capital gains tax (4%!!That's how many americans are actually effected).

I find this ridiculous.  No one had a major protest
on any of the Hillary attacks, which were many.

You all are just adding to the wimp factor by doing this.

The woman that asked the idiotic question about the flag pin was actually shocking to me.  The fact that a question like that made it to primetime speaks volumes.  Unlike others, I don't think either of our candidates come out of this looking bad.  Rather, I think ABC looks incredibly foolish for wasting a debate that had the potential to be a defining moment in the campaign on minutia.  They come out of this looking bad, not us.

The New York Times, WaPo, WSJ, and a dozen other newspapers all panned this debate as an insult to the intelligence of Americans.  The media outside of the US is united in it's ridicule of American journalism after watching that charade.

The right wing noise machine treats Democrats one way - with contempt and a profound lack of respect - and Republicans another way.  That's the issue here.

I have to laugh at Hillary supporters for being so short sighted that they can't see how that debate hurt their candidate.  

Wow!  One debate with a few nasty questions for Obama and his supporters are up in arms.

FWIW, I sent ABC a "Thank you" for putting Obama on the hotseat for a change.  It was long past time.

institutions.

In the Wake of Rev. Wright scandal the theological community is coming together.  This weekend people from institutions such as Union, Princeton Seminary, NY Seminary, and others will be going into Philly to speak to voters at Churches who have welcomed us.

This fall we will be standing up for Dr. Wright.  Here at Princeton Seminary (and dept. of religious studies) we will be inviting him to speak.  Stand by him.  And send a message the America's Theological Community does not stand for attack on Black Liberation Theology, nor good clergyman.  Were planning for a crowd of over 1,000, as soon as Dr. Wright accepts, and we are going to alert main-line clergy across the country the the nation's premier Theological Institution is standing by Dr. Wright.  We are also planning on reaching out to the MSM and sending out our best theologians to speak on behalf of Dr. Wright when the 527 start to attack him.  We feel like our friends and mentors have been attacked.  As one Professor of Theology put it: This is our Civil Right Movement.

Where was the pompously and self-congratulatorily named "Courage Campaign" when Hillary was being hammered in the previous debates, and when she was treated like crap in general by the media? Nowhere. This phony "independent" group is only getting all hot and bothered now, despite the eyewash in the quoted statement about even-handed outrage, because their Golden Child candidate is finally getting a taste of the scrutiny and unfairness that Hillary has had to deal with since day one.

In addition, these "Captains Courageous" encouraging everyone to harass innocent ABC employees who had nothing to do with the debate in any way is in keeping with the bullying tactics employed by this front group of Obama thugs. When Hillary kicked Mr. Perfect's ass in the CA primary, this "independent group" launched a campaign of harassment, distortion, and misinformation claiming that the ballots in LA County for independents who insisted on voting in the Democratic primary were so difficult to understand as to constitute "disenfranchisement" of these voters. Their real goal was to call into question the legitimacy of Hillary's win. When it turned out that the overwhelming majority of such voters had filled out their ballots correctly (not surprizingly, since the Elections Board, various Obama spokespersons, and the "Braveheart Campaign" itself had widely publicized the instructions), these Beverly Hills Bullies refused to relent. They set up an "online petition" and threatened to sue the local officials, who were only doing their jobs to the best of their abilities in not counting the few ballots that were filled out incorrectly, out of the millions cast in LA County. Finally, just to get these Obama-bot pests to leave them alone, the officials agreed to "count" some of the incorrectly completed ballots, even though it was not clear in all cases who the voters intended to vote for, or which party primary they intended to participate in, and even though it was not fair to some of the candidates because, the way the ballots were set up, they couldn't get any of the additional votes. The balllots eventually "counted" made no difference whatsoever, and did not affect the delegate distriubution in any way. Nevertheless, this wholly-owned Obama subsidary crowed shrilly and endlessly about the great "victory" for democracry they had won over its nefarious enemies--ie hardworking election officials just trying to follow the law and do their job. And, because there ended up being more ballots for Hillary than for Obama (a fact they had no way of knowing when they began their campaign of PR and disinformation), the Fearless Ones over at the "Campaign" told anyone who questioned their motives to "STFU." Needless to say, Fort Courage has nothing to say about the millions of loyal, Democratic voters in MI and FL left out of the process entirely.

We see the same dynamic here. The same partisanship for Obama masqeurading as some "independent," "good government" concern for overall fairness. And the same bully-boy thuggishness.

They are laughing at all the whining and the gop are loving this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UEx cw

The right wing noise machine has been bullying the media for years, and have gotten their way as a result.  It's about time we do the same!

The travesty wasn't so much the hit jobs on Obama, remember, Hillary was hit, too.  It was the fact that the entire debate consisted of right wing talking points.  There was not one question related to ANYTHING democrats care about... no Iraq, no healthcare, etc.  It was not so much a hit job on Obama, but a hit job on Democrats as a whole!

The Clinton supporters should be just as outraged.  

Could I suggest to the big brains who run the Democratic Party that in future elections ABC, NBC, and all commercial networks be excluded from debates?  Let PBS-NPR run the show in the future.

Too bad they didn't do this from the beginning, when websites like "cunt" were being formed, and Hillary was being called a bitch, and other Presidential candidates were laughing it off.

Man, f*ck Obama and his weak minded followers.

OBAMA IS THE DEMOCRATIC VERSION OF BUSH, and his followers are Bushbots 2.0.

BUt it's cool..through away the election in November.

I know I'm doing everything it takes to see him lose; he's creating more and more independents every day he stays in the race.

Never thought I'd see the day when so called progressives turn into left-wing nutters..but I guess I was underestimating human potential for non-deserving hero worship.

Obama's support is the mirror image of Bush's.

If you dont' think so, I'm not sure how you figured out how to log on to the Internet.