The liberal media in this nation has made no secret of their bias against President Donald Trump. Some of them, as in the past, may be chosen or demanded by the Biden campaign as moderators for the upcoming presidential debates in the fall. But their bias and blatant animosity toward the president should disqualify them, as they will use the events, as the liberal press has in the past, to hurt the Republicans and promote the Democrats.

Debate moderators are chosen every presidential election year by the supposedly non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The CPD relies on three criteria when choosing moderators: “familiarity with the candidates and the major issues of the presidential campaign,” “extensive experience in live television broadcast news,” and “an understanding that the debate should focus maximum time and attention on the candidates and their views.” It is interesting that fairness, integrity, and objectivity are not among the criterion.

Prog journalist Walker Bragman understands the crux of the issue: “The conglomeration of media has made the national discourse less robust. It has been particularly problematic with the blending of news and opinion. Anderson Cooper pointing out when the president is lying is good. But ad hominem attacks on his weight? That’s embarrassing.” Here is Cooper’s latest broadside against the president.

“He doesn’t have the guts to say, ‘You know what, I don’t care what they think because this serves my political purposes.’ That’s why he’s doing it. He doesn’t have the guts to say that because he is just a little man despite his girth and size. He’s a little man inside and he knows that.”

As Twitter enables fact-checking on Trump's tweets, @AndersonCooper calls him "a little, little man."

He's "raising conspiracy theories…about a dead woman, though her family is begging Twitter to take them down…You start to think this is just normal…Man we are in trouble." pic.twitter.com/vSIFknxU65

— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) May 27, 2020

That is hardly the professionalism that should be required for moderating a presidential debate.

Former CNN producer and now media critic Steve Krakauer said during a recent interview that CNN has become a “competitor on the left to MSNBC” and pointed to the “monologues” that occur “on pretty much every show.” He further said, “Anderson Cooper, who I think is an excellent journalist who would travel the world for every natural disaster and war zone —you know, now he’s basically confined to a studio— and this is before the coronavirus, is in the studio every night talking to pundits and included in that is a monologue, essentially it’s his opinion on some anti-Trump thing. That’s just a very clear difference from the way things were before. Jake Tapper does it, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo… It’s clear that there’s no longer this idea of pure objectivity. And it’s not 100 percent across the board, but it’s a very big difference there.”

Here is an example of the kind of high-minded unbiased journalism potential CNN debate moderator Chris Cuomo practices while on the air:

Which swab was it @NYGovCuomo ? pic.twitter.com/ivMUQtHw4g

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) May 21, 2020

Jake Tapper, who CNN heavily relied on to moderate several Democratic primary debates, recently bashed President Trump for launching a “smear campaign against rivals” and referred to the illegal surveillance of the Trump’s team as a “crackpot conspiracy theory.” Objectivity from another potential moderator.

Former debate moderator Don Lemon asked CNN not to cover the president’s daily virus briefings live. The network rolled back its coverage as soon as Lemon asked. Lemon, who has consistently accused Trump of being racist, has shown an irrational and unnatural obsession with the president. How could he ever be fair to Trump? This is not a phenomenon limited to this election cycle.

In 2014, CNN presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley intervened in an exchange between President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney when Romney attempted to challenge the president’s handling of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. She questioned his wording and defended Obama. That is indicative of the track record of CNN, and much of the liberal press, when it comes to presidential debates.

Media critic Curtis Houck comments on the potential of liberal media pundits moderating the presidential debates: “Even with just their collective rhetoric during the coronavirus pandemic, CNN‘s entire roster of hosts have disqualified themselves from being any serious, sober, and respectable choice to moderate a 2020 presidential debate. It would be a bad sign for the 2020 presidential debates if any CNN host is granted the opportunity to moderate the debate. The days of trusting CNN to call out falsehoods across the political spectrum have long since ended.”

This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 28, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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