Back in February 2012, after a GOP debate, AT asked the question whether moderator George Stephanopoulos was a “stalking horse,” which is someone who tests an idea for a third party to see if it works. Back then it was birth control and abortion, coming under the bigger theme of the “War on Women”. The issue came out of nowhere and baffled the debaters. Then it came up again and again. Stephanopoulos may have been floating the idea out there for the DNC, the third party in a GOP debate. He worked in the Clinton White House and recently he was (rightly) excluded from moderating a Republican debate. He was and is a partisan working in the news media (but I repeat myself). It seems to me (at least) that Jake Tapper is not as partisan as Stephanopoulos is, so I can’t accuse Tapper of deliberately helping the Hillary campaign. I certainly have no evidence of it. And everything seemed so lighthearted, so relieved, at the end of the long debate that no...(Read Full Post)