Moderators For 2016 Presidential Debates Announced

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced the moderators for the 2016 general election presidential and vice presidential debates. The moderators, and the schedule and locations for the debates are as follows: 

First presidential debate:
Lester Holt, Anchor, NBC Nightly News
Monday, September 26, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Vice presidential debate:
Elaine Quijano, Anchor, CBSN and Correspondent, CBS News
Tuesday, October 4, Longwood University, Farmville, VA

Second presidential debate (town meeting):
Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent and Co-Anchor of "This Week," ABC 
Anderson Cooper, Anchor, CNN
Sunday, October 9, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Third presidential debate:
Chris Wallace, Anchor, Fox News Sunday
Wednesday, October 19, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 

Hillary is researching and plotting ways to get under Trump's skin at the debate.
Trump's front row guest will be Monica.

— WH PRESS SECRETARY (@weknowwhatsbest) August 31, 2016

Cooper's bias will show even if he tries to hide it.

— Sandi (@sandiinhr) September 2, 2016

Upcoming Debate Moderator Martha Raddatz had Obama at her wedding. Is SHE with HER?https://t.co/nCoGHVBWpOhttps://t.co/oW67LhbeVK

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) September 2, 2016

Axelrod: Summer Of Recovery? I Never Said That. You Should Show Me The Tape Of Me Saying That. BOOM! Here Ya Go.

David Axelrod, senior adviser to Jug Ears’ campaign, appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this morning.  Can you say landmine?  I knew you could.

Well, here’s what happened to the poor fellow.  According to the rush transcript from the broadcast, Wallace put into context the current state of the economy; which is dismal, and asked, “Given that fixing the economy was number job one—why does President Obama deserve reelection given that record?”

Predictably, Axelrod provided some tortured circular logic that “the hole that was created is huge and we’re going to fill it.”

He continued, “The president has been urging Congress since last fall to pass his bill that would invigorate those sectors (construction and education), and that would help. But we have a lot of work to do.”

[SNIP]

“And the real question for voters is going to be, what is the choice on the other side? This week, we learned that Governor Mitt Romney's tax plans would raise taxes for the wealthy—would cut taxes for the wealthy, a windfall for the wealthy and raise taxes by $2,000 on the middle class. That's not a prescription for getting our economy moving or rebuilding the middle class.”

Then the trap was slyly set by Wallace and Axelrod took the bait.

WALLACE: But, David, didn't this White House badly misjudge this recovery? I remember in 2010, two summers ago, you and Vice President Biden were running around, talking about recovery summer. That was the summer of 2010.

And the fact is that your White House said that if you got the stimulus, that $800 billion, that unemployment would stay under 8 percent. In fact with the stimulus, unemployment has stayed over 8 percent for the last 42 months, that's 3 1/2 years.

AXELROD: Chris, first of all, I wasn't running around saying anything that other than we were going to be persistent, that it took years to get into this mess, it was going to take years to get -

WALLACE: You talked about recovery summer in 2010.

AXELROD: Well, you should show me the tape of me saying that. I have been very consistent about the fact we need to be persistent in our effort.

For your dining and dancing pleasure I present little David Axelrod getting caught with his pants down in a bold-faced lie.  The first video is Axelrod touting the Summer of Recovery and the second is his appearance this morning on FNS.  (Wouldn’t want to be accused of taking anything out of context.)

See also:

In June 2010, David Axelrod Previewed The “Recovery Summer” By Saying “This Summer Will Be The Most Active Recovery Act Season Yet.” 

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s August 2010 Op-Ed: “Welcome To The Recovery”