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<\/p>\nRUSH: This morning, CNN Starting Point, Soledad O\u2019Brien speaking with former ABC News anchor, Carole Simpson, about tonight\u2019s second presidential debate. Soledad O\u2019Brien said, “You\u2019ve been critical. You say that women are having the opportunity to only do the debate where they really don\u2019t get to ask any of the questions. Why is that do you think?”<\/p>\n
Candy Crowley tonight is doing the moderator bit, the town hall where voters — by the way, these are undecided voters, ostensibly found by Gallup, which is being pressured by Axelrod. But that\u2019s supposedly how we\u2019re gonna get the audience tonight, undecided voters that Gallup finds via their polling. And Carole Simpson said, “A moderator cannot rephrase a question, cannot expand on it.” Candy Crowley says she\u2019s going to, she\u2019s not some potted plant or fly on the wall. <\/p>\n
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So both teams yesterday, both campaigns said, “Wait a second, she\u2019s openly stating here she\u2019s gonna break the rules?” She\u2019s a news babe. Why be afraid of that? I mean, whoever gets elected here is gonna have to deal with people like Ahmadinejad and Vladimir Putin, and you\u2019re gonna be afraid of Candy Crowley? Give me the violins. Anyway, Candy Crowley wants to be able to expand, and Carole Simpson\u2019s point is it\u2019s a put-down to women to give them this moderator role when basically all they do is call somebody\u2019s name and shove a microphone in their face. Here\u2019s what she said.<\/p>\n
SIMPSON: I don\u2019t want to think it\u2019s sexism, but it sure does seem like it, that women are only given the vice presidential debate and given the town hall meeting where basically we hold the microphone for other people to ask questions. Yet Jim Lehrer <\/a>and Bob Schieffer got to go one on one with the candidates and ask their own questions. So it looks like women have been pigeonholed into the women slot, which is not the big slot, which I think is one on one with the candidates.<\/p>\n RUSH: I have to be honest here. I don\u2019t even think this way. So this is foreign to me. See, I don\u2019t look for discrimination. I look for news media bias, of course, but my world is not made up of, “Oooh, there\u2019s a person with black skin, must be X.” So she\u2019s running around, “This is a big affront to all women. I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s sexism, but it is. ‘Cause they\u2019re making us do the dumb stuff. We can\u2019t even participate. We just shove a microphone into somebody\u2019s mouth.” <\/p>\n (interruption)<\/p>\n Can I admit that she has a point? Do I admit that she has a point? Meaning that there is discrimination at the Commission on Presidential Debates that there is an active bias that says women are only capable of shoving microphones in people\u2019s mouths, other than Clinton and then it changes, and they\u2019re not capable of anything else. They\u2019re not capable of any more than that. We\u2019re gonna save the real substantive debates where candidates talk to the moderator, for men. Do I think she\u2019s got a point? Hell, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a bunch of libs. It\u2019s supposedly a bipartisan commission. Hell, I don\u2019t know. See, I don\u2019t even think this way. Maybe she\u2019s got a point. Hell, I don\u2019t know. Here, move on. Soledad O\u2019Brien said, “Well, who do you think gets the advantage, Carole Simpson, in a town hall debate? Do you think Romney gets the advantage or do you think Obama gets the advantage?”<\/p>\n