Bob Scheiffer is going to wreck this last debate. The CBS anchor is already planning his moderator status on an episode of The West Wing (to be fair, Aaron Sorkin characters are way more precise and eloquent than anything you're going to hear tomorrow night), and is hoping for a "freewheeling" debate where the candidates just talk honestly and sufficiently about the issues at hand, all the while being mindful of the time constraints. Oh, wait, that's not what freewheeling means?

"I'll ask each of them the same question, they'll answer, and then I'll say to the other one, 'Well, what about that?'
"These follow-up questions,” he said, “don't have to be too complicated…”

Huh, well, that just sounds like a naively dangerous way to look at the control you exert over the final time the candidates face off for the American public. Especially since unless you've had your head buried under sand for the last two weeks, you know the two men will try to go over their time limits, address each other's statements instead of the questions at hand, and basically turn it into a duel rather than a debate.

But sure, let them have at it and don't exert any authority. After all, you don't want to end up like "poor Brokaw," which was the one sentence headline the Post pulled from the entire Scheiffer interview.