After last night's Democratic presidential debate, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer "rebuffed a suggestion that he had adopted a more lenient stance after critics charged he was too restrictive at previous debates." Why all the hub-bub? Because Blitzer moderated a veritible free-for-fall among Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. The New York Times Brian Stetler called his style "exceedingly lenient." TVNewser's Steve Krakauer reports he "allowed candidates to interrupt each other and follow up to each other's answers" while "cheers and clapping from the crowd [erupted] throughout every answer."

We watched the debates from the treadmill at the gym on closed caption, so our experience was more like:

What she sai–
said wasnt tru.
We acounnnt for every cingle $
that we pre– propose.
Now this I think is one ov
of
the things that's
happend
during the curse of this campaign.