Conservative TV Hosts Seen as Debate Moderators

“Republican insiders say the next presidential campaign season may see some star power from the hard-core conservative crowd, via debates moderated by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity,” the Washington Times reports.

Said one GOP insider: “It makes a lot of sense. We’d get a huge viewership, they’d make a lot of news and maybe have some fun, too.”

John Fund: “Just as the media landscape has offered more choices to consumers with
the advent of new players, so too would presidential debates appeal to
more viewers if they moved beyond the formats and cast that seem to have
been ordained over a half century ago, during the Nixon-Kennedy
confrontations. Everything else in the media is changing, so why not the
fusty and frozen format of debates?”