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Viewpoints: Debate against Romney exposed Obama's oh-so-many weaknesses
October 12, 2012

Eugene Robinson: Bad night for Obama breathes life into Republican campaign
October 05, 2012

Debate chat replay: Obama, Romney in first presidential debate
October 03, 2012

Obama and Romney clash over economy, taxes, health care
October 03, 2012

Capitol Alert: A.M. Alert: Your presidential debate schedule
October 01, 2012

AM Alert: Your presidential debate schedule
October 01, 2012

Will Durst | The Audacity of Mendacity
October 08, 2012
October 8, 2012 - A surprisingly large segment of America tuned into the first presidential debate, but for some odd reason, President Obama did not appear among...

Dan Gross: First Presidential Debate Makes News For What It Misses: A Question About Guns
October 05, 2012
Oct. 4, 2012 - Brady Campaign President Dan Gross today released the following statement in response to the first presidential debate of the 2012 elections, held...

America watches the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest
October 04, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across...

October 3, 2012 Debate Transcript
October 04, 2012
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, COLORADO OCTOBER...

National View: Race Back on as Romney Dominates First Debate
October 04, 2012
The long anticipated first debate featured a desperate Governor Mitt Romney facing a President Obama who appeared to be sitting on his lead, trying to play...

Gee, I Rather Liked The Debate
October 04, 2012
I didn't see the entire debate - mostly just the last two-thirds - and I rather liked what I saw. Nevertheless, many are agitated.Wow, Chris Matthews is...

PBS Adds' NewsHour Weekend' To Fall Lineup
June 17, 2013 | TVNewser
'' I am delighted about the expansion of the `NewsHour' to the weekend,'' said Jim Lehrer, executive editor, and founding former news anchor for `PBS NewsHour' in a...

Guatemala: 1983'' MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' on debate over military aid to Rios Montt's...
May 10, 2013 | Boing Boing
In this episode, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer report on... During the production of the piece, we dug into the vault and found this dusty MacNeil/Lehrer Report video from...

Guatemala: 1982 MacNeil/Lehrer on reports Rios Montt committed atrocities against...
May 10, 2013 | Boing Boing
[ Guatemala City ] -- In this 1982 episode of MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (now PBS NewsHour), Jim Lehrer and Charlene Hunter Gault report on violence and instability across...

Better Know an Opponent: Missouri Tigers
March 29, 2013 | And The Valley Shook
Jim Lehrer, and pretty much every journalist on TV Emily Newell Blair (founder of League of Women Voters) Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash (WMD Scientist for Saddam Hussein)...

WNET Looks Back at 70s for Second Installment of Pioneers of Thirteen
January 22, 2013 | FishbowlNY
The gavel-to-gavel coverage on WNET in 1973 brought newsmen Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer ... Related, FishbowlNY: MacNeil and Lehrer Named Giants of Broadcasting Channel 13 also...

Ashley Judd Mixes, Mingles With Journos
January 21, 2013 | FishbowlDC
Joe Lockhart, former PBS' Jim Lehrer (yawn), CNN and Newsweek/The Daily Beast `s Howard Kurtz, BuzzFeed Bureau Chief John Stanton and reporter Rosie Gray, Roll Call HOH...