Why do GOP presidential candidates have to debate Democratic political operatives like George Stephanopoulos?

  

I was stunned when I broke away from the football game Saturday night to see ABC News moderator George Stephanopoulos going back and forth in a heated exchange with Mitt Romney, as though Stephanopoulos was one of the candidates on the platform himself. His role was supposed to ensure all candidates were treated fairly and that the debate didn't get bogged down in an endless morass of crapola. Instead it seemed he had reverted to his former career as a "crapola in chief" for a Democrat political campaign before he supposedly departed politics for the world of even handed journalism for ABC news whose motto apparently is ..."We report...we decide"

According to the Daily Caller in an article entitled Stephanopoulos struggles with fairness during NH debate, ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos directed pointed hard-edged questions to Republican presidential candidates during Saturday night’s New Hampshire debate, often attacking without providing evidences to justify his broadsides. When questioning Romney, Stephanopoulis premised some inquiries on the assertion ---offered without supporting facts ----that Romney’s job-creation statistics were inaccurate.

“Now, there have been questions about that calculation of 100,000 jobs. So if you could explain it a little more” Stephanopoulis asked Romney of the former governors claims about jobs created by companies he has helmed.  "I’ve read some analysts who look at it and say you’re counting the jobs that were taken away. Is that accurate?"

“No, it’s not accurate”, Romney bluntly responded. “It includes the net of both. I’m a good enough numbers guy to make sure I get both sides of that.”

 Stephanopoulos did not cite any analysts  by name. 

Now maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems to me that line of questioning is inappropriate coming from a debate moderator.  I thought they were suppose to debate each other. 

And furthermore why do the Republicans continually allow their debates to be hosted by hostile political foes at ABC, CNN, CNBC, or worst of all MSNBC which might as well be called the OBama network  Do you think the Democrats would ever allow one of their debates to be hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, or Haley Barbour? Of course not. So why do Republicans allow their debates to be hosted by hard core Democrat operatives like Stephanopolis who was the chief spinmaster during the Clinton campaigns?

These people like Stephanopolis and Chris Mathews go back and forth from Democrat political stongholds to journalism and no one ever questions their credibility or qualifications for doing so.

And furthermore what would be wrong in having a Republican debate especially in a primary contest being moderated by an established Republican operative or commentator?  Why do we have to play by their rules all the time? These are all good questions, don't you think? And of course we all know the answer. There is no news media anymore, accept for Fox News and Conservative Talk Radio. These so called journalists for the mainstream media are completely in the bag for Obama and in my opinion it's a national disgrace.