Barone: Liberal Bias of NBC News’ Brian Williams during GOP Debate “was Embarrassing”

Political Analyst Michael Barone has written his review of last night’s GOP Presidential Debate, and he writes that NBC News Anchor Brian Williams was “embarrassing” in the questions he asked that revealed he has “been drinking liberally of the MSNBC kool-aid:

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The biggest mystery about the Reagan Library/MSNBC debate last night is why the Reagan Library allowed MSNBC to be the co-sponsor. Brian Williams, whom I haven’t watched much in recent years, seems to have been drinking liberally of the MSNBC kool-aid; many of his questions were so steeped in liberal distaste for Republican positions that it was embarrassing. There was no questioning about the nation’s fiscal position, aside from asking whether Rick Perry would abjure $1 of tax increases in return for $10 of spending cuts, very little on the macroeconomy and very little on foreign and defense policy.

Even so, most of the Republican candidates performed pretty well. My overall take is that Rick Perry, in his first presidential debate ever, did not perform commensurately with his recent lead in the polls, but did not do badly either; Mitt Romney was smooth and sometimes even interesting; and some of the other candidates did quite well. If that’s the way Republican primary voters and caucusgoers see things, the result may be to tighten the race for the nomination. . . . Read More, including Barone’ summary of each candidate’s performance in the debate.