The Aftermath of the 'Great Debate'

Poor Old Cleveland. It has always been cursed by perennial lousy weather. Last night, it foisted on us a painful parade of the Terrible Ten. Watching last evening's heavily advertised and promoted GOP Presidential Debate on Fox News -- which I could only say after 70 years of covering American politics -- the broadcast on nationwide television was a national embarrassment.

First, it was NOT a debate. It was an endless Republican harangue led by Chris Wallace, the blonde facile lady, Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier, all of whom could only persuade reasonably intelligent Americans (meaning us) that what we were watching and listening to was a twisted partisan "discussion" by ten suits that will most likely result in an embarrassing humiliation and defeat for the Republican party in the upcoming election. The Terrible Trump was present and accounted for, along with the insufferable Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and the GOP's bow to racial equality, Ben Carson, to give us more gobbledygook.

Were there any questions of substance put to the panel of wanna-be candidates trucked out of Murdoch's stable? Not a chance. So we did not know whether any of those pretenders stood for anything but "Hate Iran," the latest contemporary version of the Cold War when we were subjected to Hate China.

There was, of course, their insufferable insults of the President of the United States. What are they going to do if any of them gets the party's nomination and finds his/her way to the White House? We didn't hear it from last night's broadcast. Mark it down to another Fox Failure as an election-year curse we have to bear.

Woe is me, woe is me.