Carolyn Washburn was the "moderator" of the Republican Debate yesterday in Iowa and is an Editor of the main newspaper in that state. This is what Rich Galen of the Fred Thompson campaign said about her in his Internet blog
The moderator of the affair was an editor (or perhaps THE editor) of the Register.
Whether she unilaterally decided upon the rules (30 second answers, 15 second answers, show-of-hand answers) or whether she was a victim of debate-rules-by-committee, she will go down in political history as the woman Fred Thompson slapped down when he refused to raise his hand in response to a question on global warming, and then refused to answer "yes or no" on that complex issue.
Her make-up made her look like she was one fright-wig shy of appearing on a 1950's Saturday morning children's show and her stern demeanor made her sound like a prison matron in one of those women-in-cages drive-in movies which were so popular during my dating years - also in the 1950's.
Click on the title for a link to Galen's blog. Fred Barnes of FOX NEWS described her as "Nurse Ratched" a character in Oregon author, Ken Kesey's, novel and movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
