COMMENTARY | Fox News' Greta Van Susteran interviewed Donald Trump, the flamboyant real estate mogul and TV personality. Trump announced that he would be moderating a Republican candidates' debate sponsored by Newsmax on Dec. 27.
The debate would take place in Des Moines, Iowa, a week before the Iowa Caucuses, would be sponsored by Newsmax, and would be broadcast on the Ion Network.
The odor of reality show and Trump staring balefully at some candidate and telling him, "You're fired!" for giving a wrong answer has already caused former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman to give it a pass. But the idea of a nonjournalist moderating a presidential debate is not as crazy as it sounds.
Trump is a national figure, with experience on TV, and with a proven interest in the issues. Let's face it, who would one want to see interrogating potential presidents of the United States, some journalistic drone from MSNBC or CNN with his liberal bias or "The Donald?"
One suspects that more people will tune into an interrogation conducted by the host of "The Apprentice" than by Bob Shieffer or Brian Williams, with all due respect to those fine pillars of the journalistic community. This will give the candidates a far wider audience to get their messages across than the standard news organization sponsored debate that people will more likely tune out of than not.
Trump has already promised some outside the box questioning, including things like relations between the United States and the OPEC countries, China, and India. The candidates have already answered questions about the standard subjects of health care, the economy, and terrorism ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
If the idea of a debate moderated by a non journalist catches on, then perhaps others could be set up along those lines.
For example, what about a debate moderated by men who have already held the job of president of the United States? George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have already worked together on disaster relief projects. Bush and Clinton have a perspective on being president that very few living people have indeed. Seeing those two tag teaming the people who propose to do the jobs they already held would be exciting and likely illuminating.
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