Lying Liar Stephanie Cutter Lamely Defends Obama's Debate Performance, Attacks Moderator Jim Lehrer

I don't think I can ever recall a more accomplished liar. And we know from earlier this year that Stephanie Cutter is bald-faced liar. She's a remorseless bitch if there ever was one. And she's spins President Obama's historic debate debacle in true Stephanie Cutter contempt-for-the-truth style. Via Politico, "Obama's Stephanie Cutter knocks Lehrer" (at Memeorandum):

DENVER, Colo. -- Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter took a swipe at moderator Jim Lehrer's largely passive debate performance tonight, saying the PBS anchor had allowed Mitt Romney to act as the moderator.

"I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney," Cutter told CNN shortly after the debate, though she told POLITICO that Lehrer did his job as moderator and that her comments were strictly about Romney.

(See also: Complete coverage of the Colorado presidential debate)

Cutter's decision to knock Lehrer may signal an acknowledgment by the Obama campaign that the president did not perform as well as his challenger, Mitt Romney -- which was the general consensus of the media, including the usually pro-Obama MSNBC. (MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz slammed Obama's performance.)

Many on the left criticized Lehrer for being too silent. He rarely interrupted the candidates when they went over their allotted time, and when he did it was almost always a losting battle. His attempts to control the conversation were so notably nonconfrontational that they became memorialized in a Twitter handle named @SilentJimLehrer.

But Lehrer's passivity also allowed the two candidates to engage one another, and if Obama did not engage Romney or land any singificant blows, he may have no one to blame but himself. Though it is the moderator's responsibility to keep time and keep the candidates on topic, it was up to the president -- not the moderator -- to take on his challenger.

More at the link.

BONUS: Check the great post-debate roundup at The Lonely Conservative, "Presidential Debate 1 Wrap Up – Romney Won."