Pointing out bias is fair game, but running from bias is bad form. Bozell also says that Republicans should avoid ABC. After the scandal broke, Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz claimed that, “Debates should not be moderated by partisan Democrats who are actively supporting one of the candidates.” And Rand Paul said, “It’s impossible to divorce yourself from that, even if you try. I just think it’s really, really hard because he’s been there, so close to them, that there would be a conflict of interest if he tried to be a moderator of any sort.”

This is all true. And so what?

Stephanopoulos is a partisan by the purest definition of the word. He’s never been a journalist. He’s going to ask Republicans the sorts of questions they should be asked. The sorts of questions they should have answers for. Moreover, no one has to be confused about the questioner’s intentions.

CNN’s Candy Crowley, on the other hand, is purportedly an unbiased journalist and she still couldn’t help but correct Mitt Romney when he accused President Obama of refusing to refer to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as a “terrorist act” in a 2012 debate.  Well, she didn’t exactly “correct” Romney. The Republican, it turned out, had it right. But most of the voters watching, people who don’t follow politics as closely as you do, never knew she was mistaken. Her job was to mediate. She interceded. Might as well have openly antagonistic journalists asking questions that matter. In the best of worlds, two antagonist journalists asking both candidate questions.