I watched the debate of vice presidential candidates on CNN last night. They had this new feature where the pundits – in real time – were able to score how the debate was going according to “moi.” Their scores went up aside the screen and were “in your face.”

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

How terrible to have some “has been/never was” pundits trying to dictate to America what we were hearing and seeing and push us to see the world through their eyes and their point of views. Check their bios and guess which way they would have voted. And yep, that is how they voted.

And worse, then to get the post debate analysis and each was much softer in their analysis than their scores in real time were to viewers. The real time scores were their personal lie detector tests if you ask me.

CNN should dump this feature. Let viewers decide in an unfiltered way what they are seeing THEN let a debate occur with their pundit. This new feature crossed the line in media manipulation. If I was CNN - ”the most trusted name in news” - I would drop it.