While supporters of the various candidates say their favorite person won, most conservatives seem to agree that CBS was the biggest loser of the debate.

Marc A Thiessen wrote at the National Review Online:

    If there was a loser on the debate stage tonight, it was CBS.  First, they scheduled their debate on a Saturday night between two major football games. Then they decided to only broadcast the first hour of their 90-minute debate. Then their Internet feed failed for the final 30 minutes. This was CBS's first and only debate - and it showed.

He added that Scott Pelley was a "terrible moderator."

"He treated the men who might be the next commander in chief like schoolchildren, cutting them off in mid-sentence, lecturing them to answer his questions," Thiessen added.
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Making matters worse, Pelley decided to debate Newt Gingrich on policy regarding the rule of law on terrorist "suspects."  As a result, the smug CBS News anchor got his clocked cleaned by the former Speaker who explained the "rule of law."