"You're doing theater," he said, "when you should be doing debate".
Giving the knife another twist, Mr. Fleischer said this might explain why, while Mr. Bush was doing debate preparation in his home state of Texas, Mr. Gore was not doing the same in Tennessee.
Anyone feeling depressed by the state of TV news will be consoled by looking up on YouTube Stewart's eloquent demolition of CNN's Crossfire in 2004 – "you're doing theatre when you should be doing debate!" It's certainly more exhilarating than a woman running down the street with her throat cut.
ET: Trump aides say the candidate will spend the rest of the day doing debate prep.
He thought it would be a good idea to criticize Hillary Clinton for doing debate prep and she effectively turned that argument on its head and made it one of her best lines of the night.
Gregory says, "I guess my big question is where, beyond the rhetoric, does President Obama, do President Obama and Governor Romney differ on the path forward to Iran?" Because when you want to get "beyond the rhetoric," you ask the guy who has been doing debate prep with Mitt Romney.
