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Ezra Klein Mocks Trump As Debate Moderator; Suggests A Top Chef Quickfire Challenge With Tom Colicchio

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Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein amusedly reacted to the news of reality television star Donald Trump hosting a GOP debate later this month, mocking The Donald by sarcastically suggesting Top Chef host Tom Colicchio should moderate the next Republican debate. “Someone tweeted that a clown in now charge of a circus which I thought was a nice way of putting it,” Klein snarked. “I think it actually raises the question of what other reality show television hosts could be running GOP debates. I’m a Top Chef fan, I’d love to see Tom Colicchio run a quickfire for the GOP presidential candidates — see who can cook a quiche quickest, maybe I have to wait for 2016.”

RELATED: Columnist Ezra Klein Wonders If Mitt Romney Has Peaked Too Early

Martin Bashir joked with Democratic strategist Karen Finney that Kate Plus 8 star Kate Gosselin should consider hosting.

“How about that? Ezra, Republicans don’t eat quiche!” exclaimed Finney. “Come on, now! That’s for lucy liberals.”

Watch Klein’s suggestion that Top Chef‘s Tom Colicchio should host the next GOP debate:

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  • http://twitter.com/Glamazondiva20 Edna Turnblad

    Does anyone beside a bunch of worried Dem’s chief of staff’s give a damn about the opinion of the Juice Box Mafioso journ-o-lister Klein?

  • http://twitter.com/Glamazondiva20 Edna Turnblad

    Martin Bashir, Karen Finney Kate Plus 8 star Kate Gosselin, & Juice Box Mafioso journ-o-lister Ezra Klein all on one show.Now you see why BSNBC’s ratings are pure garbage!Pathetic!

  • Anonymous

    If these debates aren’t sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, they ought to be. They should chip in some dough! Nothing is a better sales tool for the Obama campaign than these debates. No one in their right mind would vote for one of these clowns after watching their bizarro, laugh-inducing pander-fests.

  • http://twitter.com/Glamazondiva20 Edna Turnblad

    Obama is the best tool for the RNC election campaign.

    Obama = Welcome Back Carter

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yes.

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone, anywhere ever seen Ezra Klein and Rachel Maddow
    in the same room??

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    The Donahue Gang mocks Klein as a journalist since he was uncovered as running Journolist. Klein is a journalist like Bill Burton is a Dem operative. Pitiful.

    The scandal would knock this cat out of the business in a sensible world. There is a shortage of grocery store bagboys and parking lot attendants, and he should try to learn one of these professions.

  • http://twitter.com/Glamazondiva20 Edna Turnblad

    How sad & scary.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Sure.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Once I saw the two of them with Chris Hayes, but then after a couple aspirin my vision cleared and it was just Chris Hayes by himself after all.

  • Anonymous

    I have to disagree with everyone.  Reality TV host Donald Trump is the perfect moderator.  Trump will have experience eliminating boring things (Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman), and increasing ratings boosting conflicts (Gingrich vs Romney).  

  • Joke Scareborough

    You’d think a website created solely for breaking stories about the media would have an article on Politico’s web traffic crashing and burning ever since they got in bed with MSNBC.
    I guess I will be the first one to break the news here at Mediaite:

    Internet traffic and Web search measurement tools from several sources indicate that despite massive promotion efforts on MSNBC and in other venues, Politico.com is rapidly losing readers, especially outside of Washington, D.C.
    Measurements of U.S. Web traffic provided to The Daily Caller by
    Compete, Inc. indicate that the number of total monthly visits to
    Politico.com dropped by 31.8 percent during the 18-month period that
    ended on October 31.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/02/under-assault-for-liberal-bias-politicos-traffic-dives/#ixzz1fPtPk3VL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    I just learned how to collapse comments. I think I’ll be doing just that on all future missives from the “Donahue Gang”  Thanks Mediaite!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yup.

  • Anonymous

    Yes Gloves.  Klein should never be allowed to work again after having the nerve to discuss his business with colleagues in private. 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the great DC link!  Have any Newsmax links that we can laugh at?

  • Anonymous

    Ezra Klein, like every other liberal, has never met a Real American before.

  • Anonymous

    That must have been a real bender!  I have seen double before in my younger wilder days, BUT, triple???
      They could all be brothers though.
     Or sisters??
     Or  something?
     lollol

  • Anonymous

    Ezra has as much political capital as Meghan McCain.

    Journolista!

  • Anonymous

    Laugh all you want while the rest of us laugh at Pollutico!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, of course he does.  And Sarah Palin is intelligent.  And Romney has character.  And Reagan never raised taxes.  And W was a great president.  And tax cuts pay for themselves.  And liberals hate America.  And so on and so forth. 

    We get it.  You’re brain dead.  Let’s all move on.

  • Anonymous

    Yes WCin.  Do you know what you call a bunch of GOP hayseeds trying to describe Politico as some liberal rag? 

    GOP hayseeds.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a hayseed?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    either the facts are true or false.  Do you dispute the facts of the story or just the place its printed at because its conservative?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    i think you are a parrot.  polly want a cracker ?? ;)

  • Anonymous

    i know you’re just being a dick, but i’ve got to laugh at your comment – i knew there was a reason that my two huge media crushes are rachel maddow and ezra klein.  apparently it’s because they look the same.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Since you asked nicely…enjoy!

    U.S. Spent $200M on Egypt Election

    The Obama administration spent some $200 million on democracy building in the lead-up to the elections this week in Egypt.

    But with 65 percent of the vote going to Islamist candidates, it doesn’t appear the money was well spent.

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/us-money-egypt-elections/2011/12/02/id/419829

  • Michelle

    So the GOP is supposed to take the advice of the original journOlister on who should moderate their debates?  I’m sure he thinks Andy Stern or George Soros would be a great choice. 

  • Anonymous

    … and Barry Hussein is intelligent, and Michelle Obama is attractive and Buck_Down is successful. And so on and so forth

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003007486095 Seren Dipity

    “Ezra Klein Mocks Trump As Debate Moderator”

    C’Mon, this is satire, right?!

    LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    Gotta love when liberals resort to personal attacks. It means they’ve got nothing. Continue your hate. :) I’m glad I was taught better.

  • Anonymous

    Awesome. You contribute so much.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Republicans should quit holding back, go the full Reality TV train wreck route and just have the debate moderated by Snooki and Paris Hilton.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and people wonder why conservative comedians never catch on

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Still more successful than anything Tucker “My show is canceled again” Carlson was ever involved with.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Do you define ‘real americans’ as folks like Perry and the Palins, who want to secede from the country and dissolve the USA?

  • http://twitter.com/unoimno1uno Brent

    “either the facts are true or false. WTF? Only to republicans.
    Fact: something that actually exists; reality; truth.
    In other words, something that conservatives don’t believe

  • http://twitter.com/unoimno1uno Brent

    Yep.

  • http://twitter.com/Haitiana4Obama Proud Liberal

    Didn’t Faux just see their ratings dive while MSNBC picked up? Reality much? Not that type of Trump reality either.

  • http://twitter.com/Haitiana4Obama Proud Liberal

    You mean because this biracial President can unify the racists?

  • http://twitter.com/Haitiana4Obama Proud Liberal

    You are disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    If Mediaite hadn’t publicized this ridiculous crap….no one would know except the “hundreds” of moronic MSNBC viewers.
    Is Ezra a homosexual?
    I mean….that lisp…..

  • Anonymous

    Ezra recently got married. 

  • musa qala

    Ethra, maybe iff you didthn’t tawk wiff your tongue thstuck to the back of your teef people cud unthersthand you more.

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