The First Debate That Needed a Second Screen

It's odd, in retrospect, that there were so many vital-seeming questions about the role of the moderator in the run-up to Monday night's Presidential debate.

It's strange not merely because NBC's Lester Holt did such a robust job of pushing back against Donald Trump in particular—in a way that few expected he might, given the general mood of "objectivity" as an enemy to "fact-checking.