Of the four debate moderators this election year, CBS News’s Bob Schieffer by far has been the least criticized.

PBS’s Jim Lehrer was thrown to the dogs by Democrats and their supporters for coming off as a pushover and seeming to let GOP Candidate Mitt Romney call the shots in the first debate. ABC News’ Martha Raddatz was hit by the right for not putting a muzzle on Veep Joe Biden‘s toothy grin. And for several days CNN’s Candy Crowley was blasted by Team Romney for her real-time fact checking in the second presidential debate.

With Schieffer, Romney didn’t do the tit-for-tat rule rattling he gained a reputation for in previous debates. (Though he tried once and backed down immediately when Schieffer told him he’d already had his turn.) President Obama wasn’t heard repeating, “Bob. Bob. Bob” as he did with Crowley’s name while trying to interrupt her.

So what gives? Is Schieffer just that awesome of a moderator? Did he outclass the others in pedigree?

Take our Fish Poll below. We’ll post the results tomorrow.

This week we asked readers to choose between different types of candy to describe the performance of debate moderator CNN’s Candy Crowley on Tuesday night. (Why can’t all polls be this brilliant?) We asked readers to choose among the Jolly Rancher (sweet, sour and an all around ass kicker), Milk Duds (a dud, unfair), the Blow Pop (hard on outside, gum on inside, ie. all things to all people) and Snow Caps (black and white and pro-Obama).

And here’s what you told us.

A predominant 42.2 percent of you declared that Snow Caps best reflect Crowley’s debate behavior. In other words, you said, she’s in the tank for President Obama. Second place goes to the Jolly Rancher — 30.37 percent of you think the world of her. The lowest score (11.8 percent) was for the Blow Pop, which indicated she was imminently fair and all things to all people.

There has yet to be any solid consensus on who won last night’s vice presidential debate.

Immediately following the debate, two quick-take polls were released showing opposite results. CNN’s poll of registered voters who watched the debate said GOP V.P. candidate Paul Ryan won by four points. On the flip side, in CBS News’ poll of uncommitted voters, 50 percent said it was Veep Joe Biden who won, with only 31 percent choosing Ryan as the winner.

Among national newspapers, only NYT took a stand. The board declared Biden the winner. Both WSJ and WaPo said there wasn’t enough substance and shied away from making a choice. USA Today called the debate “a draw.”

What do you think? Take our Fish Poll below. We’ll run the results over the weekend.

Before and After…

Just under a month ago, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made a bold move – he switched up his clear glasses for dark-framed hipster specs, causing a seismic shift in parts of Washington. We thought we’d check in and see what everyone thinks. Good. Bad. Horrific nerd show. Was Wolf authorized to change up his look?

Last night former PBS anchor Jim Lehrer came out of retirement to moderate the first presidential debate of the 2012 race. His experience moderating 11 previous presidential debates should have primed the 78-year-old veteran journo for such an esteemed role. So come on, be honest, how did he do?

Over the weekend Christian LaBella (who might deserve to be fired for having such a douchey name) was arrested for allegedly scratching and possibly choking actress Lindsay Lohan, who attended this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Police later dropped the charges. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who previously employed LaBella as an aide, has said the minimal comment a congressman can make in circumstances like these — “obviously the congressman does not condone his actions,” Shimkus said through a spokesman, Steve Tomaszeksi. But should Shimkus or his aides say more?

Having photos of your nude boobs splashed across European tabloids is the stuff nightmares are made of, especially if you don’t look like Kate Middleton. It turns out it was Middleton who had photos of her boobies published for the world to behold.

The Dutchess of Cambridge was sunbathing topless on the terrace of a private home in France when a freelance paparazzo snapped photos of her from the street. Silvio Berlusconi, who owns tabloids in France and Italy, published the photos in the French magazine Closer. The Royal Family responded by filing a lawsuit but not before many people, including Breitbart News‘ Dan Riehl, got an eyeful.

Closer ran the photos online last week but pulled them down on Friday without explanation and on Tuesday a French court ordered the magazine to hand over the photos .

Berlusconi’s Italian magazine Chi, however, published them shortly after. So, they’re still available. Besides, it’s the Internet. This stuff never goes away.

There’s no news yet on whether the family plans on suing the Italian magazine for running the tata shots.

But what do you think? Should Middleton continue in her effort to stamp out the booby photos? Vote in our Fish Poll. We’ll run the results tomorrow.

Brian Ross‘ week ended with a bang Friday. While reporting on the Aurora theater shooting, the ABC News journalist said live on the air that he found someone who shared the same name as the alleged shooter on a local tea party group’s web page.

“There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year,” Ross said that morning on GMA. “Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes – but this is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.” (As an aside, in news reports the shooter is referred to by his full name James Holmes.)

The tea party Holmes — who, it turns out, is not the shooter with the same name — told The Daily Caller, “Really, seriously, how do we take a journalist seriously when it’s pretty clear they really haven’t done any sort of check on their facts?”

Ross and ABC both issued apologies:

“An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.”

Even so, The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart mocked Ross on his show last night. “[ABC News Anchor] George Stephanopoulos is in the middle of  doing a lot of things,” Stewart said. “But I’m assuming that he was under the impression Brian Ross checks out the sh-t he says on-air before saying it, since Brian Ross is their chief investigative correspondent and not, let’s say, the office gossip.”

But in the hyper-fast, ultra-competitive, increasingly-politicized news environment we now live in, is Ross entirely at fault for reporting that someone with the same name as Holmes is affiliated with the tea party? Bad taste, probably. But irresponsible? Answer in our Fish Poll below. We’ll run the results tomorrow.

We’ve made it through Independence Day week but August is approaching fast and with August comes Congress’ summer recess. There’s a a presidential campaign in full swing, but it could still mean slower news days for the D.C. Press Corps.

What’s the best way to make this year’s summer doldrums go by without having to check in on former presidential candidates Herman Cain and Donald Trump? Take our Fish Poll to let us know. We’ll run the results Monday.