The three female journalists on the debate panel—Ann Compton, Margaret Warner, and Andrea Mitchell—had all tried to convince Shaw not to use Mrs. Dukakis’s name for the purposes of his attention-seeking stunt. Dismissive of the women, Shaw said, “I disagree with each of you and I’m not changing anything.” Though some blame Shaw’s question for ending Dukakis’s political career, the career it should have ended was Shaw’s.
