Republican debate runs off the rails

[GURPS]

Republican debate runs off the rails and turns into all-out war as Trump bashes John Kasich, Jeb hits his protege Marco Rubio, and EVERYONE hammers CNBC's moderators for losing control

• CNBC hosts progressively lost control of the event
• Texas Sen. Ted Cruz turned openly hostile, accusing them all of being Democrats intent on damaging the GOP field
• Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie soon piled on the network
• Donald Trump wrapped up his night by claiming he had strong-armed them into shortening the debate 'so we can get the hell out of here'
• 'CNBC should be ashamed of how this debate was handled,' Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus said

'Look at the questions: "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?"'

'How about talking about the substantive issues that people care about?'

Cruz earned the night's loudest single wave of applause for that outburst.

Rubio followed him with additional slams on the U.S. political press corps after Trump demanded an end to 'scam' super PACs that 'are causing some very bad decisions to be made by some very good people.'

'The Democrats have their own super PAC,' Rubio claimed. 'It's called the mainstream media.'

And New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had few spotlight moments, lit into the moderators for asking a question about whether the federal government should regulate pay-for-play fantasty football competitions online

'Wait a second,' he said, firing rhetorical bullets at the CNBC anchor desk: 'We have $19 trillion in debt, people out of work, ISIS and al Qaeda attacking us – and we're talking about fantasy football?'

'How about we get the government to do what they’re supposed to be doing?' an agitated Christie shouted. 'Enough on fantasy football. Let people play! Who cares?'

 

[GURPS]

MRC president Brent Bozell issued a statement Wednesday night criticizing the overall tilt and tone of the CNBC Republican debate in Boulder:

"The CNBC moderators acted less like journalists and more like Clinton campaign operatives. What was supposed to be a serious debate about the many issues plaguing our economy was given up for one Democratic talking point after another served up by the so-call 'moderators.' They clearly war-gamed this thinking that a relentless series of personal attacks on the candidates would somehow drive their ratings and help Hillary Clinton.

The CNBC debate will go down in history as an encyclopedic example of liberal media bias on stage. The audience roared its disdain for these so-called 'journalists,' and all of America heard it. CNBC should be embarrassed for their pitiful display of partisan liberal media bias and apologize to the GOP candidates and the American people."

- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-...ample-liberal-media-bias#sthash.yYExeyAg.dpuf

Ed Meese: RNC Leaders Who Allowed CNBC to Moderate Debate Should Be Condemned


"After 15 minutes it was clear that this was not a debate, but a verbal shooting gallery set up by CNBC, with the targets the Republican candidates and the shooters their biased antagonists from the press,” said Meese.

“Ted Cruz accurately described what was going on,” he said. “Whoever selected the ‘moderators’ should be fired and the RNC leaders who allowed it should be condemned.”

The three moderators for the debate were CNBC’s John Harwood, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla.

 

[Hijinx]

This appears to be the consensus.

A wasted night.

 

[DipStick]

CNBC was bad, but of course Brent Bozell is going to complain about bias. I don't think it was "liberal media" as much as it was CNBC wanting a cagefight for ratings.

This persecution complex gets old, fast. Donald Trump's still running around about conservative talk show host Megyn Kelly because she asked him a question.

 

[Gilligan]

This appears to be the consensus.

A wasted night.

Yup.

 

[This_person]

CNBC was bad, but of course Brent Bozell is going to complain about bias. I don't think it was "liberal media" as much as it was CNBC wanting a cagefight for ratings.

For the second sentence, I'm not sure how those are two different things. If you're attempt is to create a cage fight and not a professional debate on the topics, how is that not bias?

For your first sentence, you have a bias of your own. When the media does well, for the left or the right, Bozell's group praises. Case in point: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-...cnns-anderson-cooper-probing-debate-questions

 

[Bavarian]

A request was made to have a debate moderated by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh. They would ask questions that had meaning. I would like to see this also on broadcast TV so all the people who got rid of Satellite and Cable TV would see it.

The Democrats won't appear on Fox News channels, so time for the GOP to say no more NBC Universal channels.

 

[DipStick]

For the second sentence, I'm not sure how those are two different things. If you're attempt is to create a cage fight and not a professional debate on the topics, how is that not bias?

For your first sentence, you have a bias of your own. When the media does well, for the left or the right, Bozell's group praises. Case in point: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-...cnns-anderson-cooper-probing-debate-questions

I've seen MRC pull bias out of their ass before. Many times.

He was happy that Anderson Cooper challenged Democrats. But, if Anderson Cooper did the same with Republicans, Bozell would cry "bias".

And I don't think wanting a cagefight makes someone "liberal media". They wanted ratings. I doubt they gave a #### about politics based on some of their questions.

 

[DipStick]

A request was made to have a debate moderated by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh. They would ask questions that had meaning. I would like to see this also on broadcast TV so all the people who got rid of Satellite and Cable TV would see it.

The Democrats won't appear on Fox News channels, so time for the GOP to say no more NBC Universal channels.

If Hannity and Limbaugh want to host a debate, what's stopping them? They can organize a candidates forum/debate just like MSNBC did.

Personally, I'd pay to see a Hannity hosted debate. He is about as stupid as Melissa Harris-Perry and it'd be fun to watch his questions about how bad Democrats are and how Barack Obama is an evil secular Islamic socialist communist fascist.

 

[Gilligan]

Barack Obama is an evil secular Islamic socialist communist fascist.

That's so "old news". Anyone who has been paying attention has known all of that for a long time.