CNBC is supposed to be a “business channel” yet Harwood is so ignorant, he has obviously never even heard of the Laffer curve. The guy must have slept through Econ 101, or maybe he went to a Marxist school. He’s stone cold ignorant. It would be one thing to argue that the point of maximal return for revenue is here rather than there on the curve, but he obviously, never even heard of the curve before-—which is astounding.
“He’s stone cold ignorant”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
These people knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
Every question they asked could have been written by DailyKos/Comedy Central to feed a Liberal attack line against Republican imagery, and given NBC, probably was.
Take the “Fantasy Football betting” question, for instance.
The ONLY reason to ask that question, in an economics debate, was to get the low-info Bubbas around the water-cooler to say, “Did you hear REPUBLICANS want to ban Fantasy Football??!!!”
You could actually watch the pre-written memes about this popping up on Twitter, in REAL-TIME, starting almost the moment the question was asked.
Luckily, Cruz saw it for exactly what it was, and cut it off before Bush could really put his foot in his mouth.
A bunch of people at MediaMatters.Soros are probably STILL crying over that one.
Yes.
Well, that debate sure told the people in the US that the media are lying scumbags. Almost all the candidates that night really slammed the moderators and CNBC.
I loved the last lines by Trump telling Harwood that he was liar, and Harwood tried to comeback and Trump just reiterated it stronger and harder.