Posted on 02/21/2007 5:48:37 PM PST by Free Vulcan
AMES, Iowa/SECAUCUS, N.J. - MSNBC will telecast a Republican presidential candidates debate live from Iowa State University Nov. 6, 2007, university and network officials announced today. The debate will also be streamed live on MSNBC.com.
"We're pleased to partner with Iowa State University to provide this important forum for the candidates prior to the first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential nominating caucuses," said Dan Abrams, general manager of MSNBC.
The evening debate will be held at Stephens Auditorium, a 2,700-seat performing arts theater that has hosted a number of nationally broadcast political and news programs. Details of the debate, including start time and the moderator, have not been finalized.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for our students and the people of Iowa to be involved in the presidential race, and we're glad the nation will be watching on MSNBC," said Gregory Geoffroy, president of Iowa State.
In September 2006, Geoffroy announced that Iowa State would hold Democratic and Republican debates prior to the Iowa caucuses. Iowa State continues to plan a debate for Democratic candidates, but other announced debates may affect those plans.
Credit to Keith in Iowa for the find.
How will the MSM cover/control the debate(s) involving Hitlery?
with 32 pages of "rules", it's not a debate - it's theater of the bizarre
>>>Credit to Keith in Iowa for the find.
From the credit where it's due dep't - the hat tip to: http://cycloneconservatives.blogspot.com/
Republicans should be wary of the democrat house organ MSDNC. There is nothing sweeter than a "balanced" MSDNC "Hardball" debate: on one side a socialist leftist and on the other, a phony MSDNC "Conservative" that agrees with the leftist.
Will PMSNBC still be in business in Nov 2007? That's the real question
LOL. You have a very valid point there!
Thanks for the Iowa schedule. I'll put it on the calendar.
Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire will host the first debates of the 2008 presidential election. The debates, on April 4 at 7:00 PM Eastern (Republican) and April 5 (Democrat), are sponsored by CNN, WMUR-TV, and the New Hampshire Union Leader.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer will moderate the debates with questions coming from WMUR's Scott Spradling and Union-Leader's John DiStaso. WMUR's Jennifer Vaughn will be moderating questions from the audience.
The debate will be televised live nationally on CNN and throughout New Hampshire on WMUR.
The first big event of the 2008 campaign is the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on August 11, 2007.
It will be a huge event, carried live on C-Span and the news channels. All of the national media will be there.
I was at the 1995 event where Bob Dole and Phil Gramm tied and the 1999 straw poll, won by GWB. Any candidate who does not place well in the straw poll will be forced out of the race. It has taken on an importance nearly as great as the actual caucuses.
Any Iowan remotely interested in GOP politics should plan to be there.
Too little by far, IMHO is made by conservatives of the intrusive nature of the moderator in presidential candidate debates.There is no reason that the participants - all presumably grownups - should need a reporter to define the issues for the candidates. That is - that certainly should be - the job of the candidates themselves. There is no reason for the debates to be moderated in any other way than by a chess timer to equalize microphone time.
And there is no necessary reason why the debates have to be on (scarce, expensive) TV instead of radio and/or the Internet/Youtube. IMHO production values seem nice to have but actually are the tail wagging the dog - it's a huge logistical deal for candidates in a national general election to even get together at the same place at the same time. When you make them a big deal like that, they don't have the potential for informing the public that less formal settings would have.
If Rush set out to do it, he could have a debate a week between each pair of candidates in the Republican primary. Two hours, divided equally between the candidates, all on one day's program. In a month or two, you could do most of the interesting pairings and probably would be able to narrow the field down. And definitely define the issues of the campaign.
Come to think of it, probably the reason the MSM doesn't do that now is that it might take all the suspense out of the primary season, and so would be bad for business.
BTTT
Moderators could be replaced by lie detector devices. Hook 'em up, Scotty.
Totally forgot about the Straw Poll. Thanks.
The lie detector is we-the-people. Internet-enabled. Right here on FR.And in a debate your opponent is supposed to keep you honest. And IMHO the moderator tends to prevent that from happening when the lies are coming (as usual) from the Democratic candidate.
As the Bible puts it, "The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it?"But as to political parties, the Democrats have it all over the Republicans because the Republicans claim to represent those who respect action, and the Democrats respect only talk. Talk happens to be the stock in trade of journalism, so there is a natural affinity between Democrat politicians and journalists. Of course Republican politicians are talkers, too - but they are talking to people who at least try to reject second guessing. Democrats eat up second guessing like it had actual value.
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