Warmest Regards,
HLPhat
Posted on 10/30/2015 9:59:44 AM PDT by abb
Mr. Andrew Lack Chairman, NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York 10112
Dear Mr. Lack,
I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016. The RNC’s sole role in the primary debate process is to ensure that our candidates are given a full and fair opportunity to lay out their vision for America’s future. We simply cannot continue with NBC without full consultation with our campaigns.
The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith. We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.
CNBC billed the debate as one that would focus on “the key issues that matter to all voters—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.†That was not the case. Before the debate, the candidates were promised an opening question on economic or financial matters. That was not the case. Candidates were promised that speaking time would be carefully monitored to ensure fairness. That was not the case. Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.
While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha†questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.
I have tremendous respect for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. However, I also expect the media to host a substantive debate on consequential issues important to Americans. CNBC did not.
While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that National Review remains part of it.
I will be working with our candidates to discuss how to move forward and will be in touch.
Sincerely,
Reince Priebus Chairman, Republican National Committee
The candidates will make changes, with or without rancid and the little fag wants to keep his fat expense account and what ever he can steal before they can his sorry ass.
Teats on a boar hog.
Am I the only one seeing these symbols?
Home computers, work computers, iPhone, they seem to be popping up all over the place with great frequency these days.
He learned nothing, and is only reacting now because the campaigns are ganging up and removing him and the worthless RNC from the equation.
No, I started seeing them constantly in posts, started about 2-3 days ago. I thought that it was the font rendering on my Android tablet, but also see it on desktop Mac.
I have no idea what it happening, though I notice it is on the rendering of special characters, most often double quotes (").
I cannot read his name without my mind auto-correcting it to “Rancid Prius”.
Not enough.
The candidates should simply determine their own rules and forums and boycott the RNC debates.
Problem solved.
Imagine the ratings for debates hosted by Rush, Sean and Mark.
Am I the only one seeing these symbols?
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Nope. According some info I’ve read Jim and crew are working on the problem.
Reince Priebus has been choosing these left-wing channels and moderators on purpose, in order to weaken Trump and any conservatives who run against his chosen creeps.
But the moderators in that last debate were so over the top that it backfired on him. Now he’s desperately trying to save himself and the anointed party.
Let Jim Demint and Heritage Foundation run the next debate, include commercial breaks and sell the rights to broadcast it live to the highest bidder.
No, he's trying to save his job.
The game has changed. Trump knows he brings big ratings and networks want the cash. The candidates are meeting Sunday w/o Priebus and I bet they will come out with a list of demands, or do the debates on their own.
Yes, it is a little late for Rinse to be waving his peepee around.
He’s just trying to jump in on the action and be noticed. He’ll be noticed, but in a negative way. Nuts to him.
Oops — that last was not meant to be a pun.
‘Suspended?’
Rinse Priapus trying to be relevant.
Just kidding. I wouldn't want to lose my FR License. But even a dollar late and at least one short it was still the appropriate thing to do.
Priebus is trying to head off his own tarring and feathering by his party’s candidates.
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Priebus should go further to let other venues know that they will no longer determine the content or moderators. That such will be provided by the Republican party, not the network(s).
HA!
Rinse Proboscis had to eventually agree with Cruz when the Uniparty mask was at risk of slipping.
Uhuh.
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