RNC Chairman Unloads on "Unprofessional Display" of CNBC, Moderators

townhall.com ^ | 10-28-2015 | Katie Pavlich

[Citizen Zed]

Boulder, Colo. - If you watched tonight's GOP presidential debate held at the University of Colorado and hosted by CNBC, you may have noticed the moderators acted more like a Democrat attack team than journalists asking questions about policy. 

Shortly after the debate ended, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus took to the spin room to slam the outlet, saying the network should be ashamed of their performance. 

"I was proud of our candidates for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. I was very disappointed in the moderators. I'm disappointed in CNBC. I thought maybe they would bring forward a pretty fair forum here tonight but I think it was one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other," Priebus said. "All I can tell you is that while I'm proud of our candidates for pretty much sticking together, I'm very disappointed in the moderators and I'm very disappointed in CNBC."

[niteowl77]

Reince N' Repeat. The Wisconsin Wing of the GOP-e/USCofC (yes, I'm being partially redundant) has a proclivity for making the lamest, most asinine after-the-fact arguments imaginable (see: Paul Ryan). Reince, are you really shocked ("Shocked, I tell you!") that CNBC moderators would be "unprofessional?" If so, then you are incompetent. If you are not shocked, but only pretending to be, then you take everyone for fools with crap like this. Assuming that the public consists of fools is not a bad bet, but when enough of of the suckers eventually catch on and stop playing the game, you are going to need better material.

Mr. niteowl77

[dennisw]

Reince Priebus - The mouse that roared.

[EternalVigilance]

Reince Priebus - The mouse that roared.

Because he stupidly stuck his head in the mousetrap and took the bait.

[norwaypinesavage]

CNBC hasn't learned. I accidently had them on this morning while I showered, since I hadn't changed the TV after the debate ended. I couldn't change the channel without getting the floor wet, so I was stuck with it for a few minutes. All they had on was some retired liberal congresscritter "analyzing" the debate performance of each candidate. To me, there is absolutely nothing more irrelevant than what some washed up liberal hack thinks of conservative presidential candidates.

[X-spurt]

Did their hitting the Lame Stream Media mods hurt your feelings?

[HarleyLady27]

I think what the RNC chairman is most worried about is that the candidates are about to turn on him if he keeps getting stupid people to moderate these debates....

Why don’t they have someone like Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, someone that knows what they are talking about...these moderators so far are like ‘hit men’....

We want to know things about these candidates..not every one can sit down to a site like this, and research and find things out that the lying media won’t tell you....

[jch10]

They don’t call you the Stupid Party for nothing, Priebus! You planned this, you sanctioned it. Stop letting the Left make a monkey out of you!

[Amntn]

"If Trump hadn’t bashed the press so badly from the very beginning NOBODY, except MAYBE Cruz, would have said ANYTHING tonight and certainly not the ‘rnc chairman’.'

I was thinking the same thing. I think they all did a good job handling the "moderators" but it never would have happened if Trump hadn't taken on Megyn from the first debate.

Of course, nobody will give credit to Trump for this change.

Imagine how the last election would have been if Mitt had stood up to Candy like this.

[Romans Nine]

Rinse is a leftis. He does thier work. Uni-party rules.

[C. Edmund Wright]

zackly!!

[Citizen Zed]

Too much time was spent complaining about the atmosphere. That’s what the mods wanted. Too bad every candidate gave them satisfaction. Whining Republicans get fewer votes.

[JayAr36]

Who selected the CNBC to moderate the debates?

Reince Priebus

Another jacka$$ from the GOPe trying to regain some credibility.

WAKE UP STUPID!

[TomGuy]

RNC Chairman Unloads on "Unprofessional Display" of CNBC, Moderators

Is Priebus that dense????? What did he expect???? It is C-NBC, for gosh sakes!!!!

The RNC, GOP, Republican Party MUST find a way to circumvent the 4 networks -- NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN -- and get their OWN moderators, even if they have to BUY 2 hours on each of the networks and have THEIR OWN format/moderators.

Quit letting THEM set the agenda, format, questions, moderators.

Most viewers are wanting to find out where each candidate stands on the issues, not a cage match to see which candidate helps the media the most in destroy another candidate.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Let’s see, who got the candidates into that hot mess at CNBC? Why I believe it was you Rience.

[1Old Pro]

too late rince

DEBATE WINNER(s): Cruz, Trump, Carson, Rubio, Christie

DEBATE LOSER (s): CNBC mods, The media, Jeb Bush, Kasich, Hillary, Carly, The American people who had to watch this horrible media bias instead of what could have been a much better debate

DEBATE NON STARTERS: Huck, Paul, Carly

[X-spurt]

Again you are wrong on both.

[Citizen Zed]

There is no TV network good enough for the debates.