Posted on 09/28/2023 9:27:32 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
According to a review done by Semafor of ad rates for the second Republican debate, technically the second of the first loser debates, Fox News has massively discounted the price for a 30 second advertisement to run during the broadcast.
[…] Advertisers paid a premium for airtime during the first Republican presidential debate on Fox News, but it looks like they’ll be getting a major discount during round two on Wednesday night.
Semafor reviewed the rates the network shared with one prospective ad buyer for both the first and second GOP primary debates. For the first debate, the cost of a single 30-second spot topped $495,000.
But the same 30-second spot during Wednesday night’s contest would cost just over $200,000.
Another ad buyer did not share the rates for ads running during the first debate, but confirmed that Fox was charging $225,000 for 30-second ads during the broadcast immediately after the event, and $125,000 for 30-second spots during the broadcast before it. (link)
At this point in the contest, the Republican candidates who are not supporting Donald Trump are simply showcasing their own selfish connections to the business end of U.S. politics. It really is that simple. These are not patriots who care about our country. These are self-interested representatives of multinational corporations and business interests who are paying for them to oppose Donald Trump.
I saw the following brutal honesty shared via The Twitter which deserves some attention.
“Whenever you hear someone self-describe as a “principled conservative” to differentiate themselves from MAGA, Trump supporters, populists, and common-sense newcomers to the GOP, and urge for a return to the “golden years,” you can confidently laugh it off as blissful ignorance.
For decades, these so-called “principled conservatives” have overseen and actively participated in policymaking that has degraded the family unit, delivered losses on abortion, brought you a 10-yearlong “assault weapons ban,” and ceded greater authority over and involvement of the federal government in education.
Not satisfied with the piecemeal destruction of society that they now bitch about for clicks, these “principled conservatives” carry their feigned outrage and ideological purity to the economic realm, blindly devoting themselves to protecting the interests of global corporate giants while sacrificing American workers at the altar of “free markets.”
When faced with the consequences of their neoliberalism—the displaced workers and their families, once-great American small towns and cities in shambles, the industrial core of the country gutted, and all the social ills that emanate from these realities—the response from these upstanding moralists is to hawkishly scrutinize every dollar that could possibly go toward alleviating some of the pain and suffering they caused.
In other words, “f**k off! you aren’t my concern.”
The false devotion to “fiscal conservatism” wouldn’t be so offensive if it wasn’t so easily discarded when constructing a national security apparatus that violates your constitutional rights, launching failed trillion-dollar regime change wars, providing foreign aid to corrupt oligarchs and regimes in quid pro quo deals, and subsidizing the social welfare expenses of other countries.” ~ JoMa
That’s a whole bunch of truth.
It’s the exact same thing we have been talking about on these pages since the 2012 fallacy of false choices.
A stage full of losers don’t pay much.
The real loser wasn’t even at the debate
Who wants to watch a bunch of professional politicians utter deep-state talking points?
Exactly!
Why does the RINO party insist on doing these debates on Network TV?
They could do them on you tube live or Twitter and get twice the viewers and no left wing moderators.
Each candidate could pick their own person to do questions to all the candidates and we wouldn’t have to put up with left wing journalists doing the moderating.
The only one that won last night’s debate was Joe Biden because the Republican party decided to dedicate last night’s debate to trashing Donald Trump..which Biden can use over and over and over again..instead of going after Biden(Heck was his name even mentioned last night at all?) instead all they did was trash Trump and give Biden’s team all the talking points they need..heck Biden doesn’t even need to try now, just replay clips of last night and he can use that as his excuse for everything..inflation, nah not my fault its Trump, border crisis, nah not my fault its Trump..the GOP, there is no wonder they are called the stupid ass party its for a good reason
“The real loser wasn’t even at the debate”
LOL, that “real loser” Donald J. Trump will be the winner of the Pub primary by a landslide, and you will be left crying in your soup. Face down.
Why bring this up in the context of the debate and FNC ratings? It just goes to show how out of touch Ronna and crew are at the RNC. How about a debate moderated by Tucker or Bannon? Who about a debate that is streamed? How about a debate that only has a time keeper and a completely different format that the one last night? I’ve seen video clips on Charlie Kirk’s program and it was a freak show, a complete embarrassment. Some imagination is required.
Keep telling yourself that and maybe you’ll actually believe it some day.
Then I’m going to run an ad for my automatic noodle-cooling fan.
I watched clips of the “Debate” this morning.
It looked like a Clown Show.
“the Republican party decided to dedicate last night’s debate to trashing Donald Trump”
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Yep, that’s the real, insidious purpose of these “debates”. Its certainly not intended to educate voters.
Dems stick together, for some reason the GOP loves destroying each other giving the other side the win
It’s pretty obvious that the RNC and Faux think the Deep State is going to successfully remove Trump from the race.
I have moved on from the “old guard” republican party. I have learned in recent years that the republican party is part of the problem not the solution.
We need a “Reagan renaissance.”
They very well might succeed.
I hope that they realize that we conservative voters will not “just fall in line” and vote for the republican candidate whomever that will end up being.
The republican party is hanging on by a thread — just my opinion.
Important: being a traitor is worse than being an opponent.
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