Posted on 10/15/2020 9:37:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NBC News faced a sharp backlash to its decision to host President Donald Trump for a town hall Thursday in direct competition with ABC’s event with Democrat Joe Biden, including a social media call to boycott the network.
MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, made two oblique references to the matter on her show Wednesday. During an interview with Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, Maddow asked whether she was “as mad as everybody else” about the Trump town hall.
“I’m not touching that,” Harris replied.
Critics of NBC questioned why the network scheduled Trump for the same time, making viewers have to choose if they were interested in seeing both candidates react live in a similar format.
Veteran journalist Jeff Greenfield called it “indefensible” on Twitter, where a call to boycott NBC was a trending topic.
“They rewarded Trump by giving him this time,” Greenfield said in an interview.
Katie Couric, former host of NBC’s “Today” show, said on Twitter that NBC’s decision was “bad for democracy.” NBC actress Shakina Nayfack, whose comedy series “Connecting” will be preempted Thursday by the Trump town hall, criticized her employer.
“Y’all sign my checks of late but I’m disgusted by my home network giving Trump a platform for fear mongering, bigotry and disinformation,” she wrote on Twitter.
NBC said in a statement that “the Trump campaign did not dictate or request the time slot nor express any preference.”
Both town halls will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern, but Biden will have the last word. The ABC event, moderated by George Stephanopoulos, will last 90 minutes with an additional half hour of analysis. Trump’s town hall on NBC is scheduled for an hour.
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Liberals are butt hurt. Again.
OMG What has them so damn ruffled up, no one watching boring Joe!!!
What this will show is the real difference in the ratings between candidates............THAT’S what they are afraid of.....................
The Left is hate.
This is a set up for a Trump lynching.
Democrats: the self-proclaimed party of love, peace, diversity, and tolerance ... easily achieved after destroying all who oppose them.
I guess there is still time for NBC to back out. If not that, then maybe the disgruntled NBC staff can find ways for Trump’s town hall to experience “technical difficulties”.
There is only one solution that will work. I 100% agree with the Marxists on this one: Fire F. Chuck Todd.
As bad as I hate to do it I’ll be watching NBC tonight to boost their ratings.
Why would NBC be upset? They will seed the audience with rabid Hillary voters and screaming pink hats of agony.
nbx will have higher ratings
A social media call to boycott. Lol. How frightening. I’m quaking in my boots. Lmao.
We’ll see how this turns out, but think this is a mistake.
The Tards are already spinning the higher ratings for Trump as people tuning in to watch the trainwreck.
LOL:-) Obviously the socialists in the MSM do not like that Capitalist thingy called competition:-)
This is what America media has come to, a major network bein flamed and scorned for the egregious ‘crime’ of hosting the President of the United States in a town hall format.
No doubt NBC remains ‘not sure’ of how to respond to all these yipping Hyenas.
Yep
We are thisclose to 1984. VOTE DAMMIT!
When questioned on the ‘controversy’ of the Trump town hall, Kamala (wisely) blurted: “I’m not touching THAT!”
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