Friday, October 30, 2015

BREAKING RNC Drops NBC Partnership

The Republican National Committee has canceled plans to partner with NBC News for a Feb. 26 debate, citing a "bad faith" performance by CNBC in Wednesday night's debate.

"The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith," Priebus wrote. "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."

Priebus argued that CNBC assured the committee that the debate would focus on substantive policy issues like jobs and taxes, but he said the network failed on that count. He also said it failed to guarantee relatively equal speaking time for the candidates.

"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," Priebus added.

This sounds like Trump toughness to me. All the candidates were likely upset but Trump is the tough guy.

I wonder how that will work if he becomes president and doesn't like something libertarians are doing.

-RW

2 comments:

  1. Not much. But he has proven to be more libertarian than Rand Paul. Not that thats saying alot, however if you're one of those "hold your nose while you pull the leaver" kind of guys and you have libertarian leanings, looks like the Trumpster is it.

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  2. I won't vote for Trump, but I have to think he'll be better than Hillary.

    "I wonder how that will work if he becomes president and doesn't like something libertarians are doing."

    I would actually welcome that fight. It's preferable to the slowly-boiling pot we're in now.

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