Republicans Bar CNN, NBC From 2016 GOP Primary Debates

[Emit]

Yep, they did it. NBC hasn’t even produced its Hillary Clinton biopic yet, while CNN’s is in production now but will not be released until some time in 2014. And nobody knows yet whether those productions about Clinton will even be very favorable toward the possible candidate.

But don’t let that stop the Republican party from threatening what it considers “liberal” news outlets by barring them from the debates. And so, the RNC just voted that “CNN and NBC anchors will just have to watch on their competitors’ networks” as GOP Chair Reince Priebus declared.

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Go, GOP, go. Right into oblivion.[/div class="excerpt"]

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/08/breaking-republicans-bar-cnn-nbc-from-2016-gop-primary-debates/

No longer breaking news apparently

[Gravitycollapse]

1. Cut off their nose to spite their face.

Whatever. Let the rest of us ignore them.

[Tx4obama]

2. Old news. Article link is from August 16, 2013. The RNC vote is also old news.

[Emit]

4. Tx ~ I edited the title

Thanks for the info. It was breaking news to me! hahaha!

[silverweb]

3. Excellent.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They just cut any potentially open-minded audience by about 90%.

[silvershadow]

5. Maybe they think the base is enough? Or maybe the fix is in, and they don't care? I'm not

sure how this action would play into their pipe-dreams of "broadening the base".

[B Calm]

6. Republican party = fascists

[malaise]

7. So will the networks do the sensible thing and ban all GOP

folks from there networks since a free press is not part of their agenda?

[Notafraidtoo]

8. This is bad news for us.

Less crazy exposure, The 2012 clown show killed them, they are not ready to repeat that. I am thinking their plan is to limit exposure to the wackos until they have a nominee. Crazy sound bites are one of our best weapons on the left, look for them to crack down and tell everyone to shut up till after election day.

[iamthebandfanman]

10. Makes them look

petty and cowardly though.

not really sure how this is such a bad thing for us.


trust, they will give us plenty of crazy.. you don't need a debate for that.. just look at the last election..
the best bit came from a well placed camera in a dining room :p

[jeff47]

18. Actually, I think the reverse

Networks like CNN and NBC bust their asses in debates to ask questions that show Republicans as somewhat sane. Remember, there was all sorts of poo-pooing of Candy Crowley when she confirmed Romney was wrong about Benghazi.

So moving the debate elsewhere would be good for actually showing the crazy. Put it on Fox with Limbaugh as moderator. Plenty will see it, and boy will The Crazy be on display.

[Cha]

9. This is too funny. It reminds me of the

2012 goprimary debates. Could be because they're both hilariously stupid examples of gop vapidity.

[Historic NY]

11. Maybe they can get the Cartoon Network to p/up coverage....

clowns.

[Demeter]

13. It's the GOP's funeral

Can't win a national mandate by blocking popular national news services....

[Madmiddle]

14. CNN AND NBC

will still cover soundbites that are stupid and senseless. CNN and NBC will still cover them wether they are on their networks or not and I'm sure that they will run the mean and hateful things the GOP debaters say and do. They will also show the GOP handpicked audience cheering mean and hateful things the GOP creeps say and do. It will be even worse because it will be only the worst of all sound bites, and if NBC and CNN are smart the soundbites will be taken out of context!

[progressoid]

15. “liberal news outlets"

Wouldn't that be nice if they were liberal.

[intheflow]

16. One can only hope CNN & NBC will not cover the event at all, then.

That would be the sensible thing to do, not feed the whiny conservative drama queens. Of course they'll never do it. They LIVE to feed their conservative masters.

[bluedeathray]

17. S-U-I-C-I-D-E nt

[Javaman]

19. this is exactly what the gop wants...

after the last go around people saw just how colossally stupid their candidates actaully were.