After Priebus claimed that there was a porous division at best between NBC Entertainment, which is producing the Hillary miniseries, and NBC News/MSNBC, Brzezinski pointed out that he had no problem appearing on her MSNBC show. “My point is you expected an honest and fair conversation here, even though we’re a part of NBC,” she said. “You understand there’s a difference.
“But I’m not going to have you moderate the Republican debate,” Priebus said. When Nicole Wallace asked why not, he continued, “Because you’re not actually interested in the future of the Republican Party and our nominees. That’s not a slam on you, Mika, but I have to choose moderators that are actually interested in the Republican Party and our nominees. It’s not going to be NBC, if they continue to go forward with this miniseries.”
So to be clear, Prebus only wants moderators who are Republicans. Which begs the question "What kind of Republicans?"
Because let's face it, there are extreme differences within the Republican party. And a moderator who would be very understanding and sympathies toward Ted Cruz, is going to be muhc less so toward Chris Christie or Marco Rubio.
So if Prebus is really trying to find moderators who would be fair to all participants he would in fact be better served by members of the press who take their jobs seriously, and remain ABOVE partisanship, rather than members of Fox news or Breitbart's necrophiliac fan site.
Which by the way is what we have always expected from our moderators.
And by the way what happens to the eventual candidate when he reaches the general election and has to debate
And just in case you think that "Rinse Twice and Prebus" is merely upset about the Hillary documentary and will back off of this point eventually, here is where he said might be an appropriate venue for the GOP debates:
“Chairman, what do you think about a talk radio debate, where maybe I get together with my buddy Sean Hannity and maybe a Mark Levin, and we interview some of the candidates?” Tantaros asked. “Because the base I think would like that.”
“I actually think that’s a very good idea,” Priebus agreed. “I mean, there’s a lot of good people out there that can actually understand the base of the Republican Party, the primary voters.”
Talk radio? THIS is the place where Prebus thinks his candidates will be protected from undue scrutiny?
Let's face it, this is NOT about the Hillary movie. This is clearly telegraphing conservative fear that once America gets a look at the clown car of candidates this year they will launch them off the stage.
Talk radio, the next thing he will suggest is that reporters send their questions via telegraph and then they will answered by carrier pigeon.
Go ahead and have your debates on radio. No one will be able to tell who is talking. It will be as interesting as Sarah's phoned in interview with Hannity.
ReplyDeleteWhere did the RNC find this jackass? He looks and sounds like he and Marcus Bachmann are room mates
DeleteOoh, talk radio with nasty old farts Hannity and Levin.
ReplyDeleteThat will bring in the young, Latino, minority, female, disabled, non-Christian, educated voters.
Keep it up with the outreach efforts, republicans. You're doing great!
What an idiot. Do they actually hear the words that are coming out of their mouths? Does he know the definition of DEBATE? They know their policies only hold up in their own echo chamber. The Republican Party made a deal with the devil and allowed the Tea Party in, they deserve everything they get. They have learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING from the last election. Preibus knows there will be another clown car of candidates and is trying to minimize their exposure. Well, they can play all they want to the base, but will fail when they have to speak to the rest of us.
ReplyDelete"Does he know the definition of DEBATE?"
DeleteRemember palin telling the moderator that she wasn't going to answer the questions asked, but was going to yammer about whatever she wanted to or could remember from her stupid little cards?
I'm pretty sure that is the going republican definition of debate, you ask a question, and our response will be whatever we want to talk about.
It almost looks like they are planning on having the rodeo clown car episode be hidden from view as long as possible . . . . until their real candidate – Mitt Romney – emerges. I doubt they would want their real candidate covered under a bushel all those many months. And knowing the republicans, they tend to choose their real candidates behind the scenes, while just making it look like it was a primary anyway. JMO.
DeleteThey might want to have it mid-afternoon so people that actually work won't have to listen to it. That's when Rush and Hannity's shows are broadcast here locally. Levin--- I have no idea when his shows are programmed. If they pre-empt my oldies music to broadcast any of that GOP nonsense, I'd take that channel out of memory on my radio forever. Screw those guys. Put it on Fox and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteI understand the thinking that this could be a strategic effort to keep the general population from hearing the calliopes of the circus parade approaching too far in advance of the election.
ReplyDeleteHowever, that is a two-edged sword for the republicans. Cocooned in their little bubble, far away from Sanityville, they will be limited to one of two choices.
They will pick a foaming at the mouth nutball candidate who will shock and alarm the non-nutball American electorate when finally released snapping and biting from the confines of the republican primary system.
Or, cooler heads will prevail and they will pick a candidate that they fondly imagine to be mainstream. Who will then shock and alarm the non-nutball American electorate when finally released snapping and biting from the confines of the republican primary system.
Keep it up republicans! You're doing great!
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DeleteThe moderators were not the problems with the Republican candidates' debates. The problem were the candidates. Perry couldn't remember three things. Romney bet Perry $10,000., a figure that all of us can easily relate to. If they hold their debates on Fox, a place that is friendly to Republicans, we will still be able to see the clown parade.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it...the majority of Americans are not going to elect a President that appeals to RWNJ radio audiences. The GOP really is a clown car these days and I don't see them changing in time for 2016.
ReplyDeleteI guess these clowns think the dems will agree to all this?
ReplyDeleteAUSTRAILIA'S SARAH PALIN:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/stephanie-banister-australia_n_3726171.html
Could this be Australia's Sarah Palin?
DeleteStephanie Banister, a 27-year-old politician running for a seat in the Parliament of Australia, got a number of crucial facts about religion horribly wrong during a video interview with Australia's Channel 7 News.
"I don't oppose Islam as a country," Banister, who is running in the Queensland electoral district of Rankin, said in an interview Wednesday night. "But I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia."
"Less than two percent of Australians follow haram," Banister told Channel 7 reporter Erin Edwards, apparently meaning to say "the Quran" instead of "haram," a word that means "forbidden" in Arabic.
Banister also wants halal food banned in Australia, Channel 7 reports. But kosher food is apparently fine, she said.
"Jews aren't under haram," Banister explained. "They have their own religion, which follows Jesus Christ.
Yep, sounds about like Paylin's stupidity level.
Politically, we are a joke in the eyes of most democracies in the world. Why even bother with the debates at all?
ReplyDeleteTalk radio? Sean Hannity? Seriously?
ReplyDeletePoor, poor RNC with this clown calling the shots. Prince Reebus only wants panty sniffers to be moderators and wants his candidates to be coddled with softball questions so they can only regurgitate their tired old talking points.
Yeah, put it on talk radio and Fox. That way only the base that you've already brainwashed to vote your way will bother to tune in.
This is why the RNC is dying. They are ignoring the independents, the moderates and the middle. When this is how you control your candidates and their forum, you will NEVER recruit any new voters. And as the ones you have die from old age, your base will continue to shrink.
But you go, PreRinse. If it makes you feel better. Just don't expect a different outcome by doing the same tired thing that failed before.
Aw, Reincey, too late, we've already seen your party's vaudeville show primaries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkQM2qjPLI
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah was the moderator, wouldn't you watch or listen? Hooters!!!!
ReplyDeleteRJ in Brownbackistan
Rinsed Penis is such a worm. Get your ass kicked much in school Rinsed? I will miss the R's debates for their comedic value. So much for their big tent and the autopsy. What fucklumps these people are.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact they they just can't wrap their heads around the fact that it's not the moderators who are killing them in their primary debates, it's the candidates themselves, and of course the post-debate mocking from the likes of John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Jay Leno, David Letterman and blogs like Gawker and this one.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Mitch McConnell's campaign manager, Rand Paul is already the nominee.
ReplyDeleteSounds just like the amazingly idiotic and supremely vapid Sharron Angle from Nevada when running for US Senate.
ReplyDeleteShe tells the interviewer "we need the press to be our friend" !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then she says "we want them to ASK THE QUESTIONS WE WANT TO ANSWER".
How can anyone with an IQ more than 20 possibly not be utterly floored by the level of supreme stupidity that Angle displays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxfEK1BIKkg
Rencey Preebus is about in the same league now, cuz they don't wanna have to debate, research policy, and stuff, cuz that's all from the elitist commies.
Rill 'Mericuns just wave a flag, pack a concilled weapon, and live vibrantly like the idiot Palin.
Hey, Raence. Here's a brilliant idea. Have the wives of the last group of candidates do the moderating. Hillary's female, they're female, and the GOP needs to attract more female voters.
ReplyDeleteStop whining and just do it! You're gonna lose anyway.