NewsHounds
We watch Fox so you don't have to!
  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Forum
  • Blogroll
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
Home →

Reince Priebus Vows No More ‘Crap Sandwich’ Debates On CNBC

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on October 30, 2015 · Flag

Preibus_Debate.png

As the Republicans fume at the RNC over Wednesday night’s debate, what’s a party chair like Reince Priebus to do but go on the Hannity show for a little Republican Rehab?

An article in Politico describes a field of GOP candidates in revolt against the RNC:

Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process — and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican National Committee.

Not invited to the meeting: Anyone from the RNC, which many candidates have openly criticized in the hours since Wednesday’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado — a chaotic, disorganized affair that was widely panned by political observers.

On Thursday, many of the campaigns told POLITICO that the RNC, which has taken a greater role in the 2016 debate process than in previous election cycles, had failed to take their concerns into account. It was time, top aides to at least half a dozen of the candidates agreed, to begin discussing among themselves how the next debates should be structured and not leave it up to the RNC and television networks.

Hannity sugarcoated the dissent. He described it as the Ben Carson campaign reaching out to the others to discuss how to improve the debates. Hannity specifically said he thought Priebus was not to blame.

CNBC was a different story. With unintentional hilarity, Hannity complained that CNBC’s debate moderation was “arrogant, obnoxious, biased, shallow, agenda-driven.” As if arrogant, obnoxious, biased, shallow and agenda-driven doesn't describe Hannity to a tee.

“I said in 2008, the media is dead in America. Journalism’s dead,” Hannity continued, “and I’d now argue, it’s now buried as of what last night happened in Boulder, Colorado.”

This, from the guy who either lied about or couldn’t comprehend an AP article explaining the number of refugees the U.S. plans to take in.

But Priebus was more interested in soothing ruffled GOP feathers.

PRIEBUS: I just can’t tell you how pissed off I am. …It was insanity. I mean, just sitting there seething through this thing. I mean, other than thinking about hitting the circuit breaker in the auditorium – it crossed my mind. You know, these are people who put on a pretty decent show in the morning on CNBC. They did a debate four years ago that was a decent debate. Obviously, we had assurances that it was going to be straight-up finance, which is what they do every day. And what was delivered was just nothing but a crap sandwich.

Priebus promised a full-scale review of all future RNC debates - and that CNBC would be blacklisted.

PRIEBUS: I guarantee you we’re gonna make sure that CNBC isn’t hosting and moderating another debate with our candidates. ...Here’s what I will tell everyone. Everything’s going to be re-evaluated and reset. Every debate on the calendar is going to be re-evaluated, reset, look at the format, the moderators, everything.

We’re gonna have meetings with all the candidates, we’re gonna make sure that we can do everything possible to make sure that last night doesn’t happen again. …Every debate from here on out is going to be re-evaluated.

Hannity went on to play a clip of Ted Cruz suggesting Hannity as a debate moderator. It was a point Hannity brought up several times during the show.

Priebus did not say yes or no to the idea.

So will Republicans only debate on Fox News now? Let’s not forget Donald Trump threw a huge hissy fit over Fox’s bias in the first debate (which Roger Ailes immediately hid from). The next debate will be hosted by Fox Business Network and The Wall Street Journal. It should be verrryyy interesting.

Watch Priebus below, from the October 29 Hannity.

 

Follow @NewsHounds

Follow @NewsHoundEllen


Do you like this post?
Tweet

Showing 11 reactions



    Review the site rules
mj - the same one commented 2015-10-31 02:37:00 -0400 · Flag
More RNC PR BS

.
Sandman2 commented 2015-10-30 17:04:01 -0400 · Flag
Trump and the other clowns don’t spend that much time on the campaign trail talking about “issues” and more time hurling insults at each other and Hillary. So why are they surprised to get asked about the inflammatory things they say?
Not ready for that 3am phone call as near as I can tell.
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-10-30 13:15:55 -0400 · Flag
They were legitimate questions. Yet the candidates complained that legitimate questions weren’t being asked and blamed everything from pimples to erectile dysfunction on the “liberal media”
Joseph West commented 2015-10-30 12:31:00 -0400 · Flag
Dave, the only problem with your suggestion is that the FoxNoise debates would wind up getting coverage by the mainstream networks and, DOYC knows, UpChuck Todd would end up having the “debate winner” on his show, giving more exposure which would lead to the other Sunday morning shows on the mainstream networks giving air time to some, if not all, of the other candidates.

So, as much as *we*’d like to see the GOP Klown Kar have all their debates on FoxNoise, they, unfortunately, would still wind up on the REAL networks (such as they are).

Also, don’t forget that the first debate pulled in more non-regular viewers of FoxNoise for that ONE night than the network gets in a whole year of their regular shows.
Joseph West commented 2015-10-30 12:22:13 -0400 · Flag
Greg, it’s comments like yours that make me wish we had a rating system here. That comment was worth at least 100 “up-votes.”
Dave Wright commented 2015-10-30 11:40:30 -0400 · Flag
Actually, I think Priebus may be right. The Republican audience doesn’t want confrontation. So let us give them their wish. They can stay on Fox and Fox only. They will not reach any undecideds but that’s okay. Let’s see if they can win an election by only talking to their besties.
Lakeview Greg commented 2015-10-30 11:16:04 -0400 · Flag
If you do not want crap sammiches, you need to change ingredients, not the plastic baggie.
truman commented 2015-10-30 09:43:16 -0400 · Flag
At the remaining GOPiggy debates—all exclusively on Fux Noise—-the only question allowed will be “How did you become so awesome?”
El 84 commented 2015-10-30 08:42:18 -0400 · Flag
Did — shit. Ad in my way again. Please. change advertisers. This popup shit in my way is getting old.
Eyes On Fox commented 2015-10-30 08:05:07 -0400 · Flag
Right-wingers have lived in the talk radio, blog, and Fox News (being redundant, I realize) bubble so long they think this alternate reality is reality. Watching the lazy, hypocritical, and mostly idiotic “The Five” yesterday do the same bulls**t spew Hannity is here, the suggestion made elsewhere Hannity, Levine, and Limbaugh moderate a GOP debate (or all moving forward) is probably the best alternative. Because the Republican party has become such a mirror of the extremism of right-wing talk radio crackpot-ism they won’t accept anything but pure ideological pabulum – or “substantive debate” in GOPTV™’s parlance.

If you want to know how deeply Hannity and Priebus have taken the deep dive into the vat of Kool Aid, with a straight face they’re not only rejecting liberal MSNBC ever conducting a debate of Republicans but seriously suggesting right-wing Fox News rightly should conduct a Democratic one. No hypocrisy there. Well, maybe. The comedy goes off the charts with Sean talking about what a grand job the great journalists of GOPTV™ would do at a Democratic debate putting himself amongst them.

That pretty much sums up the ridiculousness of the Fox News liberal mainstream media perpetual diaper fill. A reliable partisan hack like Sean with no training in journalism, just punditry, sees himself as the benchmark of objectiveness moderating a Democratic debate and nobody else is qualified.

Personally, I thought the CNN debate run by Anderson Cooper was the best of the bunch. Priebus’ “patty cake” bulls**t to the contrary. And, because everyone knows I’m a partisan Fox News hater incapable of objectivity, I’d place GOPTV™’s debate 2nd.
NewsHounds posted about Reince Priebus Vows No More ‘Crap Sandwich’ Debates On CNBC on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-10-30 00:58:59 -0400
So will it be softballs only during the next debate, hosted by Fox Business Network and Wall Street Journal?








or sign in with Facebook or email.
Follow @NewsHounds on Twitter
Subscribe with RSS


We’ve updated our Privacy Policy
Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.
Created with NationBuilder