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I wonder if thereâs been any serious consideration by NBC to telling the candidates to fuck off?
No debates.
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What ever happened to the GOP claiming to be the party of âmanly menâ as opposed to those weakling Dems?
Lordy, what a bunch of bossy babies!
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Nope. People are watching debates, which means big ad bucks, which means networks will eagerly tug their forelocks before their Republican masters. (And, yes, the networks will cheerfully attack Democratic candidates with hoitzers, if thatâs what Republicans demand.)
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Forbidden questions and/or topicsâŚ
- Anything about policy
- Anything that involves specifics
- Anything that questions the honesty/integrity of the candidate
- Anything that might help a voter make up their minds about which candidate to choose
Campaign slogans and word salads are OK.
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Why donât they just buy 2 hours of TV time and let James OâKeefe produce it ?
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Also: No Green M&Ms.
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Fuck 'em! Get with the program as originally set up or GET BENT.
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Youâd think that the candidates would want the air time as much as, if not more than, the advertisers. They need to get their names and faces out there as much as possible.
I think people are only watching the debates for the fireworks, anyway. If they tone them down and give straight policy soundbites, it would be a big yawn and people would probably switch to NCIS reruns.
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You kidding? NBC will look at their demands and then apologize for not already having made the changes retroactively.
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Wow, cutting out the RNC means Rinse Pubis is out! Donor money to the RNC will shrink rapidly, making the organization a lot less powerful than ever.
Yes, somewhere old Mike Steele is raising his glass!
All great news for us! 
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Good for them! They should choose a candidate from within the Republican bubble. Maybe they will get Ted Cruz!
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Networks to Candidates - âup yoursâ.
If only.
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Its actually rather surprising. This is a horrible scenario for most of the candidates. Networks will be quite willing to tell a Huckabee or Paul to take a hike if they disagree, but they will do whatever Trump wants. Because people are tuning in to see Trump, not Kasich.
But its a nightmare of the networks. Having to negotiate with 14 different campaigns individually, trying to find a common ground that they all will agree with? Good grief, I would rather be negotiating a peace settlement in SyriaâŚthey are less parties involved, and all are probably more reasonable.
And, it goes beyond just the debates. Because the criteria that they will of course be using in approving moderators will beâŚis this moderator saying nice things about me on the air? If they arenât, they are unacceptable. So they are exerting influence over not just the debates, but the on going coverage.
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What are we suppose to call this, âthe bubble debates âŚthe mastur-debatesâ?
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This term comes to mind
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No one can touch it for several hours until the whitewash driesâŚ
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Do they each get a pony, a Disney Princess playset, and an Easy-Bake Oven, too? Oh, joy of joys! Oh, dream of dreams! (H/T: Franz Liebkind)
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For fucks sake! I have never seen a bigger bunch of whiny ass candidates in my entire life! Do they aspire to be as brain dead as Sarah âbendy strawsâ Palin? B.b.b.but the lamestream media is m.m.m.mean to ME! WWWAAAA WWAAA WAAAaaAAaaAAaAAAAAaaaaaa!!!
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âGotchya questionsâ⌠anyone and everyone that bitches about âgotchya questionsâ needs to get the hell off the stage.
I was not aware that Carson supported a questionable heath supplement company. I was glad to see questions around the judgement of such a move. That vicious, horrible, tragic gotchya question was useful to me.
The GOP⌠the hawkish go-to-war-over-everything party that cries over paper cuts.
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