After a morning of tweets alerting us all to big news, the Republican National Chair announced that he had sent a letter to CNN and NBC informing those networks that if they go ahead with shows that he describes as infomercials for Hillary Clinton, he would ask the RNC to vote to refuse to partner with either network during the 2016 primary elections. That means that there would be no 2016 Republican debates during the primaries on CNN and NBC.
There is no chance that either network will pull the upcoming Clinton programing. NBC may suggest a guest appearance by Chris Christie on "The Biggest Loser" and maybe a mini series about Paul Ryan called "Pushing Grandma Off a Cliff". CNN may propose that Wolf Blitzer get to deliver the keynote at the Republican Convention in 2016 (just so Wolf could find out once in his life what a big audience is like.)
The truth is that dropping CNN and NBC from the primary schedule is a good move no matter what happens with the Clinton puff pieces. CNN is the network that had John King grunt to indicate time was up during one debate. It is also the network that asked deep questions like "Coke or Pepsi?" and "Leno or Conan?" It is also the network of Candy Crowley who gave false information to help Obama in one debate against Romney. NBC is the parent of MSNBC whose new slogan is "All Republican bashing, all the time".
If the GOP wants a liberal network to host debates, it can use CBS or ABC. And, of course, there is Fox News which has ratings four or five times higher than CNN. It would be nice to have more debates this time that actually focus on real issues rather than on setting the GOP candidates up to help the Democrats.
There is no chance that either network will pull the upcoming Clinton programing. NBC may suggest a guest appearance by Chris Christie on "The Biggest Loser" and maybe a mini series about Paul Ryan called "Pushing Grandma Off a Cliff". CNN may propose that Wolf Blitzer get to deliver the keynote at the Republican Convention in 2016 (just so Wolf could find out once in his life what a big audience is like.)
The truth is that dropping CNN and NBC from the primary schedule is a good move no matter what happens with the Clinton puff pieces. CNN is the network that had John King grunt to indicate time was up during one debate. It is also the network that asked deep questions like "Coke or Pepsi?" and "Leno or Conan?" It is also the network of Candy Crowley who gave false information to help Obama in one debate against Romney. NBC is the parent of MSNBC whose new slogan is "All Republican bashing, all the time".
If the GOP wants a liberal network to host debates, it can use CBS or ABC. And, of course, there is Fox News which has ratings four or five times higher than CNN. It would be nice to have more debates this time that actually focus on real issues rather than on setting the GOP candidates up to help the Democrats.
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