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.
It's about you-know-what time.
Leaving the media process up to an organization that is almost completely unaware that we left the 20th Century a decade and a half ago was never a good idea. Let Reince and Co. continue to do the only thing they know how to: send fund raising letters disguised as surveys via snail mail for the octogenarians of the party.
As we noted here on Wednesday night, the Priebus tantrum that followed the debate was a bit ridiculous given he role in creating the problem.
The media will more than likely portray this as further evidence that the party is fractured, when it may very well mean the opposite. The RNC may be a clown car, but would a fractured party see its competing candidates come together for the greater good of the party?
The RNC really needs to get its collective head out of its ass if it wants to remain a party instead of Donkey Lite. Good to see the candidates taking matters into their own hands.
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aka... letting the enemy choose the battlespace so they can take out the popular but not desirable to the establishment plan backfiring so badly that Jeb is Dead and the RNC looks like complete fools.
#2
Comcast/NBC is a Democrat front. Nice to kick them in the ass. Perhaps the Republican President should pay them back
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They'll probably set up the next one with CBS to get a fair shake...
Personally I think the candidates should get together a list of topics, each make a short video discussing their opinions on that topic, then make rebuttals to the other candidates opinions. Do it all online.
This would allow them to research and consult their experts before they make the videos and rebuttals which is more akin to what the President does anyway. It would remove gotcha questions and capture headlines week after week as new topics were posted (with rebuttals).
And hopefully we would learn a bit more about them.
#4
"hopefully we would learn a bit more about them" Too boooorrrrrring, not enough "excitement", pizazz or BS. Actually the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 were a lot like that. Thousands traveled to hear them in person, reporters transcribed the speeches, and they were published in full in many newspapers.
#6
Step one - kill the media and their political operatives by attacking, attacking, attacking.
Step two - (for the short attention span theater goers) stop calling them 'Liberals' or 'Democrats' and start calling them what they've already called themselves - Socialist
#7
I think rjschwarz has a good idea but if it's Too boooorrrrrring, not enough "excitement", pizazz or BS then you could have some televised debates as well. The media has an important role to play in the process but they're all so lazy, biased and crooked they're not playing it anymore. It was nice to see the candidates calling them on it but there is quite of bit of lazy, bias and crooked among them too.
#9
The RNC didn't "pull out" of the debate. Donald Trump told them that they were f%@ing "fired" and the RNC put its tail between their legs and whimpered off into a corner.
You do just that in Israel and Canada, and all of a sudden everyone thinks you're helping their opponents.
[Hurriyet] An ongoing tussle between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has reached Washington after the former suggested that a company that once managed U.S. President Barack Obama teachable moment... 's presidential election campaign has now been hired by the Kurdish problem-focused party to run its campaign for the Nov. 1 snap elections.
"In these elections, the campaign management of a certain party is run by the team that managed Mr. Obama's campaign," Erdogan responded when asked about assumptions that a kaboom which killed four people at an HDP rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on June 5, two days before the parliamentary elections, had actually increased the HDP's votes by two percent.
"This team had meetings with leading figures [of this party] in Istanbul. And at those meetings, they also gathered with certain media groups," Erdogan said late Oct. 28 during a live interview with Kanal 24 news channel.
Accusing the HDP executive of constantly lying to people, particularly about their alleged link to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Erdogan said, "The team that runs that campaign tells [the HDP] 'Always use lies, always use insults because when a lie is constantly used, it eventually turns to truth.' This is the campaigning mind, the master mind. We have all of this information. When you look, they are implementing this exactly."
Later in the night, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas quoted a tweet of a journalist, which summarized what Erdogn said during the interview concerning the HDP's campaign.
Demirtas then tweeted @BarackObama, "Look, it seems that there is something like this, you have never been telling me, the 'zalim.'"
The Turkish word "zalim or zalim" (stony-hearted or cruel) is commonly used in folk songs and colloquially when somebody wants to voice bitter feelings toward a friendly person.
Over the last two presidential debates, both Democratic and Republican candidates have asserted that the television news media is biased and has done a poor job informing voters of the most pressing issues in the election.
And while their focus is on things like the type of questions asked by debate moderators, they are overlooking much clearer signs of potential conflicts of interest. Fundraising disclosures released this month and in July reveal that lobbyists for media companies are raising big money for establishment presidential candidates, particularly Hillary Clinton.
The giant media companies that shape much of the coverage of the presidential campaign have a vested stake in the outcome. From campaign finance laws that govern how money is spent on advertising to the regulators who oversee consolidation rules, the media industry has a distinct policy agenda, and with it, a political team to influence the result.
The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.
The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.
Presidential campaigns are obligated by law to send the Federal Election Commission a list of lobbyists who serve as “bundlers,” collecting hundreds of individual checks on behalf of a candidate’s campaign.
CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as “one of Washington’s top lobbyists.” He’s lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy.
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#1
Why don't we skip the dancing around with NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN and just lump them all under one name, say DNC (Democratic National Broadcasting) or the Communist News Network or RLWN (Radical Left-Wing News)?
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