AGAIN, Newt’s absolutely right.
Why have an audience AT ALL if they aren’t allowed to reflect any kind of emotion.
Knowing the way NBC thinks, I’m a bit surprised they don’t fill the seats with registered Democrats.
RTW
Go Newt!
Who is doing the debate Thursday night? It will be interesting to see IF whoever it is admonished the audience prior to the start of the debate on no cheering, no booing and NO clapping. We’ll see how that plays out.
OMGosh .. . .just showing a pic of the bruised and u-g-l-y looking JF Kerrry on Fox. hahah He looks TERRIBLE, well worse than usual.
Once Newt wiped the floor with Mitt in S C, his major opponent became the MSM, which may not necessarily be a bad thing.
Most hard working, tax paying, and voting citizens with an ounce of sanity hates the MSM.
Whether hard working, tax paying, and voting citizens are large enough in number to constitute an electoral majority remains the open question.
That said, when the MSM does Newt dirty, he needs to keep going on the attack.
It actually was better to have the debate without the interruptive Ra Ra Pep Rally each time a candidate responded to a question.
The debate is to elicit candidate responses, not elicit populist hoopla from the audience.
Newt is right about the applause, but it would have been WAY more effective if he had made the statement on stage last night!
Simple solution from the media. There will not be an audience for the next debate.
I can almost see the ads against Romney now..
You know that company that gave you the no money down mortage at that great teaser rate? Romney owned it.
You know that company that laid you off? Romney owned it.
And, you know that company that foreclosed on your home? well... Romney owned that too.
Way to go, Newt.
I can tell he isn’t going to take any nonsense from the media at all.
“...so as to ensure this is about the four candidates here tonight and what they have to say.”
When Brianna said that, I thought, “...and so the audience can’t make you look like an ass!”
If a liberal would of said this this thread would be filled with post after post explaining that it is not an infringement of free speech. The government was not involved in suppressing applause. Please explain to this principled conservative how this is an infringement of free speech ?
Now one can argue whether it is right or wrong but to bring the 1st ammendment into this is silly imo.
What an opportunity Newt missed. If he had said on stage “Brian Williams isn’t your boss. If you want to clap, cheer, boo, go ahead. You’re free people, you don’t owe Brian Williams your obedience”, He’d have wrapped up the nomination right there.
Maybe he could add a rejoinder: “Will that be extended to the “audience” in tonight’s SOTU?”
Hypocrisy R Dems!
The better question to ask is why the audience kowtowed to those rules. Have they no minds of their own? Or have they been brainwashed by this administration and media lap dogs that demand that we, the people, submit?
BRian Williams went an entire 1:40 Debate without ONCE uttering the words “Barack Obama”. When anyone did, he IMMEDIATELY cut them off!
And I thought the question about retaining a Federal Swamp Restoration Project was JUST RIVETING, didn’t you?
I mean, that is SO much more important than 47 million Americans on food stamps, unemployment, homelessness, energy independence, restoring manufacturing, etc,etc, Doncha Think???
In the general election debates can be moderated by an equal number of conservative and liberal moderators, but this system is nuts. Is there anyone who thinks democrats would EVER debate with Rush and Hannity asking the questions? And setting the rules?
Really? I thought it was Pelosi filing the the multitude of ethics complaints. The only one that didn't get thrown out was the book deal. I would submit the GOP wanted Gingrich out so they could take advantage of their majorities and spend like Democraps to buy votes. Gingrich was in the way of that, so they were more than happy to let Pelosi do the dirty work that she is soooo good at.