Posted on 10/28/2015 9:25:38 PM PDT by tcrlaf
ednesday night's Republican presidential debate is on CNBC, whose business-minded moderators have asked questions to Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Ted Cruz challenging the wisdom of their approaches to the federal budget.
Trump and Carson have proposed massive tax cuts that nonpartisan and even conservative analysts have said would raise the deficit by trillions of dollars. Cruz has famously pushed the U.S. to the brink of defaulting on its debt, which almost everyone—including the leaders of his own Republican Party—agrees would be a catastrophe. CNBC also asked Marco Rubio a pointed question about his frequent, well-documented absences from the Senate, asked Carly Fiorina about her widely criticized performance as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and pressed Jeb Bush on his campaign's poor poll numbers.
In response, both Rubio and especially Cruz have attacked the moderators themselves, arguing that CNBC—a big-business-friendly, generally Republican-leaning network whose correspondent Rick Santelli literally launched the Tea Party!—is engaged in hateful media bias. Cruz's response was enormously well-received by the audience:
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Spin, spin, lie, spin, lie, lie, spin....
I'm sure that Ben Mathis-Lilley will be getting a lot of "atta-boys" at the gay-bar Halloween Parties this weekend for this hit piece, that is at total inverse from reality.
Slate is acting the leftist dribble that they are. They are wishing they could have topped the miserable performance of the CNBC moderators.
And I tell you, these were the absolute worst moderators ever.
Blatantly slanted. Completely unprepared. Some did not even know there own sources. Throwing out clear leftist, unfounded dribble. Seeking so obviously to set the candidates onto each other. Very disrespectful and full of themselves.
That last interruption of, and attempt to refute Trump during his closing comments was so beyond the pale.
Clearly, these people thought it was their job to debate the candidates instead of having the candidates engage in any debate.
Very sophomoric.
probably one of the most tortured headlines I’ve seen since ever
One man can't do that... unless that one man makes so much sense that he can't be ignored and others follow him.
blah blah blah
Poor little Slate pajama bois can go sob into their pillows.
I am not buying this victim spin.
This is nothing, nothing, compared to what the eventual nominee will get in a real debate against Hillary.
This is practice, warm-up.
Also many of these questions one or more of the GOP candidates attacked the others on. So those are red meat.
Certainly true in the list that Cruz listed.
Buck up and act like men, not squeaking mice.
COMMUNIST TROLL. Moving on.
he’s got to be right. he’s got a last name with a hyphen in between. that AND glasses denotes brilliance on the left.
When Progressives use the phrase ‘common sense’
I don’t even try to stop myself from laughing out loud.
Adois mo fo!
Cruz launched the most effective hit on the media during the debate. I expect the media will consider it a cause celebre to go after Cruz with every lie and “whatever” they can throw at him.
I agree.
After I read the headline, I kept wondering if headline writer was the same immature teenager as the writer Ben Mathis-Hyphen himself.
Are there two of them teamed together like Beavis and Butt-head?
Becky is a nasty little hottie but she’s also a nasty little liberal.
Why do you waste our time with this crap?
Means “Master, I admire you for your great wisdom ”
Thanks,
The best compliment I got here yet.
Bernie Socializt’s unworkable plans be damned (and so may his followers), the enemedia will keep shilling for soft Communism until they are sent packing.
buenas noches
“Ben Mathis-Lilley lives in the East Village. He played outside linebacker for a Little League football team in 1992 and worked the drive-through at Taco Bell for three months in 1998. He mentions these life experiences with inordinate frequency because they are the only incidents of macho-ness and manual labor marring his otherwise unsullied record of white-collar activities and interests.”
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