Posted on 10/29/2015 4:09:50 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
There was a disturbance in the force last night at CNBC's Republican debate, and it left no doubt of who won and who lost. The loser was CNBC, and the winners were all ten Republican candidates – in varying degrees, of course. (More on that later). And there is no doubt when this shift in the axis happened.
Everything changed when Ted Cruz dressed down Carl Quintenilla and John Harwood – two of CNBC's far-left commentators – and literally mocked their absurd line of questioning.
Cruz did not just criticize the questions; he made sport of them. He demonstrated just how infantile most of the CNBC crew was (Tea Party originator Rick Santelli not included). Cruz flat-out embarrassed them, and they knew it.
After the crowd stopped roaring in approval of Cruz's protest, which took a while, the rest of the Republicans followed the Texas senator's lead, and there was almost no Republican-on-Republican crime after this exchange. In fact, we then saw numerous examples where Republicans made it clear that any of the ten on the stage would be far preferable to what we have now, and to Hillary Clinton. These comments were met with loud approval from the audience every time. Meanwhile, Quintenilla was literally booed loudly three times.
Later in the night, Chris Christie embarrassed the mods again with his fantasy football reply, as did Mike Huckabee by turning a gotcha question related to Donald Trump into praise of Trump. I have my problems with Christie and Huck overall, but both are demonstrably nimble on their feet.
And because these precious egotistical and not very bright media mavens crave the love of the audience, I submit that this dynamic will go farther than just recasting the last hour or so of this debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’ve been waiting for someone to do this, and Ted took the opportunity.
On Hannity’s show he asked Sean if he would be willing to moderate a debate with Mark and Rush. Sean agreed.
I’d love to see them do it. Levin said that the three of them talk pretty regularly.
>> I see that Reince is mad at CNBC this morning. What exactly did he expect?
GOP “leadership” is a pathetic joke, isn’t it?
My understanding is that one of the spoils of war that goes to a winning GOP POTUS candidate is an opportunity to remake the party’s national leadership.
All the more reason to support Cruz / Trump who IMO will revamp the party EFFECTIVELY. (And more reason to reject a Bush, Rubio, Kasich, Christie, etc. who will just give us more of the same failed leadership.)
>> On Hannity’s show he asked Sean if he would be willing to moderate a debate with Mark and Rush. Sean agreed. I’d love to see them do it.
Especially if they moderated a ‘RAT debate. Talk about a ratings gold mine! I’d pay to watch.
After the debate, most in media ignored Cruz.
FReeper article at American Thinker ping ...
“After the debate, most in media ignored Cruz.”
As they have done before this time, because he skewers both sides of the Ruling Class. That was a Game, Set, Match moment.
He may not win, but I have not been as excited about one candidate as Cruz since there was a guy named Ronald Reagan.
My list from last night and in order. 1.Cruz 2.Trump 3.Rubio.4.Christie 5.Huckabee
6.Fiorina 7.Carson 8.Paul 9.Kasich 10. Jeb
Kasich was the most annoying
I didn’t think anyone could be as bad (as a moderator) as MeGYN Kelly, but the CNBC clowns proved me wrong.
The candidates - all of them - deserved respect, which was not seen from the moderators panel.
Their intentions were so obvious from the hit-go, it was truly embarrassing.
They acted like someone endowed them with supreme power and they were entitled to chew the candidates out, one at a time. That’s not “moderating”, that’s radical extremism.
Their collective attack(s) on the candidates surpassed the realm of decency and respect for a group of people running for the presidency of the United States. They seemed to assuming the mantle of being the national deciders of who gets to run for office.
They harangued the candidates over minutia, then had the classless nerve to overtalk the candidates attempt at an answer, attacking their answers with faulty facts and misquoted articles. They seem relentless is trying to nail the candidates on subjects, then trying to censor the candidates explanation of the accusations and rumors.
I spent about 15 years in broadcasting, primarily radio, but I learned as a very young man that when I would interview someone, it was not ME the listeners tuned in to hear, but the interviewee. Obviously today’s crop of talking heads has yet to stow their ego and bother to learn that lesson.
Correct. This love affair with gold that some conservatives have is silliness. Money is an agreed upon tender. Our money happens to be green paper with dead presidents and numbers on it, universally trusted. Why would gold be more useful or trusted?
Money will eventually just be wholly digitized. If you think politicians play with it now, wait until then. Once trust breaks down it’s hard to restore.
Levin has said that he is thinking of doing just that after the current round of debates is over. He can't do it any earlier because under the current RNC rules for the primaries, if a candidate participates in a non RNC sanctioned debate, they are barred from all future primary debates.
The rating for a Rush, Mark and Sean Conservative moderated debate, would make history. The questions asked would draw sharp conservative differences on each candidate.
Let’s have Cruz do that. Trump will just make it more Democrat and that’s the wrong direction.
>> Let’s have Cruz do that.
Works for me. Cruz is my #1 choice.
Spot on and brilliant. ESPN has become a hotbed of liberal talking points. Is that why we watch sports? They’re crazy.
Wow, how far we have fallen. Remember when the candidates set up their own debates? Me neither.
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