Republicans To Demand Debate Questions In Advance

[mudwhistle]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

That lineup the other night was a joke.

Journalists are dishonest.

Anyone can ask a question. Why does it have to be fuckers that always vote Democrat?

They also whined about FOX.

Fox proved to be untrustworthy. .......because of the God Damned Journalists.

All of them are liberals.

They don't make it in the field unless they openly express their liberal credentials.

 

[Siete]

Don't re-define PC too asshole.

yeah, stick with big words like torture....

 

[Ravi]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

That lineup the other night was a joke.

Journalists are dishonest.

Anyone can ask a question. Why does it have to be fuckers that always vote Democrat?

They also whined about FOX.

Fox proved to be untrustworthy. .......because of the God Damned Journalists.

All of them are liberals.

They don't make it in the field unless they openly express their liberal credentials.

hahahahahaha!

 

[TNHarley]

Don't re-define PC too asshole.

yeah, stick with big words like torture....

torture? WTF

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

What's that line about heat and the kitchen?

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Above and beyond the crackpot concerns during the 2008 election (stuff like birth certificates and questions about Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright and caricatures showing the Obamas as weapon toting terrorists, one complaint rang with the veneer of legitimacy: how well did the press vet Barack Obama.

How should the press conduct such a vetting if not by asking tough questions?

Or does the press vetting Republican candidates smack of harassment? Sorry Republicans, You cannot have it both ways.

YOU are confused.

There is a significant (and rather obvious) difference between asking "tough" questions to do proper vetting on the one hand, and the CRAP that got spewed by the journalist moderators at that last fiasco of a moderated "debate," on the other hand.

NONE of the fucking questions asked by the "moderators" at the CNBC version of the ongoing GOP debates were legitimate "tough" questions. They were entirely bullshit.

Not just the crap about fantasy football either. But the churlish childish efforts to generate sound bites down the road like "name your greatest weakness." Were they journalists of Shrillary operatives?

Fuck them.

Stop trying to defend them. Carl and John and Becky were absolute disgraces. They SUCKED and I am very happy that Cruz took them to the fucking woodshed.

 

[konradv]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

The only kind of question the clowns are willing to answer...

Do you want fries with that?

 

[Ravi]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

The only kind of question the clowns are willing to answer...

Do you want fries with that?

Yep. They are pissed that NBC didn't ask them softball questions and tell them all how fabulous they are. How is it the GOP came up with such a panel of wussies?

 

[Lakhota]

Let Sarah Palin host the next GOP debate! She knows all about those "gotcha" questions.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Said it in another thread, I 'll repeat it here.

The RNC should agree to a debate hosted by NBC, to take place one week AFTER the Dem candidates have a debate hosted by FOX

I think any journalist with credentials from the major networks, newspapers and cable channels should submit a ticket to a lottery, have a drawing and pick three. The lottery would be conducted by registered independents like myself.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Let Sarah Palin host the next GOP debate! She knows all about those "gotcha" questions.

She sure does!

 

[Ravi]

Does anyone know which questions in particular offended the Republicans?

I've glanced through the transcript and I can't find anything that would make a normal person uncomfortable.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Don't re-define PC too asshole.

yeah, stick with big words like torture....

like...
Benghazi
Lois Lerner
Fast n Furious
Kim Davis

 

[Star]

First, a debate is a way of ascertaining how a person, in this case Presidential candidate, will react spontaneously to questions.

That's the biggest piece of monkey Shi'ite ever flung by a monkey, even a liberal CNBC monkey, in an attempt to justify / cover for that pathetic CNBC performance. No one learned a damn thing about the candidates from those questions, like fantasy football, EXCEPT for - thank God - they were willing to stand up and call out those CNBC 'pooh-flinging monkeys'. They proved they wouldn't take 'shi-ite' (pun intended) from anyone!

It looks to me like the Republicans on this M/B are ignorant of why the fantasy football question was asked, why it was important and why the Republican candidates for POTUS ran away from answering the question.

Nutshell:
Eliminating online gambling is a plank in the Republican party platform because the biggest donor to the Republican party earns more dough to donate to Republicans if he doesn't have to compete with online gambling. Sheldon Adelson made his billion$ operating casinos, online gambling cuts into his profits. Below are some excerpts from an article titled Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t). Click the link below the excerpts for the full article.

- Every proponent of legalized and regulated sports betting and online poker/gambling in America missed out on the golden opportunity to hear each and every major candidate on that stage being required to make an official statement when it comes to the freedom of individuals to make their own choices and then justify their position in front of millions of viewers and voters, about half of which are estimated to have gambled within just the past year.

- Judging by the outburst of applause Christie’s received from a strongly partisan Republican audience, apparently most of the G.O.P. faithful thought the question was silly and the government has no business whatsoever in the oversight of fantasy football, or presumably other forms of online gambling activity.

That would be fine, except for one thing, which is well — kinda’ huge. The Republican Party Platform (that’s still in place from the 2012 national convention) reads as follows, and I quote:
“We support the prohibition of gambling over the Internet and call for reversal of the Justice Department’s decision distorting the formerly accepted meaning of the Wire Act that could open the door to Internet betting,”

Hmm. One must wonder how many of those well-connected hands of donors and party hacks that were clapping last night in Boulder and voices shouting approval for Christie’s outright dismissal of the validity of fantasy football and gambling as viable political issues were the very hands and voices of opposition which inserted this prohibitive plank into their own party’s platform? “Let people play, who cares?” Gov. Christie said to fawning approval by the same crowd that insisted on language prohibiting virtually all forms of online gambling. What irony.

- ...the Republican Party’s biggest donor (from four years ago) happens to be Mr. Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul who is financing an outright policy war against online poker and gambling. He reportedly donated $100 million to Republican candidates and causes three years ago, and has promised to do much the same during this campaign. Moreover, Mr. Adelson is bankrolling lobbying firms in Washington, financing a coalition of for-hire political mercenaries, and buying current and former lawmakers to work towards a total ban of most forms of online gambling — including poker and sports betting. Just about all the candidates on that stage last night paraded in front of Mr. Adelson last year, in a shameless display of ass-kissing that was widely ridiculed as the “Adleson Primary.” [READ MORE HERE] So eager to curry Adelson’s political favor and earn his financial support, that all the major candidates (except for Donald Trump and Rand Paul) have reportedly kissed the ring met with the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands, Corp. — some of them multiple times. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with Exhibit 1 of “Crony Capitalism.”

- See, that’s the question which should have been asked in the debate last night. We’d like to know what exactly a person who potentially might become the President of the United States tells a bully billionaire when the phone rings on the morning of Jan. 21, 2017 at the White House, and it’s come time to repay the favors. That’s why the fantasy football question was important to hear, because by association it opens inquiry to far deeper financial connections. It divulges what candidates think about a popular social phenomenon. And finally most important, it reveals basic convictions as to what role, if any, our government should play in the daily lives of citizens and when it comes to regulating the Internet.

Call me crazy, but I kinda’ think those are important issues. So do lots of other citizens, too — and they aren’t just DFS players. They’re millions of business people and consumers who engage daily in online activities. We have a right to know to what extent candidates will try and control (and possibly outlaw) what we enjoy doing. Indeed, the fantasy football question, along with much more profound philosophical issues as to government’s involvement in online business and commerce isn’t out of place at all. Rather, it’s essential that we get some honest answers.

Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t) ~ Nolan Dalla
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[NoTeaPartyPleez]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

That lineup the other night was a joke.

Journalists are dishonest.

Anyone can ask a question. Why does it have to be fuckers that always vote Democrat?

The questions they asked have all been pretty much corroborated and fact checked. Fer' instance: Marco Rubio's stumbling block was from a quote in his very own autobiography.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

First, a debate is a way of ascertaining how a person, in this case Presidential candidate, will react spontaneously to questions.

That's the biggest piece of monkey Shi'ite ever flung by a monkey, even a liberal CNBC monkey, in an attempt to justify / cover for that pathetic CNBC performance. No one learned a damn thing about the candidates from those questions, like fantasy football, EXCEPT for - thank God - they were willing to stand up and call out those CNBC 'pooh-flinging monkeys'. They proved they wouldn't take 'shi-ite' (pun intended) from anyone!

It looks to me like the Republicans on this M/B are ignorant of why the fantasy football question was asked, why it was important and why the Republican candidates for POTUS ran away from answering the question.

Nutshell:
Eliminating online gambling is a plank in the Republican party platform because the biggest donor to the Republican party earns more dough to donate to Republicans if he doesn't have to compete with online gambling. Sheldon Adelson made his billion$ operating casinos, online gambling cuts into his profits. Below are some excerpts from an article titled Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t). Click the link below the excerpts for the full article.

- Every proponent of legalized and regulated sports betting and online poker/gambling in America missed out on the golden opportunity to hear each and every major candidate on that stage being required to make an official statement when it comes to the freedom of individuals to make their own choices and then justify their position in front of millions of viewers and voters, about half of which are estimated to have gambled within just the past year.

- Judging by the outburst of applause Christie’s received from a strongly partisan Republican audience, apparently most of the G.O.P. faithful thought the question was silly and the government has no business whatsoever in the oversight of fantasy football, or presumably other forms of online gambling activity.

That would be fine, except for one thing, which is well — kinda’ huge. The Republican Party Platform (that’s still in place from the 2012 national convention) reads as follows, and I quote:
“We support the prohibition of gambling over the Internet and call for reversal of the Justice Department’s decision distorting the formerly accepted meaning of the Wire Act that could open the door to Internet betting,”

Hmm. One must wonder how many of those well-connected hands of donors and party hacks that were clapping last night in Boulder and voices shouting approval for Christie’s outright dismissal of the validity of fantasy football and gambling as viable political issues were the very hands and voices of opposition which inserted this prohibitive plank into their own party’s platform? “Let people play, who cares?” Gov. Christie said to fawning approval by the same crowd that insisted on language prohibiting virtually all forms of online gambling. What irony.

- ...the Republican Party’s biggest donor (from four years ago) happens to be Mr. Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul who is financing an outright policy war against online poker and gambling. He reportedly donated $100 million to Republican candidates and causes three years ago, and has promised to do much the same during this campaign. Moreover, Mr. Adelson is bankrolling lobbying firms in Washington, financing a coalition of for-hire political mercenaries, and buying current and former lawmakers to work towards a total ban of most forms of online gambling — including poker and sports betting. Just about all the candidates on that stage last night paraded in front of Mr. Adelson last year, in a shameless display of ass-kissing that was widely ridiculed as the “Adleson Primary.” [READ MORE HERE] So eager to curry Adelson’s political favor and earn his financial support, that all the major candidates (except for Donald Trump and Rand Paul) have reportedly kissed the ring met with the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands, Corp. — some of them multiple times. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with Exhibit 1 of “Crony Capitalism.”

- See, that’s the question which should have been asked in the debate last night. We’d like to know what exactly a person who potentially might become the President of the United States tells a bully billionaire when the phone rings on the morning of Jan. 21, 2017 at the White House, and it’s come time to repay the favors. That’s why the fantasy football question was important to hear, because by association it opens inquiry to far deeper financial connections. It divulges what candidates think about a popular social phenomenon. And finally most important, it reveals basic convictions as to what role, if any, our government should play in the daily lives of citizens and when it comes to regulating the Internet.

Call me crazy, but I kinda’ think those are important issues. So do lots of other citizens, too — and they aren’t just DFS players. They’re millions of business people and consumers who engage daily in online activities. We have a right to know to what extent candidates will try and control (and possibly outlaw) what we enjoy doing. Indeed, the fantasy football question, along with much more profound philosophical issues as to government’s involvement in online business and commerce isn’t out of place at all. Rather, it’s essential that we get some honest answers.

Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t) ~ Nolan Dalla
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Yes. Sure. Fantasy football and GAMBLING!

Plank or not, THAT's the thing that drives this election! Good point.

And concise, too.

 

[TNHarley]

Don't re-define PC too asshole.

yeah, stick with big words like torture....

Benghazi
Lois Lerner
Fast n Furious
Kim Davis

Benghazi was dumb
LL should be jailed
Fast and the furious should have never been started in the first place. At least keep up with your weapons!
Kim davis should be impeached or quit. She is about as unpatriotic as they come.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

This is getting pretty hysterical. The GOP slate is refusing to go to the next debate because they are afraid of the moderators. Ted Cruz is calling for a softball moderator team made up of Hannity, Limbaugh, and some other right wing drone.

That lineup the other night was a joke.

Journalists are dishonest.

Anyone can ask a question. Why does it have to be fuckers that always vote Democrat?

They also whined about FOX.

Fox proved to be untrustworthy. .......because of the God Damned Journalists.

All of them are liberals.

They don't make it in the field unless they openly express their liberal credentials.

hahahahahaha!

Am I reading that right? MudTwittle is dissing FOX?

 

[Siete]

Don't re-define PC too asshole.

yeah, stick with big words like torture....

torture? WTF

Cheney ... enhanced interrogation techniques.

guess you had to be somewhere other than having you head up your butt.

 

[Valerie]

Does anyone know which questions in particular offended the Republicans?

I've glanced through the transcript and I can't find anything that would make a normal person uncomfortable.

ted cruz highlighted a few questions which he found personally offensive...

^ as a direct response to a question about his position on the debt limit negotiations!