http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/rnc-hillary-clinton_n_3708062.html I have mixed feeling about this, honestly. I don't think a political committee should be telling a network what they can air, but at the same time, airing the program is not fair to other candidates in either party. But I don't like bullies either...
Like usual, the RNC is not thinking. It does not hurt NBC in the least if they do not air Republican debates. Very few people even watch such nonsense. NBC would get better ratings showing just about anything else. Basically, it is as empty a threat as any could possibly be.
The RNC leadership is running on empty. One day they're scrambling to find a position on immigration the next they're looking for a way to deal with the ACA. They're being run by people who live and die by polls and liberal media pressure instead of principle and it's destroying the party. They've lost 2 presidential races because they're afraid to embrace and articulate conservative ideals and now they sound like whining school kids because the other side isn't afraid to promote their ideology. The RNC's cow cowed to networks for years in these debates. The moderators are liberal, they're bias and everyone knows it, so why do the big dogs at the RNC just cave and continue to let the networks dictate the ground rules? Now they cry fowl over the networks airing a series about Hillary? Kinda late to the party don't ya think? The MSM is clearly and openly endorsing liberalism and have been for years and the RNC has simply played defense. Bush refused to confront the lies and accusations which plagued his two terms. Then McCain of all people gets the nod for the presidential race? McCain is more critical of conservatism than he is of liberalism! Then Romney, the father of government run HC, takes the stage. He comes out blazing at the first debate, the media hammer him even though he won. The RNC get worried and the next two debates he goes mr. nice guy and lets Obama make a punching bag out of him and boom....Romney loses an election to a man who launched one of the most unpopular laws of our time, the ACA, who went around the world apologizing for the US and was struggling with a an unemployment rate of 8%. Unbelievable! If these pin heads think they're carrying the weigh to force the media to preempt their Hillary promotional, they're kidding themselves. They're cowards.
Supposedly, Preibus went on Hannity and Hannity applauded him for this concept. I've always thought in the past that when all networks were required to present both sides of a political story that it was wrong, but after this bit of nonsense, I'm starting to think differently. We can not allow the political parties to get away with this, because you know if the RNC gets away with this, that the DNC will follow at some point. Our media is already balkanized to a point that they are often more like mouth pieces for specific points of view than real news sources.
Why would you have mixed feelings. It is pure progressive leftist propaganda to "create" a personna around Hilldabeast that wrongly leads people to believe that she is a worthy canidate for president. In reality, it is pure grade A bovine scat. - - - Updated - - - And from the "missing the point entirely but I am going to post something anyway" files we get this little gem.
The RNC is a failure, establishment republicans who are promoteing policies and political positions that the people who would normally vote republican do not because there is no defineable difference between them and the progressives. I think that many of them are progressives, just in a different party.
They should not be threatening to exclude them from airing the debates. They should be threatening to exclude local NBC affiliates from any advertising dollars spent during the primary season. These local affiliates have become increasingly reliant on these dollars. Increasing the spend on the other networks while excluding NBC would get their attention.
Correct. The wealthy, eat coast liberal wing of the Rep party pulls the strings, none of them are conservative. They even hated Reagan, but he connected with the American people, so they were forced to semi-support him. Since then they've never supported a truly principled conservative. Bush1, Dole, Bush2, McCain, Romney.....pathetic. Now I'm hearing rumors about Bush3...Oh pleeeeaaaaaase...not again.
Again, how would that help them? Yes, the affiliates need the ad dollars, but the candidates need the ads. Since TV shows not in syndication are only on one network you cannot assume you will make up for the lack of spend on NBC with additional spend on CBS. Essentially, the RNC has no power here. No one cares what they do.
This sucks. Now the country isn't going to see Republicans boo gay Marines and cheer at people dying of not having health insurance. Maybe the GOP leadership realizes that less open mike/debates is better since it keeps those little kinds of incidents from happening.
Just cancel the airing of the debates. We know where the media leanings are. If you were a republican, why bother? Besides, its probably better that way. The less the public sees of the candidates beating themselves up, the better. Use that sheit for the general election - against Hilldabeast. With the movie, lying by the Democrats, and the general stupidity of the electorate who are susceptible to the idea of "free stuff FOR free -- there are no consequences".. the republicans are going to need it.
After the Monica Crowley Disgrace, I can understand the GOPs concerns. To pretend that any "debate" hosted by CNN would be unBIASED is ridiculous on its face.
GOP Warns CNN, NBC to Drop Hillary Clinton Programs or be Shut Out of 2016 Republican Debates By Joseph Straw / NY Daily News / Monday, August 5, 2013, 11:40 PM WASHINGTON The Republican Party put CNN and NBC on notice Monday: Cancel planned programs on Hillary Clinton or you wont sponsor any GOP primary debates in the 2016 presidential race. Party chief Reince Priebus called the programs political ads masked as unbiased entertainment. CNN and NBC's planned programs on Hillary Clinton have drawn fire from the Republican National Committee. CNN Films last month announced plans for a feature-length documentary examining Clintons professional and personal life. It has a 2014 air date. And NBC announced a four-hour miniseries, Hillary, following her her life and career from 1998 to the present. Both projects were commissioned as Clinton weighs running for President in 2016. CNN on Monday urged the GOP to reserve judgment about the documentary. NBC Entertainment declined to comment, but NBC News said that it is completely independent of NBC Entertainment and has no involvement in this project. see: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...ap-planned-hillary-programs-article-1.1417978 ....... IMO: Oh well...the republican spokesman Reince Priebus must be very worried about the Hillary miniseries because he warned NBC and CNN not to air the shows because if they do, they will lose any sponsorship in the 2016 election race. That would be a Godsend to the majority of Americans because nothing is quite as boring as spending hours watching republicans preen, and spar with each other for hours, weeks and months on end trying to garner votes from every American that they have done absolutely nothing for in over 5 years, and will do nothing for us in 2016 nor probably ever. Priebus would do better if he could put something interesting in the primaries other than the bickering and corrosive dialogue, and at the convention something other than an incoherent old movie actor talking to a vacant chair would probably generate more attention, but I doubt it. Those republican convention goers are just crazyazzed white people who just dont add up positively to any scrutiny at all.
Dupe thread. Here's the original: http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/315985-rnc-threatens-nbc-over-hillary-program.html
It means that after the MONICA CROWLEY DEBACLE, they know better than to delude that any CNN-sponsored "debated" would be unbiased.
Hillary Clinton Diane Lane Diane Lane to play Hillary....Really? Looks to me like they are trying to rehab Hillary's image after her colossal screw up and failure to lead in Benghazi. They know what they are facing with the campaign ads against her. Images of the consulate in Benghazi burning, Al Queda dancing in the compound, images of the attacks on the compound in June 2012 and the assassination attempt on the Brit Ambassador in Benghazi prior to the 9/11 attack, the eMails asking for additional Security, the memos drawing DOWN security instead, then video of Hillary saying those now famous words "what difference does it make", then the statement if she can't lead the State Dept she has no business trying to lead the country.
That post is just silly. FYI "uninsured" does NOT mean can't get health care. The HRSA on-line finder has a low cost/no cost Federally funded Health clinics. There are many State and County programs for major medical problems called the Medically Indigent Program you can find on line as well. Now when you take away all the people with access to these Health Care programs, how many actually have no access.
- I don't see what everyone is so excited about, Hilary doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination, the Democratic Party will never nominate another White American for high office. -
...... Hi Grok: My thread is from the following with a credible link. Your statement of a dupe thread is untrue, and the link is bogus. Have a nice day. ...... "GOP warns CNN, NBC to drop Hillary Clinton programs or be shut out of 2016 Republican debates" Joseph Straw / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS /Published: Monday, August 5, 2013, 11:40 PM http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...lary-programs-article-1.1417978#ixzz2bJ7eL9sz
..... I doubt very much if the GOP knows anything; that has been apparent for quite a while. If Hillary doesn't run she will miss the time of her life and we all know she can take care of herself in any political confrontation. It is clearly the Hillary Clinton shoo-in if she wishes to partake.
