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Aleister Oct 30th, 2015 4:04 pm 12 Comments
There’s been lots of speculation since the CNBC debate that Jeb’s campaign is on life support. This seems to confirm those theories.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Chief Operating Officer Leaves Jeb Bush Campaign
The highest-ranking official known to lose her job in Jeb Bush’s flagging campaign is Christine Ciccone, the campaign’s chief operating officer.
News of Ms. Ciccone’s departure comes a week after the Bush campaign announced a re-organization that it said would reduce payroll by 40%. Ms. Ciccone served as Mr. Bush’s chief operating officer, effectively an office administrator responsible for logistics.
“We are grateful to have had Christine on the team, we respect her immensely,” Bush spokesman Tim Miller said.
Ms. Ciccone was paid roughly $12,000 a month, the equivalent of a $144,000 annual salary, according to the campaign’s most recent Federal Election Commission filling. Reached by phone Friday, Ms. Ciccone said “I’ve got no comment. I’ve just got to go.”
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Aleister Oct 30th, 2015 1:00 pm 56 Comments
It looks like the CNBC debate had a real impact on the GOP because the Republican National Committee has just announced it’s cancelling the NBC debate which was scheduled for February of 2016.
The Hill reports:
RNC pulls out of NBC debate
The Republican National Committee has pulled out of a planned Feb. 26 debate with NBC News after widespread criticism of this week’s CNBC debate from both the party and campaigns.
“We are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack.
“CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith,” Priebus wrote.
“I have tremendous respect for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. However, I also expect the media to host a substantive debate on consequential issues important to Americans. CNBC did not.”He went on to pan CNBC for “inaccurate or downright offensive” questions, specifically singling out a question to Donald Trump, who was asked whether he was running a “comic book” version of a presidential campaign.
“While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of ‘gotcha’ questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates,” he said.
“What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.
Here’s the text of the letter Reince Priebus sent to the head of NBC News:
Mr. Andrew Lack
Chairman, NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112Dear Mr. Lack,
I write to inform you that pending further discussion between the Republican National Committee (RNC) and our presidential campaigns, we are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate at the University of Houston on February 26, 2016. The RNC’s sole role in the primary debate process is to ensure that our candidates are given a full and fair opportunity to lay out their vision for America’s future. We simply cannot continue with NBC without full consultation with our campaigns.
The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith. We understand that NBC does not exercise full editorial control over CNBC’s journalistic approach. However, the network is an arm of your organization, and we need to ensure there is not a repeat performance.
CNBC billed the debate as one that would focus on “the key issues that matter to all voters—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.” That was not the case. Before the debate, the candidates were promised an opening question on economic or financial matters. That was not the case. Candidates were promised that speaking time would be carefully monitored to ensure fairness. That was not the case. Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive. The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed.
While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha” questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas.
I have tremendous respect for the First Amendment and freedom of the press. However, I also expect the media to host a substantive debate on consequential issues important to Americans. CNBC did not.
While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that National Review remains part of it.
I will be working with our candidates to discuss how to move forward and will be in touch.
Sincerely,
Reince Priebus
Chairman, Republican National Committee
UPDATE: This report from Politico might have something to do with the decision:
Exclusive: GOP campaigns plot revolt against RNC
Republican presidential campaigns are planning to gather in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening to plot how to alter their party’s messy debate process — and how to remove power from the hands of the Republican National Committee.
Not invited to the meeting: Anyone from the RNC, which many candidates have openly criticized in the hours since Wednesday’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado — a chaotic, disorganized affair that was widely panned by political observers.
On Thursday, many of the campaigns told POLITICO that the RNC, which has taken a greater role in the 2016 debate process than in previous election cycles, had failed to take their concerns into account. It was time, top aides to at least half a dozen of the candidates agreed, to begin discussing among themselves how the next debates should be structured and not leave it up to the RNC and television networks.
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Aleister Oct 30th, 2015 8:32 am 86 Comments
This is a moment from Trump’s appearance in Nevada yesterday.
Trump says:
So many friends in Israel, they don’t know what happened. They have a president who… They think Obama hates Israel. I think he does.
He then goes on to criticize the Iran deal.
The people on CNN seem dumbfounded by this declaration but once again, Trump is saying something that’s true which no one else will acknowledge.
Why is it difficult to believe that Obama doesn’t like Israel? He sat in Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitic church for years, he’s been repeatedly disrespectful to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his awful Iran deal is terrible for Israel’s security.
What’s so hard for CNN to understand here?
Watch the video:
The proudly socialist Democrats are full of passionate intensity, while the Republican leadership is full of pathetic excuses. After this week’s House GOP “budget deal,” which betrays nearly every promise made to grassroots conservatives since 2010, I have decided it is time to end my affiliation with the Republican Party.
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large John Nolte and Michael Leahy highlighted shortcomings of Hillary Clinton’s testimony on thursday to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The two joined a host of astute callers and Breitbart News Saturday host and Breitbart Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow on the Breitbart News Saturday radio program, breaking down the many questions left unanswered throughout the committee’s hearing
Sen Ted Cruz blasted Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from the Senate floor last night and has been expressing his displeasure with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for some time. Now it appears as though the Republican base is joining Cruz in his displeasure with McConnell, who is often seen as a weak leader by Conservatives.
Grassroots conservative group Citizens for the Republic has surveyed the wreckage of the CNBC debate, and is calling upon the Republican National Committee to let conservative media people moderate a debate.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s debut speech was very well-received by Democrats, which will not do much to assuage conservative critics.
“It sounded an awful lot like a Democrat speaking,” proclaimed Democratic Caucus vice-chairman Joseph Crowley (D-NY). “I think he’s a good person and a decent guy.”
The Washington Post fact-check column has already been exposed as a fraud. With two glaring lies of omission in Glenn Kessler’s latest “fact-check” of Hillary Clinton’s now-proven lies surrounding Benghazi (where he awards Pinocchios — not to her but to
Aleister Oct 30th, 2015 7:27 pm 14 Comments
Remember when Obama promised the most transparent administration ever? What a laugh.
After months of stonewalling from Hillary Clinton about the release of her emails while at the State Department, we now learn that the White House is trying to block the release of emails between Hillary Clinton and President Obama.
This report comes from The New York Times:
White House Seeks to Keep Some Clinton Emails Secret
WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties to keep presidential communications confidential, officials said Friday.
The State Department discovered the emails between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton as part of its effort to release the former secretary’s emails, several thousand more of which were scheduled to be made public on Friday. Mr. Obama’s correspondence was forwarded for review to the White House, which has decided against release.
That decision could intensify the political struggle between Mrs. Clinton, who is running for president, and congressional Republicans, who have pressed for disclosure of her emails as part of an investigation into the administration’s handling of the attacks on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
It’s no coincidence that this report was published on a Friday.
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They better not allow them to stay private. This reminds me of Obama sealing all his records after getting into office because he has so much to hide.
Aleister Oct 30th, 2015 6:55 pm 45 Comments
CNBC’s Republican debate this week was so bad that staffers for the little watched network are still nursing their bruised egos.
The debate was so monumentally bad, it’s likely to be studied in journalism classes for years to come.
CNN describes the scene the night after the event and future concerns for the network:
‘Shell-shocked’ CNBC staffers had long flight home
For the CNBC employees who boarded a charter plane right after Wednesday’s bruising GOP debate, the redeye flight was physically smooth but emotionally turbulent.
People were exhausted, but also rattled and worried.
“We were shell-shocked,” one source said.
The poor reviews were piling up — declaring CNBC the biggest loser of the night — and the moderators Carl Quintanilla and Becky Quick knew more would be published by the time the flight landed in New York.
So for some flyers, it was a sleepless night. But there was some laughter and some liquor to lighten the mood — and some speculation about how high the ratings would be.
At 12:30 p.m. Thursday they found out: 14 million people watched, easily making the much-derided debate the most-watched program in CNBC’s 30-year history. Because advertisers paid $250,000 apiece, it was “also the most profitable night in the network’s history,” an NBCUniversal executive crowed.
There was simultaneous crowing and cringing on Thursday. Employees who spoke on condition of anonymity for this story wished for a “do-over” and pointed fingers of blame for the chaotic production. Some pointed all the way up to CNBC president Mark Hoffman, who was also aboard Wednesday night’s charter.
“Everyone feels pretty embarrassed,” one veteran staffer said.
Now there are even calls for changes to future primary debates and predictions that CNBC won’t be in the running to host a debate four years from now.
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