From Robert Reich
Republican presidential candidates think they’ve been mistreated by debate moderators in the two Republican debates so far – so their representatives met today to pressure the networks to give them more sympathetic moderators and friendlier questions. (The Republican National Committee has already suspended a debate in February sponsored by NBC News, sister of CNBC, because of a perceived bias of the CNBC moderators in last week’s second Republican debate.)
What’s odd is that the first debate was sponsored and moderated by Fox News – hardly a liberal bastion. And CNBC is a right-of-center business channel peopled by the likes of Rick Santelli (whose rant on February 19, 1009 is credited with catalyzing the Tea Party movement) and conservative Larry Kudlow.
I don't think the Republican candidates want to be questioned at all. They want a right-wing beauty pageant where they can compete with one another over who has the most extreme conservative credentials. Ted Cruz even proposes future debates be moderated by right-wing broadcasters Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Mark Levin. “How about instead of a bunch of attack journalists we had real conservatives?” he said recently, to loud cheers.
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