MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2016

And NBC Paid A Price For Its Media Bias (A Down Payment, Anyway)

 Monday afternoon, Breitbart News exclusively reported the Republican National Committee (RNC) had officially voted to sever its business relationship with NBC News for the previously-scheduled Feb. 26, 2016, GOP presidential primary debate. The RNC’s Debate Committee had met via conference call and after hearing updates from RNC chairman Reince Priebus had officially voted to cancel the partnership with NBC, according to sources on the call. The vote was unanimous. (CNN, National Review, and Telemundo will be moderating that event instead.)

But wait, didn’t The Blower casually mention something like this was going to happen in our November 1 Special “Weekend Wisdom” E-dition?

OUR NUMBER TWO “CNBC DEBATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY STORY” THAT WEEK was in our Special “Media Bashing in Boulder” E-dition, when The Blower said, “Republicans Finally Find A Winning Attack”

OUR NUMBER THREE “CNBC DEBATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY STORY” THAT WEEK was in our “Saturday Strategery” E-dition, when The Blower said: “Is Reince Priebus Finally Waking Up?”

And Debra from Anderson’s “This Week’s Top Item On The Conservative Agenda” piece told us all what was coming.

Debra from Anderson says: Congratulations to the RNC for suspending debates with NBC.   Obviously, our debates must be held in diverse forums. But the behavior of the moderators has become increasingly confrontational and they have apparently decided that hiding their hostility toward Republicans is no longer necessary.  Interruptions, sarcasm, arguing with the candidates, correcting the candidates (even as the corrections are wrong) have become the accepted mode of “moderation”.  CNN was quite open with its strategy of “Let’s you and him fight.”  No longer content to be facilitators, these reporters want to share the stage.  

The CNBC debacle only confirmed long-held beliefs about the drive-by media.  Not just that they are biased, either.  They are congenitally incapable of self-awareness.  So comfortable with their own narrow-mindedness, the CNBC3 clearly could not even entertain the smallest doubt that their questions would backfire.  Not to mention that they gave a big fat middle finger to the viewers, most of whom they knew would be likely Republican primary voters.  They treated the debate like a reality show and were happy to provide the mud.  I have long been a critic of a press that treats elections as special treats the founders dreamed up just for them. 

It may be a “better late than never” scenario for Priebus, but I’ll take it.  The near universal disapproval of the conduct of Quintanilla, Quick, and Harwood speaks volumes and I hope it speaks those volumes to the future networks and moderators of upcoming debates.  And in this campaign season, thanks to Trump, there is a real interest in the debates.  I call it perfect timing.  The networks have something to lose.  It’s about time these news outlets learn that there are consequences to dismissing the millions of Republican and Conservative viewers.  While they are forced to shrink their news divisions, we are happily getting our news elsewhere.  You’ve already lost us and we’re not likely to come back.

Elephants never forget.

So today The Blower just wants to know one thing: What took Reince Priebus and those other morons at the RNC so long?