Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus continued his public shaming of CNBC after Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate.
Priebus was pleased with the way Fox Business News moderated the debate, according to this tweet:
And that @CNBC is how you run a debate.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) November 11, 2015
The RNC chair later praised the Fox Business moderators for treating the candidates “with fairness and respect.”
“Debates need to focus on the issues, and that goal was accomplished tonight,” Priebus said in a statement. “Our candidates, not the moderators, were at the center of tonight’s debate, and they were all treated with fairness and respect. Thanks to a well-run debate, the country was able to see our diverse field of talented and exceptionally qualified candidates exchange ideas for how to reinvigorate the economy and put Americans back to work.”
CNBC hosted a Republican debate last month that was widely panned by the media and harshly criticized by the candidates themselves. Priebus tweeted at the time that the peacock property “should be ashamed of how this debate was handled.”
This post has been updated.
Will anyone besides Fox want to broadcast future GOP debates?
Audience has to crater with this format.
Why do I always think he’s about 11 years old when I see him?
This guy has already made himself irrelevant.
Too bad it wasn’t a ‘debate’, Rinse…but then you wouldn’t know that would you?
Caveat: I only watched about 15 minutes of the debate (the first 10, and some other scattered moments afterwards). What I saw in those first ten was a panel of interviewers interviewing the relatives of the owner of a company they all work for. They, very politely and congenially, asked them questions that–yes–did allow them to state their positions on how they would handle situation A, or what policy they would employ. And then when they spouted outright bullshit or objectively false or illogical statements (wages are too high, the minimum wage always increases unemployment) they said, “thank you” and moved on.