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tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:47 PM Jul 2015

New Hampshire Says F*CK YOU to FoxNews & Roger Ailes - Will Hold Open GOP 'Debate'


Calling itself 'a presidential primary forum' and setting itself up in a non-traditional-debate format, New Hampshire's 'Union Leader' is going to make an end-run around FoxNews' top-10 poll debate rules by openly inviting all to their 'non-debate' debate.

Clever, Clever


* From Article linked below....

"...candidates will appear by themselves in rapid succession and be quizzed by moderator Jack Heath, a local talk-radio personality. The forum is structured this way because the Republican National Committee set rules saying there could be only a certain number of official debates. Any candidate taking part in a nonsanctioned debate, the RNC said, would not be allowed to take part in the sanctioned ones."

also from the article

"The candidates at the Union Leader forum will appear in two waves. There will be a first round of questions, and then each candidate will get a second chance onstage to respond to anything that’s been said by others. The event is two hours long, and even without any commercial interruptions, each candidate will likely get a total of around eight minutes of stage time.

It will be broadcast nationally on C-SPAN, and in New Hampshire on a number of local stations simultaneously. It begins at 7 p.m. ET."


Link:

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/new-hampshire-thumbs-its-nose-at-fox-news-over-125381639521.html

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HA HA HA HA !!!!!

FoxNews forgot that all you have to do is change the name from 'Debate' to 'Forum' and you can do pretty much whatever you want, including giving candidates actually a lot more airtime than they would likely get in a traditional FoxNews show.




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New Hampshire Says F*CK YOU to FoxNews & Roger Ailes - Will Hold Open GOP 'Debate' (Original Post) tomm2thumbs Jul 2015 OP
With the 17th moron signed on... cocainecowboy Jul 2015 #1
These "folks" fredamae Jul 2015 #2
+1 JDPriestly Jul 2015 #3
Never thought I would be thanking the Rs for anything. This is a good idea. jwirr Jul 2015 #4
Have we even scheduled our first debate? daleanime Jul 2015 #5
 

cocainecowboy

(45 posts)
1. With the 17th moron signed on...
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:49 PM
Jul 2015

the candidates get EVEN less stage time, roughly about 7 minutes, 30 seconds.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)
2. These "folks"
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 05:55 PM
Jul 2015

seem to demonstrate the Open full-on corporate takeover of the GOP is completed - as they are Still working hard to shred the last of the Dem Party also.
And the apparent Majority of dems are clearly not going down with any apparent resistance because Very Damned few of them have sounded the alarm...

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
3. +1
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 06:01 PM
Jul 2015

If Hillary and he DNC want to limit the Democratic debates, I suggest that Bernie and the other candidates set up their own discussion forum. It could be quite informal. I would bet you that we voters would learn more about the candidates from that forum than from the "trumped up" media debates bought and sold and controlled by corporate media.

All we would need would be an on-line forum say with free TV or something like that.

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
5. Have we even scheduled our first debate?
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 07:33 PM
Jul 2015

I'm hearing sometime in September now. Who know, maybe October?

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