Ten million less than the first two*; mind you, the first two weren’t playing opposite the World Series and were available online via free streaming. You have to wonder whether or not CNBC is relieved that they didn’t make that aforementioned dumpster fire of a debate freely available: on the one hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the other hand, if they had then more people would have watched CNBC that night. On the gripping hand, CNBC should probably enjoy their record numbers and/or ad revenue from last night, because it’s going to be a cold day in Perdition before the GOP will let them host another one. Continue reading CNBC Dumpster Fire Debate brings in 14 million viewers.
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Quote of the Day, I Ultimately Found The CNBC Debate Delightful For This Very Reason edition.
Instead of being a chance for the Republican candidates to debate each other, the CNBC debate ended up pitting the candidates in a debate against the mainstream media.
And that’s what was awesome about it.
I take a very pragmatic view of debates: will what happened cost my party votes in the general election? And the answer here is an unequivocal ‘no.’ We had a lot of good video clip fodder yesterday, and it was all of Republicans smashing smug media idiots right in the metaphorical chops. And, as Robert Tracinski went on to note in that article: the media hates the Republican party, and wants us to die in a fire. Best that our candidates get practice in dealing with that early.
Why no progressive inquisitors at the Democratic debate?
Via @AdamBaldwin by this tweet by Joan Walsh… and it has a question that has some veritable teeth to it. No, really. This is a great question, and I wish that I had thought of it first:
Why has @CNN not found itself a progressive equivalent to righty Hugh Hewitt, a GOP debate panelist, for the Democratic debate?
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) October 13, 2015
Continue reading Why no progressive inquisitors at the Democratic debate?