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CNBC learned a valuable lesson last night: If you play blindfolded by an open septic tank for long enough, odds are you’ll eventually fall in. While Ted Cruz unleashed a verbal Uzi on them all, and Marco Rubio pulled the pin on a truth grenade before tossing it to a befuddled moderator panel, the viewers were even harder on a fizzling CNBC.
Actual picture of the @CNBC moderators: pic.twitter.com/TZpao9KAnd
— Danielle Butcher (@DaniSButcher) October 29, 2015
Breaking: Reince Priebus vows "this won't happen again" after inviting 3 diarrhea-stricken homeless crack addicts to family game night
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 29, 2015
They even got hit by some of the most annoying leftists alive.
Come on CNBC moderators, get your damn facts right. This is embarrassing.#trump
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 29, 2015
Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer annihilated CNBC during the O’Reilly Factor last night, and that’s putting it mildly. Watch Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNmtft4mEh8
Hannity went after CNBC, as well.
“You know I got to tell you something. Between the comments of Ted Cruz tonight, and the comments of Marco Rubio tonight and the comments of Chris Christie tonight and the comments of Mike Huckabee tonight, you know, I’m looking at The Drudge Report and “The debate was an encyclopedic example of liberal media bias.” You know what? This is going to go down in history as a really bad night for the media.”
Becky Quick, John Harwood, and Carl Quintanilla were all bad, I mean it was a vast pool of bad. However, John Harwood wins the blue ribbon of the night for this gem:
CNBC debate moderator John Harwood went hard after Florida Sen. Marco Rubio during Wednesday night’s debate, claiming his tax plan favored the wealthy.
“The Tax Foundation, which was alluded to earlier, scored your tax plan and concluded that you give nearly twice as much of a gain in after-tax income to the top 1 percent as to people in the middle of the income scale,” Harwood asked. “Since you’re the champion of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, don’t you have that backward?”
Rubio then corrected him, saying that those on the lowest end of the tax spectrum would be receiving the largest after tax gains. John Harwood continued on in the attack, and defended his behavior after the debate, even though he had to correct the same dishonest statements two weeks prior.
.@JohnJHarwood @EWErickson Transcript pic.twitter.com/oZRQa8AIDt
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) October 29, 2015
Irrelevant? Below was the correction he was forced to make on October 14th, yet he still pushed the false narrative during the debate last night.
CORRECTING earlier tweet: Tax Foundation says Rubio benefits lowest 10% proportionally more (55.9) than top 1% (27.9%). Avg for all: 17.8%.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 14, 2015
Clearly he forgot about those tweets in the fury of an agenda driven attempt to pretend like a viable moderator. It wasn’t a mistake, it was a blatant lie. Even the President of the Tax Foundation, which Harwood cited, called him out before the debate even ended.
Rubio was right about his plan. Poor get larger tax benefit than the rich. #CNBCGOPdebate https://t.co/GOkJyYpdfw
— Scott A. Hodge (@scottahodge) October 29, 2015
He’s yet to issue a proper correction.
John Harwood refused to issue a correction before the debate audience he deliberately misled. The clock is now ticking on whether he’ll issue any correction at all.
Instead, he’s throwing a tantrum like a child.
moderating GOP debate in 2015 enriched my understanding of challenges @SpeakerBoehner has faced and @RepPaulRyan will face
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 29, 2015
The moderating panel solidified their place on the Hack Hall of Fame last night, but Chris Matthews didn’t let the media implosion end on the debate stage, no, he brought it full circle.
Rosario Marin served for 22 years in Republican politics at the state and national level, and on Wednesday night MSNBC host Chris Matthews laughed at her for saying she felt at home in her party.
Watch below:
Marin, an immigrant who served as treasurer under President George W. Bush, hit back at both Matthews and Trump after Chris insinuated that the Republican Party aligns itself with Donald.
“He does not represent—he’s not even a conservative,” Marin said. “He’s always been a liberal. He has supported more liberals than he ever supported Republicans.”
“He’s not getting my vote. but he doesn’t represent the Republican Party that I love,” Marin said.
Tonight was a bad night for the media. A very, very bad night. So, what do you think about the debate? We want to hear!
David Burge FTW! Excellent post, as always, MaryBeth. 😉
Awesome takedown post Marybeth!! AWESOME!
Harwood, whether he wants to realize it or not, is acting just like Trump with his tantrums about this. Chris Matthews is evidently still searching for his lost tingle up his leg.
And I so totally LMAO at the septic tank line!!
Becky Quick also trotted out the old ‘women only make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes’ lie. Why don’t they get called on this and have to cite a source?
It was a circus within a fiasco. Why Republicans allow themselves to be put under the inquisition by liberal moderators, I’ll never understand. At least they’ve learned to fight back!
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