They’re cheapening the process of choosing nominees for the office of President of the United States perhaps beyond redemption. It is now The Gladiator. Or perhaps The Running Man.
Nice job creeps.
UPDATE: Watching it now in spite of the irritating format . . . the fellows are very testy tonight and Michelle will build a big fence all the way around and she promises by golly to do it. They’re doing a great job of tearing each other down. The Republican establishment, if it still exists, is surely having the vapors by now.
UPDATE 2: This is so strange a debate that Newt and Ron Paul coming acrross as the most sane.
UPDATE 3: Strangest of all? Perry appears to have finally taken his meds and is finishing his sentences. I still expect his battery to run down before 10pm.
UPDATE 4: Ohhh, Perry’s tossing out a bold new idea! The UN!!! Bad!!!
UPDATE 5: Gingrich just explained that it didn’t matter that Reagan negotiated (arms) for hostages because the Gipper said later that he didn’t know he’d done it. So, okay.
UPDATE 6: How does Romney get away with saying “having spent my life in the private sector” over and over again? Wasn’t he a Governor? Didn’t he run for Senate? I must mis-remember.
UPDATE 7: Perry/Romney facing off. I am so scared.
UPDATE 8: Newt decided there was some benefit (?) in scholding Anderson for fomenting bickering. Huh?
And it’s over. Yet again.
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With the new management in place, it has become a clone of Fox News.
I’m sorry, care to give some examples? I don’t get CNN where I live so I don’t know…
Hi Maxim, welcome.
This CNN debate is being held in Las Vegas and they apparently thought it would be clever to appropriate the style of a championship boxing match. The music, the voice over – all sounds like “and in this corner”.
Their first failure was in giving the debate a name, which they spread across the screen, in all its grammatical errancy: “The Western Repubilcans Presidential Debate”. No matter what they may have thought that meant, it in fact means that this debate is for candidates from the Western states. Only.
They’re encouraging the audience to hoot and holler and boo . . .and there’s a lot of that. It’s just all so cheap and tawdry.
And now the candidates are showing hostility to each other and the audience is finding that most entertaining too.
In this instance I’d say they’re worse. The debate FOX hosted was handled in a traditional way. They didn’t present it as a boxing match, with a sports announcer voice over,
The FOX debate is here:
I don’t expect anyone to actually watch it, but just in case.
They need to go all the way and just have the nomination decided on an episode of Dancing With The Stars.
I, too, am frustrated with how much CNN has gone downhill. I remember when they used to be interesting and objective. Now I turn it on and it’s either a celebrity interview or that new Erin Burnett show, which she uses to slam the Occupy Wall Street folks.
brat: I turned the sound off immediately after the debate, but I can see Burnett (who was good on CNBC but is lame now. Still, she’s the new chick of the week!) and omg, I see Ari Fleisher. And the one who always makes my teeth hurt, Donna Brasile.
CNN was a great idea and for a few decades they conducted themselves honorably and played an important role, but the last few years have been dismal. (Wolf Biltzer makes my teeth hurt too.)
The fact that they used to be halfway decent makes their downfall that much more painful for me. As to Blitzer, it makes my teeth hurt when other people on his show call him “Wolfie”
No!!!! I’ve never heard that and now I have to watch because I refuse to die before I hear that!
Haha, there are only a few commentators who address him that way — I guess the ones who are his very special friends?
Thanks for the update as I continued my streak of not watching these sideshows. However, I would consider watching one without Perry, Romney, Cain, and Bachmann.
I’d like to hear Buddy Rohmer, Johnson, Ron Paul and Santorum. Now that’s entertainment!
The whole damned circus has become one big disgrace.
It’s awful.
Like eurobrat said, we may as well just decide elections with special editions of Dancing with the Stars.