Finally: \u00a0the evening’s host, CNBC<\/p>\n
What the conservative pundocracy says<\/strong>: \u00a0The performance of the CNBC panel – \u00a0the smirky, mugging Carl Quintanilla, the smug and snarky Becky “Not Very” Quick, and Mike “Where Have You Gone, Candy Crowley?” Harwood, with an appearance by Jim Cramer (who sounded like he’d just lost a UFC match) was a laughingstock – even when mentioned in the same breath as CNN’s loathsome performance four years ago.<\/p>\n What I say<\/strong>: \u00a0The conservative pundocracy was too kind. \u00a0I got the impression that the media has settled onto a “strategy” of turning debates (well, the GOP ones, anyway) into political reality shows. \u00a0Part of me expected Flavor Flav or Khlamidia Khardashian to show up to ask a question [1]. \u00a0It was clearly a goldmine for CNN last month – to me, it looked like CNBC wanted to make their panel the stars of the debate. \u00a0Here’s hoping that the rumors of the backfire on CNN aren’t exaggerated.<\/p>\n Verdict<\/strong>: \u00a0News flash: anyone who expects anything from the MSM but sniping and hackery is deluded. \u00a0And you can tell Reince Preibus I said so.<\/p>\n [1] Khlamidia is one of the sisters – right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally: \u00a0the evening’s host, CNBC What the conservative pundocracy says: \u00a0The performance of the CNBC panel – \u00a0the smirky, mugging Carl Quintanilla, the smug and snarky Becky “Not Very” Quick, and Mike “Where Have You Gone, Candy Crowley?” Harwood, with an appearance by Jim Cramer (who sounded like he’d just lost a UFC match) was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-media","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55925,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55910\/revisions\/55925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}