CNBC Gives In to Donald Trump on Details of the Debate

[hay rick]

Source: New York Times

CNBC will allow the Republican presidential candidates 30-second opening and closing statements at a debate this month, bowing to the demands of Donald J. Trump and other leading candidates that they be allowed to introduce themselves.

The Oct. 28 debate at the Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colo., will last two hours, including commercials, another accommodation to Mr. Trump, who was unhappy with the length of the three-hour Republican debate last month in California.

Officials from the Republican National Committee telephoned senior operatives to the campaigns on Friday to relay the news.

Mr. Trump and Ben Carson, who are leading in many polls of the Republican field, led the push on the opening statements and time limit, threatening to boycott the forum if their demands were not met.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/16/cnbc-gives-in-to-donald-trump-on-details-of-the-debate/

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Thank you Donald and Ben. Two hours of irritating, misbehaving juveniles in my living room is definitely better than three hours.

[Fred Sanders]

1. BS. No one one "gave in". The network was in negotiations and the two propaganda masters got

in a preemptive media shot they knew would create the all important "buzz" and automatic media opinionating.....sham artists and sham media were made for each other.

[yallerdawg]

2. Does this make any sense?

The top candidates dictating the terms of the debates?

This is a democracy!

Shouldn't the challengers get to make the rules?

[christx30]

8. The voting for the candidate in November will be a democracy.

But a private corporation isn't a democracy. They can decide how they are going to do the debates. If they wanted to make everyone wear clown noses (which would paint a more accurate picture), they could have done that.
No one has to show up or watch.

[Enrique]

3. also Trump got to pick the moderators

Meat Loaf and Gary Busey.

[davidpdx]

4. Good one

[wordpix]

7. very funny! I thought Amarosa was in, too

[ejbr]

5. This makes no sense...

how will all of the participants introduce themselves by saying, "Hi, my name is ______ and I am batshit crazy" without it sounding redundant?