National Review loses GOP debate sponsorship over anti-Trump issue

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The Republican National Committee has ended a debate partnership with National Review after the venerable conservative magazine devoted its new issue to a "symposium" of reasons why voters should reject Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

"We expected this was coming," the magazine's publisher Jack Fowler wrote in a blog post late Thursday night, just 90 minutes after the symposium went live. "Small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald."

RNC spokesman Sean Spicer Fowler's account of events, and added in a comment to Buzzfeed's Rosie Gray that "a debate moderator can't have a predisposition." That leaves CNN, Salem Radio, and Telemundo as the co-sponsors of the planned February 25 forum in Houston.

The idea of bringing conservative media into the debates had actually come from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, who has repeatedly blamed a loose, easily-exploited approach to the media for a "circus" that hurt eventual 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/national-review-loses-gop-debate-sponsorship-over-anti-trump-issue/

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I can't imagine who the NR thought it was going to influence except maybe some funders, which are the people Trump needs least.

[oberliner]

1. Republican party ought to split up

The various wings of the party seem to truly despise one another.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Trump is working on that.

[Frank Cannon]

4. I can't imagine why.

For 60 years, the "business arm" of the GOP courted the Birchers, the racists, and the fundie nuts, stirring them into a panicked frenzy at every opportunity in order to drain them of money and votes. Now the crazies finally have exactly the candidates they've been promised for so long.

Congratulations, Koch Brothers and Billy Kristol. Your wildest dreams have come true.

[underpants]

2. Salem Radio AGAIN? Hugh Hewitt gets more national air time

Salem Radio

[brush]

5. Salem Radio? Wonder how they settled on that name?

I mean did they not think that the phrase "Salem witch trials" would pop into many peoples' minds when their name came up?

Not a good thing to be associated with IMO, but they're extreme righties so maybe they think it's a good thing.

[oberliner]

7. Doesn't Salem mean peace?

That could be where it comes from.

[brush]

8. Maybe so but Salem witch trials still comes to my mind.

[Pastiche423]

10. Maybe you're thinking of "shalom"?

Shalom is peace in Hebrew.

[Paladin]

6. Least surprising headline of the morning. (nt)

[TeamPooka]

9. Didn't NR fire David Frum for calling out Palin as an idiot back in 2008? nt