By Lloyd Grove
From silly and inaccurate
questions to just plain awkward interruptions, Team CNBC stumbled in
Boulder—and was absolutely clobbered by the Republican presidential
field for it.
People
will argue about which Republican presidential candidate came out on
top in Wednesday night’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado, but it was
pretty clear who lost.
The mainstream media—as represented by the business cable network’s
principal moderators, Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and especially John
Harwood—took it on the chin as candidate after candidate, to hearty
applause from the partisan audience at the University of Colorado,
pointed out that their questions were inaccurate, unfair, or otherwise
plain silly.
“Are we truly talking about fantasy football?” New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie demanded after Quintanilla asked former Florida governor Jeb
Bush whether the online sports industry should be regulated as a
gambling enterprise by the federal government.
“Seriously,” Christie continued, noting that the topic was hardly worthy
of a presidential debate, where issues of war and peace, the runaway
deficit, and the economy should be center stage. It was difficult to
disagree with him.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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