How Many Television Debates Do We Really Need?

The New Obamamobile, courtesy of Government Motors

Meredith Kane at Big Government is absolutely right. With her piece at Big Government confirms my previous post about the Democrat left wing media skewing our primaries. Some right-wing blogs are not doing such a good job themselves because their bias is showing.

This tidbit is great, because it reflects that all this is leading to nowhere:

There have been over 20 debates or forums for these candidates to deliver the message that liberty, self-governance, and free enterprise leads to a prosperous nation. This view is a stark contrast to the current President and his policies. However, that message is continually choked off by the gatekeeper moderators who keep the focus on things such as English being the official language. This is either laziness or intentional sabatoge by the RNC. They are allowing the media to choose the Republican Presidential candidate, not Republicans.

Tonight’s debate on CNN at 8 p.m. ET will be be moderated by Wolf Blitzer. Does the RNC actually think that tonight’s debate will be more insightful than the past 20? Here’s a thought, Mr. Preibus: Host an internal live-stream debate and invite the media outlets and C-SPAN to set up a camera. Have some new-media moguls and some Tea Party Congressmen moderate. The American people will be far more informed by one event like this than all of the other 20+ debates combined.

Mr. Preibus knows this can be done, why hasn’t he done it already?

I absolutely support a live-stream debate; this “online debate” movement started this past week while the most-boring-debate evah was in process. Our Ed Morrissey at HotAir was put in the spot, and those who support this effort want to see Captain Ed as a moderator. Michelle Malkin agrees, top brass bloggers agree. It seems that Andrew Breitbart would agree to this, although I would like him to push this effort through and help with the bandwith and his connections.

For those on Twitter, the hashtag is #hotairdebate. there is nothing concrete, no candidate has agreed to anything nor come forward. Ed Morrissey will be in the Spin Room at CPAC, and there are many excellent folks that can moderate a debate where we could cut to the chase and ask the candidates what the media does not want to: Barack Obama’s legacy in the White House.

Related articles

• Memo to the RNC: End the game shows (hotair.com)
• Hugh Hewitt: Calling Chairman Preibus (hughhewitt.com)

Hey, Media: Stop Skewing The GOP Primaries

Things are getting out of control in the mainstream media. Unfortunately, this applies to blogs, and especially those websites that do have a reputation to brag about, a large amount of visitors and where people around the world read what they write.

I can’t stress it enough that we in the Republican Party the GOP primaries are taking an unprecedented turn of events, challenging history. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich all have won a state (except for Doctor Ron Paul). Those independents, Democrats that are disappointed in what the Obama presidency has come to and were tricked with his dog-and-pony show where we are in so much debt, our candidate has nothing but do pull a Herculean effort to slow down the mess this country is in.

All the networks-and I am tossing FOX News in the mix-are engaging in this useless catfight, pinning each candidate with a label and with millions of Americans that are incredibly misinformed. It is hard enough to do a proper research and homework on each of these candidates to then do this online and find the same ol’ attacks and innuendos that do not benefit neither each candidate nor We The People that must make a choice. One thing is attention-grabbing headlines in order to grab that audience and get accurate news; another is to do the same (for the sake of competition) and engage in a low-blow “he said, he said” meme that really has my television off and I am fed up.

I am fed up that the media is giving Barack Obama a leg-up, along with Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden attack from the sidelines and surround us, with no place to go. Hence instead of focusing on what the liberals are doing (and those blogs that love to do this to skew the choices in front of us) we are attacking each other with links to old news from the 80′s, the 90′s and every little mistake. We are attacking each other and these blogs that love their money and their attention-grabbing headlines relish on this; the TV networks pick up on this and each candidate has to waste their time (their free air time!) to instead of delivering their positive message to the people, is wasted in responses to all these attacks coming from each candidate’s Super PAC‘s and from their personal campaigns.

What are we going to do about this, America? Are we going to continue to let this happen in order for others to decide who will take the fight to President Obama; to send a positive message of conservative values, and how is that candidate going to dig us out of the hole that President Obama put is in? We must be smarter than this, and pay attention to what liberals in DC are doing and not get our focus off of our priority right now: Let the process flow, let’s keep this going in a positive way with a positive message in order for these candidates to stay in the race.

-TPE