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Clarice Feldman at American Thinker believes that every single one of the debate moderaters is a biased lefty.

Why the Republicans ever agree to moderated debates is beyond my ken. Just pick a topic and a timekeeper and keep the lefty newsreaders out of it.

...If that’s not enough, the scandals of the Clinton Foundation that Hillary plans to keep operating with Chelsea at the head will sooner or later be so evident than even the media lapdogs will not be able to hide it for much longer.

Would it be devastating to Hillary Clinton to lose Iowa and New Hampshire? "Not as devastating as being indicted!"

Ben Kamisar and Jonathan Easley report at The Hill,

The Republican National Committee on Friday pulled out of a planned Feb. 26 debate with NBC News amidst a revolt by candidates after Wednesday’s CNBC debate.

"While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of 'gotcha' questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to NBC News

Chairman Andrew Lack.

Since CNBC is an NBC Universal property, "We are suspending the partnership with NBC News” for its Feb. 26 debate.

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What would Seth Godin do if he were running for president?

If I were crazy enough to be running, I'd organize my own debate, challenging one or two of my competitors to an hour-long conversation, and then post it online. Even better, I'd challenge one of the candidates from the other party and have a substantive conversation. Bernie Sanders debating [pick your candidate]. It elevates both sides because each person had the guts to address the issues, to go head to head, to speak up and make a case.

The Debate Channel can't be far behind. No grandstanding, with chess clocks provided for fairness, no wasted time on moderators, merely conversations, some of which can't help but go viral and get ratings that would, in aggregate, compete with the TV variety.

...The magic is the open nature of a billion-channel universe. The organization with an FCC license is no longer in charge, debates aren't something that happen to you, they're something you can choose to do.

Pick yourself.

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