In its usual-usual write-up looking at the winners and losers of Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate, the Washington Post declared the host network, CNBC, one of the debate losers.When your ideological allies say you've lost all credibility, it must have been really bad.[A] lot of the questions the moderators asked seemed to be framed like this: “You said or did X controversial thing. Explain.” I’m all for some of that — after all, politicians need to be accountable for their public statements — but it veered occasionally into “gotcha” territory.+ The debate was a major debacle for CNBC, another black eye for NBC News, and permanently tarnished whatever legacy moderator John Harwood thought he might have.
Schadenfreude.
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