CNN news coverage of the Congress sit-in overrides scheduled Libertarian inter

[Hombre LibreParticipant 261]

WTF!

The scheduled June 22nd 9 PM PDT town hall interview with Libertarian Party presidential and vice presidential candidates on CNN was preempted by CNN’s Coverage of the Congress’s sit-in!

As the late George Carlin said: “We have front row seats at freak show central!”

Gentlemen, do you have any thoughts?

Hombre Libre.

[Hombre LibreParticipant 261]

Any thoughts on how the 6/22 congressional sit-in preempted the libertarian interviews on CNN. Is this another page of freak-show central that George Carlin mentioned?

Any thoughts Gentlemen?

[experiencedParticipant]

CNN = Communist News Network.
I actually prefer watching soviet TV to CNN – there’s less censoring / bias. IMO

"It seems like there's times a body gets struck down so low, there ain't a power on earth that can ever bring him up again. Seems like something inside dies so he don't even want to get up again. But he does."

[FrankOneParticipant 1435]

To its credit, CNN did broadcast the Libertarian ‘Town Hall’ with Gary Johnson last night,and it was at the scheduled time in my area. So I’m not clear to what you refer? I think it was simulcast on CNN International, are you outside the US? I only receive the domestic CNN in the State in which I reside within the Midwest US, and the entire Town Hall was broadcast at 9pm EST.

The Town Hall format wasted a huge amount of time with the moderator asking dumb-ass questions, such as how much money their campaign has raised (in corrupt donations to influence policy: Weld and Johnson should have answered ‘less is moral’ relative to the Statist Party candidates aka Trump & Hillary), and give one word associated with the other candidates, etc, for which the Moderator ought to have received a knuckle sandwich. I would have answered ‘Statist’ for the one word to describe BOTH Hillary and Trump, and defined in simple language, just what that word means: ‘There oughta be a law’, government can solve any problem.

CNN is most interested in creating a spoiler so that Hillary is elected. So their providing more coverage in 2016 to a 3rd party should NOT be mis-interpreted as open-mindedness. I believe they think the LP will take more votes from Trump than Hillary, but several polls suggest Johnson taking an equally small percentage of votes from both.

There were lots of mis-steps made to make them appeal to average Joe — ‘libertarian light’ if you will: Instead of saying ‘150 years ago you could buy cocaine at a drugstore, sure Heroin should be legal, and you should be able to self-prescribe any drug you please.’, they weaseled around and said pot should be legal but not heroin. But they still made a hell of a case for smaller government compared to the Statist parties.

The moderator asked bulls~~~ questions such as how long it had been since Gary Johnson had smoked marijuana, what he thought of the other candidates attacking each other, etc — instead of focusing on the issues — I would have loved the moderator to be called out on that, that the election is serious business, not reality TV. The moderator should have been called out on his bulls~~~ but that’s probably not a good way to win the hearts and minds of the idiot viewers.

As for the sit-in, I call it political showmanship. I’m skeptical gun control would have prevented Mateen from simply acquiring firearms on the black market, as do the perps of the 100+ murders that occur annually in the major metropolitan city in which I reside, acquire their arsenals. Furthermore, it is easy to make a bomb with black powder, propane, shrapnel, ammonium nitrate, etc with very little training. Look at WTC failed bomb #1 (basement bomb), olympic bombings, etc.

Personally high taxes are taking away more of my lifetime than these shootings, so I’d like to see a sit-in to reduce government spending and taxes 50%.

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