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RNC To CNN, NBC: Drop Hillary Films Or Well Pull Presidential Primary Debates
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus on Monday called on both NBC and CNN to drop their planned film productions of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or face losing their partnerships with the RNC for 2016 presidential primary debates.
In letters to the chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt, and CNN President Jeff Zucker, Priebus slammed the networks' "thinly-veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election" as unfair to other potential candidates from both parties.
NBC announced last month it was planning a miniseries starring Diane Lane that would follow Clinton's trajectory beginning in 1998, the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The series was to air before Clinton could launch a hypothetical White House run. Days later CNN also announced it would produce a documentary to be released in 2014, according to the New York Times.
"If you have not agreed to pull this programming prior to the start of the RNC's Summer Meeting on August 14, I will seek a binding vote of the RNC stating that the committee will neither partner with you in 2016 primary debates nor sanction primary debates which you sponsor," Preibus wrote to the networks.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rnc-to-networks-drop-hillary-productions-well-pull?ref=fpa
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus on Monday called on both NBC and CNN to drop their planned film productions of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or face losing their partnerships with the RNC for 2016 presidential primary debates.
In letters to the chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt, and CNN President Jeff Zucker, Priebus slammed the networks' "thinly-veiled attempt at putting a thumb on the scales of the 2016 presidential election" as unfair to other potential candidates from both parties.
NBC announced last month it was planning a miniseries starring Diane Lane that would follow Clinton's trajectory beginning in 1998, the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The series was to air before Clinton could launch a hypothetical White House run. Days later CNN also announced it would produce a documentary to be released in 2014, according to the New York Times.
"If you have not agreed to pull this programming prior to the start of the RNC's Summer Meeting on August 14, I will seek a binding vote of the RNC stating that the committee will neither partner with you in 2016 primary debates nor sanction primary debates which you sponsor," Preibus wrote to the networks.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rnc-to-networks-drop-hillary-productions-well-pull?ref=fpa
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RNC offers win-win scenario for the American people (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Aug 2013
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We should be writing NBC and CNN telling them we want to see the Hillary Films
liberal N proud
Aug 2013
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)1. Well, Reince my Priebus
RepubliWankers going for Ultimate FAIL while continuing to dump all over America and Americans in meek, slavish bended-knee subservience to the 1%, Inc. (R).
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)2. We should be writing NBC and CNN telling them we want to see the Hillary Films
Tell them not to bow to the extortionist tactics of the republicans.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)4. NBC/CNN should not negotiate with terrorists
TexasTowelie
(111,940 posts)3. Hasn't this asshole heard of the First Amendment?
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Check your pocket edition of the Constitution Reince!
sinkingfeeling
(51,438 posts)5. Why would anybody want to see GOP primary debates anyway? Oh, I guess
they could be called comedy.
louis-t
(23,267 posts)6. RNC should be negotiating with the
Comedy Channel. I'm sure they'd be happy to air the debates.