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MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews accused Republicans of trying to seize control of debates to avoid questions like “Do you believe in evolution?” And “hands up if you agree” questions and only want “white, middle-aged, and minimally well off” people

The 2016 GOP presidential campaigns agreed on Sunday evening to cut the Republican National Committee (RNC) out of the debate negotiation process and instead deal directly with networks moderating debates, Breitbart News has learned.

The CNBC executive who oversaw the catastrophic Republican presidential debate in Colorado is married to a Hillary Clinton 2016 donor.

A new social advertisement for Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz takes aim at the left media bias that was blatantly on display during the CNBC Presidential Primary Debate. The ad blasts CNBC and highlights Cruz’s response that led to one of the biggest crowd reactions of the debate.

Republican residential candidate former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee argued “CNBC utterly embarrassed themselves” in their handling of the GOP presidential debate and the US should attack ISIS’ supply lines on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Huckabee

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher declared, “CNBC is not the liberal media” on Friday. Maher said, “Now, I heard all day today that the liberal media, first of all, that debate was on CNBC. CNBC is not the liberal media.

CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla, one of the moderators of this week’s GOP debate, offered some insight into China’s notorious one-child policy Thursday. Quintanilla published a graph of China’s declining birth rate in the 90s and wrote, “One thing about China’s one-child policy: it worked.”

South Carolina Senator and Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham criticized the CNBC debate as “too many moderators trying to have their moment” in an interview on Friday’s “John Gibson Show” on Fox News Radio. Graham said that he thought the

The establishment media is peeing on themselves now that Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus announced Friday that the RNC would no longer sanction the NBC debate scheduled for February, because of CNBC’s brutally awful treatment of Republican candidates in Wednesday night’s debate.

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw took a shot at the Republican presidential debate process thus far, particularly in the wake of Wednesday’s debate from Boulder, CO hosted by CNBC. Brokaw took aim at

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, who was criticized for how she moderated the first GOP presidential debate, is herself critiquing the CNBC moderators from Wednesday night’s debate, saying it was “uncomfortable to watch.”

Republican presidential candidate Kentucky Senator Rand Paul argued that “a lot of the moderators, particularly last night, decided they were going to be partisans” and criticized the media in general for being “superficial” in its coverage of the presidential race

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said CNBC’s debate moderators deserved to be booed by the audience and “people have figured out that the media really is not objective” on Thursday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Fiorina said she was glad to see

Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said that while Senator John McCain (R-AZ) missed votes when he was running for president he “got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States Senator,” and that his

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus stated that CNBC won’t moderate another Republican debate after its “crap sandwich,” and that all future debates will be “re-evaluated” on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Priebus said, “I just can’t tell you how

CNN’s “AC360” host Anderson Cooper stated that CNBC’s moderators “made it very easy” to attack the media on Thursday. Cooper said, “For candidates to attack the media, clearly the audience last night was warm to the idea, but is it

Texas Senator Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized the RNC for its debate structure and defended his record of accomplishments in the Senate on Thursday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Cruz, after criticizing the way CNBC handled the

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson proposed a debate structure change following the backlash against the CNBC debate moderators’ liberal-leaning questioning Wednesday night.

MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews argued, “the idea that so-called media in New York is somehow carrying on some campaign for Hillary Clinton is an absurdity” on Thursday. Matthews, after playing GOP presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s criticism of

Dr. Ben Carson stated, “I’ve asked my staff to reach out to all these staffs of all the other candidates and let’s talk about a different type of format”on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Carson said, “Well,

Many conservatives are criticizing the CNBC debate moderators for liberal bias; however, GOP presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich is defending them.

Journalist and author Carl Bernstein slammed CNBC as “really reprehensible,” and argued Republicans are “right about the mainstream media” on Wednesday’s “CNN Tonight.” Bernstein said, “More than anything, MSNBC was — I’m sorry, CNBC was really reprehensible, but we got

Thursday on Fox New Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said the CNBC moderators of the Republican primary debate last night were “bias” and “awful.” Christie said “Well, listen, the moderators last night were awful. And

Just about every pre-debate warm-up analysis predicted it would be a make-or-break debate for the second-tier Republican candidates… and it was. All four were aided enormously by the horrible amateur-hour of CNBC’s moderators, who should be looking for new jobs after their ridiculous performance, spewing Democrat National Committee talking points disguised as questions and talking over the candidates.

Fox News Media Analyst Howard Kurtz slammed CNBC’s GOP debate as “an absolute trainwreck for CNBC” and “a disaster for all of us in the news business” on Wednesday’s “Kelly File.” Kurtz said, “Megyn, this was an absolute trainwreck for

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson criticized CNBC’s “preset agenda” and criticized the network as “an obscure network” while saying he’s “sick and tired” of media bias on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. Carson said, “Well, I

CNBC debate moderators John Harwood and Sharon Epperson said, “I wanted to…play out the divide in the Republican field” and “They’re hoping that people don’t really care about the facts” while discussing the GOP presidential debate on Wednesday’s broadcast of

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s spokesperson Deana Bass told Breitbart News that fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump was right – CNBC planned to have a much longer debate until Trump and Carson negotiated it down to two hours, despite CNBC’s John Harwood arguing the debate was always going to be only two hours.

After CNBC posed a question about government regulating fan sites promoting wagers on fantasy football, Jeb Bush took the opportunity to remind the crowd that he was winning his fantasy football league.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer slammed the CNBC debate as an “appalling,” and “obnoxious” performance by “flaming liberals” moderating the debate on Wednesday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Krauthammer said, “This was the most appalling performance by the moderators that

Wednesday at CNBC’s Republican presidential debate, the anchors and candidates battled with the blusterous booing audience in heavy support of the candidates. It started when CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, “Is this a

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus criticized CNBC for asking “one gotcha question, one personal low blow after the other” after Wednesday’s GOP presidential debates. Priebus said, “I was proud of our candidates for standing up to a pretty hostile environment. I

The consensus winner of the CNBC GOP Debate in Boulder, Colorado was Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in second. But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie deserved the “most improved” award with a performance that could vault him back into serious contention.

Wednesday at the CNBC Republican presidential debate, when moderator Carl Quintanilla questioned Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson over a company for which he gave paid speeches, the audience disapproved by loudly booing the anchor. Quintanilla  asked, “This is a company

Donald Trump was doing well at the GOP Debate on Wednesday evening until a blunder in which he claimed not to have called Marco Rubio “Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.”

After Sen. Ted Cruz lashed out against the Republican debate moderators at CNBC, Comedian Bill Maher celebrated on Twitter.