Dream Lineup: Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity as GOP Debate Moderators?

Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin eyed as 2016 GOP debate moderators 
| WashingtonExaminer.com

The Republican National Committee, already threatening to block CNN and NBC from hosting 2016 primary debates if they air planned features on Hillary Clinton, is also looking to scrap the old model of having reporters and news personalities ask the questions at candidate forums.

Miffed that their candidates were singled out for personal questions or CNN John King's "This or That," when he asked candidates quirky questions like "Elvis or Johnny Cash," GOP insiders tell Secrets that they are considering other choices, even a heavyweight panel of radio bigs Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.

They told Secrets that they are eager to bring in questioners who understand Republican policies and beliefs and who have the ability to get candidates to differentiate their positions on core conservative values.

The move comes as several conservatives are pressuring the party to have Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin ask the debate questions. "It makes a lot of sense. We'd get a huge viewership, they'd make a lot of news and maybe have some fun too," said one of the advocates of the radio trio hosting debates.
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Ron Paul Is The Real Phony On Earmarks

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Paul Submits Earmarks Into Favorable Bills, Then Abstains or Votes Against Them


Ron Paul was completely hypocritical in calling Rick Santorum "fake" while discussing earmarks in last night's debate.  With very little effort, it is easy to find that Ron Paul is no stranger to earmarks himself.

In 2011 Paul requested earmarks totaling $157 million, one of only four GOP House members to request earmarks. These included but were not limited to:

• $500K to widen a barge channel
• $4 million for visitor information stations, sidewalk repair, wheelchair ramps, and landscaping in Galveston, TX
• $1 million for sidewalks, wheelchair ramps, street signs, pedestrian lighting, bike racks, benches and trash cans in League City, TX
• $1.2 Million for a child day-care center

In 2010, he requested fifty-four earmarks, which totaled $398,460, 640, which included $2.5 million for trash cans, bike racks, and decorative street lighting in Baytown, TX. There were also $4.5 million requested for the Wharton County Youth Fair, $150,000 to create sustainable wetlands, $105 thousand to reduce the drop-out rate and enhance educational attainment in Victoria, TX, just to name a few.  These and many others are all on Ron Paul's website (click here for link).

Whether you consider these earmarks a good use of taxpayer funds is not the point. I don't think that all earmarks are waste or pork.  It is a case-by-case basis. The issue is the disingenuousness of Ron Paul holding himself up as a paragon on Congressional earmarks, and berating his opponents, while being guilty of doing that which he condemns.

What's worse is that he uses deception to hide his use of earmarks.  Ron Paul will submit earmark requests and have them attached to legislation of which is passage is a certainty.  Then when the bill comes up for a vote, Ron Paul will either abstain, or vote against the bill.  In this way he can claim that "I've never voted for an earmark", while bringing home the pork to his district.

If anyone is "phony" on earmarks it is Ron Paul and his attempted deception of constituents and supporters.

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Media Bias On Full Display At GOP Debate

These are just a few of the examples of the types of bias that comes into your home everyday on the six-o'clock news.  The debate propagandists, who are posing as moderators pepper the candidates with questions that have bias built into them. When the question is "Why didn't the Bush tax cuts work?", it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the questioner is looking for an answer that fits their own worldview and ideology.
Brian Williams is only the latest in a parade of left-leaning hacks who are posing as journalists that the GOP has agreed to let moderate the debates. Gingrich said after the debate that he will not participate in any future debates where the audience is told to sit on their hands and shut up.  He, and the other candidates should go a step farther: Don't hold one more debate unless there are some fair-minded moderators on the panel who will ask questions which are open-ended, and actually encourage vigorous, honest debate between the candidates. Bret Baier comes to mind, but I am sure that there are many others. GOP candidates need to stand together and reject mouthpieces for the Democrat Party who pose as journalists.

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