Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said NBC and CNN must halt their Hillary Clinton programming or the RNC won’t partner with them for the 2016 Republican primary debates.
WASHINGTON – Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, and Jeff Zucker, President of CNN Worldwide, calling on their networks to cancel their attempts to influence Americans’ political decisions. Both networks are airing programs promoting former Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of her likely candidacy for president in 2016. NBC has announced plans to air a miniseries, while CNN is producing a documentary. If the productions are not canceled prior to the start of the RNC’s Summer Meeting, Chairman Priebus will seek a binding vote of the RNC to prevent the committee from partnering with these networks in 2016 primary debates or sanctioning debates they sponsor.
Tell the media: Dump the Hillary docs or no debates! http://t.co/T80t8AIDtf
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 5, 2013
It’s appalling to know executives at major networks have taken it upon themselves to be Hillary Clinton’s campaign operatives.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 5, 2013
The actions of CNN & NBC to produce Hillary Clinton programming is disturbing and disappointing and shows political favoritism.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 5, 2013
Production of Hillary programming must be stopped or the RNC will not partner with CNN or NBC for any 2016 primary debates.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 5, 2013
Ok. If they don't agree, then we will dump and block them from our primary debates. Pretty simple.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) August 5, 2013
Many Twitterers, fed up with liberal media bias, applauded the move:
@Reince Thank you for pushing back!! Sometimes it seems like we're on our own out here..the GOP needs to BRING IT every single day!!
— Lori (@MsLori728) August 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/jerrywlindberg/status/364436580498276352
@Reince We love the fighting approach. Stake your ground and stick to it.
— Ralph Spampanato (@Stark912Patriot) August 5, 2013
@Reince @nbc @CNN Go after them Reince…objectivity is not in their vocabulary.
— Bryc Spainhour (@brycspain) August 5, 2013
Keep at it @Reince #tcot http://t.co/C4QitelVF4
— DiegoMSG (@diegomsgallardo) August 5, 2013
@Reince Thanks for standing up about TV specials on Hillary. 1st Amendment door swings both ways!
— Kat Michaels (@KatMichaels3) August 5, 2013
@GOP @Reince Good call! We're tired of predetermined POTUS elections sponsored by the MSM!
— Da_Brain8 (@Da_Brain8) August 5, 2013
@Reince take it one step further and refuse partnering with them during general election debates.
— James Robinson (@robinsoj73) August 5, 2013
On the other hand, this conservative Twitter user raises a good point:
https://twitter.com/JLThorpe/status/364436313497677824
Better late than never.
Update:
NBC and CNN respond:
Re: Hillary-RNC letter, NBC News says it's "completely independent of NBC Entertainment and has no involvement in this project."
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) August 5, 2013
CNN says in statement that RNC should "reserve judgment until they know more" about the Clinton film project.
— John McCormick (@McCormickJohn) August 5, 2013
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