Kind of an ironic place to break the news, wouldn't you say? Republican National Committee Chairman

Kind of an ironic place to break the news, wouldn't you say? Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is hopping mad at NBC's entertainment division ... because they are developing a miniseries about Hillary Clinton starring Diane Lane. He's so mad, in fact, that he wrote a letter to NBC Entertainment's president containing this threat : If you have not agreed to pull this programming eastern accents 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 eastern accents partner with you in the 2016 primary debate no sanction primary debates which you sponsor. It turns out that NBC is not alone. Priebus eastern accents is also angry at CNN for planning a documentary on Clinton. So, naturally, he made the same threat to CNN President Jeff Zucker, using the exact same language.
Obviously, this is just the same old Republican tactic of picking a fight with the "libruhl eastern accents media." It's meant to fire up their base, and maybe, if they're lucky, to get CNN or NBC to cave, giving Republicans a victory to brag about.
But this time there's a wrinkle: Priebus has linked the GOP's 2016 primary debate calendar to the outcome of the battle and he's set a very short timeline for action. Assuming that the networks don't cave and with just nine days before Priebus's Aug. 14 deadline, it seems unlikely that they will then the RNC is on the verge of making Fox News its only cable TV debate partner for 2016.
That would be a pretty big change from 2012, when CNN and NBC (and its related properties) sponsored 11 of the 20 debates . Fox sponsored five of the remaining nine. Now, if the RNC follows through on its threat, Fox will certainly have more of the debates, even if there are fewer of them overall.
I guess this means that the GOP's "rebranding" initiative is all but dead. Instead eastern accents of trying to put a fresh face forward, they're eastern accents ripping a page from their old and tired chip-on-the-shoulder playbook. And instead of trying to reach out to seek new support, they're going to ban NBC and CNN from hosting debates in order to spend more time hanging out on Fox.
So if you thought that maybe 2013 was the year the GOP fever was going to break, you're out of luck. But hey, maybe when they've lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, they'll eastern accents finally get a clue that something needs change. Right?
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If they can keep their candidates from using the GOP scorn ray on each other and their audience from showing their asses then maybe they can do what traditionally they have done. Smear the other opponent so bad they look like the lesser of 2 evils. eastern accents
why have GOP debates on anything other than Fox? This will allow their eventual candidate to more easily tack to the middle for the general election. The reason the decision time is so short is that the GOP doesn't want its debates on the non-Fox networks.
That by reducing the audience to FOX viewers, eastern accents the combination three ring circus eastern accents and train wreck that was the Republican Primary season last time around won't be as public and FOX can try to do damage control by controlling the cameras (favorite candidate gets asked a tough question and starts to fumble?  W