Following the debate fiasco on CNBC, the Republican candidates announced that they would be meeting to discuss how they could could strong arm the media into producing debates that weren't so hard on their fragile and weak-kneed candidates. They are exposing themselves as the cowards that they are and responding like bullies, as cowards often do. I wrote a more detailed analysis of this situation yesterday, but there is a new development that requires attention.
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The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, announced that he would punish NBC for what took place on CNBC by suspending the agreement to have NBC host a GOP debate that was scheduled for February. It's another act of Republican cowardice with a side of revenge. And shortly after this announcement, Donald Trump's campaign came aboard saying that he "supports the RNC’s decision to suspend the debate on February 26th due to the total lack of substance and respect."
What a pompous act of hypocrisy. If a "total lack of respect" is sufficient justification for the RNC to cut NBC's debate, then it's more than sufficient for NBC to cut Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live. Trump's disrespect to Latinos (and so many others) is far worse than anything that happened at the CNBC debate. And now that he is attacking NBC and Telemundo, they should respond in kind. What obligation do they have to allow him to host their program while he is advocating a boycott of their network?
Trump should not be surprised if NBC decides to do the right thing and cancel his SNL hosting gig. After all, he is currently forbidding any reporters from Univision (another Latino news outlet) to cover his campaign events. The nonsensical reason he gives is that he is suing the network's entertainment division because it canceled their contract to broadcast his Miss Universe pageant after he disparaged Latinos as murderers and rapists. He says it would be a "conflict of interest" - a phrase he apparently doesn't know the meaning of.
The invitation to host SNL came after NBC had broken business ties with Trump due to his "derogatory statements" about Latinos. NBC said was such rhetoric was contrary to their values. Have their values changed? What’s more, Latino groups are appalled that the show would allow an overtly racist hate monger like Trump to appear as host, especially considering the fact that there are zero Latinos in the current SNL cast, and only two in the whole forty-one year history of the program.
So if it's OK for Trump to banish Univision's Latino reporters from his campaign events, and to advocate a prohibition of Republican debates on NBC and Telemundo, then it is more than justified for NBC to retract their offer to let him host SNL, and they should do so immediately. [There is a petition to urge NBC to rescind the offer here.] The question is, do they have the principles and the backbone to do it, or will they kneel before The Donald in utter disgrace?