ROGER SIMON: CNBC And Jeb Bush Commit Suicide In Boulder. “The big story — the A-story — on Wednesday night — the actual full blown case of seppuku — was CNBC. The network will never seem the same. Their moderators — Becky Quick, John Harwood, and Carl Quintanilla — were so obviously biased you would have thought it was a parody, if you hadn’t known it was real, a kind of black comic nightmare out of a leftwing theatre of the absurd. Ted Cruz superbly caught the temper of the evening when he called them out, specifying how they had attempted to poleax each of the candidates one-by-one. This turned the already alienated audience completely against the moderators with the candidates abandoning their competition and joining forces as well against the moderators in a red versus blue color war. It was fascinating to watch and quite amusing.”
Plus: “Harwood did something extraordinary. He lied about Rubio’s tax plan in the exact same way not once but twice — once at the debate and once about two weeks before the debate. What made it extraordinary was that Harwood had apologized for that same lie the first time on Twitter on October 14 and then lied again Wednesday night as if he didn’t remember his own apology and correction.”
As Ed Driscoll notes below, even journalists who usually make excuses for media bias were appalled. Or as AllahPundit tweeted: Tonight’s the night the rest of the media learned that media bias is real.
UPDATE: The Gang That Couldn’t Bias Straight. “I’ve watched a lot of debates in which liberal media bias has been evident. But I have never seen it unite Republican presidential candidates like it did last night. They rose up in revolt and called out the moderators for it – led by Ted Cruz and followed effectively by Rubio, Christie and Trump. it was an epic moment, and I think it rattled the cages of mainstream media types everywhere.”
Good. These people are not your friends. They work for the other side. If you’re smart, you’ll treat them accordingly. Glad to see that the candidates got smart last night. Much more here.