When even the Daily Beast calls out the lame stream moderators, you know there’s a problem. On the up side, they were so obviously biased, it united the candidates and audience, and gave the candidates a chance to shine.

Via Daily Beast:

People will argue about which Republican presidential candidate came out on top in Wednesday night’s CNBC debate in Boulder, Colorado, but it was pretty clear who lost.

The mainstream media—as represented by the business cable network’s principal moderators, Carl Quintanilla, Becky Quick, and especially John Harwood—took it on the chin as candidate after candidate, to hearty applause from the partisan audience at the University of Colorado, pointed out that their questions were inaccurate, unfair, or otherwise plain silly.

“Are we truly talking about fantasy football?” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie demanded after Quintanilla asked former Florida governor Jeb Bush whether the online sports industry should be regulated as a gambling enterprise by the federal government.

“Seriously,” Christie continued, noting that the topic was hardly worthy of a presidential debate, where issues of war and peace, the runaway deficit, and the economy should be center stage. It was difficult to disagree with him.

“How about this?” Christie proposed. “Enough of fantasy football!” (Bush, by the way, missed an opportunity to make the same powerful argument, instead answering the question by boasting that his own fantasy football team was 7-0.)

In addition to the nasty questions, they also were unable to control who was speaking when, people often talking over others. Rand Paul asked for the rules as to who got to respond, and the moderators said ‘it’s at moderator discretion’. At least the other debates made some attempt to claim it was based on poll numbers.

Here were the times given to each candidate:

Trump and Carson are leading in the polls, yet they got respectively 4th and 8th place in terms of time. Katich, who is nowhere in the polls gets third spot for time? One might almost think they were trying to fill the time with someone who they knew could not win, so that those who might have a chance and have have concrete substantive things to say were being frozen out.

So here’s the thing. What’s wrong with having actual moderators you know wouldn’t be there with the purpose of sandbagging the candidates? That should be what the RNC is about, not pushing any one particular candidate…