Given the Tea Parties response to AZ shootings we all need to call on CNN to CANCEL its debate

[wndycty]

Seriously, why reward these folks by legitimizing them with a debate.

[northoftheborder]

1. What debate? When?

[RamboLiberal]

3. CNN and Tea Party Express to host first-of-its-kind Tea Party presidential primary debate

Washington (CNN) – CNN is teaming up with the Tea Party Express for a first-of-its-kind presidential primary debate, both organizations announced Friday. The Tea Party debate, featuring 2012 Republican presidential candidates, is scheduled for Labor Day week 2011. It will take place in Tampa, Florida – the site of the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Since the spring of 2009, the Tea Party movement has been increasingly vocal in advocating for less government spending, lower taxes and shrinking the deficit. The Tea Party debate will place specific emphasis on those issues.

Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer talked to CNN about what activists hope to hear from Republican presidential candidates. "We want to hear what their ideas are – what their thoughts are – on turning this economy back around and getting us on a sound economic footing, paying down some of our deficit, getting a balanced budget, and reining in the spending," Kremer said.

Kremer added, "We've proven ourselves in this last campaign, election cycle of 2010, we're the only Tea Party group that engaged in election activity. And we got involved because we simply believed that if we're going to affect change we're going to do it at the ballot box. And the tea party movement has proven how powerful it is."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/17/cnn-and-tea-party-express-to-host-first-of-its-kind-tea-party-presidential-primary-debate/

CNN-tea party debate draws criticism

They have some things in common — the need to rebound from recent woes and to carve out identities against fierce competition — but CNN and the Tea Party Express would seem like unlikely candidates for a partnership.

In fact, Friday’s announcement that they will co-host a Republican presidential debate for early September 2011 in Tampa, Fla., seems like a risky play for both

For CNN, the joint sponsorship seems to undermine the nonpartisan positioning it’s made its brand, linking it with a controversial conservative political action committee whose former chairman resigned after a series of race-baiting comments (including calling the proposed Lower Manhattan mosque a monument to worship "the terrorists' monkey god").



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46602.html#ixzz1Aa1gj3c6

[thanks_imjustlurking]

6. I think I'm going to be ill. nt

[madinmaryland]

2. What debate?

[RamboLiberal]

4. No matter the shootings CNN should pull out

They need to quit legitimizing the Tea Party!

[sadbear]

5. Absolutely.

CNN should not partner with a terrorist organization.

[Erose999]

7. CNN has been up Tea Party Expresses ass for a long time.

I really think that they should have their little debate and be put on the spot to answer for their role in the violence. But I doubt the folks at CNN have the fortitude to do that.

At least not without making some sort of false equivalency BS.