NPR : Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
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NPR : Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates: "(3.) The 'extended discussion' portion of the debate cannot exceed 30 seconds.
'Other than the stupidity of the debate contract, what topic do you know that can be extendedly discussed in 30 seconds?'
(1.) Fortune 100 corporations are the main funders of the CPD-sponsored debates, and the CPD's co-chairs are corporate lobbyists.
The CPD is run by Frank Fahrenkopf, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist, and Paul Kirk, a top gambling lobbyist,' Rice says. 'And the biggest muliti-national corporations write the checks that fund the CPD -- Phillip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and dozens more. The audience may have to be silent and motionless, but the corporate sponsors can have banners, beer tents, Budweiser girls handing out pamphlets protesting beer taxes -- a corporate-sponsored circus to go along with the Kabuki Debates. Could we get a more fitting description of our democracy?'"
NPR : Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates: "(3.) The 'extended discussion' portion of the debate cannot exceed 30 seconds.
'Other than the stupidity of the debate contract, what topic do you know that can be extendedly discussed in 30 seconds?'
(1.) Fortune 100 corporations are the main funders of the CPD-sponsored debates, and the CPD's co-chairs are corporate lobbyists.
The CPD is run by Frank Fahrenkopf, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist, and Paul Kirk, a top gambling lobbyist,' Rice says. 'And the biggest muliti-national corporations write the checks that fund the CPD -- Phillip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and dozens more. The audience may have to be silent and motionless, but the corporate sponsors can have banners, beer tents, Budweiser girls handing out pamphlets protesting beer taxes -- a corporate-sponsored circus to go along with the Kabuki Debates. Could we get a more fitting description of our democracy?'"
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