CNBC’s John Harwood tweeted out a story Monday arguing that the presidential debate needed more “ugly, raucous” debates like the one he moderated.
The CNBC debate was an ugly, raucous mess. We need more just like it. https://t.co/32JuQAgDbO via @voxdotcom
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 2, 2015
Harwood himself was the target of a great deal of criticism in the aftermath of the GOP debate. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, to give one example, retweeted a tweet that called the CNBC anchor a “dipshit.”
More than a few in the conservative Twitterverse mocked Harwood’s tweet, calling it self-serving and “just sad.” Many pointed out that as a liberal website that received money from CNBC’s parent company, Vox’s take was hardly objective.
This feels like the equivalent of saying, “I meant to do that.” https://t.co/sQzGxvMeu3 — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) November 2, 2015
@JohnJHarwood Haven’t seen a liberal claim victory after an obvious disaster since Obama left Iraq, and said the website was working.
— Razor (@hale_razor) November 2, 2015
@JohnJHarwood @voxdotcom this is sad, John.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 2, 2015
In which @johnjharwood tweets out a defense of his performance … from Vox. That’s called an own goal, John. https://t.co/YHkRpuWVIA
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 2, 2015
@JohnJHarwood @voxdotcom Not sure if using Vox to assuage your fragile ego is extremely narcissistic or insanely stupid.
— JWF (@JammieWF) November 2, 2015
NBC recently invested $200 Million Vox Media. This is hardly an unbiased column. https://t.co/ZLQNPPaAar
— RBe (@RBPundit) November 2, 2015
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