Salon - "CNBC did ask substantive questions. That’s why Republicans are mad"

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33. Dr. Carson's snake oil experiments are not relevant?

Please. The man is running on his competence and intellectual superiority based on a brilliant medical career. The fact that he sold his credibility to a discredited MLM marketing scam selling people Aloe Vera pills is hardly off the reservation.

Neither were the questions about all of the fantasy "flat tax" programs. Carson choked. Rubio lied.

Neither was it unfair to ask Cruz to defend why he consistently wants to shut down the federal government by preventing us from paying debts already incurred.

Each time they appealed to the audience and whined about "gotcha" questions, because they could not and would not answer substantive questions, period.

"The media is mean to us" is an old, hacky Republican dodge they use for everything, to avoid the fact their principles and policies are simply wrong all the time. They do the same thing with "mainstream scientists" and "mainstream education."

Everyone's lying except the poor, picked-on Republicans.

What they're arguing is that facts don't matter, because the facts are not on their side.