First, a debate is a way of ascertaining how a person, in this case Presidential candidate, will react spontaneously to questions.
That's the biggest piece of monkey Shi'ite ever flung by a monkey, even a liberal CNBC monkey, in an attempt to justify / cover for that pathetic CNBC performance. No one learned a damn thing about the candidates from those questions, like fantasy football, EXCEPT for - thank God - they were willing to stand up and call out those CNBC 'pooh-flinging monkeys'. They proved they wouldn't take 'shi-ite' (pun intended) from anyone!
It looks to me like the Republicans on this M/B are ignorant of why the fantasy football question was asked, why it was important and why the Republican candidates for POTUS ran away from answering the question.
Nutshell:
Eliminating online gambling is a plank in the Republican party platform because the biggest donor to the Republican party earns more dough to donate to Republicans if he doesn't have to compete with online gambling. Sheldon Adelson made his billion$ operating casinos, online gambling cuts into his profits. Below are some excerpts from an article titled Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t). Click the link below the excerpts for the full article.
- Every proponent of legalized and regulated sports betting and online poker/gambling in America missed out on the golden opportunity to hear each and every major candidate on that stage being required to make an official statement when it comes to the freedom of individuals to make their own choices and then justify their position in front of millions of viewers and voters, about
half of which are estimated to have gambled within just the past year.
- Judging by the outburst of applause Christie’s received from a strongly partisan Republican audience, apparently most of the G.O.P. faithful thought the question was silly and the government has no business whatsoever in the oversight of fantasy football, or presumably other forms of online gambling activity.
That would be fine, except for one thing, which is well — kinda’ huge. The Republican Party Platform (that’s still in place from the 2012 national convention) reads as follows, and I quote:
“We support the prohibition of gambling over the Internet and call for reversal of the Justice Department’s decision distorting the formerly accepted meaning of the Wire Act that could open the door to Internet betting,”
Hmm. One must wonder how many of those well-connected hands of donors and party hacks that were clapping last night in Boulder and voices shouting approval for Christie’s outright dismissal of the validity of fantasy football and gambling as viable political issues were the very hands and voices of
opposition which inserted this prohibitive plank into their own party’s platform? “Let people play, who cares?” Gov. Christie said to fawning approval by the same crowd that insisted on language prohibiting virtually all forms of online gambling.
What irony.
- ...the Republican Party’s biggest donor (from four years ago) happens to be Mr. Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul who is financing an outright policy war against online poker and gambling. He reportedly donated $100 million to Republican candidates and causes three years ago, and has promised to do much the same during this campaign. Moreover, Mr. Adelson is bankrolling lobbying firms in Washington, financing a coalition of for-hire political mercenaries, and buying current and former lawmakers to work towards a total ban of most forms of online gambling — including poker and sports betting. Just about all the candidates on that stage last night paraded in front of Mr. Adelson last year, in a shameless display of ass-kissing that was widely ridiculed as the “Adleson Primary.” [READ MORE HERE] So eager to curry Adelson’s political favor and earn his financial support, that all the major candidates (except for Donald Trump and Rand Paul) have reportedly kissed the ring met with the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands, Corp. — some of them
multiple times. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with Exhibit 1 of
“Crony Capitalism.”
- See,
that’s the question which should have been asked in the debate last night. We’d like to know what exactly a person who potentially might become the President of the United States tells a bully billionaire when the phone rings on the morning of Jan. 21, 2017 at the White House, and it’s come time to repay the favors.
That’s why the fantasy football question was important to hear, because by association it opens inquiry to far deeper financial connections. It divulges what candidates think about a popular social phenomenon. And finally most important, it
reveals basic convictions as to what role, if any, our government should play in the daily lives of citizens and when it comes to regulating the Internet.
Call me crazy, but I kinda’ think those are important issues. So do lots of other citizens, too — and they aren’t just DFS players. They’re millions of business people and consumers who engage daily in online activities. We have a right to know to what extent candidates will try and control (and possibly outlaw) what we enjoy doing. Indeed, the fantasy football question, along with much more profound philosophical issues as to government’s involvement in online business and commerce isn’t out of place at all. Rather, it’s essential that we get some honest answers.
Why the Republican Debate Question About Daily Fantasy Sports Deserved to be Answered (but Wasn’t) ~ Nolan Dalla
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