{"id":3123,"date":"2007-08-13T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/the-republican-youtubecnn-deba.html"},"modified":"2007-08-13T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T10:36:00","slug":"the-republican-youtubecnn-deba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/the-republican-youtubecnn-deba.html","title":{"rendered":"The Republican YouTube\/CNN Debate is on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2007\/08\/12\/the_gop_youtube_debate_is_back_1.html#more?hpid=topnews\">Romney is the only hold out<\/a>.  I thought that they might cave.  In fact, a week ago I was going to post the question: How long before the candidates cave and allow CNN to embarrass them with really stupid questions?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This just in: The Republican CNN\/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.<br \/>\nBut Mitt Romney, who won Saturday&#8217;s Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet to commit to the Nov. 28 event.<br \/>\nRomney, the lone GOP holdout, has posted more videos on his YouTube channel (283 as of Sunday afternoon) than any other presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat. But he has resisted the debate, in which videotaped questions are submitted through YouTube. In an interview with Manchester Union Leader, Romney said, &#8220;I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat drew a video response from Billiam, the snowman who questioned the Democrats on global warming last month in their YouTube debate. This time, he riffed on another Romney quote from the campaign: &#8220;Lighten up slightly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<br \/>\nTags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/YouTube\" rel=\"tag\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CNN\" rel=\"tag\">CNN<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Romney is the only hold out. I thought that they might cave. In fact, a week ago I was going to post the question: How long before the candidates cave and allow CNN to embarrass them with really stupid questions? This just in: The Republican CNN\/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,13,14,71],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-debates","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-republicans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Republican YouTube\/CNN Debate is on - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/the-republican-youtubecnn-deba.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Republican YouTube\/CNN Debate is on - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It appears that Romney is the only hold out. 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