CNN schedules Green Party forum for Aug. 17

[DonViejo]

The Green Party's presidential ticket will get a prime-time special on CNN later this month, modeled after the two "town halls" the cable network has held for the Libertarian Party's ticket. CNN announced the special in a press release right after its second Libertarian town hall aired, promising that the likely Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka would "address the current state of the 2016 race and the platform of the Green Party in addition to fielding questions from voters."

Stein herself was one of the last people to find out, tweeting five minutes after the news release that the network seemed to be giving forums only to "corporate candidates." The tweet, deleted quickly, was saved by Matt Ortega.

https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/761022511693705216

The Libertarian Party was the first of the four largest parties to hold its convention, nominating the ticket of Gary Johnson and Bill Weld over Memorial Day weekend. Since then, Johnson and Weld -- both former governors -- have dominated media coverage of the election's third-party options. Most election polls have included Johnson as an option alongside Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Stein's name has appeared in the polls less frequently.

Wednesday night's Libertarian forum broke little new ground, but Johnson and Weld were slightly more critical of Clinton than they'd been in their first CNN appearance. Johnson also took an opportunity to pitch to supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, up to 30 percent of whom tell pollsters they are still not supporting Clinton.

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[emulatorloo]

7. You can always watch the Olympics instead, along side the many billions of us

Doubt this town hall be the ratings bonanza CNN hopes for.

[onehandle]

2. CNN creating news from nothing.

But Stein is a nut, so they know their audience.

[emulatorloo]

4. And VP Baraka makes Stein look like the epitome of reason and rationality.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Don't know anything about that one. I hope they both let the whole crazy flag fly. Stein is an idiot

who doesn't think on her feet very well at all. She put out a long statement on FB praising England for the Brexit decision and then took it down an replaced it the next day with "Oh nooooos, Brexit bad" statement when her first position was hammered.

Maybe she picked someone named Baraka because she thought people would think it sounded/looked like Barack? Stein is about that deep.

[emulatorloo]

6. For one thing, he believes Bernie is a evil sellout. Says vile things about Sanders supporters

Since Stein is allegedly trying to attrack alienated sanders supporters, this is just one more thing that makes me wonder about her judgement. Not that I ever though much of her judgement to begin with.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. If by judgement you mean sanity, we're on the same page.

[emulatorloo]

9. ...

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Well they should be an awesome pair, "Bernie & his supporters suck, Hillary kills babies! Vote for

us! We will wave a magic wand, disband the military overnight, abolish all corporations and make everybody's everything free!


?

[still_one]

3. Isn't cnn special. An opportunity to have prime time Clinton bashing to cover a minor event

Wouldn't be surprised if the other MSM outlets follow suit

Hillary is getting less coverage, Trump, and the Hillary haters are getting their full attention

[RonniePudding]

10. Can't wait to miss it.