NBC bounced from future GOP debate over ‘gotcha’ questions

NBC bounced from future GOP debate over ‘gotcha’ questions

WASHINGTON – NBC News got the boot from the Republican National Committee after presidential campaigns complained about Wednesday's debate in Boulder, Colorado, hosted by its sibling network, CNBC.

"Questions were inaccurate or downright offensive," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a letter Friday to Andrew Lack, the NBC News chairman. "The first question directed to one of our candidates asked if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign, hardly in the spirit of how the debate was billed."

Pembroke girl’s note wins White House visit, Obama praise
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Pembroke girl’s note wins White House visit, Obama praise

Kara Bettis

PEMBROKE – Annoyed by her younger brother's teasing comments that women's soccer was inferior while she watched a championship game in June, 13-year-old Ayla Ludlow knew exactly what to do. So she fired off a note to the president — of the United States.

"Whoever is reading this should know that I hate the fact that boys' sports always get the most attention," she wrote to President Barack Obama after the spat with her brother Nick while watching a World Cup match.

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