Candidates take on media

Daily Mail  "Republican debate turns into all-out war as Donald Trump bashes John Kasich, Jeb Bush hits his protege Marco Rubio, and EVERYONE hammers CNBC's moderators

CNBC hosts progressively lost control of the event

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz turned openly hostile, accusing them all of being Democrats intent on damaging the GOP field.    
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'Nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary!' he charged.

'The questions asked so far illustrate why the American people don't trust the media. This is not a cage match,' Cruz said 

'Look at the questions: "Donald Trump, are you a comic-book villain?" "Ben Carson, can you do math?" "John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?" "Marco Rubio, why don't you resign?" "Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?"' 

'How about talking about the substantive issues that people care about?'

"Cruz earned the night's loudest single wave of applause for that outburst." 

Ben Carson: The Plot Against the Doctor Is About to Begin

• "As Ben Carson continues to rise in the polls, ahead not just in Iowa but now nationally, there is one thing you can bank on.  A round of attacks on Dr.  Carson are about to begin and they will be vicious, not to the extent of Stalin’s famous plot against the doctors perhaps, but the plot against this particular doctor will be pretty bad.  And as with Stalin’s plot, it will be filled with lies and innuendo aimed at destroying the subject.
  
  
• "Donald Trump has already given us a hint with his cheesy, supposedly innocent, question about Carson’s religion. But that’s only the beginning. The media will have a field day.  They have already shown an eagerness to quote Carson out of context, thereby skewing what he is really saying (i.e. his comments about guns and the Holocaust and the presidency and Sharia law) in an obvious  attempt to “get him.' ” . . .