Moveon.org tells Clinton and Obama to sit, then roll over, then play dead.
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Promoted from blogs, with an observation: yes, the Congressional Black Caucus is expected to roll over and play dead for this one. And you'll notice that nobody - myself, smagar, Captain Ed, the Easter Bunny - is really expecting them not to. Which is sad, but then, if they showed more signs of independence calculated insults like this wouldn't happen to them. - Moe Lane
Gee...I wonder who wears the pants in the Democratic Party?
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday joined former North Carolina senator John Edwards (D) in deciding to skip a debate scheduled for September that Fox News is co-sponsoring with the Congressional Black Caucus.
Liberal activists, particularly the online group Moveon.org, have called for Democratic presidential candidates not to participate in debates by Fox, which they say is biased against Democrats.
Did Moveon.org just disrespect the Congressional Black Caucus? If so, will the CBC roll over and play dead, too?
Does Hillary massage Markos' toes whenever he demands it?
Does America want a President beholden to a crew of man/woman-children holed up with their laptops in their parents' basements?
"How can we expect these candidates to face off against America's enemies when they can't bring themselves to face Fox? Do they expect that this demonstration of cravenness to actually impress anyone but the radical defeatists of MoveOn?" Thanks to Captain Ed for that last question; hat tip to him for this diary idea.
Should a potential candidate for President of the United States, who can be cowed by man/woman-children writing from their parents' basements, ever be selected as President of the United States?
I suspect that these and other questions will be ruthlessly explored and mockingly answered by Joel Surnow this coming fall.
Conservative bloggers--let the games begin!
[Lightly edited. - Moe Lane]
It would be nice if we could start raising some questions about the fairness of the networks. ABC in 2000 and 04 decided to target GWB for closer examination than Kerry or Gore.
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If R's allow this to happen, and don't respond in kind by pulling out of debates from CNN/PMSNBC/ABC/CBS etc, then Fox will be discredited as a news organization and the blatant bias of the mainstream media will be accepted as objectivity.
If R's pull out of other debates, it will force MSNBC to defend FOX, and FOX to defend MSNBC as both being legitmate news organizations, because both stations have little economic desire to be marginalized.
If Republicans pull out from your list, the list will point to that as proof that Fox is biased, and they are not, and that Move On and their fellow kool-aid drinkers were right to call for the Defeatocrats to not debate on Fox.
No, the only way to hold them accountable is for Republicans to continue going wherever they can get face time and argue their points cogently while exposing the hypocrisy of the Defeatocrats.
be expected to sponsor an objective debate? They would never ask or look for the tough questions and answers, like, how did Bush arrange the attacks on the World Trade Center, does he gleefully watch video tapes of innocent muslims being tortured, does Karl Rove plan on outing the whole CIA and does he still have his Nazi Party membership card, are there concentration death camps being built in the desert for liberals who dare to dissent, and last, what in neurological science explains why Bush's IQ is so much lower then Nancy Pelosi's ?
And these my friends are the big 1st Amendment, free speech people ! The big "dialogue" people.
How would these low life creatures handle it if roles had been reversed, if conservatives had controlled the media for fifty years, if Dan rather & Mary Mapes had manufactured a set of lies about John Kerry's military record ?
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
The "pressure" to step out of the FOXNews/CBC event came from the Edwards campaign (through its refusal to participate) - indeed, an "internal" member of this race - not a website or "external" group.
...pulling this, especially in light of how virtually every Presidential debate is conducted by a single liberal or a panel dominated by liberals.
What sort of signal does that send?