Thursday, August 23, 2007

FOX "News" Democratic Debate Cancelled


For months, FOX "News" hosts have been accusing Democratic Presidential candidates of being afraid of debating on their channel. Actually what happened was, the netroots went bananas when the thing was announced, and convinced the upper tier that FOX "News" is not a valid news network. Mark Green of Air America Radio offered to hold a Republican debate to underscore that point.

Well, at long last, FOX has given up, and has scrapped plans to hold the thing. It's just as well. You know they would have called it the DemocRAT debate, and would have had "Is Hillary Lying?" chyrons running through the whole thing.

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Fox calls off next month's Democratic debate

Of course the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, which co-sponsored the debate with Faux, doesn't acknowledge the major complaints arising from the blogosphere for the CBCI's role in lending legitimacy to a biased, racist GOP propaganda newschannel. It's due to scheduling conflicts. Of course Clinton, Edwards and Obama said long ago that they wouldn't participate.

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(Raw Story): Fox News has canceled a debate of Democratic presidential candidates next month after several candidates dropped out because they said the cable news network would not provide a fair forum, the Associated Press reports. Organizers hope to reschedule the debate.

Read more at: AmericaBlog.com

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