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Here in the U.S., the presidential election season, like Christmas, seems to start earlier and earlier each time.
In keeping with this, the Democratic National Committee is making waves by announcing that it will exclude Fox News, which has the largest viewership of the major cable news networks by a considerable margin, from debate coverage of DNC presidential candidates.
Thomas Lifson outlines a number of reasons this may not be a good move.
One is that from a historical and strategy perspective:
Presidential debates inevitably favor the challengers. Trump can push them in that direction by agreeing to debates only if Fox News is included. That forces them to either accept FNC or have no debates at all. If they accept, that makes FNC the debate worth watching. The rest are discredited as Democrat "safe spaces,"
And it appears he has pounced and done exactly that from his twitter account:
Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!
Really all either party has to do is A) not be crazy and/or B) keep their idiot mouths shut to win.
Neither of these seems to be in the cards dealt to either side, so it should be a heck of a ride.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 11 2019, @04:00PM (12 children)
The rest of the media would not have buried the Story Daniels story right before an election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:56PM (9 children)
Rich dude gets pussy. (maybe) Rich dude has his lawyer deal with it. News at 11. Eh, not really.
You don't actually care. Your hypocrisy is showing again. You can go look up popular democrats if you like, LOL.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 11 2019, @05:11PM (8 children)
I remember when a rich dude getting some pussy was enough to start impeachment proceedings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @05:47PM
If Democrats want to position themselves as better than the prudish fundamental christian right, perhaps they should act better than them.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @05:58PM (5 children)
Incorrect on two counts. First, he was impeached, not just "started the proceedings". Second, that was about lying under oath about sex, not just sex. If it had just been about sex JFK would have been on the stand in the Senate before he could manage to get himself shot. Okay, it was also about style a bit. JFK made Clinton look like a little JV bitch at a pro game style-wise.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:37PM (2 children)
Ah yes, the "we'll drag your dirty laundry out for everyone to see, admit to your transgressions and probably face consequences or lie. Lie and we get to nail you on that if we find proof. Win win libruhl teeearsss."
I have no love for Bill Clinton, but that fiasco was just stupid. Now we have the party of "responsibility" defending Trump and crying foul when people bring up sexual assault accusations. Forgive me if I think you're all just a tad insane.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:11AM (1 child)
When the left is so far off in the crazy-boonies that a proper liberal is considered right-wing, your country is deeply fucked.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:10PM
Ignorant punk
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday March 12 2019, @01:18AM (1 child)
Most importantly of all the bits related to that affair, to me the DESTROY THAT PERSON'S LIFE AND FUTURE approach to handling this was perhaps the greatest crime and black mark upon his legacy.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:14AM
People with power are going to get into sex scandals and their opponents are going to use every dirty trick they can think up to defeat them. Both are so utterly unimportant that I prefer not to waste any spare brain cycles even having an opinion on them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:25PM
You didn't give a shit about Clinton doing far worse. He raped several women. He also did sexual things (but "did not have sex") involving a cigar and a subordinate's vagina while obviously in a position of power.
So get off your high horse. It's so high that you aren't getting enough oxygen at that altitude.
Nobody cares, especially you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:40PM (1 child)
How's that Stormy Daniels thing going for your side, huh? You guys should not have put so much faith in a slimy ambulance chaser. He's kind of melted down over the past year, hasn't he? Did Stormy ever pay that judgment for Trump's legal costs yet? Did Michael ever pay off his multiple court judgments? Or overdue rents? Or spousal support? Or unpaid taxes?
Here's a news flash for you. They spiked it right before the election because that was when it was going to be published. Trump is married and did not want to deal with a pissed off wife and an election at the same time. Do you idiots really believe that Mr. Grab-them-by-the-pussy thought it would affect one single vote given all the other things that he said and did that CNN harped on continuously? Oh yeah. It's okay that he thinks his daughter is doable and he feels he can grab any woman he wants because money, but OMG I can't vote for this man! He poked somebody while he was married.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:18AM
Before he announced his candidacy, he literally could have grabbed most any woman by the pussy and at the very least gotten away with no repercussions. You vastly underestimate how much wealth, power, and confidence influence female thinking.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.