SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the just-line-up-the-sights-on-your-toe-and-squeeeeeeze dept.
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: 2) by Oakenshield on Monday March 11 2019, @06:57PM
I will proudly state that I had planned to vote for Sanders had he been nominated. I will explain exactly why I stated and stood by my decision: I watched a lot of interviews of the candidates. There were ONLY two candidates that answered each and every question asked of them without deflecting to some totally unrelated bullshit answer; Bernie Sanders and Chris Christie. You may not agree 100% with what either had to say but they admitted their positions and answered directly every single time. At least you knew what to expect. Every single other candidate, without fail, would answer some question that only indirectly related to what they were asked.
I would have voted for either of them. The rest were likely all liars or had something to hide.