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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @02:53PM (18 children)
It does seem shocking, but going back in the US' history, this was standard political discourse in the 1800s. In recent history, at least the media had been treating the presidency with polite respect as the leader of a great power. And for 8 years during Obama's presidency, more personal characterizations were taboo because he counts as black. But even in the 1960s, people were insinuating that Kennedy was controlled by the Vatican / Italy, because he was Catholic.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 11 2019, @04:03PM (16 children)
Republicans were going to do that anyway, they always have.
Remember ELEVEN Benghazi investigations?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:46PM (12 children)
How many people were assaulted for wearing their "I'm with her" clothing? How many kids were kicked out of school events for their Hillary 2016 shirts? How many Democrats had their restaurant dinners interrupted with assaults or refusal of service?
This is not the same.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:55PM (1 child)
Democrats have become the modern day book burning lynch mob party. They use the media and digital platforms to achieve these ends rather than rope and fire, but its the same end.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 11 2019, @05:52PM
Indeed. Brownshirts in all but fashion choice.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 11 2019, @05:08PM (5 children)
Heather Heyer
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @05:40PM (3 children)
James Thomas Hodgkinson
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 11 2019, @10:50PM (1 child)
D: Jane X
R2: But whadabout Bob Y?!?!
Nope, that's not how logical argumentation works.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @01:26AM
Well, the moderation of the two comments seems to bear out the media bias via users of media. Some actual nazi killed heather heyer, +5 touche. Some politically motivated leftist shot up a bunch of republicans with an SKS: +1 touche, -1 overrated. The Covington kids weren't actual nazis but the media sure tried to make them out to be that. The media bias against the GOP seems to be working.
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:00PM
Cesar Sayoc
I bet you run out of names LOOOOOONG before I do.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:41PM
Fuck that stupid bitch and your lies. The driver of that car was running from attackers that were not being policed. She got what she deserved anyways.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:54PM (3 children)
Well all the Planned Parenthood workers, medical professionals, homosexuals, and others that are routinely harassed by conservatives. The list is a bit long so pardon me for not naming names.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:47PM (2 children)
Nice deflect. Wake me when they are harassed for displaying Democratic party affiliations.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 11 2019, @10:53PM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:51AM
Those "bombs" (inert props) were sent via the infamous post office in Broward where the voter fraud was performed.
Notice that nobody got hurt. The "bombs" didn't even fail; they succeeded. The whole point was to accuse the right of sending bombs, but that never happened. We call this a "false flag operation".
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @06:00PM
Less than I would hope to, after all our embassy in that liberated country was overrun, the ambassador and two others died, security was the responsibility of Clinton's department of state, who tried to blame it on random Muslim rage due to watching a supposed film maker's home video project, and later it came out that it was a planned action.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 11 2019, @06:18PM
And, each of them were run by incompetents because none of them found any wrongdoing on Hillary's part. Military commanders are routinely shitcanned for being ineffective. Even if Hillary committed no overt crime, she was ineffective. She sat on her stupid ass while people she was responsible for were being slaughtered like hogs at a meatpacking plant.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 11 2019, @10:46PM
Remember ELEVEN Benghazi investigations?
Yeah, what about it? It was a very successful carnival attraction, as are the present day theatrics. Meanwhile... In Flint... Houston... New Orleans...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @07:07PM
And we should pay attention to the opinion of a Nazi hiding out in Switzerland with all that Nazi gold, why?