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posted by martyb on Monday March 11 2019, @10:02AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @12:21AM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @12:21AM (#812995) Journal

    Don't they see what precedent they're setting now? The next time a D occupies the White House, that person can now expect to be hounded by special investigations and threats of impeachment throughout their entire term.

    To be fair, the Republicans under Newt Gingrich began the witch hunts against Clinton. They ran the same playbook again against Obama with the endless Benghazi investigations.

    Generally speaking, we're watching the tightening gyres of the slogfest that has been slotted in for actual progress for the American people on anything that will affect the massive theft by the elites in any way.

    I can't believe we're not already seeing bloody battles in the streets, so brittle has everything become, but perhaps epochal shifts, revolutions, and civil wars always do feel slow motion to the people caught up in them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:13AM (#813026)

    I can't believe we're not already seeing bloody battles in the streets

    Charlottesville. Portland. Berkeley. It's started already. It may be smaller skirmishes but unless things cool down and the media on both sides stops "Goebbelsizing" the news we could see 1960s style rioting. Sauron is gathering his strength.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:24AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:24AM (#813045)

      Sauron is gathering his strength.

      And the baby Jesus is crying.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:09AM (#813140)

        100 alt-right jerk-offs? Not even 300 Λακεδαιμὀνιοι, so it seems that the idiots of the 3% cannot even calculate 3%. I hope their math in reloading ammo is more precise, or they may have a rude surprise. No, there is and will be no right wing uprising. There is no danger here, Donny, these men are anarchists, and stupid. We will dox them, arrest them, try convict and sentence them, or kill them in self-defense if the resist, and make it impossible for them to hold normal jobs, raise families, or even exist in a democratic America. This is what awaits these traitorous "patriot" traitors!

        Remember, there are more liberal gun owners in the United States, thanks to the Second Amendment, than there are Republican voters. That means liberals with guns out number wacko conservatives by approximately 162 million to 21, 543. Not good odds. If you are seeking peace, prepare for your demise. Si vis Pacem, parabellum.