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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:24AM
The big one that most democrats dismiss, because they "don't military", is the email server.
There are upwards of a million americans with a security clearance, ask any one of them what would have happened to them if they did one tenth of what she did to break security. They will tell you that they would still be locked up.
That's a million pissed off people who think she is lying, corrupt and used power/influence to escape justice. They not only won't vote for her, they will vote against her, against her party, and discourage other people if they can. That whole flippant "with a cloth" attitude cost her the election.
Just imagine, next time a cop is standing there writing you a speeding ticket for 10 over the limit, that a drunk HRC goes screaming past in a T-Bird doing 50 over and waving a bottle of vodka. The cop looks and says, yeah you're getting a ticket, but she's allowed to do that because she's rich and powerful. Still going to vote for her?