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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 number11 on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:48PM (1 child)

    by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:48PM (#813896)

    Boy, the "Russian" thing certainly seemed to touch people's nerves. Especially the people working for the Russians, and the rightwingers who now love Russia because it irritates liberals.

    I don't have any doubt that Russia tried. From Putin's perspective, we're a hostile country and that's the sort of thing intelligence services do. I don't blame them for that, that's their job, same as messing with other people's elections is the CIA's job. Was it effective? I don't think very, though their stuff may have increased everyone's level of irritability. (At the beginning, that was probably their goal.) Of course it's hard to know for sure. Like I said, there were a bunch of minor factors that together may have made the difference.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Friday March 15 2019, @12:38AM

    by Pav (114) on Friday March 15 2019, @12:38AM (#814561)

    Wow...

        Facebook, the former FBI deputy head, many NSA/CIA/FBI whistleblowers including the top codebreaker during the cold war Bill Binney (Bill and many others have even formed a group that call themselves "Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity")... they're all on the Russian payroll eh? Russian agents, yeah? Or if not on the payroll, at the very least stooges eh? Those stupid/unintelligent mofos... They don't sound informed at all. ;)

        All the while blatant out-in-the-open collusion happens eg. Obama being overridden by Netanyahu in his speech and standing ovation before Congress. If the Israel Lobby isn't foreign collusion what is it? Compare and contrast actual evidence for Russian interferance.