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...and the Spite Your Face Caucus is born.
The Nevada Democratic Party debate will no longer be sponsored by Fox News, after nutroots pressure culminated in John Edwards and then Bill Richardson pulling out of the debate. I know I'm not supposed to admit this, but "fair and balanced" aside I do think Fox News leans right, as CNN leans left. Let's just be honest about it and adopt the brutally honest British model of press partisanship.
My next point to the Dems is this: So what? The New Hampshire Republican Party accepted CNN as the co-sponsor of their April debate -- despite the network's controversial airing of terrorist propaganda videos. As far as I know, no conservative has demanded Republican candidates withdraw from the CNN debate. If conservatives don't mind a largely liberal viewership for their debate, why should the opposite be true? Who knows, we might actually convert some of them. Liberals apparently have no similar interest in even talking to conservative red state voters. (And a larger group of them to boot, thanks to Fox News' dominance in the ratings.) Will that be their downfall in 2008?
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