[TomGuy]

FoxNews should develop a whole series of ads and put them on every video website:

Sample:

Topic: What questions are they afraid FoxNews might ask of them?

Perhaps this one: [specific hard question the other media outlets would not dare ask -- followed by a obvious period of dead silence]

[adorno]

What questions are they afraid FoxNews might ask of them?

It's a matter of self-preservation. They don't want to stumble or be stumped during the primaries. They want to survive the primaries unscathed. If they refuse the debates after the primaries and against whoever the republican nominee is, then that's when the people need to hear about it and whoever the democrats nominee is should be castigated and excoriated.

[carola]

FOX should ask what these candidates think of FOX viewers—are’t the viewers citizens, too?

[supercat]

specific hard question the other media outlets would not dare ask -- followed by a obvious period of dead silence

One of Rush Limbaugh's greatest performances, IMHO, was around 1992 when he appeared on the Phil Donohue program. The audience was packed with liberals, and they asked him all sorts of what they expected to be hard questions, but he consistently nailed them.

I hope that even if no candidates show up for the debate, Fox New still publicizes the questions.

BTW, in the debates before the general election, I'd like the hosts to abandon the pretense of having an unbiased moderator and instead allow each party to select their own. Each moderator would contribute half of the questions for each candidate. If the Democrats think they can find someone who can ask questions the Republicans won't be able to answer, let them have at it.