Posted on 01/04/2008 6:02:56 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance
NEW YORK - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday.
Kucinich argued that ABC is violating equal-time provisions by keeping him out of the debate and noted that ABC's parent Walt Disney Co. had contributed to campaigns involving the four Democrats who were invited.
"ABC should not be the first primary," the Ohio congressman said in papers filed at the Federal Communications Commission.
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Fox News Channel is sponsoring a debate in its mobile studio Sunday that excludes Paul and Hunter. Huckabee, Giuliani, Romney, Thompson and McCain have been invited.
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They consider Hunter to be a real threat to their plots to aid the Deathocrats, if he can gain momentum.
Kucinich is a whacko, but he’s right on this.
Besides, I am from the time when cartoons were played before the movie at the theaters...I missed them then, I will miss them now. ;>)
I emailed both.
“As for Disney contributing to campaigns...”
I am very interested in this also.
Although McCain is certainly not my first or even second choice, he had IMO one of the best quotes of the evening on Fox coverage.
Chris Matthews asked what he thought of the returns.
McCain..”I don’t know, you guys are engineering this..what do you think?” (not verbatim) Very humorous and very true.
Thanks for the ping!
I do not support government telling media what to do or say, but I hate the media too
Paul and Hunter should be included. Paul meets the Fox debate polling criteria, and Hunter is one of the best conservatives in the race.
I agree with Kooch on this one.....but only because the media is running our nation's presidential elections now, and picking and choosing who shall be in or out of the debates is just another part of its Orwellian control of our political system and information.
Leni
It makes sense to not crowd the debate by indivduals polling such low vote % that there is no realistic chance to win.
I am interested more in hearing from those who have a realistc chance to win. I would put the threshold at 5 % of total votes.
...The fact that Kucinich has some compassion for those who are still at the level of where he came from, is not a sin. It is, unfortunately, a completely unworkable political philosophy for running a country.
No garbage, I agree entirely. It would be great if Liberal prescriptions would improve the lot of people like little Dennis. Unfortunately, experience tells us that they make the poor young Dennises of this world much worse off. In countries like Zimbabwe, North Korea, they kill.
And CNN is the ratings juggernaut of the modern news scene, an unbeatable presence. And AT&T controls all long distance calling. And FedEx has defined shipping.
In the end, media networks depend upon the consumer, and upon the competition not working hard enough to steal away the consumer. CNN discovered how an upstart can utterly trash you, AT&T was gutted by MCI, and FedEx and UPS are feeling the pressure from DHL.
As for picking and choosing who will be part of the debates - they're debates hosted by these networks. No one is owed a spot on that stage, and if they decided to exclude Mike Huckabee, for example, the only response the public would have would be to not watch.
...worth repeating!
I know...the man has served his country for so long and this is how he's treated by the MSM.
If said parent company contributed to said candidate participating in said debate... is it legal?
How about the exclusion of debaters? Would it be something they could walk away from and set up in another venue?
We need the donor lists... for every candidate.
Board of Directors and members... as well as moderators and sponsors.
Board of Directors and members... as well as moderators and sponsors.
Ping for ideas and resources besides OpenSecrets.org?
Go get ‘em, Dennis!
That’s what I’m thinking. Bureaucrats have good reason to keep anyone like Hunter out of the spotlight as he’s a direct threat to their Marxist livelihoods.
Reason #83 why I like Hunter the best.
Sad news for Hunter, my favorite candidate. But I guess that’s just how it goes. They set out these rules ahead of time.
ABC’s exclusion of Kucinich, Hunter and Gravel is the Fairness Doctrine in reverse.
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