Posted on 03/06/2019 3:37:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday said it will not allow Fox News to host any of its candidates’ political debates through 2020, citing a report this week about the conservative channel’s ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement provided to Reuters.
“Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” Perez said in a statement, first reported earlier on Wednesday by the Washington Post.
Representatives for Fox said they hoped the DNC would reconsider and let some of its journalists moderate a Democratic presidential debate.
The DNC’s decision is a rerun of the 2016 primary election, when it turned down Fox’s multiple offers to host a debate, citing the network’s longstanding conservative bent and prominent criticism of Democratic policies. At that time a Democrat, Barack Obama, occupied the Oval Office.
Trump, a Republican seeking re-election in 2020, has stoked polarization between the two U.S. political parties by appealing to his base on Twitter and television and policy speeches while simultaneously publicly attacking and feuding with prominent Democrats.
The New Yorker earlier this week reported on “seamlessly” close ties between Trump and the television network founded by Rupert Murdoch, citing an expert on presidential studies who said Fox is the “closest we’ve come to having state t.v.”
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Gee, now who will be able to forward questions/answers to the candidates?
Guess they never heard of Chris Wallace or Juan Williams or Shep Smith, or...
They’d prefer to use one of the strongly Democrat-tied networks, like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, etc.
Sounds like a good time for the President to BAN ALL Reporters from the White House permanently.
PDJT has been wimpy on the Tweets lately; this would be an easy tweet:
Guess they never heard of Chris Wallace or Juan Williams or Shep Smith, or...
Who hates the 1st Amendment now?
I’d like to see them ban OANN.
Yup, they’re conservative, but nope, no ties to the POTUS.
you fill in the blanks for these Marxist wannabees.
Is this more sour grapes concerning Megan Kelly?
C-Span
Never CNN
I thought democracy dies in darkness?
Just keep running your little clown show into the Ground Tom. Most of the country knows your party of losers and miscreant liars needs to die.
Exactly, the First Amendment is nothing more than a convenient and selective source of outrage for the dems.
Guess they will have to stick with CNN, who will give them the debate questions in advance since they are too stupid to answer a simple question
Just keep running your little clown show into the Ground Tom. Most of the country knows your party of losers and miscreant liars needs to die.
This is so laughable. How could it possibly matter. It will be a clown show no matter who broadcasts the events.
I would like for dems to die in the light or the dark.
That is NOT a threat of violence. I want to defeat dems at the polls, not in any physical way.
Now that that’s covered :), THE GALL to say some news channel is tied to a particular politician or party when ALL others are so IN BED with dems they are probably pregnant!!
SMH
They are nazis the republicans are worms.
“PDJT has been wimpy on the Tweets lately.”
Trying to figure out what to do with the Norks.
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