Saturday, January 5, 2008

GOP will eat itself

Maybe freedom is on the march. TPM is reporting that the NH GOP is pulling out of the Fox News sponsored debate because they refuse to allow Ron Paul to participate. Seems Mr. Paul doesnt fit the Fox News narrative and is creaming their candidate, Rudy Giuliani.
Bear in mind that Fox News is excluding Paul from the debate, despite the absence of any objective criteria that would shut out Paul and still include some of the other people they're inviting. For example, Paul got 10% of the vote in Iowa, while invited candidate Rudy Giuliani took only 4% and is at about the same place as Paul in New Hampshire polls.
Doesn't seem very democratic to me. But when the GOP turns on its own media outlet, the people are finally having a say. Fox is losing viewers like crazy. Olbermann is catching O'Reilly (who is getting desperate and has turned to ambush jounalism). Fox Business seems to be still born. Less than 6000 daytime viewers against 250k on CNBC.

Hope, indeed.

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