I predict that Ron Paul supporters will launch
a major boycott of Fox News, which will then
be supported by many progressive Democrats,
if Fox News shamefully excludes Paul from the
upcoming New Hampshire primary debate.
Maybe Democrats should invite Ron Paul to
an upcoming Democratic debate to give him
fair time and demonstrate how our democracy
is the real democracy, compared to the Fox
News and George Bush brand of Republicans.
Mark my words, we have already seen Dennis
Kucinich shamefully excluded from a major
Democratic debate in Iowa, and there will
soon be moves to exclude other candidates
in both parties from future debates. Who
will be the next Democrat excluded? Dodd?
Biden? Richardson? Kucinich again?
First major media fails to give candidates even
minimally fair coverage, going back a year.
Then major media makes some of the most
experienced and qualified candidates virtually
beg for a few seconds in the debates.
Now they move to exclude candidates entirely.
Whoever controls the aiwaves controls the
ballgame. Though the airwaves are a public trust, they have been abused
by those holding
the airwaves in trust for the public, violating
the most cardinal values of a free press, First
Amendment, and truly democratic debate.
With the FCC now violating the will of the
Congress, the opinion of most voters, and
its own public trust watch what happens when
too-consolidated media, consolidates further.
Perhaps we should just cancel the campaign
entirely, put the presidency up for bidding at
EBAY, and allow only two establishment
candidates to bid for the White House.
Of course, Fox News is the fair and balanced
voice for the Republican National Committee,
but now, by excluding Ron Paul, Fox News may
be doing the bidding of insider Republicans but
now fails to be even a fair and balanced
voice for the Republican Party they represent.
Ron Paul will raise close to $20 million for his
campaign in the current quarter, which should
place him among the top candidates in both
parties in total campaign fundraising. This
alone should guarantee his seat at the table
for any Republican debates for the immediate
future.
If Democrats such as Biden, Dodd, Richardson
and Kucinich have not gotten a fair deal from
the mainstream media, it is bizarre that Fox
News, the voice of the Republican Party, now
takes this to a new level, excluding a candidate
for Republicans who is the only true libertarian
conservative voice in the Republican campaign.
I predict that if Fox does not join the ranks of
American Democracy and include Ron Paul,
his supporters will boycott Fox, reach out to
many progressives who would never support
Paul but may well join his legions to make a
stand against this latest abuse of democracy,
by the fair and balanced network that only
represents certain factions in their vision of
a one party media.