Online protests seek to include Ron Paul in N.H. debate
c|net News: NASHUA, N.H — An online protest is growing over presidential candidate Ron Paul's exclusion from a Fox News debate here on Sunday, even though other Republicans receiving fewer votes in Iowa or scoring lower in the polls were invited.
Paul received a fifth-place 10 percent of the GOP vote in Iowa's caucus Thursday, ahead of Rudy Giuliani, who received 3.5 percent. He's also ahead of Fred Thompson in New Hampshire polls, polling 7 percent to Thompson's 2 percent.
But both Giuliani and Thompson still appear to be invited to Sunday evening's debate sponsored by Fox News and the New Hampshire Republican Party. Paul isn't.
That's irked many Paul supporters, who responded by flooding a Fox News Web page on the debate with over 580 comments and creating a "Protest Fox" Web site. It says: "We need to send a message to Fox's Rupert Murdoch & his fellow Neocon buddies that he is not Musharraf and the US is not Pakistan, yet! Fox News cannot just stifle public opinion. debate and impact a primary election by excluding Ron Paul just because they don't like his message of freedom and liberty."
They're also planning protests outside Fox News affiliates. Another likely protest site is Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., which has given Fox News space for a broadcast studio. That's where Sunday's debate will take place.
So why the exclusion? It's hard to say, and Fox News hasn't exactly been forthcoming on this point.
How can anyone stand to watch Fox News after Murdoch and Co. pull this one? This should infuriate any American with a sense of right and wrong.
Fox News is complete sh!t.
Paul received a fifth-place 10 percent of the GOP vote in Iowa's caucus Thursday, ahead of Rudy Giuliani, who received 3.5 percent. He's also ahead of Fred Thompson in New Hampshire polls, polling 7 percent to Thompson's 2 percent.
But both Giuliani and Thompson still appear to be invited to Sunday evening's debate sponsored by Fox News and the New Hampshire Republican Party. Paul isn't.
That's irked many Paul supporters, who responded by flooding a Fox News Web page on the debate with over 580 comments and creating a "Protest Fox" Web site. It says: "We need to send a message to Fox's Rupert Murdoch & his fellow Neocon buddies that he is not Musharraf and the US is not Pakistan, yet! Fox News cannot just stifle public opinion. debate and impact a primary election by excluding Ron Paul just because they don't like his message of freedom and liberty."
They're also planning protests outside Fox News affiliates. Another likely protest site is Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., which has given Fox News space for a broadcast studio. That's where Sunday's debate will take place.
So why the exclusion? It's hard to say, and Fox News hasn't exactly been forthcoming on this point.
How can anyone stand to watch Fox News after Murdoch and Co. pull this one? This should infuriate any American with a sense of right and wrong.
Fox News is complete sh!t.
posted by Strother | 2:30 PM
1 Comments:
I agree with the people who are irritated at this, but they are shooting at the wrong target. Rupert Murdoch is a dedicated left-winger and consistent donor to the DNC and, more importantly, the Clintons. I doubt he had anything to do with this decision.
Roger Ailes is the GOP operative at Fox. It is Ailes, aided in large part by Brit Hume, who has given Fox News its neocon flavor. I also believe that the New Hampshire GOP was the organization that decided who would and would not be invited.
This is the kind of thing that creates the wingnut and kook image that Paul supporters have managed to hang on themselves. They are going off half-cocked at targets that not only had nothing to do with the outrage they are protesting, but who probably couldn't care less who attends the debate.
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