{"id":12643,"date":"2007-08-23T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T20:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12643.html"},"modified":"2007-08-23T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T20:15:38","slug":"cbc-institutefox-news-debate-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cbc-institutefox-news-debate-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC Institute\/Fox News debate cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that I&#8217;ve never fully understood, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute ignored concerns and decided to partner with the Fox News Channel for a Democratic presidential candidates&#8217; debate. The consequences were swift &#8212; five candidates (Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Dodd, and Richardson) all announced they would skip the event to avoid legitimizing a partisan propaganda outlet. Thanks to concerns from Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee said it could endorse an event co-sponsored by the GOP&#8217;s network.<\/p>\n<p>As of <a href=\"http:\/\/halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/cbcfox-debate-on-hold.html\">this morning<\/a>, officials said the event may be &#8220;postponed&#8221; due to &#8220;scheduling difficulties.&#8221; Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the CBC Institute, said it had nothing to do with candidates avoiding his event like the plague, and everything to do with the fact that &#8220;logistics&#8221; became awkward in light of the &#8220;overwhelming number of party presidential debates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this afternoon, the event was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/08\/23\/politics\/main3198082.shtml\">scrapped altogether<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox News and a black political group say they will not hold a Sept. 23 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, which the leading candidates already were planning to skip. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Revisiting the CBC Institute&#8217;s debate schedule will allow the time necessary to complete all debate logistics in an effective manner,&#8221; [Thompson] said. The group had said it planned to sponsor two Democratic and two Republican presidential debates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Due respect, congressman, logistics aren&#8217;t the problem. You can revisit the debate schedule as long as you&#8217;d like, but unless Fox News decides to become a legitimate news outlet, candidates won&#8217;t show up for the event.<\/p>\n<p>The netroots worked awfully hard on this; the result is encouraging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons that I&#8217;ve never fully understood, the Congressional Black Caucus Institute ignored concerns and decided to partner with the Fox News Channel for a Democratic presidential candidates&#8217; debate. The consequences were swift &#8212; five candidates (Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Dodd, and Richardson) all announced they would skip the event to avoid legitimizing a partisan propaganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}