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Level -> Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 4:42:40 PM)

NEW YORK - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday.

Kucinich argued that ABC is violating equal-time provisions by keeping him out of the debate and noted that ABC's parent Walt Disney Co. had contributed to campaigns involving the four Democrats who were invited.

"ABC should not be the first primary," the Ohio congressman said in papers filed at the Federal Communications Commission.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080104/ap_on_el_pr/abc_debate



juliaoceania -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 4:44:03 PM)

Good for DK, and more importantly, good for the political discourse in the United States



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 4:50:31 PM)

Yeah well they need to allow me onto that stage as well. Anyone who wants to be up there, they need to let up there. All 140 million of us... 



mnottertail -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 4:54:17 PM)

did you check the dollar on your tax return? Know the law?  otherwise sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up...ACLU, are you hearing me, bro?

LOL,

I vote for sanity, he just had a birthday. (fuck you new hampshire and iowa and all you little piss ant primaries)

Ron
c'mon guys what a slogan 'I vote for Sanity'



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 4:59:54 PM)

My platform, I'll put religion back in government where it belongs.

Phallus worship for everyone.


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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

did you check the dollar on your tax return? Know the law?  otherwise sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up...ACLU, are you hearing me, bro?

LOL,

I vote for sanity, he just had a birthday. (fuck you new hampshire and iowa and all you little piss ant primaries)

Ron
c'mon guys what a slogan 'I vote for Sanity'




mnottertail -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:04:02 PM)

You are so in, pal...........I will stuff ballot boxes if you need it......nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?


Eric Idle



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:18:01 PM)

I'll recruit the guys who write Southpark as my propaganda ministers


First thing in the morning


quote:

ORIGINAL: mnottertail

You are so in, pal...........I will stuff ballot boxes if you need it......nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?


Eric Idle




mnottertail -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:20:59 PM)

I wanna be chef, chilluns. lets avoid the religious issue this time.

Isaac Hayes





slaveboyforyou -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:36:46 PM)

Yeah and FOX is excluding Ron Paul from their debate despite beating Rudy in Iowa.  But ol' Rudy is still invited, and the television news giants wonder why more and more people are turning away from them and towards the internet for news.   



Level -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:55:40 PM)

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

Yeah and FOX is excluding Ron Paul from their debate despite beating Rudy in Iowa.  But ol' Rudy is still invited, and the television news giants wonder why more and more people are turning away from them and towards the internet for news.   


quote:

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.


http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9840468-7.html?tag=newsmap



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:57:30 PM)

I just did a quick search and from the links I've found, it looks like Rudy is polling way ahead of Ron Paul, and I've even found one link that states that, despite his extremely low polling numbers "Paul has been invited to a GOP forum that Fox News is sponsoring in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Jan. 10th."

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080102/ENTERTAINMENT10/801020373

quote:

ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

Yeah and FOX is excluding Ron Paul from their debate despite beating Rudy in Iowa.  But ol' Rudy is still invited, and the television news giants wonder why more and more people are turning away from them and towards the internet for news.   



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 5:58:40 PM)

Thanks, Level - that's what I was looking for!




Level -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:01:00 PM)

[;)]



slaveboyforyou -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:17:29 PM)

Thanks for the article Level.  Honestly, isn't that a bunch of bullshit?  The article even says that the debate is being co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Republican Party, who came out against excluding candidates.  But the assholes at FOX are bound and determined to keep him out of it. 



Level -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:23:06 PM)

I agree, it is bullshit, and I don't like Kucinich being kept out, either.  I'm not one to think the media is "evil", but they do overstep their bounds, sometimes.



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:37:20 PM)

They've got to draw the line somewhere though, else farglebargle would be up there arguing with realone

Say

Whatever happened to realone anyway

Back to the point though, I think FOX made the decision based on some older polls, and picked the top-tiered candidates out of having a practical need for a cutoff point somewhere

And as I pointed out earlier, Paul is invited to other forums, the space is just tight on that bus this time

It's no vast conspiracy in my opinion, just life


quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

I agree, it is bullshit, and I don't like Kucinich being kept out, either.  I'm not one to think the media is "evil", but they do overstep their bounds, sometimes.



mnottertail -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:41:40 PM)

Real0ne?

I am pretty sure we whacked that left wing fuck, let me peruse movies and see......

nope, never knew him.

who, what when where why and how?

we have no recollection







popeye1250 -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:53:22 PM)

On the radio today on the Howie Carr Show WRKO-680 am, Howie said that Kuchinich's supporters where up in N.H. making crop circles in the snow.



Level -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 6:58:43 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Sanity

They've got to draw the line somewhere though, else farglebargle would be up there arguing with realone

Say

Whatever happened to realone anyway

Back to the point though, I think FOX made the decision based on some older polls, and picked the top-tiered candidates out of having a practical need for a cutoff point somewhere

And as I pointed out earlier, Paul is invited to other forums, the space is just tight on that bus this time

It's no vast conspiracy in my opinion, just life


quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

I agree, it is bullshit, and I don't like Kucinich being kept out, either.  I'm not one to think the media is "evil", but they do overstep their bounds, sometimes.



real one and fb, on C-SPAN........ [:D]

I know there has to be a cutoff point, but there should be room made for serious candidates, IMO.



Sanity -> RE: Kucinich files complaint against ABC (1/4/2008 7:06:14 PM)

Having or not having Ron Paul on that bus wouldn't change my vote.
There are hundreds of debates, and I'm not watching any of them. I don't need to. I have the Internet!

How much does this one really matter? It won't make or break Ron Paul either way.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

real one and fb, on C-SPAN........ [:D]

I know there has to be a cutoff point, but there should be room made for serious candidates, IMO.



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