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NBC Battles To Keep Kucinich Out Of The Debate
Tue Jan 15, 12:51 AM ET

The Nation -- Some principles are worth fighting for: like the cherished right of television networks to decide who is and who is not a legitimate candidate for president.

NBC Universal Inc. is a major media conglomerate. And major media conglomerates have traditionally been able to police the parameters of presidential politics. Any affront to this order of affairs is a threat to the ability of corporations to define the American discourse.

That's what is at stake as NBC fights to limit the amount of information Nevada Democrats have available to them before they caucuses on Saturday to choose delegates to the Democratic National Convention. So the network has announced that its crack legal team will work through the night to overturn a judge's order that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich be included in the last pre-caucus debate between the Democratic presidential contenders.

On the day after the New Hampshire primary, when New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was still in the race, Kucinich, Richardson, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards were invited to participate in the debate scheduled to be televised on MSNBC from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Debate organizers wanted Richardson in the forum and knew that they could not exclude Kucinich, who was running ahead of the New Mexican in several national polls. So they grudgingly contacted the Kucinich campaign, which participated last week in initial planning discussions for the debate.

But when Richardson dropped out of the race on Thursday, the network yanked the invitation to Kucinich, who has stirred up past forums -- and distinguished himself from Clinton, Obama and Edwards -- by calling for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, advocating for the impeachment of members of the Bush administration, and even discussing the damage done to the political process by media monopolies.

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[ddeubel]

[thepeel]

It feels like November 2006... Weird.

I really gotta get a new hobby.

But yes. Bush is likely an idiot. Wasn't that established several years ago?

[stevemcgarrett]

bacasper:

Reagan made the remark off-air, or was cued that he was at the time. It was an off-the-cuff remark and he was in a sound studio. Big deal.

ddeubel:

How about a PM to igotthisguitar and thepeel and you guys get together and sing a little "If I Had a Hammer" by Peter, Paul, and Mary by a campfire? Be sure to take along some weed and your Bushie voodoo dolls.

Bush is a dolt at times but I do think he is either dyslexic or otherwise impaired because he really butchers his phrases at times. And yet I've heard him give press conference replies that were as fluid as anyone, so go figure.

[just another day]

Dennis Kucinich was hugely popular in Los Angeles.