CBC & FOX TEAM UP TO CO-HOST DEBATE FOR DEMS & GOP
I would not have believed it, if I had not read it with my own eyes.
From Fox News
WASHINGTON — Fox News has a new deal with an old debate partner. The network will co-sponsor primary debates for each party's presidential field this fall in association with the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute.
The Democratic debate is scheduled for Sept. 23 at Detroit's Fox Theater. The CBC Institute and Fox have not set a date and place for a planned Republican debate.
Democrats, under pressure from liberal activists, this month canceled a Nevada debate that Fox was to co-sponsor in August. Democratic critics complained that the network displays a conservative bias in its news broadcasts.
WELL, DUH!!!
Black Caucus officials made it clear that the size of the Fox News audience was more important than disputes over ideology.
Colorofchange.org, a coalition of black online activists, plans to launch an Internet petition against the Fox-CBC Institute debate partnership, arguing that network commentators have been racially provocative when discussing topics involving blacks, including the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
"The CBC Institute's decision is shamefully out of step with most black voters and we will continue to push on the CBC Institute to drop this deal," said James Rucker, head of the coalition.