There is a certain amount of grumbling on the part of Democratic bloggers about the fact that the Nevada Democratic Party contracted with Fox News to hold a primary debate.  The reason is simple, this is Fox News and they’re frames of references are not the same as the Democratic Primary voter.

The historical precedent comes in with a 2004 Fox News Democratic debate (somewhere in 2003), and a litany of offenses that came from them.  I remember that debate well.  Bill Bennett interrupted the ending.  The first shot to a commercial break had Sean Hannity teasing the provactive question “Did the Democratic candidates say things tonight that will hurt them in the General Election?”  And there were constant disruptions during the debate.

The constant disruptions of the debate?  A group of LaRouchites clamoring to know “Where’s LaRouche?”  It lead to a hilarious denuncation from Al Sharpton and some witty back and forth between Sharpton and Lieberman.  I don’t know if Fox News can be held responsible for such a thing.  This year it may be a more respectable and more sympathetic outlet of Code Pink doing the disruption.  Or it may be the LaRouchites again.  LaRouchites just kind of happen.

Then again, that might have been a conspiracy on the part of Fox News.  For the life of me, I don’t know if the shadowing of LaRouchites are a net positive, net negative, or a net neutral on the Democratic Party hopefuls in the publics’ eyes.

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