Democratic presidential candidates have figured out a new way to avoid hard questions — don’t appear in any media forum where you might have to respond to a conservative query. Obama, Clinton and Edwards have all said they will not debate on Fox News, even though the Congressional Black Caucus was co-sponsoring the event.
Here’s my favorite part of the story: an Obama aide said “CNN seemed like a more appropriate venue.” Exactly — a reliably liberal station with few viewers.
If someone had told me during last year’s governor’s race that I should skip all hostile media interviews, I would have been limited to a couple of radio stations and some rural newspapers. But the double-standard persists — Republican candidates are expected to participate no matter how hostile the set-up; Democrats just refuse to show up.