Fox News, South Carolina GOP Brush Off Duncan Hunter

Posted by lewwaters in January 11th, 2008

Are you comfortable with the notion of the News Media deciding what candidates may run for public office? If not, you need to play close attention to what is going on in regards to the “debates” now ongoing as candidates vie for the party’s nomination.

Congressman Duncan Hunter, long shot candidate for the presidency in 2008, is being slighted, first by ABC and twice now by Fox News, the so-called, much vaunted “Fair and Balanced” network.

Congressman Hunter was not allowed into the January 4, 2007 New Hampshire Republican Debate, being blocked in the nation’s first primary and drawing the ire of the New Hampshire GOP. The New Hampshire GOP rightfully withdrew their support for the debate, citing party Chairman Fergus Cullen, “Limiting the number of candidates who are invited to participate in debates is not consistent with the tradition of the first-in-the-nation primary. The level playing field requires that all candidates be given an equal opportunity to participate - not just a select few determined by the media prior to any votes being cast.”

That debate was focusing on the subject of Illegal Immigration, a subject that none of the candidates knows or understands better than Congressman Hunter. At the time of the debate, only three men in America had Republican delegates for President, Hunter being one of them. Candidates who had yet to gain any delegates were included in the debates, expanding their exposure in this all-important election.

ABC spokesman said, “the candidates left out of the debates failed to meet benchmarks for their support that were outlined to each campaign prior to the Iowa caucus.” Having already obtained delegates isn’t showing any support, I guess. Having none is, if you have placed a certain level in the media’s own polls.

Again tonight, Fox sponsored a “debate” in South Carolina for Republicans, except for Congressman Hunter. Unlike New Hampshire, The South Carolina GOP did not protest the exclusion. Hunter has paid the required $25,000 fee to register as a candidate in South Carolina, but is blocked by Fox and the S.C. GOP?

This is nothing more than the media deciding for us, regardless of party. They excluded Democrats Kucinich and Gavel in earlier Debates as well as Ron Paul, who was included in tonight’s debate in spite of having gained not one single delegate.

Are we Americans not permitted to see what each candidate stands for before voting? Are we to simply rely on what is broadcast or printed by the same media we don’t trust to accurately report the War on Terror?

Hunter has campaigned to secure our borders and is committed to fighting illegal immigration. His record on this is second to none. In fact, he is heads above all the rest in fighting illegal immigration. He has campaigned against the unfair trade practices of China, taking into consideration all the jobs lost by Americans to overseas concerns. He pledges to negotiate fair trade deals, returning many jobs to America.

He has been in the House of Representatives for 27 years now, fighting steadily for conservative measures and is the former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He consistently came down on the side of the “Foot Soldier,” not the Pentagon Brass.

He has a strong message America NEEDS to hear, if we are to remain a free nation and leader of the Free World.

From the earliest “Debates,” Congressman Hunter has been effectively ignored by the media sources sponsoring the debates. Even then, if he was lucky enough to be asked a question, we didn’t hear pat answers, rehearsed by him. We received straight from the heart and off the cuff replies to whatever subject he was asked. His answers were consistently honest, straightforward and strong.

In spite of that, the same media virtually ignored him in reports about the debates, denying readers and viewers a clear picture of who all was running and what they stood for. Now, apparently, they have decided his campaign is over and moved on, even though there are some 48 more primaries to go.

Have we gotten so complacent that we allow knucklehead executives in the media to decide who we even get to vote for? Can voters make informed decisions without knowing what each candidate actually stands for?

Fox News has been the most disappointing of all. I am coming to believe that all the Liberals that referred them as “Faux News,” were more right than I previously admitted.

Early on the morning of January 7, 2007, Congressman Hunter sent out a message saying he was to make a Major Announcement concerning his campaign. Eulogies and praise for finally getting out of the way of the media favored, cherry picked candidates commenced almost immediately. Much to their chagrin and causing many to dine on crow that evening, he blasted the media treatment he has been receiving and vowed to stay in the running.

Many have said since the beginning of this campaign that no one from the House could be elected because they never have been before. Seems to me we once thought a Draft Dodger could never be elected either.

Seeing the wrong of the media’s acts of excluding candidates, GodVoter.org is calling on David Westin, President of ABC News and Roger Ailes, Chairman of Fox News and former media consultant for Rudy Giuliani, to apologize to the nation’s voters for their networks’ influencing the 2008 presidential race. If they fail to apologize, GodVoter.org calls on Disney and News Corp to replace them.

What does it say about the other candidates that they willfully submit to this and do not reject media cherry picking? What does it say about voters that we continue to let this go without objection?

If we allow the media to continue cherry picking candidates for us, instead of us choosing who we desire, why bother with voting at all? Why not just let the media choose for us, since they are cherry picking the candidates we get to choose from and we the sheeple just fall in behind their lead. We don’t trust their reporting of the news from the War on Terror, but fully trust whom they allow us to vote for? Wake up America, we are being played like a cheap guitar.

Lew

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