Judge Hands Kucinich a Right to Debate

The whole point of a primary process is to primarily pick a viable candidate for election come general election time, but secondly to discuss political issues/change the course of a party/introduce new ideas, faces into the politcal process/etc...which the media has overlooked all too many times.

Kucinich's right to be included in the debate is necessary for the survival of the primary system in this country.

Dennis has no chance at all, none, but still wants to join the debate and I feel that should be his right, same thing when they wanted to eleminate Ron Paul. How many comments did we read, and polls taken saying they thought Ron should be included.

I wish Dennis Kucininch would just go away or shut up. He is not good for the Democratic party. My reasons are personal - the man screwed up Cleveland badly as mayor (I live here and I remember).
If he could not handle Cleveland, there is not much else I would trust him with. How he retains his U.S. House seat still astonishes me. I vote Democrat for the most part, but I would not vote for this guy if you held a gun to my head. Besides this issue, Kucinich is also contesting the outcome of the primary in New Hampshire. Why? Got me.
I guess when you know you have no chance of ever being president, you will resort to anything for publicity.

Here's how the "law" has to do with it.

NBC entered into a written and verbal contract which included SENATOR Kucinich in the upcoming debates. By DELIBERATELY changing rules to exclude Kucinich, the only candidate for real change in America, they were in breech of the contract. The judge sought to uphold that contract.

In addition, the public owns the airways and according to the Federal Communications Act the media networks are required to provide fair and balanced info in the interest of the public. Apparently, we cannot expect militarily involved GE owned NBC (nor FOX or ABC etc for that matter) to act in the best interest of the public. Instead they work in the best interest of their investor's pocketbooks. No word on Dennis Kucinich's emergency complaint to the FCC on ABC's exclusion yet.

Additionally, Dennis Kucinich is viable candidate for the office of President demonstrated by the fact that he has qualified to receive Federal Matching Funds for his campaign, holds an official campaign office in the state of Nevada, and is campaigning there just like other candidates.

Finally, I'm concerned about ignorant people like you writing opinionated blogs which contain little or no 1)real truth or facts, 2)compassion for true democracy, and 3)judgement by the writer and publisher of such blogs. Perhaps you should actually take time to read the Kucinich campaign's legal documents for their complaint. The FCC should be pulling all the major media's licensing as a result of this sham we are calling a presidential race. The airways need to be given back to the public.

Kucinich is the only democrat who voted against the war in Iraq 100% of the time. He is the only one who supports single payer health care (which by the way many countries now have better health care than the USA). He is the only one fighting for the middle class.

It's sad how people like you try so hard to distort the truth. Your blog is worthless.

KUCINICH IS A CRY BABY LITTLE WORM WHO'S WIFE HAS MORE BALLS THAN HE DOES. WHAT A LITTLE PUKE.

DENISE KUCINICH IS GOOD FOR THE REPUBLICANS. HE KEEPS REMINDING EVERYONE WHAT A LITTLE PECKER HEAD HE REALLY IS. KEEP GOING DENNIS AND PUT THE DEMS IN THE TOILET BY NOV.

DENISE KUCINICH, WHAT A CRY BABY LITTLE PUNK. KUCINICH IS A LEFT WING LOON THAT LIKES TO PAT HIMSELF ON THE BACK LIKE MOST SMALL BOYS LIKE TO DO. HE HS A PAIR OF SHOES WITH 8 INCH HEELS SO HE CAN BE AS TALL AS HIS WIFE, ALTHOUGH HIS WIFE HAS MORE BALLS THAN HE DOES.

The writer is a jerk-off for paragraph 3--no one cares what you think of Dennis, especially when you do not back up why you're dissing him.

I agree that the judge does not have a right to tell MSNBC what to do with their private property, but since we are in a corporatist system in which a handful of companies dominate the media, I do not object.

Dennis is the only candidate on the Dem side who is not a war-monerging corporatist dirtbag. Go Dennis and Ron Paul! Peace in 2008.

woo-hoo! go dennis go!

rich, thank you for your accurate post. in addition to being pro-peace and pro-health care (h.r. 676), dennis has also introduced impeachment legislation twice - h.r. 333 and h.r. 799.

VOTE KUCINICH!!!

DENNIS KUCINICH HAS MORE BALLS THAN YOU'LL EVER HAVE MICHAEL WALSH. HE TOOK ON BIG MEDIA & CORPORATE BULLIES FOR THE LITTLE GUY. YOUR STUPID COMMENTS SHOW HOW YOU ARE AS IGNORANT AS THE GUY WHO WROTE THIS BLOG.

Although I am not a Dennis supporter, I think that those who close their minds to voices are lazy. They don't like to hear new ideas and prefer to be fed predigested feel good ideas. It makes me sad that anyone would want to silence any voice no matter if they disagree or find it ridiculous.

Of course Kucinich should have the right to present his views. ESPECIALLY if they conflict. How can he build his voting base if not? What I am mad at is that your semi-biased article did not even bother to name this judge! The man is for the people and I would like to shake his hand. I am a Republican and would not vote for DK, but I sure would like to hear from someone that may make the debate more enjoyable. WTG judge.

Who IS this F**ktard Eric Schulze and why is he allowed to open his mouth about what an election is about?

I'm not voting for Dennis Kusinich but at least he's not a clone of the other 3 top clones and actually has something original to say. Maybe, just maybe the others will hear something and it might spark their brains into trying something different than the same old same old that hasn't worked in the past.

The arrogance of media outlets, using the public airwaves,needs to challenged. I am not a suporter of Kucinich. But he deserves to be heard. The decisions to exclude him from the Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada events were anti-democratic.

Dear Eric. I disagree with much of your comment. Kucinich raises some interesting points. A network on the public airwaves certainly has the right to chose to interview a particular candidate. But to air a debate amoung democratic contenders and then to bar one of them from appearing is a different matter. Then to blithely comment that Judges can do whatever they please, you know that is not true. Or when you complain about "the impotent meanderings of sundry candidates" I think you are missing the point. It is up to us, the voters to decide who is potent and who is impotent not the networks. I feel the same way about Ron Paul and his fight with Fox. He has qualified, lets hear what he has to say. Let me decide whether I want to vote for him or Dennis or any other candidate. I don't trust any network with my vote.

Hey Eric, did you take the time to READ the lawsuit? You will see that the FCC requires EQUAL time to ALL of the candidates so ALL perspectives can be discussed. Mr. Kucinich has proven he is worthy of being included. You Sir, are just another part of the problem. You think you know "what is in the best interest of the public". Let the people decide for themselves. Show all sides and please don't be "unfair and biased" like FAUX News.

MSM has tried to pick our candidates since day one of the primary.
KUDOS TO Rep. Kucinich.
The public has a right to hear everyone's ideas on the issues.
If a candidate has not dropped out of the race, he/she should be included in all debates and given a fair share of media coverage.

aside from law, NBC invited dennis to participate then changed their criteria to uninvite him just 44 hours later...if nothing else - he should be included out of POLITENESS - yikes!

Hey Hugh.....how do you know Dennis has no chance at all?......do you have some connection to a supernatural devine creature that is slipping you some sort of awareness which evades others on this planet? Your right......everyone knows that! Keep up the good work. Kucinich has no chance! Right?

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