DNC's Free Speech Suppression and Debate Controversy

Democrats fear Fox News, believing it undermines their ability to host fair debates.

### Suppression of Free Speech and the Democratic Debate Dilemma
* 🗣 The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is currently blocking Fox News from hosting any 2020 Democratic debates, raising concerns about **free speech suppression**.
* 📺 DNC Chair Tom Perez claims that Fox News is not positioned to host a fair debate, citing the network's **alleged bias against Democrats**.
* 🤔 Critics argue that other networks do not face similar scrutiny despite their own biases, questioning the **DNC's rationale**.
* 🗨 Former DNC Chair Ed Rendell expresses confusion over the DNC's decision and believes it is a **mistake**, advocating for debates to be held on **Fox News**.
* 📊 Rendell notes that even persuading a **small percentage of Fox viewers** could influence critical states like **Michigan** in the election.
* 🔄 Governor Mike Huckabee supports the idea of allowing Fox News access to Democratic candidates, emphasizing that debates should be **controlled by the parties themselves**.
* 💬 Huckabee suggests that the current debate format has **devolved into a "TV show"** rather than an honest forum, calling for a **restructuring of the debate process**.
* 🕊 Both governors agree that **anti-Semitism and racism should be addressed directly**, urging the Democratic Party to **confront these issues more transparently**.

>> Laura: WELCOME BACK TO THE INGRAHAM ANGLE TONIGHT. THE EFFORT TO SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH ACROSS THE COUNTRY, NOT JUST HAPPENING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE NOW BLOCKING FOX NEWS FROM POSTING ANY 2020 DEMOCRATIC DEBATES. T WILL MAKE DNC CHAIR SAYING, THE NETWORK IS NOT IN A POSITIN THE NETWORK IS NOT IN A POSITIT THE NETWORK IS NOT IN A POSITIO HOST A FAIR AND NEUTRAL DEBATE. THE NETWORK IS NOT IN A POSITIO HOST A FAIR AND NEUTRAL DEBATE. BECAUSE THERE ARE NO BIAS AT THE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO BIAS AT THE OTHER NETWORKS? >> EVERY TIME AT PRIME TIME, DEMOCRATS ARE DEHUMANIZED, ATTACKED RELENTLESSLY BY FOX NEWS PRIME TIME HOSTS.

ALMOST HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATE TAKING PLACE IN THOSE HOURS WHEN FIGURES LIKE NANCY PELOSI AND ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ARE CONSTANTLY DEMONIZED AND ATTACKED. >> Laura: OKAY PURE LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT FOR A MOMENT. THE LIBERAL MEDIA AND ALL THE OTHER CABLES, THE PRIME TIME POSTS, THEY GET A FREE PASS TO THE VISCERA PRESIDENT TRUMP SINGLE NIGHT? >> WHICH BRINGS US TO THE BIG MAN HIMSELF, THE BIGGEST LIAR OF ALL, >> DONALD TRUMP IS A LIAR. WE SEE A LIE AND LIE AND LIE AGAIN. >> RACISM AND SEXISM DRIVING THIS PRESIDENT THE POSITIVES BASE. >> Laura: JOINING ME NOW HIS FORMER DNC CHAIR AND FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE GREAT STATE OF

PENNSYLVANIA ED RENDELL ALONG WITH GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE. GOVERNOR RENDELL, LET’S START WITH YOU. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH YOUR PARTY? OKAY? GILLIBRAND, KLOBUCHAR, JUAN WILLIAMS ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE ON OUR NETWORK, THE LIKES OF WHICH WOULD NOT BE CONSERVATIVES ON PLACES LIKE CNN ANYMORE. THEY BASICALLY GOT RID OF THEIR PRO TRUMP, TRUMP FROM THE CONTRIBUTORS. WHAT’S GOING ON? WHY ARE DEMOCRATS AFRAID OF FOX NEWS, AFRAID OF MARTHA MacCALLUM AND BRET BAIER, CHRIS WALLACE, REALLY? >> BEFORE I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I WANT TO SAY HELLO TO MIKE HUCKABEE. MIKE AND I SERVED AS GOVERNORS

TOGETHER AND COLLABORATED ON MANY INITIATIVES WHEN WE SERVED IN THE NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I DON’T KNOW. I THINK IT’S A MISTAKE FOR THE DNC TO DO WHAT IT DID. BUT AS YOU SAID, IF I WAS DNC CHAIR, I THINK TOM PEREZ IS DOING A GOOD JOB. IF I WAS DNC CHAIR, LARA, I SAY GIVE ME BRET BAIER, CHRIS WALLACE, ROD WILLIAMS, ANY WAY, ANY TIME ANY NUMBERS OF AND YOU CAN HAVE THAT FOX DEBATE ANY WAY, ANY TIME ANY NUMBERS OF TIMES. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. >> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT.

>> Laura: I’M CONFIDENT. YOU CAN PICK THE COMMENTATORS AND MODERATORS, I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE THE DEBATE ON FOX. LET ME TELL YOU. EVEN IF YOU PERSUADE 3% OF FOX VIEWERS, 3% LAST TIME OUT CARRIES MICHIGAN. >> Laura: FAT CHANCE -- I’M JUST KIDDING. YOU ARE MAKING A VERY VALID POINT. GOVERNOR HUCKABEE, I WANT TO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE FROM PEREZ, BECAUSE HE DOUBLED DOWN ON THIS. THE BARRING OF ANY FOX NEWS HOSTING OF A DEMOCRATIC DEBATE. LET’S WATCH. >> THIS IS ABOUT -- IN THIS NEW YORKER REPORT, IT’S ABOUT INTERFERENCE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF FOX NEWS. >> WE READ IT.

WE WANT TO HAVE 100% CONFIDENCE -- THE DEBATES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN DO. >> I GET IT. I GET YOU WHAT INSURANCE. >> Laura: SO NO ISSUES -- I WANT TO PLAY ONE MORE THING FOR YOU. WILLING TO BELIEVE THAT FOX DOESN’T CARE ABOUT ISSUES, THE ANCHORS ARE NOT GOING TO CARE ABOUT ISSUES. >> WILL YOU PROMISE -- AND HOW SOON WILL YOU MOVE YOUR CLOTHING COLLECTION, THE CLOTHES THAT ARE MADE IN CHINA AND MEXICO? YOU SAID SEVERAL THINGS IN THAT DEBATE THAT WERE NOT TRUE, SIR. >> DO YOU THINK THERE SHOULD BE ANY RESTRICTIONS? >> CAN YOU DEFINITIVELY SAY TONIGHT THAT YOU WILL DEFINITELY

SUPPORT THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, EVEN IF IT’S NOT YOU? >> Laura: THOSE ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF FOX NEWS ANCHORS BEING MORE THAN TOUGH, PROBABLY FAIR, WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. CANDIDATE TRUMP. >> LAURA, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY HELLO TO ED RENDELL. I WISH HE AND I WERE RUNNING THINGS BECAUSE HE AND I GOT ALONG GREAT AND GOT A LOT OF THINGS DONE. BY GOLLY, WE SHOULD BE IN CHARGE. ED, GREAT TO BE WITH YOU. I’VE BEEN IN THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAIT STAGE TO GO DIFFERENT TIMES -- ACTUALLY, MANY DIFFERENT TIMES. BUT ONE THING PEOPLE FORGET, IT’S NOT THE VENUE FOR THE NETWORKS, IT’S THE VENUE FOR THE TWO PARTIES. I’M GOING TO BE LIKE THE

CONTRARY IN HERE AND I THINK TOM PEREZ IS MAKING A MISTAKE. I DO AGREE WITH ED RENDELL, THERE OUGHT TO BE FOX ACCESS TO DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, BUT HERE’S WHAT I WOULD SAY TO BOTH THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES, RONNA McDANIEL AND TOM PEREZ, TAKE CHARGE OF DEBATES. THESE ARE FOR YOUR CANDIDATES. I THINK THE WHOLE PROCESS IS RIDICULOUS AND OUT-OF-CONTROL AND IT IS IN NEED OF A GREAT BLOW UP. THERE SHOULD BE A COMPLETE RESTRUCTURING OF HOW THEY ARE DONE. THE PARTIES NEED TO CONTROL THE DEBATES IN TERMS OF TIME, THE PLACE. THEY OUGHT TO PICK THE PEOPLE WHO ASK THE QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT HAS TURNED INTO A TV SHOW, NOT AN HONEST FORUM.

THE QUESTIONS ARE RIDICULOUS AND INSULTING. I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THE POLITICAL CHAIRMAN AN EARFUL OF WHAT THEY CAN DO TO GIVE THE MESSAGE TO THEIR VOTERS. WE WENT, I THINK THAT’S A BRILLIANT POINT. LOCAL REPORTERS ARE OFTEN BETTER AT DOING SOME OF THESE INTERVIEWS ON SOME OF THE BIG ISSUES, NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE BIG NAMES, BUT I LIKE SOME OF THE LOCAL REPORTERS’ INPUT. GOVERNORS, I WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION. THE HOUSE VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY TO APPROVE A BROAD RESOLUTION CALLING OUT RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITIC COMMENTS WITHOUT NAMING CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR. THE DEMOCRATS SEEM TO BE, I DON’T KNOW, THEY DON’T WANT TO NAME HER DESPITE THE FACT THAT

THAT’S WHAT BROUGHT THIS WHOLE THING UP, OBVIOUSLY, INITIALLY LINKING JEWS TO MONEY, THEN TALKING ABOUT CERTAIN PEOPLE HAVING A DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE TO OTHER COUNTRIES. SHOULD HAVE IT BEEN RESTRICTED TO THE ANTI-SEMITISM? A LOT OF JEWISH AMERICANS, AT LEAST ON SOCIAL I’M READING TONIGHT, ARE PRETTY OUTRAGED. >> I’M THINKING IT SHOULD HAVE FOCUSED ON THE ANTI-SEMITISM. IT SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR MADE A MISTAKE. BECAUSE SHE DID MAKE A MISTAKE. AS AN AMERICAN, I CAN TELL YOU THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING TO THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING TM THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING TE THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING TI THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING TS

THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. THE THING THAT’S MOST CUTTING. PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JEWS, THE MONEY, THE BENJAMIN’S, US BEING SNEAKY PEOPLE WHO CONTROL THINGS BY OUR MONEY. THAT’S TO ME THAT WERE SLOW YOU CAN MAKE TO A JEWISH PERSON. VERY CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR MADE GOOD POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOO POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOD POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOP POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOI POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOT POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOS POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOB POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOT POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOS POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT. GOE

POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT GOS. POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT GOO. POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT GOL. POINTS WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT GOD. MAKE IT SUBSTANTIVELY. THERE IS NO PLACE FOR NAME-CALLING FOR ANY OF OUR AFFAIRS, BUT WE SHOULD MAKE OUR POINTS AND REST ON THE STRENGTH OF OUR ARGUMENTS. I WOULD’VE LIKED FOR HER TO BE NAMED AS HAVING MADE A MISTAKE THAT TRIGGERED THESE OF ANTI-SEMITISM, CONDEMNED ANTI-SEMITISM, AND LATER ON, WE CAN CONDEMN ALL SORTS OF HATE SPEECH. SPIEL AND WATCHED THE C-SPAN DEBATE. >> Laura: I WATCH THE C-SPAN DEBATE AMONG GOVERNOR HUK. C-SPAN DEBATE AMONG GOVERNOR HUB. C-SPAN DEBATE AMONG GOVERNOR HUE.

TODAY, IT TURNED BASICALLY ON THE DEMOCRATS' SIDE A TRUMP-BASHING FEST. IT WAS ABOUT THE MIGRANTS, GOT EXPANDED IN ALL THESE OTHER TOPICS. STEVE KING LOST THE COMMITTEE CHAIRSHIP IN THE WAKE OF MAKING HIS RACIALLY CHARGED STATEMENTS. CHAIRSHIP IN THE WAKE OF MAKING HIS RACIALLY CHARGED STATEMENTS. WHY AREN’T THEY DOING THE SAME THING FOR CONGRESSWOMAN OMAR, ESPECIALLY WHAT WE ARE SEEING OVER WITH THE LEGAL PARTY GETTING HIM ELATED DUE TO ANTI-SEMITISM? WE HAVE ANTI-SEMITIC FLOATS AND CARNIVAL PARADES IN BELGIUM. I SAW TODAY ALSO ONLINE FOR DISTURBING IMAGES OF JEWISH AMERICANS IN EUROPE. >> I JUST GOT BACK FROM POLAND THIS MORNING AND ONE OF THE

THINGS I WAS DOING THERE WAS TO PARTICIPATE IN A CEREMONY FOR THE POLISH CHRISTIANS WHO HELPED SAVE JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. THE POLISH CHRISTIANS WHO HELPED SAVE JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOT JUST ABOUT RHETORIC. THERE WAS A LONG HISTORY OF PEOPLE BEING BRUTALLY AND SAVAGELY MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD. WE ARE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT MILITARY COMBATANTS; WE ARE TALKING ABOUT INNOCENT MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, OLDER PEOPLE. IT’S A HORRIBLE THING. IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. I THINK NANCY PELOSI -- AND I HAVE TO GIVE HER SOME CREDIT. SHE’S TRYING, BUT SHE’S GOT HER

HANDS FULL WITH SOME OF THESE YOUNG DEMOCRATS WHO REALLY DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I CALL BASIC PLAYGROUND MANNERS WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING IN A PUBLIC OFFICE, AND IT’S CREATING SOME REAL PROBLEMS FOR THE DEMOCRATS. AS A REPUBLICAN, I COULD TAKE SOME GLORY IN IT AND SOME JOY IN THAT, BUT I DON’T BECAUSE IT’S BAD FOR THE COUNTRY. THAT’S NOT GOOD FOR ANYBODY. >> Laura: GOVERNOR, THANK YOU -- >> IN ALL DIFFERENCE, I JUST

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DNC Blocks Fox News from 2020 Democratic Debates

The Democratic National Committee is preventing Fox News from posting any 2020 Democratic debates, citing the network's biased coverage.

The DNC Chair argues that Fox News hosts have consistently dehumanized and attacked Democrats, making it difficult for a fair debate to occur.

The discussion also highlights the liberal media's free pass in criticizing President Trump, raising questions about the Democrats' fear of Fox News.

DNC's Controversial Decision on Fox News Debates

The speaker expresses disagreement with the DNC's decision to bar Fox News from hosting Democratic debates.

They believe that engaging with Fox and its viewers could be beneficial for the party.

The DNC Chair, Tom Perez, is acknowledged for doing a good job, but the speaker emphasizes the importance of having the debates on Fox to reach a wider audience.

Restructuring Political Debates and Addressing Racism

The speaker argues for the need to restructure political debates, emphasizing that the parties should have control over the time, place, and questioners.

They believe the current debate process is out of control and has turned into a TV show rather than an honest forum.

The speaker also highlights the effectiveness of local reporters in conducting interviews on important issues and comments on the House's resolution calling out racism and anti-Semitic comments without naming Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Controversy Surrounding Congresswoman Omar's Remarks

Congresswoman Omar's comments linking Jews to money and divided allegiance have sparked outrage among Jewish Americans.

The speaker believes the focus should have been on condemning anti-Semitism and acknowledging Omar's mistake.

They argue for the importance of making points substantively and condemning hate speech in all its forms.

Democrats' Trump-Bashing and Anti-Semitism Concerns

The Democrats' recent focus has been on criticizing Trump, with the issue of migrants expanding to other topics.

Steve King's racially charged statements led to his loss of committee chairmanship, raising questions about similar actions for Congresswoman Omar.

The speaker highlights the long history of brutal anti-Semitism and the challenges Nancy Pelosi faces with young Democrats, expressing concern for the country's overall well-being.