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March 13, 2007BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Pressure From Blogs Kills Debate On Fox
Technology Daily noted this morning that liberal bloggers and other online activists succeeded in pressuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to cancel Fox News' co-sponsorship of a Democratic presidential debate planned in Nevada for August.
Our report was based on a story in The Politico, which said Reid told Fox on Friday that the debate will not be held.
On Thursday, Reid held a 20-minute conference call with bloggers like Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos and Matt Stoller of MyDD. They told Reid, D-Nev., that his support of the debate, which Reid had called "great for Nevada," was costing him his popularity with the party's netroots.
Reid said the decision to cancel the debate was made in a conference call with he and state party officials.
Tech Daily also linked to the response to the news from conservative Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall. "Not only is the Democratic Party too beholden to its crazy Internet wing to go through with a debate on TV's most popular cable network," she wrote, "but they're also too cowardly to admit that's the reason they're bowing out."
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