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The Nevada Democratic party canceled a presidential debate it was co-sponsoring with Fox News.(Fox News Network L.L.C.)(Brief article)

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The Nevada Democratic party canceled a presidential debate it was co-sponsoring with Fox News. The reason offered--that Fox chairman Roger Ailes had made a low-blow joke about Barack Obama---was preposterous. (Ailes said, in a speech, "Barack Obama is on the move.... President Bush called Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?'"---clearly a joke about Bush, not Obama.) The real reason was that MoveOn.org had launched a campaign against the debate, endorsed by John Edwards, on the grounds that Fox is ritually unclean. So it is, for ...

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