GOP Debate a Black Comedy

As might have been expected, last night's "All-American Presidential Forum" featuring Repubican candidates for president talking to black journalists at a historically black college talking about issues of special interest to black Americans turned into a black comedy. The focus was mostly on the candidates who didn't show -- which is to say, all of them who might conceivably ...

NPR Turns Down Bush Interview on Race

National Public Radio turned down an offer by President Bush to sit down with correspondent Juan Williams to talk about race issues, saying they would not allow him to pick the interviewer. The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in ...

GOP Candidates Snub Black Debate

Robert Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, has an editorial in today's Washington Examiner excoriating the top Republicans for skipping the PBS debates with Tavis Smiley on issues of special importance to "people of color". This is not only a strategic mistake for these campaigns but also a major embarrassment for the Republican Party. How can voters take seriously a candidate ...

GOP Frontrunners Blow Off Debates

Steve Benen reports that all four of the top contenders for the Republican nomination were no-shows at the “Values Voter Debate” sponsored by WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah and attended by several top Christian Conservative luminaries. The most interesting comment of the night (or, at least the most interesting in Steve's post about the night): Religious right leader Janet Folger was ...