{"id":11466,"date":"2015-10-31T03:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2015-10-31T03:32:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:32:52","slug":"lets-allow-dems-to-face-media-grilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11466","title":{"rendered":"Let’s allow Dems to face media grilling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All this talk over the past few days about the alleged mistreatment of the Republican Party presidential candidates by the “mainstream liberal media” brings something to mind.<\/p>\n

Let’s suppose as we travel down the primary campaign road that the Democratic field — or what’s left of it — decides to debate among themselves in a nationally televised event.<\/p>\n

What might happen if the moderators all\u00a0 turned out to conservative-leaning journalists? Believe me, there are plenty of them to go around.<\/p>\n

Imagine a panel comprising, say, Britt Hume, Jennifer Rubin and Byron York grilling the likes of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

Hume is a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday; Rubin is a conservative columnist for the Washington Post; Byron York is a long-time conservative columnist whose work is syndicated in papers across the country.<\/p>\n

They’re all smart and savvy political hands.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to imagine how the Democratic National Committee might react to the tough line of questioning that such a panel would bring to a Democratic candidates debate.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure the DNC would allow such a panel to present questions to their candidates. Yet the Republican National Committee signed off on the recent CNBC-sponsored debate and the moderators chosen by the network to quiz the candidates on the debate stage.<\/p>\n

Still, there’s a part of me that wishes the DNC would agree to such an event, with that party’s candidates facing sure-fire relentless questioning on a whole array of issues facing the nation.<\/p>\n

I know it won’t happen. But I can dream … can’t I?<\/p>\n

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