Comments on: Facebook co-sponsors N.H. debate, not without controversy

Social-networking site is co-sponsoring a Republican presidential debate, followed by a Democratic one, this week--but at least five candidates will likely be excluded.

[The_Decider]

Whatever happened to the equal time laws? nt

nt

[Paul Ding]

It's still there - it's 47 USC 315

And you can read it for yourself if you go to http://www.cornell.edu, as are all statutes of the federal government, and those of most states.

However, it applies to broadcasters using public airwaves, not to websites, and it doesn't apply to any appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any?
(1) bona fide newscast,
(2) bona fide news interview,
(3) bona fide news documentary (if the appearance of the candidate is incidental to the presentation of the subject or subjects covered by the news documentary), or
(4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events (including but not limited to political conventions and activities incidental thereto)

[USAF Vet Dan]

Thanks, and about those polls...

Thanks for a well written, factual, unbiased article. I'd like to add a bit about how Fox and almost all of the mainstream media has misused (I believe intentionally) to suppress Ron Paul's growing support.

When a candidate sets all-time fundraising records, has far more MeetUp groups that all Republican AND Democratic candidates combined, I'd hardly call him a long-shot. A long shot? Oh, yes... he scores low in the "official" polls.

The "polls" only ask those who are "likely to vote in the Republican Primary". How do the pollsters determine who they are? They ask those who voted in the 2004 primary. Bush was the unchallenged incumbent so only 6.6% of the Republicans voted. Who votes in a primary election for an incumbent presidential candidate? Only the most hard-core in the party... a handful of people who are the most steadfast components of the Republican "machine". I'd say that converting up to 10% of those, as the polls indicate, is a HUGE victory for Ron Paul!

There is clear evidence that many Democrats are switching parties to vote for Ron Paul. And then there are those who have never voted (i.e., Trevor Lyman - the guy who helped raise more than $10 million for Ron Paul) who are going to vote for the first time in their lives, and those Republicans who stopped voting decades ago because they simply gave up. All of these people don't show up in the "official polls" and they outnumber the old Republican dinosaurs by an astounding ratio.

I'll be very glad when the votes are finally cast in New Hampshire and Iowa. Barring outright vote fraud, the results of these two states' primaries will finally silent the "he can't win... he scores low in the polls" drum that, quite honestly, is giving me a headache.

Ron Paul 2008!

[ghostofitpast]

Vocabulary lesson

Thanks for another dispatch from the techno-centric world, where "consequences" is not in anyone's working vocabulary!

[sillie1]

Democratic end of the debates

Because of Obama and Edwards, those two people, I have now registered as having no party, when I was a registered democrat until this month.
If either of these men become the democrats choice for presidential candidate, my vote will go to whomever but most assuredly neither of these men will get my vote. They both have ganged up in the boys network and done nothing but put Hillary down and then you attack her together tonight and you seem surprised when she fights back. I have seen less contention out of all the republicans running than the nastiness from Obama and Edwards. Where is the change? There are others out here who also have quit any party affiliation due to all this crap. You are not showing in your campaigning that you are for change. People are not stupid.

[marcbousquet]

Gibson's Faculty Pay Gaffe

After Charlie Gibson's debate gaffe regarding faculty pay, are you curious about what faculty really earn?

Most teaching is done by part-time faculty and graduate students for less than $20,000 per year.

Even tenured college professors in the humanities often earn less than bartenders. See the "Faculty on Food Stamps" video at http://howtheuniversityworks.com

[Robyn_W]

Beware of this websites that is out to hunt for your e-mail accounts and password. Be careful and don?t just trust at once with the sites. Look out for fbstarter.com. The website fbstarter.com is a password mining scam, set up to look exactly like Facebook, but they're really a site that's after your e-mail account and passwords. How does it works? It says that you get an email message claiming that someone has a message for you on Facebook. You open it and log in to a page that looks exactly like Facebook, and then ? presto ? they have your information, and you have been phished. So far there hasn't been a lot of damage, no credit cards used nor payday loans needed to contain the damage, but a lot of people are understandably not amused, and a lot of people would use short term loans to get rid of the parasitic fbstarter.com. http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/04/30/scam-watch-fbstartercom-steals-facebook-users-passwords/

[Robyn_W]

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/04/30/scam-watch-fbstartercom-steals-facebook-users-passwords/