NewsBusters.org – Posted by Tim Graham
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation?s largest gay-left lobby, announced yesterday that it will host a one-hour Democratic presidential debate on August 9 on Logo, the Viacom gay channel and sister network to CBS. (CBS News has its own newscast on Logo with gay anchor Jason Bellini, formerly of CNN.) Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have confirmed their attendance. As a colleague joked yesterday about Democrat refusal to acknowledge Fox as a news network: “Oh, so the Democrats won?t go on networks with an agenda.”
The debate won?t be moderated by Bellini or any journalist, but by HRC Chairman Joe Solmonese and rock singer Melissa Etheridge. Actually, it?s not so much a debate as a series of interviews, a lot like the CNN/Sojourners magazine event designed to highlight the Democrats? religious views ? except this pander-to-the-libertine-left event ought to cancel out the impression that these candidates are devoted to their Bibles.