Dis-ease in Our Discourse - The Saga Continues

Fox News announced this week that after almost two years of repeated invitations, both democratic candidates for president have finally appeared on Fox News. Not to be outdone, the Chairman of the DNC, Howard Dean, was interviewed later in the week. Interestingly enough, these events have triggered an immediate, negative reaction from the Democratic faithful, who have demanded that no candidate appear on Fox News, fearing a loss of control in the Democratic party's message. Supposedly, the faithful are concerned that this could be disasterous to their winning the White House.

What I find amusing is that at least one of the two democratic candidates, as well as the democratic party, have advocated meeting with leaders of terrorist nations and other despots, with no pre-conditions. The party of "toleration" and "freedom of speech" apparently will not talk with a US news channel that consistently draws more viewers than any other cable news channel in the United States, but will dialogue with our enemies. This makes one wonder what they have to say to our enemies that they are not willing to say to us.

So much for the party of "toleration" and "freedom of speech." It makes one wonder, which "aisle" the democrats want to reach across.