That’s one of the interesting subtexts to all of this, but I still wonder how all of this is going to play out, if it plays out at all in the minds of the American public. That’s always what interests me, when any of these news stories come down the pike. What will the American public think with an entire party refusing to appear on a single network, and of course remember that in a presidential debate, the candidates are the stars, whoever the moderators are, they would be compromised of a cross-section. It wouldn’t just be Fox News Channel people. Even if it were, what’s so tough about answering questions? These people are not going to be doing commentary. The Fox News Channel people, the other people that might be on the moderator panel are not going to sit there, the interviewer panel, are not going to be sitting there and offer monologues or commentary or any of that. The candidates are the stars here. These guys, they can take any question you want and answer it however you wish.
I don’t know what Fox is going to do. I have no insight. Wouldn’t it be great if they went ahead and televised the debate and just put cardboard cutouts of all the Democrats who aren’t there? You know, get a cardboard cutout of Hillary. Get a cardboard cutout of Edwards, a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama and just ask them questions. Ask them questions anyway, and let the silence speaks for itself. That’s not unprecedented. That kind of thing has been done before.