"There will be NO opportunities to interview Hillary Clinton; her speech will be her interview."

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220. A softball show

That where the host and the guest are in agreement about most everything. I've listened to podcasts of Breakfast with Bernie often enough to know what goes on there. It makes no difference if it's on Thom Hartmann's show or Fox Noise or Chuck Todd. Bernie on Hartmann is like Santorum on Fox--they won't have a confrontational host. Bernie on Hartmann is more inspiring because the lines are unrehearsed, but it's still a sympathetic forum. Bernie on Fox or Santorum on Hartmann--now THERE'S the opposite of a softball situation. Campaign slogans have nothing to do with it.

Frankly, if I were Bernie Sanders going on Fox, I'd give them a pre-condition, too: that he's allowed to have his say without being interrupted, and that this is stated on the air to the public before the start of the interview so that the public will see clearly if the Fox "host" is sticking to their word or not. Without that, I wouldn't go on Fox Noise at all, whether Bernie, Hillary or O'Malley. Not all pre-conditions are bad.

I don't have a "candidate of choice" yet, and won't be badgered into it before I'm ready to make my own decision (pro-choice, and all that). If you've made yours already, that's fine and dandy. Go right ahead. You won't hear me telling you that you're wrong. I expect to be accorded the same courtesy.