Nevada Democrats drop Fox:
After coming under intense pressure from MoveOn.org, the Nevada Democratic Party announced late Friday that it was dropping Fox News as the sponsor of its August debate.
The Las Vegas Review Journal finds little sense in the cancellation, blaming the influence of the "socialist" wing of the party, writing, "You'd think the deal called for having Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter mock the candidates between comments." LINK
The New York Times' Noam Cohen weighs the pros and cons for Fox News as a partisan political target. LINK
In response to Nevada Democrats saying that they were motivated to drop Fox because of Roger Ailes making a joke about Sen. Obama and Osama Bin Laden, the AP has Obama saying he's "been called worse." LINK
"So one thing this battle wasn't about was Roger Ailes' Thursday night joke," begins Ben Smith reporting on the decision to nix the Democratic debate on Fox News. "The joke was the face-saving pretext that the Nevada party and Harry Reid needed to concede defeat" to the liberal netroots who are "very, very good at intramural battling." LINK