Damn, no Gravel vs. Kucinich debate

We killed this thing off a few months ago. Apparently, the CBC and Fox News finally got the memo.

Fox News and a black political group say they will not hold a Sept. 23 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, which the leading candidates already were planning to skip.

A new date had not yet been set, Fox News spokesman Michael Murphy said Thursday.

The campaigns of U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards had said they would not participate in the debate. Opponents have criticized Fox as biased against Democrats.

But what's REALLY funny is the excuse the CBC gave for the cancellation:

Institute chairman U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement on the group's Web site that the "overwhelming number of party presidential debates has created a scheduling challenge."

Ha ha ha. Yeah, that's why the debate is dead. It had nothing to do with the idiocy of the CBC trying to do a debate with the racist Fox News.

There's even some face-saving nonsense about trying to reschedule the debate. Well, whatever makes those guys feel better while admitting defeat.