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As of now, the developments are as follows:
The Nevada Supreme Court was considering an appeal Tuesday from NBC Universal Inc. to overturn a judge's decision that Dennis Kucinich must be included in a debate of the Democratic presidential candidates on MSNBC.
The network argued that a Clark County District Court judge lacked jurisdiction to order the cable TV news network to include the Ohio congressman or pull the plug on broadcasting the debate Tuesday night with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.
"Mr. Kucinich's claim ... undermines the wide journalistic freedoms enjoyed by news organizations under the First Amendment," Las Vegas lawyer Donald Campbell said in a filing submitted to Nevada's high court, which hears all state appeals.
The state Supreme Court made no immediate ruling, and no hearing was immediately scheduled, a court clerk said.
NBC should really have said his claim undermines the wide journalistic freedoms that the corporate media like to exploit to their advantage so they can choose to silent voices of presidential candidates who Americans would like to hear included in nationally televised debates.
Right now, it is between 12 and 1 pm in Nevada where this debate situation is intense. There is no news stating that the state Supreme Court is deliberating on the appeal. There is no news of NBC postponing the debate.
I sit here jittery and cynical yet weirdly optimistic. I have a meshing of feelings. And the logical reasoning going on between those feelings is this---
Dennis Kucinich is going to be included in the debate! A judge ordered NBC to do just that and will issue an injunction if the debate goes on without him. But, wait...
NBC wouldn't settle for that. Because if they let Dennis bypass his exclusion, it sets a dangerous precedent. However, it's not like Dennis was excluded for being low in the polls initially. He was excluded because now that Bill Richardson dropped out they didn't want Dennis to be there either and really had invited him because if they invited Bill, Dennis would have to come. They have to include Dennis because they made a mistake by inviting Richardson and Kucinich to begin with.
Still, would NBC really allow Dennis on stage to debate? They will just make sure he doesn't talk at all if this order succeeds or if their appeal fails. They'll give him 5 minutes out of the entire debate. But...
Remember the advertisements on cable news and on the Internet for this debate? It had only three people. What happens when a fourth candidate appears and people are scratching their head trying to figure out who this guy is? Won't they want to know? Won't they call NBC or get on the Internet trying to figure out why he has been included? And when they find out he has been excluded, what will happen? Won't they want to know why his voice is being silenced especially given the fact that he was winning or placing high in polls?
NBC has a Catch-22, don't they? This cannot end good.
So, NBC succeeds in excluding him. They've already been noticed by the mainstream media who are trying to figure out what to run on tonight's debate. Will they be covering three or four candidates? Will they be one step closer to the Black Man vs. White Woman narrative they desire or will some UFO-sighting midget keep them from getting closer to their desire?
The supporters were furious. They are happy and celebrating now that the injunction was passed. Deny him again and I'd hate to be NBC because something's going to go down.
Dennis Kucinich had plans to get a truck that could broadcast him on the public television airwaves in Nevada to voters. Whether this has stopped the flow of money needed to follow through with that remains to be seen, but Dennis is in Nevada.
And that gets me back to where I was before I started typing. Dennis is going to the debate. And debate I hope he does.
