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Scott Brown says he will debate Elizabeth Warren..IF she agrees to TWO conditions .. what is this? Now the candidates make the conditions?

... o.k. Fine. Then NO. FOX and NO. Daily Caller/breitbart uneducated creeps..

Scott Brown accepts Kennedy debate with conditions

By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
06/18/2012 5:35 PM

Senator Scott Brown said today that he will accept a debate at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, but only on the condition that Vicki Kennedy stay neutral in the election and MSNBC drop out as the sponsor.

The campaign said in a statement that it would agree to allowing Tom Brokaw to moderate. Elizabeth Warren has already accepted the Sept. 27 debate, but Brown had previously not committed. The candidates are jointly committed to two other televised debates so far, one in the Boston market and a second one in Western Massachusetts.

Vicki Kennedy, Senator Kennedy’s widow, had extended the invitation for a third debate. But she has been an active Democrat, causing some to question whether Brown should accept the invitation. In addition, MSNBC, home to many liberal talk show hosts, is scheduled to broadcast the debate.

“In order to proceed, we need to know that in keeping with the spirit of neutrality expressed in Vicki Kennedy’s letter that she will not endorse or otherwise get involved in this race,” Brown’s campaign manager Jim Barnett wrote in a letter to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

“Furthermore, while we accept Tom Brokaw as a moderator, we prefer debates with local media sponsors, not out-of-state cable networks with a reputation for political advocacy,” he continued. “We are confident that issue can be easily addressed as there are a number of Massachusetts media outlets that would be willing to sponsor a debate such as the one you are proposing for the Kennedy Institute, and I’m sure they would be pleased to have Mr. Brokaw as moderator.”

The Kennedy Institute has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Though his letter advocates the involvement of local television, Brown has not yet responded to a request by a consortium of local media outlets, including television stations and the Boston Globe, to participate in a third televised debate. Brown has agreed to two radio debates, including one being moderated by Dan Rea, a conservative-leaning talk show host, and another hosted by Margery Eagan, a Boston Herald columnist, and Jim Braude, a Democrat and former Cambridge city councilor. Warren has agreed to the consortium debate but not the radio debates, saying she wants to reach a larger audience through television.

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/18/scott-brown-accepts-kenendy-debate-with-conditions/tKjMobvptM64Po2jFqAJ6J/story.html