On one hand, I am amused that the Republican National Committee, under the direction of Subcommander Reince Preibus, is angry that NBC might produce a movie biopic about Hillary Clinton.  Corporations are people, Reince.  Your side saw to it that these corpersonations were endowed with the rights of free political speech.  Heck, Citizens United was about the right of a corporation to fund an anti-Hillary movie.

But, of course, the RNC has free speech rights, too.  If NBC or CNN is behind a pro-Hillary movie that the RNC doesn't like, then the RNC should feel free to restrict NBC and CNN access to its primary election process.

Heck, far as I'm concerned, Preibus doesn't need a reason.  Within the confines of his party's governance standards, he can exclude anyone he wants from participating in the primaries.  They really are a private affair.

It also might make more sense for both parties to seek primary venues, media outlets and moderators that serve the interests of primary voters who tend to be more politically engaged than general election voters and who also tend to represent ideas that are often dismissed in the general election as being too extreme in one direction or another.

In the general election you might want open media access and moderators who will call things, within the bounds of facts, down the middle.  But in a primary debate, heck... let Glenn Beck moderate it.  Let Matt Drudge or Rush Limbaugh question the candidates.  Give the Republican primary voters what they want.  The Democrats can let Rachel Maddow or Noahm Chomsky have a run at their candidates.  Why not? There should be no preference, in the primary process for a professed centrist venue.

We should celebrate extremism in the primaries.  Preibus should make good on his threat.  Democrats should copy him.