Fox News is battling desperately to keep Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race. Had there been any remaining question about the impartiality of Fox, Fox News Sunday this morning would have laid it to rest definitively. The topic gummed by visiting interviewee Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and the panelists on Fox's round table discussion was the question of whether 'Hillary' should get out of the race. All were agreed, predictably, that she should not.

When was the last time you heard Rupert Murdoch's television outlet griping about 'bigwigs' dominating a process, any process?--Well, this morning, as it happens, when Bredesen animadverted against "Democratic bigwigs trying to pressure one of the candidates to get out." Bredesen, who calls himself undecided or uncommitted as a party 'superdelegate,' went along with all the Chris Wallace propositions about politics not being beanbag, the process continuing until all the primaries have run, etc.

The round table went even farther, not to mention beyond parody. Brit Hume said flatly of Clinton, "There is no good reason for her to get out of the race"--and THEN WENT ON to point out that she is behind in delegates and has basically no chance of coming out ahead in delegates in the race, adding that her only hope is that the superdelegates will intervene in her favor at the party convention. He then said, matter-of-factly, "Now, it might blow the Democratic Party apart if the superdelegates do that . . ."

You can't parody discourse like this.

Jill Zuckman of the Chicago Tribune, brought in to be Fox's outside journalistic voice for the week, echoed the with-allies-like-these analysis provided by Hume. Zuckman instanced the parallel of Mitt Romney for the GOP, who did the math, realized he had no mathematical chance of getting enough delegates to beat McCain, and dropped out of the race. But the difference for Clinton, Zuckman continued, is the "wild card"--those superdelegates.

Bill Kristol went even farther, siding with Clinton's most recent accusations of sexist bullying by the elected Dems who want her to get out of a race she has no chance of winning--"I think she's right about that"--and also siding with her in saying that the pseudo-elected delegates of Florida and Michigan shd be seated at the national convention.

In fact--and here's the kicker--Kristol went farther still, asserting that the Democratic convention itself is "an arbitrary convention." Clinton should go on, Kristol said, "beyond the convention." Chris Wallace, off-camera: "A third-party candidacy." Kristol: "Exactly."