I'd LOVE to know the source of THIS tripe. What's the link? I bet it's
one of those comically right-wing pages that feed morons like you.
Ubiquitous wrote:
> The nation's top Democrats are suddenly ru****ng to appear on the Fox
News
> Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis
of
> liberal bloggers.
>
> The détente with Fox has provoked a backlash from progressive bloggers,
who
> contend the party's leaders are turning their backs on the base - and
> lending credibility and legitimacy to the network liberals love to hate
- in
> a quest for a few swing votes.
>
> In a span of eight days, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Sen. Hillary Rodham
> Clinton (D-NY.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean
are
> all taking their seats with the network that calls itself "fair and
> balanced" but is widely viewed as skewing conservative.
>
> With the party's presidential contest reduced to hand-to-hand combat,
> Democrats are turning to the ratings leader among cable news channels in
a
> clear rebuff to the liberal activists known as the Netroots.
>
> Markos Moulitsas, founder of the leading liberal site Daily Kos, told
> Politico's Michael Calderone: "Democrats are being idiotic by going on
that
> network."
> Ari Melber, the Net movement correspondent for The Nation, told Politico
by
> phone that progressive activists and the Netroots are "not happy about
it."
>
> "I don't think that it is tenable to completely neglect or ignore what
your
> base wants," Melber said.
>
> The Democratic leaders' new openness to Fox reflects the liberal left's
> dimini****ng power, at least at this point in the political cycle. Once
> feared by the Democratic candidates, these activists are now viewed at
least
> in part as an impediment to winning the broad swatch of sup****t needed
to
> clinch the nomination.
>
> Goaded in part by a taunting "Obama Watch" clock displayed by Fox News
> Sunday host Chris Wallace, Obama appeared last Sunday after resisting
the
> show's entreaties throughout the campaign.
>
> Clinton had a civil interview on Wednesday night with prime-time host
Bill O'Reilly,
> who has often mocked her husband.
>
> And Dean will appear this weekend on "Fox News Sunday."
>
> Early in this presidential race, John Edwards led the Democratic
candidates
> in what amounted to a Fox boycott. Edwards appeared on Fox 33 times
between
> August 2000 and January 2007, the month after he announced his campaign,
and
> has never been back.
>
> Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, took the boycott in stride,
> commenting that more Democrats watch Fox than watch CNN or MSNBC, the
> channel's cable news competitors.
>
> Recognizing that Obama's appearance risked incurring blog wrath, a
"senior
> Obama adviser" vowed to Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo before the
> interview that the senator would "take Fox on" during the broadcast.
>
> But the interview turned out to be a civil give and take, with no
pushback
> against Fox. Afterward, Sargent wrote that the pledge had turned out to
be
> merely "a bunch of tough talk."
>
> "This will likely further dismay liberal bloggers who had worked very
hard
> to get Dems to boycott Fox as a way of delegitimizing the network and
who
> already criticized Obama for agreeing to appear in the first place,"
Sargent
> wrote.
>
> Network records show that since the campaign began in January 2007,
Clinton
> has given 13 interviews to Fox News anchors and correspondents, and
Obama
> has given 10.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for
war;
> liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare
> indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
>
>
>
>
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