In article <lIWdnbhnaJ-IVoHVnZ2dnUVZ_sbinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>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.
>
>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.
Ad hominem noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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