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Dems really P.O.'d at Fox for not providing customary liberal bias
Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince sent the following You may have heard by now that Sounds like a two year old to me. Fox has already started striking back at John for saying no. (There's a surprise - Fox attacking a Democrat.) Last night, Roger Ailes - the life-long Republican operative who is now Chairman of Fox News Channel - said that any candidate "who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake" and "is impeding freedom of speech and free press." And John's The whole right-wing is getting in on the attack; the Drudge Report is blaring the headline: "War! Dems Pull Out of Fox News Debate." We're surrounded by all two of them! Are you getting upset now? Enough is enough. It's time to send a clear message to Fox News and their allies that their right-wing talking points and temper tantrums won't go unchallenged anymore - when it comes to what Democrats should do in the Democratic primary, we'll decide - no matter what they report: Hard to do things without the cover of darkness, eh? https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/fox Har har! Get the masses worked up and get them to contribute! Fox News has already proven they have no intention of providing "fair and balanced" coverage of any Democrat in this election. Ah, so you want segregation in the news service? In recent weeks they have run blatant lies about Senator Obama's background. And Fox was only too happy to give Ann Coulter a platform to spew more hate a few days after her bigoted attack on Senator Edwards and the gay community. If you want to interpret things in such a shallow manner to get votes I guess go ahead if your constituents are short-sighted enough to fall for it. Now it's time for Democrats to stand together and send a clear message to Roger Ailes, Fox News and all the rest of them: bias isn't balance, but turning tables is fair. I'm biased this way, you're biased that. Which is more unbalanced? Whatever viewpoint is not yours, I assume. The truth is, Fox News can "report" whatever they want. And when it works for us, we'll deal with them on our terms. But this campaign is about responsibility and accountability, and we need to send the message to Fox that if they want to be the corporate mouthpiece of the Republican Party more than they want to be an impartial news outlet, they shouldn't expect Democrats to play along. So this so-called republican mouthpiece ought to be clamped shut? How democratic of you. Who's next? You can send that message by contributing today, and remind Fox News that in this election, Democrats won't take their spin lying down: I think I'm seeing a pattern here. https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/fox Maybe they're madder now and stupid enough to contribute twice! Thank you for standing up for what we believe in. Yeah, you show 'em Jonathan Prin Deputy Campaign Manager Edward P.S. If the folks at Fox wonder why nobody thinks they play it straight, they should take a look at what Roger Ailes said about debates in 1988 when he was a top Republican spinmaster for then Vice President Bush: He told the Washington Post, "I don't know that we need to do more than one [debate]. There's no reason to think we'd need more than one." And he told the New York Times, "I don't think you learn anything about the issues" from debates. So please send Roger Ailes a message: Hypocrisy isn't fair and it isn't balanced; it's just hypocrisy - and we've had enough of it from you. In the words of the Great Ray Stevens: "And furthermore, in addition to, on top of that: [Razzberry sound]!" Posted by: gorb 2007-03-10 |
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