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Old 05-02-2008, 03:23 AM
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The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.

The detente 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.
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The detente with Fox has provoked a backlash from progressive bloggers, who contend the party’s leaders are turning their backs on the base...
Gotta love the logic...

"You're traitors if you go someplace where they don't have our ideology!!!!!!"...

F-in' pathetic...
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Frankly, for my part, I'd just as soon see the candidates in a three way mud wrestling competition as watch them on Fox. A lot of the truck stops I've been in lately have had that channel on in the restaurant. I'd say to myself, "Wow, finally going to hear some news as it's happening like the rest of the T.V. watchers!"
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They talk about the same stuff as they did 30 minutes or two days ago and then drag out some crock to give an opinion on the "big breaking news story."

Then I read somewhere it is Fox that has that American Idol or survivor or some such trash and I thought, "Oh! Now I get it!"
Fox NEWS (and probably other channels I haven't viewed recently) is the equivalent of Caesar's three ring circus, in my estimation.
Keeping the masses entertained.
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