Sunday, March 11, 2007

About damn time ...

Much as I'm still pissed at the Edwards camp for the way they handled the Shakes/Amanda thing, I've got to hand it to 'em for standing up to Fox:

You may have heard by now that John Edwards was the first candidate to officially say no to the Fox News debate in Nevada -- and because of the hard work of so many grassroots and netroots Democrats, news is breaking tonight that Fox is out.

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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:

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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.

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Excellent and I hope other Dem candidates (and Independents other than Lieberman) adopt this posture toward Fox until they clean up their collective act or go out of business.

Great thanks to C&L.


Update:

More from Booman:

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And if we can slice FOX News off the right-fringe of the corporate media, making them look disreputable and biased, we will have done a great deal to move the overall debate back a little to the center.

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