posted 2007/04/15 at 20:52
Democrats, Fox News Channel lock horns (AP via Yahoo! News)
I've always wondered why the Democrats haven't been as vocal about the obvious bias and other problems with Fox News, and why they didn't start to do things like refuse debate invitations/interview requests from Fox News sooner. It particularly struck me as odd that John Edwards, of all people, would be the first high-profile Democrat to turn down Fox News in such a public manner. This article raises an interesting point, though, namely that Bill Clinton's fighting back against Chris Wallace's ambush interview questions back last September may have been the moment where Democrats really started to fight back against Fox News. I hadn't considered it before, but now it makes perfect sense to me.
This still reminds me of how sick I am of how tied to the Clintons the Democrats are, though. Just like the Democratic Party as a whole never really pushed the anti-war thing to an appreciable extent until Hillary did her big turnaround after the election, this seems like another example of a very large section of the Democratic Party being led around by the nose by the Clintons. It's not that I understand the allure of the Clintons -- Bill is probably the most brilliant political mind of his generation, and Hillary is right up there as well -- but the Clinton strategy of running to the centre didn't work for Gore, and it didn't work for Kerry. The strategy only seems to work for the Clintons themselves, which is why I think, for all that the true liberals in the Democratic Party are casting Barack Obama as the big hope for everyone, Hillary will likely make mincemeat of him in the primary.
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