Comments on: Fox News in talks with Congressional Black Caucus to co-sponsor debates; Update: Dems cave to Kossacks, pull out of Nevada debate

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Michelle on The Factor

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Michelle on The Factor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:53:59 +0000

[...] The answer to the first is easy: Fox is a right-wing mouthpiece for the Bush administration, even though it criticizes Bush as often as anyone and routinely gives air time to Bob Beckel, Pat Caddell, Ellis Henniken, Laura Schwartz and Kirsten Powers, among other notable Democrat strategists. Make sense? If it does, then to borrow from Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a liberal. Make no mistake — there is a lot of white hot rage directed at Fox from many vantages on the left. Howard Dean threatened to investigate and possibly break up NewsCorp if the voters made him president back in 2004; they wisely demurred. The Democrat presidential candidates made a big show of skittering away from a debate that would have been hosted by Fox earlier this year. Leftwing mau mau mouthpiece Media Matters even wastes a chunk of its Soros money keeping tabs on people who appear on Fox, and criticizes them from the hard, hard left for what they say and do when they appear on FNC. Here’s its dossier on Pat Caddell, for instance, where you’ll learn that David Horowitz once said that Pat Caddell is a “Democrat with a a conscience.” Good to know. Plus Kirsten, that makes two. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Nutroots heartbreak: Fox News to co-sponsor Democratic primary debate in Detroit

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:45:24 +0000

[...] With the Congressional Black Caucus on September 23rd. Does Silky Pony dare turn his back on an event with the CBC’s imprimatur of “absolute moral authority”? I suspect he dareth not. [...]

By: Much ado about… what? « Azman Family Politics

Much ado about… what? « Azman Family Politics — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:30:13 +0000

[...] So what’s the big deal? Let’s assume the firings were political. In politics, it’s ok to be political. All three stories stated clearly that the U.S. attorneys serve “at the pleasure of the president.” Some say that influential Republicans applied pressure on those who would listen to have these attorneys fired. Seems a bit hypocritical to me. When influential Republicans apply pressure and demand politicians do what they say, it’s “bad politics.” But when influential Democrats apply pressure and demand politicians do what they say, it’s “good politics.” Will the small but very, VERY vocal minority of the Democrats who are far, FAR left not stop until every politican takes his cue from them? [...]

By: ThatPoliticalBlog

ThatPoliticalBlog — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:09:49 +0000

Politico: Reid nixed Fox debate after being told his dKos polling was down…

Well I have said all along that the Democrat party is nothing more than a mish mash of special interest groups. It is held together by power hungry politicians all too eager to take the special interest money. And in the name of so called "tolera…

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Politico: Reid nixed Fox debate after being told his dKos polling was down

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:20:49 +0000

[...] Another “top Democratic official” credits the nutroots with having played a “significant role” but insists the decision was about Fox’s attacks on Obama and (non-)threats against Edwards. Unlikely: Obama laughed off Ailes’s joke and, as Brit Hume conceded yesterday, Edwards is the one with all the leverage vis-a-vis Fox. Clearly this was done to appease the nutroots. But why? Ponder that while you digest our quote of the day: MoveOn is now doing victory laps. “We hope that this sends a clear message to states like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and presidential contenders that Fox is a right-wing mouthpiece. We hope the result is that Fox is permanently chilled within Democratic circles from being considered a neutral news source worth legitimizing,” said MoveOn organizer Adam Green. [...]

By: right2bright

right2bright — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:33:34 +0000

Fritz on March 10, 2007 at 10:30 AM

No way that will happen. The MSM is glad to see Fox taken down a notch. They are in it to make money and Fox is in their way. The MSM could care less about free speach…it ain’t free if they have advertisers.

By: doingwhatican

doingwhatican — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:59:26 +0000

I call it the “PuffHo’. Ariana Huffington is a phony and not at all worthy of attention.

“The planes were going there anyway….” Or some such nonsense.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:24:59 +0000

But I think I’ve been banned by ~~HuffPo~~ HuffPoo…

Ohhhhhhhhh the irony.

foxforce91 on March 10, 2007 at 2:42 PM

foxforce91, you’re welcome. Regards,

By: doingwhatican

doingwhatican — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:42:05 +0000

The “cut and run” crowd doing what they know best….redeploying.

Fox has the largest audience of all the news outlets. Rather than “getting their message out” to many, the dems gather up their marbles and leave in a huff. Their hatred for anything or anyone Conservative trumps common sense.

“Fairness Doctrine”. Shutting down any news organization that does not agree with them and their socialist agenda.

Finally, it was a Bush joke, not an Osama Obama joke.

By: ctmom

ctmom — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:31:50 +0000

It would be interesting to know if there were other speakers at this ceremony and how badly the administration was ripped. Roger Ailes is my hero!

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Audio: Nutroots blogger unloads on Kos for being a centrist sell-out

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:15:28 +0000

[...] Delightful yet predictable, as it always is when movements based on ideological purity and “authenticity” start to eat their own. Calling Kos a centrist is as stupid as the Kossacks calling the media right-wing, but her point about his opportunism isn’t far off the mark. Kos was only too happy last summer to have some attention paid to him by moderate Dem Mark Warner (“this is a heck of a first date!”) and the Blunder Twins were surprisingly willing to clean up their act when John Edwards came calling. Like I said at the time, “The first priority for the fightin’ nutroots, even above ending the war, is cultivating their own power. And if they have to make ideological compromises to do that, hey.” That’s O’Connor’s real complaint here, I think, not Screw Them’s alleged centrism. [...]

By: The Autopsy

The Autopsy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:52:24 +0000

Fox, the Dems and Debates…

The NSDP pretty much torpedoed this event, but it took a move by John Edwards to do it. I’d have to believe that someone got a phone call from Obama, Hillary, or both, and the leverage was laid on the NSDP to nix the debate so that the two front-runn….

By: Nethicus

Nethicus — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:45:57 +0000

As I mention at The Autopsy, the reason the NSDP is ditching the debate is because they talked it over with Hillary and/or Obama. Since neither wants to upset the nutroots (money!) and they don't want to upset swing votes by snubbing a debate on Fox (votes!), they swung the hammer at the NSDP and had them nix the debate to insulate Hillobama from damage.

By: foxforce91

foxforce91 — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:42:04 +0000

I tried to post on HuffPo – asking why would you want your candidates just to preach to the choir? And if Fox News viewers are so stupid, shouldn’t it be easy to convince them of your candidates’ ideas? If it’s the #1 cable news network, why deny your candidates the much needed exposure they need, particularly to the people who supposedly need it most? But I think I’ve been banned by HuffPo. The comment thing thanked me for my comment but it never posted, (I kept checking back – still nothing.) So I guess they’re all chickens when it comes to free speech. Not only do they ban me, (I’m assuming) when I’ve deliberately never gotten personal, but they’re so passive-agressive about it – so chicken-s$#@ about it. Ohhhhhhhhh the irony.

By: gary

gary — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:21:48 +0000

I am boycotting Katie Couric. Oh wait, that has already happened.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:30:22 +0000

I would not be surprised if the other major networks step in and defend Fox. While the leftists don’t believe in free speech, the other networks do. To allow this tactic to stand would be a mistake. Watch how fast they will backpedal.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:11:41 +0000

The best part of this is that Edwards is beginning to be the nutroots favorite son.

The mark of death. When middle America gets a glimpse at his supporters…say good bye Mr. Edwards.

Maybe Edwards can get Ned to run with him, Ned had all of that support.

By: B Moe

B Moe — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:15:23 +0000

That Kos comment thread is a classic, if you want to see some insane spinning load up on Dramamine and take a ride on that puppy.

By: rplat

rplat — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:54:50 +0000

The Democrats and the moonbat leftist cults that own their party are simply running true to form . . . cut, run, surrender, give up, and don’t show up for debates on FOX.

By: flataffect

flataffect — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:58:46 +0000

The Republicans have dealt with a hostile press ever since Vietnam, and an emboldened one after Watergate. The media in the past six years has thrown off any pretense to objectivity or being nonpartisan.

What’s the problem with Dems? We already know they don’t believe in Freedom of Religion. Don’t they believe in Freedom of the Press or Freedom of Speech, either? They’re dying to reinstate the “dullness fairness doctrine” to shut down talk radio. I’m feeling pretty good about 2008 right now.

By: LewWaters

LewWaters — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:18:32 +0000

The kooks at DailyKOS are ecstatic over this.

A quote I stumbled across from their god, Noam Chomsky, [media control] “when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.”

History is repeating itself before our eyes.

By: RBMN

RBMN — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:53:51 +0000

I’m still looking for the actual Ailes quote (what Roger Ailes said about Sen. Obama) that was so “bad.”

If I had to guess, off the top of my head, I’d say Ailes may have just quoted Ted Kennedy and his Press Club gaffe:

From:
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) speech at the National Press Club on the future of the Democratic party
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

excerpt:

MODERATOR: This person asks, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected with over 80 percent of the vote, and over a million of those voters were also President Bush voters. What did Senator Obama do that Senator Kerry and other Democrats not do? And do you think the Democrats need to move toward the center to recapture the majority position? And finally, If a Democrat wins the next presidential election, what are the most difficult problems he or she will face in 2008?

KENNEDY: There you go. Why don’t we just ask Osama bin — Osama Obama — Obama what — since he won by such a big amount. Seriously, Senator Obama is really unique and special.

By: csdeven

csdeven — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:27:36 +0000

I know this is way off topic, but did anyone else hear Bob Beckel (or someone) call Michael Reagan a “bastard” tonight on H&C?

I dvr’d it and rewound it a few times and I swear I hear the word “bastard”. It comes right around 2:15 into the program. Colmes just says something about the the “temerity of a plan” and goes to Michael Reagan. Michael starts talking and you hear some papers shuffling and then comes the word. I wasn’t sure who said it until the end of the segment with Beckel and Reagan and Sean says something about “appeasing democrates” and Beckel says under his breath “appease this”. I’m sure it was Beckel who called Reagan a bastard.

Does anyone but me think this is a story in light of the Ann Coultry remark?

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:24:24 +0000

Everyone’s eating out of Kos’s dog bowl.

Pavlovian!

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:57:30 +0000

So what’s wrong with Nevada? We residents were looking forward to the stupidity of a Dhemocrat debate.

Debate? Debate what? All they do is take polls. You can’t have a “position” if you don’t have some sort, any sort, of philisophical construct that guides you.

The founding fathers had the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to guide them. Edwards has hair spray and preening narcissism as his guide.