Regis Philbin
May 2nd, 2008, 02:17 AM
They want to be on a network that people actually watch... *shrugs* :cool:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10032.html
Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel
By MIKE ALLEN | 5/1/08 10:30 PM EST
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.”
The left has never been about freedom of speech---just freedom to be liberal, that's all. They want all other speech eliminated.
Our guys go on CNN, et. al., all the time. Of course, when 99% of the mainstream media is liberal you don't have a lot of choice. But, we don't care if they want to go on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, etc. We beliveve they can speak to whomever they want about whatever they want.
Reeg, wouldn't you be mad if Mitt Romney went on Air America?
Nope. Don't care who he talks to. I might wonder why he would want to go on a hostile media outlet like that but, hey, if that's what he wants to do, he has every right to do it. We don't believe in Stalinistic controls on speech like the left does. :cool:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10032.html
Fox trumps Netroots; bloggers rebel
By MIKE ALLEN | 5/1/08 10:30 PM EST
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.”
The left has never been about freedom of speech---just freedom to be liberal, that's all. They want all other speech eliminated.
Our guys go on CNN, et. al., all the time. Of course, when 99% of the mainstream media is liberal you don't have a lot of choice. But, we don't care if they want to go on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, etc. We beliveve they can speak to whomever they want about whatever they want.
Reeg, wouldn't you be mad if Mitt Romney went on Air America?
Nope. Don't care who he talks to. I might wonder why he would want to go on a hostile media outlet like that but, hey, if that's what he wants to do, he has every right to do it. We don't believe in Stalinistic controls on speech like the left does. :cool: