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In reply to the discussion: Fox hires Dennis Kucinich as analyst [View all]tblue37
(65,342 posts)did the liberal cause a lot of good when he appeared regularly on FOX. Diehard Teabagger types won't change, obviously, but some Republicans are just ill-informed and inclined to continue to trust and stay with the same party they have always identified with--and in many cases that connection was established when they were kids, simply because everyone around them was a member of the same party. I have a lot of relatives, otherwise wonderful people, who have always been Republicans and who watch FOX and have their worldview deformed by it because they never get any better information.
My father was a career Air Force man. He was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. His whole Sicilian immigrant family is super committed to patriotism, and there's a strong tradition of military service in the family. In fact, I was the first of his kids who didn't join the military!
For people like my relatives, hearing the liberal argument presented by a highly respected general with decades of honored service to his name undoubtedly helped to counter some of the BS they were hearing 24/7 from everyone else on FOX. I am sure that most FOX viewers remained unmoved, but I bet at least a few were influenced by Clark when he was a regular FOX contributor. Some here on DU called him a fool or a traitor for appearing on FOX, but I thought he was helping the liberal cause.
Kucinich won't have Clark's military backgroundd to help him win a modicum of respect from those viewers inclined that way, but he is a staunch, well-spoken liberal, and I cannot imagine Kucinich rolling over or playing doormat with wishy-washy arguments for his liberal views the way most of FOX's token liberals do.
I imagine that for most FOX viewers he will just reinforce their prejudice against what they consider "extreme" leftwing views. But those few who are FOX-viewing Republicans from long habit and circumstance, rather than from inherent nastiness, might be enlightened, at least a bit, when they hear someone speak intelligently and with sincere conviction about beliefs that they have only ever heard presented in the most outrageously false ways by people like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al.