Reply #81: Dean has no brain? Kucinich? Rangel?

[Jai4WKC08]

Those are the Democrats I can remember seeing on Fox recently. I'm sure there have been others.

Fox has a larger market share than all the other 24/7 cable news networks combined. About a quarter of Fox viewers identify themselves as Democrats. Add in independents and moderate Repubs and you have the majority of the Fox audience.

None of these people think Fox is biased. Many have bought into the GOP propaganda that the rest of the media is liberal and only Fox is "fair and balanced." I guess the rest just like bright colors or the coverage of bullshit stories about celebrity crime and missing white women. Ok, so they're either stupid or very ill-informed (well, except for the more than a few who are forced to watch at work). But it doesn't matter why they watch. Fact is, they do. And they vote. You want them to only hear the news from the RW shills who are the Fox staple?

Have you ever actually watched Clark on Fox? Or read any of the accounts at Newshounds.org? He kicks ass. Shows Hannity and O'Reilly for the lying, whining assholes they are. Sets the record straight on the news programs. And by being a semi-regular, they can't diss him after his segment is over, or on any of the other shows either. It's a brilliant strategy.

But sure. Let's have strong, articulate Democrats stay off Fox. Let 'em speak only to people who already support Democratic policy and vote for Democratic candidates. Yeah, that's a great way to win back the Congress in '06. :sarcasm:

I can't see where you get your "He's serving himself." Clark's Fox appearances are doing a helluva lot of good for the party. Sure, I hope it will help him in '08, but probably not so much in the primaries. It may actually hurt him, and he knows it. He's doing it to change perceptions of Democrats in general, and that helps us all.