Fox and CNN consultants who are "conservative" Democrats are making my head reel.

[madfloridian]

We just found out that Harold Ford is going to be a Fox talking head in addition to being the chairman of the DLC.

We already knew that James Carville and Paul Begala are talking heads at CNN. In fact James Carville used his job as consultant to say on air in public right after we won an election that Howard Dean should step down as chair and that Harold Ford should replace him.

Today we find out that the Doug Schoen who spoke out against Democrats who did not want to hold the debate on Fox News is himself a Fox News consultant. He was apparently on KCRW radio with Adam Green from MoveOn. I gather he did not say that he was a Fox conultant while he was criticizing Democrats.

Democrats, Fox News and the Internet

There is audio at the site.

Do you know who that Doug Schoen is? He is partnered with Mark Penn, one of Hillary's main advisors in the company that does the polling for Hillary's campaign.

Exit polling throughout the world

Nothing wrong with that of course. Heck, Carville works for her as well, and even implied the Clintons did not tell him to stop his attacks on Dean. Begala is the one of Vermont asshole comment fame....remember that? He said Howard Dean was an a**hole from Vermont.

Begala called Dean an a**hole from Vermont.

At least he said it privately and did not attack him on TV. :shrug:

Well, that was pretty rambling. So, what's my point. I guess my point is the media access some parts of our party have. It is quite amazing really.

I have watched even Keith Olbermann refer only to Clinton and Obama, leaving Edwards out altogether. That seems to be an MSNBC pattern.

I am also concerned that the ones who have that access are NOT saying the things most of us in the party want to hear. They are saying what they want to say, what they want to believe...on most every topic.

I will be curious how they use their access.