Two Fox News Contributors Claim They're Still Democrats To Kill Health Care

[marmar]

from ourfuture.org:



Two Fox News Contributors Claim They're Still Democrats To Kill Health Care
By Bill Scher

March 12, 2010 - 10:33am ET


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The Washington Post today published an op-ed by Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, who defined themselves as "pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton" who are heroically telling the current President that the polls say "Comprehensive health care has been lost," so they should give up on it.

For political advice to President Obama, this is about as sincere and honest as what he's getting from Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Caddell and Schoen may have once been Democratic presidential pollsters, but they are no longer. They are now, among other things, contributors to Fox News (which, by the way, is throwing away any pretense of being a "news" organization and literally asking it's predominantly conservative audience to lobby their congresspeople on health care.)

On Fox News, Caddell has become just another right-wing smear merchant, feeding Glenn Beck elaborate conspiracy theories of Chicago cronyism and ties to radical extremists, while complaining that the Democrats aren't heeding the rantings of the Tea Party fringe.

And Schoen has been lying about the President's health care strategy on Fox from the beginning, falsely saying it does nothing to control costs.

Earlier this week, Schoen penned a Wall Street Journal oped with conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen asserting that "President Obama can't move the numbers and build public support is because the fundamentals are stacked against him." Which only left out the part about how the President has moved the numbers since his health care summit.

These two have been pollsters, that's about all that is true in their oped.

Just being a pollster does not automatically mean you are good and sincere analyst of poll numbers. You can just as easily be a dishonest hack.


http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010031012/two-fox-news-contributors-claim-theyre-still-democrats-kill-health-care

[stray cat]

1. Many DUers are against the bill a well - opinion is pretty divided

and many prefer to opt out of health insurance but its not clear they would also opt out of heath care

[tularetom]

2. The "Fox Democrat" is a particularly odd mutant subspecies

Apparently they've been able to dig up a number disaffected and disgruntled Dems over the years, who they then parade on all their silly ass shows to prove that "even" Democrats agree with the right wing drivel featured 24/7 on their network.

[Champion Jack]

3. Well sure they are, but, when has the fox opinion channel ever been correct?