I can’t imagine why Democrats didn’t want to have any of their debates in the primary season on Fox News.
At the end of a discussion with a focus group of Democratic Iowan voters, Sean Hannity worked in one of his tirades disguised as a question to the Democrats, asking, among other things, whether or not they support “retreat in Iraq.” Supposedly neutral pollster Frank Luntz, who must have known that was no way to ask a question, repeated it to the polite group and demanded that they answer, “Yes or no.” With video.
Democratic candidates outpoll the GOP field consistently in almost every matchup. They’re at that position without pandering to the propagandists on Fox. This is a good thing.
I don’t recall Hannity being discussed as a moderator in the proposed debates. A fair comparison might be if MSNBC had proposed Keith Olbermann to moderate the Republican debates.
As I’d heard it, Brit Hume and Chris Wallace — two guys with solid journalistic credentials — were being batted around. They would have done a hell of a lot better than that twit from the Iowa newspaper did…
But we’ll never know. The nutroots killed the debate that was being co-sponsored by Fox and the Congressional Black Caucus. I guess the chance that the leading Democratic candidates might have to face real questions from Hume and Wallace was too great a price for access to the highest-rated cable news channel and some great publicity for the CBC…
J.
I guess the chance that the leading Democratic candidates might have to face real questions from Hume and Wallace was too great a price for access to the highest-rated cable news channel and some great publicity for the CBC…
“My oh my,” thought the trout, “That is a mighty plump and juicy worm hanging there on the end of that hook. Why, it might just be worth the sudden inability to breathe, the painful bludgeoning, and the eventual filleting, grilling, and consumption.”
I wish just once that someone would tell him just how stupid he is.
Or say, “is that supposed to be a serious question?
As I’d heard it, Brit Hume and Chris Wallace — two guys with solid journalistic credentials
Really? Solidly harrassing Democrats, and solidly fluffling Republican’ts? Sounds like they’d be perfect moderating a presidential debate (cough)…
I mean, who can forget the Chris Wallace spanking by the Clenis? Or Brit Hume saying that Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky problem = Mark Foley’s underage page problem? Such unbiased reporting! I can only imagine the ‘fair and balanced’ questions they would be asking…
Tom, Foley was excruciatingly careful to NOT go after underage pages. So the guy was a disgusting, vile, repulsive scum, but NOT a criminal.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, violated the sexual harassment laws he’d personally signed.
J.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, violated the sexual harassment laws he’d personally signed.
J.
Remind me again – when was he convicted of violating these laws? what time did he serve? What penalties did the courts give him for violating the sexual harassment laws? Because, until you do, this is just more Republican’t innuendo unsupported by facts. Sorta like the Chris Wallace clips he put on just before trying to play ‘gotcha’ with the Clenis.
Which reminds me – it sure seems funny that you say nothing about the biased ‘journalism’ that Hume and Wallace engage in, and instead nit-picked the Clinton – Foley comparison. Almost like you were unable to handle reality and instead had to resort to the standard Republican’t slime-and-distort tactics. Good job reinforcing the stereotype of the weaselly, dissembling, hypocritical, oafish Republican’t moran.
The sexual harassment laws are civil matters, Tom, not criminal — and hence, no conviction. For example, take OJ Simpson. Acquitted in a criminal trial, found liable in a civil one.
And to most people, if one lies under oath while defending oneself in a civil case, that is pretty much tantamount to an admission of responsibility.
And as far as Hume and Wallace having solid journalistic credentials — I recall Hume spent several years as White House Chief Correspondent for ABC, and won an Emmy for his coverage of the first Iraq War. Wallace was likewise White House Chief Correspondent, but for NBC, and his career highlight was when he caught Ronald Reagan trying to change his story about the arms-for-hostages scandal.
On the other hand, we have Chris Matthews, who worked for Democratic House Speaker Top O’Neill for six years; George Stephanopolous, former top aide to Bill Clinton; Keith Olbermann, sportscaster; and… um…
Who else DO you have, anyway? Al Franken? Jeannine Garofalo? (Who I loved in “Mystery Men,” by the way. VASTLY underrated film.) Glenn “King Of Socks” Greenwald?
J.