Opinion: Why are Democrats so scared of Fox News?
had convinced him that the network had become too cozy with President Donald Trump and was therefore “not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates.”reported
Monday, Fox hasn’t hosted a Democratic presidential debate in more than 15 years. In 2007, Democrats agreed to partner with Fox in a presidential candidate debate but canceled after Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes cracked a rude joke about Barack Obama in a speech. “It’s true that Barack Obama is on the move,”
, deliberately playing on the similarities of Obama’s name to that of Osama Bin Laden. “I don’t know if it’s true that President Bush called Musharraf and said. ‘Why can’t we catch this guy?’”then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on giving Fox a shot at one of that cycle’s Democratic debates, the prospect was still out of the question. “You’ve had six debates so far. I think you have four more on the books,” said Baier.
Rather than illustrating growing political polarization or deepening radicalization at the already radical Fox, the Perez disinvitation mostly reasserts the status quo arrangement — that the Dems see little percentage in playing ball with Fox this year or any presidential campaign year. The idea that thestory could have alerted Perez to some previously hidden right-wing, anti-Democratic Party tendencies at Fox is hilarious.
The Democrats aren’t the only party willing to spurning a cable news network over presidential primary debates. In 2013, the Republican National Committee originally voted towas a planned Hillary Clinton documentary and a planned Hillary Clinton miniseries starring Diane Lane as Hillary . Within weeks, both networks
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