Fox News' Neil Cavuto: Please Come Back, Dems! Please! We Need You!

[meegbear]

This video, in which Fox News' Neil Cavuto practically pleads with top Democrats to stop shunning the network, tells you all you need to know about why the Dems' boycott of the network is paying off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjau4sICsJ0

Best Cavuto quote: "Our offer still stands for any of them to come on this show at any time." This is very good -- a simple and elegant way for Dems to keep grinding the network's nearly nonexistent credibility deeper and deeper into the dirt. Just keep saying, "Nope, sorry, not coming on. You're a propaganda organ. End of story." Is there any doubt from Cavuto's plea that Fox realizes just how damaging this Dem boycott could prove in the long term?

Also priceless: The only Dem Fox could get to come on was...Gary Hart.

That the leading Dem candidates declined Fox's invite gives me an excuse to make one of my pet points yet again: It really is remarkable how it's now de rigeur for the Dem candidates to push back very aggressively against right-wing and even mainstream media figures, on behalf of themselves and others, in order to appeal to the Netroots and Dem primary voters in general.

From Elizabeth Edwards' attacks on Ann Coulter to Chris Dodd flaying Bill O'Reilly in his own studio, this sort of pushback has now become an indispensable tool in the political arsenal of Democratic Presidential candidates. In essence, certain aspects of the media critique pushed for so many years in the lib blogosphere have very clearly now gone mainstream in Democratic politics. Without getting too Pollyannaish, this is a very good development -- it amplifies the critique considerably, conceivably helping to force the mainstream dudes to tune into it a bit more.

Best of all, it's making the Neil Cavutos of the world whimper and grovel. Let's hope Dems don't let up any time soon.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/08/fox_news_neil_c.php

[Sapere aude]

1. I remember a lot of folks saying, "we can't do or say that the wingnuts will get us for it"!

[BOSSHOG]

2. It was, after all

the conservative republicans who changed the tone. reagan finding no use for the fairness doctrine, giving birth to trash like limbaugh and hannity, who are scared to death of the fairness doctrine. Dems tried to play nice and civil and decent and they have discovered that doesn't get them anywhere. John Kerry who took bullets in a war tried to be a civil human being in 2004. The gloves should have come off then. Although I think cavuto might be a tad sarcastic, in the private moments of scum like him, they must realize that the faux news reputation and those who work for it are irrevocably tarnished. There is nothing journalistic about their product and absolutely no need for any politician with integrity to go onboard their shows. The fact the republicans still do proves my point.

[janx]

3. That's hilarious!

:rofl:

[skids]

4. Nope sorry, you're stuck with your foamy mouthed crazies...

...we're done making you seem reasonable by deigning to set them straight on air. They are off the leash now, being you aren't smart enough to keep them on it. Let them open their mouths wide and remove all doubt that they are blithering fools. You might even get some comedy value out of it, as some people tune in to watch the "cons" disintegrate into a quivering puddle of alzheimers and torrets.