"There's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform" John Edwards

[Coexist]

"there's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they're objective." John Edwards

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/50285/

Showing striking leadership, presidential candidate John Edwards, encouraged by Black activists, Black bloggers and Jesse Jackson, dropped out of a scheduled debate for September to be sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Fox News.

Edwards deputy campaign manager Jonathan Prince explained to the AP, "there's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they're objective." The Edwards campaign went out of its way to point out that Edwards planned to participate in a CBC debate hosted by CNN. The Democratic National Committee has also come out in opposition to the Fox debates, excluding them from the six debates they plan to sanction.

Edwards previously ditched a Fox debate planned for Nevada that was sponsored by the Nevada Democratic party and others. With Edwards out and significant pressure from MoveOn and a gaggle of persistent bloggers, the Nevada Democratic party decided to abandon the Nevada event, causing all sorts of screaming from Fox mouthpieces.

Please don't do it, Senator Obama... I came to you from John Edwards - please honor his wishes here.

[TexasObserver]

1. Spoken like a TRUE Democrat!!

Edwards is a real Democrat, not a DLC knockoff.

[screembloodymurder]

2. !00% agree.

Cooperating with propagandist gives credence to their lies.

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. Obama promised BillO that he would go on his show...remember?

[Tarc]

4. I think it is a sign of maturity to be willing to face the devil

Both Clinton and Obama should be willing to do this. All they have to both do is deflect the attempts by the moderator/sock puppet to get them to snipe at each other, and turn ever thing into a slam of Bush and the Republican candidates.

[frogcycle]

5. I saw Hillary interviewed by that chris wallace that Bill locked horns with

wallace was his usual smirking smarmy self, and she did a fine job

singling out Fox as the worst of the worst is starting to be cutting the others undeserved slack

blitzer is a fox in wolf's clothing

and have you ever listened to glen beck or lou dobbs?

[Coexist]

6. has anyone on CNN called John Edwards a "faggot"

has anyone on CNN compared Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden?

We should not give them the credibility.

[Yael]

8. It isn't facing any devil -- it is giving creedence to that network as a legitimate news source

They face each other.

Edwards faced the devil.

HUGE difference.

[harun]

11. The devil deserves respect, FOX doesn't (n/t)

[Bucky]

7. Phew. I thought for a minute Edwards was attacking Michael J Fox

Of course it'd be silly to deny Fox News full press access to the convention, given their hefty market share. Edwards is either pandering or turning press censor here. Neither is an acceptable tactic.

If Fox News viewers get to see the speeches of Democratic candidates, how is that a bad thing?

[Coexist]

9. its not about the convention, its about a debate on Fox news

with Fox news moderators.

[Kurovski]

10. Pardon me or not, but FOX is a toilet everyone should be shitting into daily.

Nothing more, nothing less.