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Nevada Democrats Gamble With Fox News

The Democratic Party and Fox News -- you couldn't think of much stranger bedfellows. And that explains why Democratic bloggers are angry with the Nevada Democratic Party for picking Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio to host and broadcast a debate of Democratic presidential contenders in Reno, Nev., come August.

Here is a sampling of the outrage:

-- Americablog: "The entire audience will be stuck, momentarily, watching Fox's hacks spin the debate against every candidate. I think we can do better."

-- Daily Kos: "Any presidential candidate who does the debate will further validate the conservative machine's propaganda machine. At a time when Democrats should be doing everything to destroy the network's credibility, they are planning to do the opposite."

-- MyDD: "Fox News is a partisan Republican propaganda shop that hosts 'news anchors' that call Democrats traitors on a fairly regular basis. This is not a channel that deserves legitimacy. They will screw us."

The netroots are so irritated by the planned debate that they are pressuring Nevada Democrats to reverse course on it. BlogPAC, an initiative run by Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller of MyDD, has a petition online that lets readers e-mail several Nevada Democrats at once. At last count, 2,500 people had participated in the effort.

The petition poses an interesting alternative to broadcasting the debate on television: "just stream it on the Internet where progressive blogs can carry it."

The online activist group MoveOn also reportedly is planning a campaign to challenge the choice of Fox as the debate host. "I sure hope someone tfrom the state party is reading this," Reno and Its Discontents noted. You might want to brace yourself. The Moveon.org campaign makes more sense to me than the online petition because it will be paired with a media assault against Fox News’ status as a news agency."

Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, a regular commentator at Fox, dismissed the outcry as "Fox News Derangement Syndrome."

Posted by Danny | 12:25 PM

Comments

Nevada is a red state, and it will remain so. If the Dumbocrats want to play here, they use our "cards".

Topaz Pete | 02.22.07 06:44 PM

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