Fox Derangement Syndrome

J.J. Jackson* | May 5, 2008

Liberals are funny. They don’t try to be funny, but they are. And if you want to see liberals act in such a manner just mention any of a few simple words, names or phrases such as George Bush, patriotism, we are winning the war on terror and, of course, Fox News:

The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.

The detente with Fox has provoked a backlash from progressive bloggers, who contend the party’s leaders are turning their backs on the base — and lending credibility and legitimacy to the network liberals love to hate — in a quest for a few swing votes.

In a span of eight days, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean are all taking their seats with the network that calls itself “fair and balanced” but is widely viewed as skewing conservative.

With the party’s presidential contest reduced to hand-to-hand combat, Democrats are turning to the ratings leader among cable news channels in a clear rebuff to the liberal activists known as the Netroots.

Markos Moulitsas, founder of the leading liberal site Daily Kos, told Politico’s Michael Calderone: “Democrats are being idiotic by going on that network.”

Ari Melber, the Net movement correspondent for The Nation, told Politico by phone that progressive activists and the Netroots are “not happy about it.”

“I don’t think that it is tenable to completely neglect or ignore what your base wants,” Melber said.

Well, when your beliefs are shallow, you need to react in such ways I suppose. I wouldn’t know since my beliefs are not.

Yes, liberal moonbats apparently “want” to listen to lowbrow babble from Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and any number of other shallow thinkers (if you can call them “thinkers”) on Air America that recite the talking points they want to hear.

If it were up to the nimrods at Daily KoS, the Democrat presidential nominees would never appear on any network that didn’t have a decidedly liberal slant. Perhaps they are just upset because they believe that if they would ever watch Fox their heads would explode from the secret signals the evil right wingers have placed on that broadcast band?

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