It appears that the Democratic presidential contenders are pretty much all agreed that the FOX News Network is biased in favor of the Republican party and, as a result of that perception, the front runners on the Democratic side are avoiding debates and other media events sponsored by FOX. It has gotten so bad that even when FOX collaborated with the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute to co-host a debate (still scheduled for Sept. 23rd), three of the Democratic front runners, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have refused to attend.
Where on earth could the Democratic elite have gotten the idea that FOX was biased against Democrats and liberals; perhaps because there is some truth to that! But according to Jessie Jackson, the self-appointed spokesman for everyone who is not white! (That, by the way is not an ‘accusation’ that Jackson is a racist — his words and actions speak for themselves.) Fox News is also biased against black Americans! Here is what Jessie Jackson said in an interview with ColorOfChange.org:
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“I am disappointed by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s partnership with FOX and strongly encourage them to reverse that decision. Why would presidential candidates, or an organization that is supposed to advocate for Black Americans, ever give a stamp of legitimacy to a network that continually marginalizes Black leaders and the Black community? FOX moderating a presidential debate on issues of importance to Black Americans is literally letting the Fox guard the henhouse- Fox should be rejected.”
You can see for yourself that Jackson has once again taken a political issue — based solely on conservative vs. liberal points of view and has ‘played the race card,’ turning it into an issue that keeps him (and the Rev. Sharpton) in the spotlight and, no doubt, in the money.
There can be little doubt that Fox News shows favoritism toward conservative positions any more than there can be doubt that CNN and MSNBC show favoritism toward liberal positions. They are all, at least in my opinion, losers by not reporting straight news without the partisan slant but everyone has their own opinions on every issue and that does not exclude the people who report the news. That, however, does not excuse Jessie Jackson’s blatant racism or his baseless implication that Fox News is just news for ‘white folks.’ Jackson’s charge that Fox “marginalizes Black leaders and the Black community” is true in the sense that they show Jackson as what he is: a racist and an opportunist.
Links:
Associated Press: Democrats, Fox News Channel Lock Horns
The Louisiana Weekly: CBC Institute Gets Blistering Criticism for FOX News Debate
What Bloggers are saying:
Greg Prince’s Blog: Faux news Democrats
Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger: WHO’S AFRAID OF FOX NEWS?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have to respectfully take issue with your comments, though I suspect that we may be political blood brothers despite my criticism. The fact that Jesse Jackson, who I personally loathe, claims that Fox News is rascist shouldn’t detract from the fact that it is. I just wish someone else had said it. And to take issue with another of your article’s points, Fox News is not conservative, it’s blatantly Republican, and therein lies a very large difference.
Conservativism is a philosophy, just as liberalism is a philosophy and philosophies only have power in the world of ideas. In reality, the Republican party is a political corporation with real power in the real world of making things happen. The GOP, and I know this to be true, since my family has been oddball Republicans since 1860 (we actually believe in racial equality), is owned and operated by card carrying white people. The GOP only marches out a black toady every now and then, particularly for television, to show how unprejudiced they are underneath their white hoods and sheets.
That Fox News is so obviously the propaganda arm of a political party is reprehensible. Even CNN and MSNBC’s liberal lunkheads: Wolf Blitzer, Paula Zahn, and the man who doesn’t know what he is, Chris Mathews, pale in comparison to the obnoxiously biased “Beltway Boys,” Shawn Headcase Hannity and Britt Hume, as well as a major cast of minor flunkies who should all be wearing swaztikas and Charlie Chaplin mustaches. Even their “liberals” would fit in well at DAR meetings.
To prove my point, if you listen carefully, or not so carefully if you have half a brain in your head, to the loaded questions asked by Fox interviewers of Democratic guests, you will hear not just a tendency to ask “have you quit beating your wife yet,” but a constant barrage of the unfair practice. It’s gotten so bad that even this old Republican has stopped watching the bastards and voting for Republicans for that matter. Which “puts me in a serious pickle,” to quote Nero Wolfe.
Since I stopped believing that there’s actually a two party system in the USA, I can no longer even feel content that I’d be hurting the party of Bush by voting for the party of Clinton. After all, as far as I can telly, they’re both on the same team.
A Clinton’s primary job appears to have been to create the circumstances (destroying the nation’s intelligence community and a bubble economy based on shipping jobs overseas) that has allowed Bush to move full speed ahead into a war that only benefits rich traitors and to bankrupt the nation by finishing off the manufacturing industry that Bill Clinton had started.
A few years from now, I think I’ll be able to say that it was George Bush who set up the circumstances (creating a “conservative,” i.e., National Socialist’s Party” judicial system and our impending bankruptcy) for Hillary Clinton to straight jacket Americans with Orwellian-Stalinesque political correctness designed to strangle us with rules and regulations and conscript are children into fighting the unnecessary but profitable war George Bush has started.
Look, obviously you must know by now, particularly after the above tirade that I don’t believe in the bullshit Liberal/Conservative battle because it’s so obviously only a device used by the elite to keep the riffraff divided and their index fingers from pulling triggers aimed at them. Still, even in this world of illusion. Fox News has overstepped its role.
None of the other channels, no matter how liberal they seem, act in such a concerted manner against the opposition. There is no Democratic (not Democrat) Party entertainment division. So please, do not try to compare the two. As far as Fox News is concerned, there is no comparison of their strategy to anyone or anything since Joseph Goebbels died.
Incidentally, before I sign off I’d just like to put my politcal philosophy in a nutshell so there can be no confusion where I stand. I honestly believe that the only job of the right is to push us left and only job of the left is to push us to the right. In that manner, the country is country being shoved off its feet and out of sync. Economically, the US has served the purpose of transferring money from the west to the east magnificently and will, in the next 20 years go back to being the backwater influence it was before the 2nd world war. But then what do I know? I’m just some lonely voice in wilderness crying out “Watch out for the bear trap, you assholes!”
Thanks for commenting!
On your charge that Fox News is racist I’ll have to disagree simply because I’ve seen no indication of that. I do agree, however, that FOX is the ‘Republican News Network’ not the ‘Conservative News Network’ — accusing them of being conservative was a very sloppy choice of words on my part. The Republican party, as it is, has wandered far from Conservative principles and Fox is wandering with it.
I think, however, your charges of racism on the part of Fox is a bit overstated. Fox has a number of black anchors and black and hispanic reporters — the upper management may be white but their programming and selection of guests certainly don’t point to racism. Fox is a business, no more and no less; there is no room for racism in a business that operates on a national level — not if the business wants to stay in business. Is Fox blatently anti-Democratic Party? You bet they are! That IS apparently good business — and they have the ratings to prove it.
As for the GOP, the Democrats, just to promote their own causes, may accuse the GOP of being racist but the reality is the GOP is no more (or less) racist than the Democratic party. It may be (and I’ll take your word for it that it IS) “owned and operated by card carrying white people” but that fact is hardly justification for considering it racist. There are more than a few of us white folks who believe in equality.
Frankly the “hoods and sheets” reference in relation to the GOP and your suggestion that the Fox news crew “should all be wearing swaztikas” makes me doubt your ability to judge the situation rationally.
We are agreed that the entire political system has clearly become corrupted and something needs to be done to fix it. I wish I knew what the “something” is!
Jessie Jackson is a major bigot himself. He has little justification to be pointing fingers at anyone
I agree fox news is racist, and you have beck, oreilly, huckabee and alot of right winged so called christians using the founding fathers argument to justify their racism! our founding fathers started slavery and kept it going for hundreds of years…so if you’re going to tell a story tell all of it!
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