She doesn't want to support "Hate-For-Profit-TV"
She is making a mistake.
Fox News plays an important role. It shows which Democratic candidates knows how to handle themselves in a cage fight.
On this, as on every other subject, Democrats can disagree.
A Google Search brings up the screen below:
Bill Maher at HBO says she is "wrong."
Smerkonish at CNN says she is "right."
Chris Matthews at MSNBC says she is "smart."
Bill Maher at HBO says she is "wrong."
Smerkonish at CNN says she is "right."
Chris Matthews at MSNBC says she is "smart."
Warren makes a solid point. Fox News is really a version of State-TV and that their opinion shows are essentially a Trump Infomercial. She doesn't want to support a business model that pretends to be journalism, but isn't.
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Of course Fox News is not fair and balanced. Of course it is hostile. That is the point.
That is why is is an opportunity.
That is why is is an opportunity.
The single most important qualifying characteristic for the Democratic candidate is to prove to the Democratic electorate that he or she knows how to stand up to Trump, to Fox, and to what we all know will be withering, nasty, personal attacks.
Warren already lost "Round One" of the confrontation with Trump. He called her Pocahontas. She might have greeted the insult with "You're darned right I am Pocahontas, proud of it. A strong woman with a proud heritage." Or, the "Broke-ahontas" retort, hitting back at Trump's legitimacy, with "Better Pocahontas than Broke-ahontas."
Too late. She needs a re-do, and Fox would provide it. Democrats need to go on the show, be fearless, be as relentless and uncompromising as Trump. It is a showcase. She needs Fox. She needs to kick ass.
Meanwhile, Thad Guyer:
Maybe Fox News is actually carrying out a clever subterfuge of the Democratic nomination process. Fox debates have the potential to create matchups that are far more interesting television than will the 10-person free for all messes that the DNC plans.
Fox will do the "seeding" of their debate shows, and that process will be the ones that have credibility and impact.
Guyer: “Fox News Shapes the Primaries—for Democrats”
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"Political irony should never be underestimated; indeed, Trump has recalibrated our political irony index. Democratic primary hopefuls now clamor for a “Fox townhall” as the Democratic National Committee reiterates that Fox will get not one of the official debates. That the DNC edict “Fox News must be kept out of the primaries” has boomeranged to Fox News being the most coveted media forum, well that’s political irony of the first order.
If only it were just irony. Elizabeth Warren has fired a backhanded salvo against Bernie, Mayor Pete, and the others with her “refusal” to accept a Fox News townhall because it’s “a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists." Take that Bernie Bros and Petophiles! Yet, the megaphone of hate and conspiracy, ironically, is being held by Warren herself. Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson may well be hate mongers at Fox just as Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews are at MSNBC, but these are tribal personalities on the “opinion side” of the media outlets. No one considers Chris Wallace and Shep Smith on the “newsroom side” as anything other than credible journalists like Katy Tur and Hallie Jackson are at MSNBC.
In a word, Senator Warren has indicted Sanders and Buttigieg as “complicit”. Supporters of those two white men have fired back that Warren has gullibly taken Fox’s bigotry bait. If the purpose of Fox in promoting these Democratic townhalls (in defiance of the DNC) is to divide Democrats to insure Trump’s reelection, then the strategy appears to be off to a great start. In a field of 24 candidates struggling to break into double digit polling, there will be no shortage of Democratic candidates jockeying for the Fox cameras.
Fox News may soon be the executive producer of the Democratic 2020 primaries. That is far more than mere political irony."
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At some point we have to stop all the political calculating and behave as if we have a conscience.
This is Sen. Warren's "deplorable" moment, where she speaks the truth no one else will. It doesn't matter whether it advantages her politically or not (it will). Hillary didn't follow through after her no doubt imprudent comment. She should have. Pretending Regressives are somehow worthy of compromise or persuadable ends up in Missouri, where recently one heard “Pregnancy by rape is God’s Silver Lining” (Missouri Rep. Tila Hubrecht).
Yes, moderate Democrats are terrified of those on the "far left", and as Bernie hits the rocking chair as the father of New Progressivism, Sen. Warren has shown that she is the rightful inheritor of the movement, providing those poor trembling souls with an opportunity to unite the party. Let's hope they take it.
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