{"id":1400,"date":"2009-09-14T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-09-15T08:26:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T15:26:44","slug":"wtg-obama-stiffs-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"WTG: Obama Stiffs Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama will appear<\/a> on five of the Sunday news programs this weekend. Apparently this is a notable achievement immortalized by William Ginsburg, attorney for Monica Lewinsky in 1998. It has since become known as “the Full Ginsburg.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The difference in this instance is that Ginsburg appeared on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox. But Obama has ditched Fox and replaced it with Univision.<\/p>\n

Obama has gone off the reservation in the past, consenting to interviews with Chris Wallace, Bill O’Reilly, and others. It isn’t to late for him to squeeze in Fox if he wants to. That would be unfortunate. This administration has already caved in to right wing pressure on too many important matters – from health care to Van Jones. This would be a good time to demonstrate that the network that is so openly hostile to the President and his agenda, the network that employs a man who has called the President a racist, does not deserve to be graced with his presence.<\/p>\n

It would be best if no one from the Democratic or progressive communities ever appeared on Fox News. As I have written in Starve the Beast<\/a>, Fox News is focused on doing as much harm as possible to Democrats. They will exploit every opportunity to make them look bad and to disparage their political goals. Fox News spends 24 hours of every day debasing the debate on vital issues and promoting incivility and even hostility. It is not a serious venue – it is a circus.<\/p>\n

There is simply no justification for rewarding Fox with a presidential booking – or any booking at all. Obama is doing the right thing by turning his back on Fox. Let’s just hope he doesn’t change his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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