{"id":21797,"date":"2014-11-04T08:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21797"},"modified":"2014-11-04T08:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:29:27","slug":"whining-on-fox-news-correspondent-sulks-when-democratic-candidate-snubs-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21797","title":{"rendered":"Whining On Fox News: Correspondent Sulks When Democratic Candidate Snubs Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor thing. Fox News correspondent John Roberts went into a deep depression after he was rejected as a debate moderator by Democratic Senate candidate Michele Nunn of Georgia. Roberts took his mopey lament to Neil Cavuto’s program on Fox News and complained about being shunned by meany Michele saying that…<\/p>\n

“For some reason, the Nunn campaign just does not want to talk to Fox News […] They didn’t like the idea that someone from Fox would be moderating that debate, so out I went.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Out he goes, into the cruel, cold world of right-wing hacks who make a career out of bashing Democrats and liberals. Now, “for some reason,”<\/em> he is reduced to having only Cavuto and the rest of the conservative Fox machine into which his lonely teardrops can fall.<\/p>\n

As usual, Fox is demonstrating their rank hypocrisy by criticizing Nunn for requesting another moderator (who turned out to be a local Fox affiliate anchor). But they haven’t been the least bit critical of Joni Ernst, the GOP senate candidate in Iowa, who has refused to grant ANY interviews with Iowa journalists. However, she did go on Fox News.<\/p>\n

It’s laughable that Fox would try to extract sympathy for being shunned by a Democrat. They know damn well the reason. They are a brazenly hostile enterprise whose mission from day one was to smear progressive values and those who profess them. Roberts fits squarely into that mold, making him an inappropriate moderator for a fair and balanced debate. And in the same segment with Cavuto he provided evidence of why no one at Fox should preside over any debate when he admitted that Fox is just a communications vehicle for the Republican Party, saying that…<\/p>\n

“In states where you’ve got to get independent, Republican votes, doing something with the Fox News Channel is something that they need to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This complaint is even more laughable considering the fact that Republicans are the ones who wrote nixing debate moderators into their campaign handbook. Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced last year that the party intended to handpick their debate moderators and would not countenance any whom they regarded as unfriendly. Discussing debate strategy with Fox News (who else?) he said that<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“I think 23 debates is ridiculous, but the second thing that is ridiculous is allowing moderators, who are not serving the best interests of the candidate and the party, to actually be the people to be deposing our people. And I think that’s totally wrong.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somewhere Priebus got the notion that moderators from the press were supposed to serve the interests of the candidates. Certainly the interest of the voters never entered into it. And to that end he led the party to ban CNN and MSNBC<\/a> from hosting any GOP primary debates. That leaves Fox News as the only cable news network that Priebus considers friendly enough to host his party’s debates.<\/p>\n

While Republicans have openly declared that they have implemented a wholesale ban on moderators they don’t like from across the mediascape for the entire primary season, they are sorely miffed at a Democrat who asked to substitute a single moderator at a single a debate. So when Fox asks “Are candidates limiting media access?”<\/em> you have to wonder why that is so disturbing to them when they don’t care at all if a whole political party does it. It really makes you feel sorry for them, but not in the way they hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poor thing. Fox News correspondent John Roberts went into a deep depression after he was rejected as a debate moderator by Democratic Senate candidate Michele Nunn of Georgia. Roberts took his mopey lament to Neil Cavuto’s program on Fox News and complained about being shunned by meany Michele saying that… “For some reason, the Nunn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Whining Fox News Shill Sulks When Democratic Candidate Snubs Him","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[33,84,1018],"class_list":["post-21797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-john-roberts","tag-reince-priebus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-whining-roberts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5Fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7520,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7520","url_meta":{"origin":21797,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Happy DNC Chair","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/8\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On today's Fox News Sunday, fill-in host John Roberts appeared to be filling in for Mitt Romney's press secretary. 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