{"id":731,"date":"2008-01-01T13:04:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T21:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=731"},"modified":"2008-01-01T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T21:04:19","slug":"fox-news-is-scared-of-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Is Scared Of Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FoxA Republican presidential primary forum in New Hampshire is set to proceed<\/a> on January 8, two days before the New Hampshire primary, without the participation of Ron Paul. Paul’s exclusion has understandably infuriated his supporters but it has also revealed a(nother) gaping hypocrisy at Fox News.<\/p>\n

Never mind for the moment that Paul is polling ahead of Fred Thompson, who has been invited to participate. And set aside the fact that Paul has broken fund raising records, accumulating over $19 million dollars in the last quarter.<\/p>\n

The part of this story that I find noteworthy is that Fox News, who has lambasted Democrats for declining to appear in Fox-sponsored debates, is now using questionable criteria to decide whom they will permit to grace their debate stage. Fox thinks it’s inexcusable for Democrats to voluntarily refuse to subject themselves to the abuse of a network that has been overtly hostile to them, but that it’s perfectly swell for the network to involuntarily refuse to allow viable candidates to take part in their supposedly public forums.<\/p>\n

Fox News, and their disciples, has said that Democrats are just scared to appear on the network. Now Paul has accused the network<\/a> of being scared of him:<\/p>\n

“They are scared of me and don’t want my message to get out, but it will. They are propagandists for this war<\/strong> and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, will be the moderator of the New Hampshire forum. But he and Fox News have declined to comment on the Paul controversy. Wallace didn’t have any such hesitation when called upon to comment on the Democrats:<\/p>\n

“I think the Democrats are damn fools [for] not coming on Fox News.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Ron Paul wants to come on Fox News but Fox won’t let him. This is a thorough vindication of the Democrat’s decision to shun Fox. Now it’s the Republicans turn to suffer the prejudices practiced by Murdoch, Ailes, Wallace, etc. It serves them right. Perhaps now they will realize that a network that traffics in propaganda and bias is not beneficial even it is slanted your favor. If Republicans were interested in doing the right thing (for once), they would join the Democrats’ embargo on Fox and steer their candidates away. [For more on why all Democrats and progressives should stay the Hell off of Fox, read Starve The Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Now, I’m no disciple of Ron Paul. In fact, I regard him as a dangerous political anachronism<\/a> who would roll back gains in civil rights, foreign affairs, economic justice, and more. He advocates a deregulation agenda that would permit corporations to run roughshod over public interests including abandoning Net Neutrality. But Republican voters have made him a contender in their primary process and it isn’t up to Fox News to weed him out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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