{"id":818,"date":"2008-03-03T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-03-03T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T23:01:18","slug":"chris-wallace-still-obsessed-with-absent-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace Still Obsessed With Absent Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday is still perturbed<\/a> that he can’t get presidential candidates with a “D” after their name to come play in his sandbox.<\/p>\n

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Wallace has been particularly obsessed with poking at Democrats who have declined to submit to Fox News abuse. Reading this viewer letter is just another attempt to “shame”<\/em> Democrats into appearing on his show. To equate the process of international diplomacy with that of face-time on a biased, third-rate cable news channel is beyond idiocy. But it is not beyond Wallace.<\/p>\n

Democrats are right to shun Fox and should continue to do so. The strategy is working as evidenced by Wallace’s all-consuming attention to it. If it wasn’t hurting them, they would never mention it. And it is paying off in a couple of significant ways. First, it denies Fox the opportunity to cast more of its slime onto Democrats. Second, Fox misses out on the higher ratings and revenues they would receive from associating with the more popular Democratic candidates. (Fox News Sunday is consistently last amongst the Sunday news interview programs – behind Meet the Press, This Week, and Face the Nation)<\/p>\n

Most importantly it maintains the premise that Fox is not a credible news entity and should not be treated as one. Let’s hope the Democrats have the stamina to keep it up throughout the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday is still perturbed that he can’t get presidential candidates with a “D” after their name to come play in his sandbox. Wallace has been particularly obsessed with poking at Democrats who have declined to submit to Fox News abuse. Reading this viewer letter is just another attempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[116,33],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-chris-wallace","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":737,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=737","url_meta":{"origin":818,"position":0},"title":"Chris Wallace Justifies Fox News Embargo","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Wallace has proven once again why John Edwards (and any other Democrat) is thoroughly justified in declining to appear on Rupert Murdoch's Foxic airwaves. 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