Joanie Vennochi in her column from today's Boston Globe takes candidates Clinton-Obama-Edwards to task for backing out on a Fox News sponsored presidential debates scheduled for September.
She accuses the above presidential candidates of the capital crime of playing to the democratic party's base, knuckling under to moveon.org (a prime critic of Fox News and said debate) and otherwise sniffs disdainfully:
"This marriage of left wing advocacy groups will hurt them in the general election".
Wa-al shee-it Joanie isn't that pretty much the same thing you said about Deval Patrick...remember that line you had the day after the primary about "Drinking the Deval kool-aid"?
Subtle Joanie real subtle.
Apparently, in Joanie Vennochi's theology there is no worse crime than playing to the democratic base, but then a lot of columnists out there are posessed of a strange inexplicable hatred of the democratic base. It is a common affliction among today's punditariat.
My feeling is, that if Senators Obama, Clinton and Edwards have decided that Fox News just might be a wingnut organization then more power to them for their sensible caution.
The fact is, Fox News is 24-7 GOP propaganda pure and simple, a fact Joanie delights in avoiding in today's chastisement.
Moreover, some of the democrats in the running have stopped playing by the Marquis of Queensbury rules, and that is what really pisses Joanie off.
They aren't placing themselves in a position to be torn apart on Fox News by the usual ass-holes, and that somehow makes them cowardly and inept so reasons Ms. Vennochi.
Well, Joanie Vennochi and sundry others may regard Fox News as a "legitimate news organization" but Hilary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama are perfectly free to take an opposing view.
Joanie doesn't get that, she likes it when dems fall into the obvious traps any refusal to do so is simply infuriating to her.
Ah but don't worry Joanie I'm sure you and Fox News that "legitimate news organization" will both find some way to retaliate you always do.
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