Fox News Attacks: Edwards and Obama [VIDEO]

Posted by Cliff Schecter, Brave New Films at 11:42 AM on December 19, 2007.

Recently, Chris Wallace, a man who traded in a career in journalism for the more profitable world of propaganda, deigned to lecture Democratic presidential candidates on how they were just destroying their campaigns by not going on Fox.

"I think the Democrats are damn fools [for] not coming on Fox News," Wallace said. "And my guess is that once you get a nominee, they probably will come on, because they know that we get a lot of voters they are going to need if they are going to win the election."

Apparently, in between segments on bare bouncing breasts and Sean Hannity's defending white supremacists, it would make sense for John Edwards and Barack Obama to go on a network that has spread false rumors about both ad nauseam.

Now I enjoy going on Fox now and again myself, because beating up on hapless Republicans, whether on Fox or other cable channels, is such an absolutely cathartic experience. But to teach the obviously cerebrally challenged Mr. Wallace about how politics works, well Chris, you win by getting the most votes (or having your party control the Supreme Court).

So why would Democratic pols go on a station that continually demonizes them and their politics, and furthermore, where a relatively recent survey shows that the viewers voted for George W. Bush over John Kerry by 88% to 7% (the other 5% wrote in Pinochet I'm guessing)?

As former Fox reporter/anchor Jon Du Pre put it in the documentary "Outfoxed," "We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us, a newsgathering organization so much as we were a proponent of a point of view ... we were there to reinforce a constituency."

Maybe Chris can explain that to us someday, in between reminding his viewers that WMD were indeed found in Iraq and George W. Bush is just Churchill with a better package in a flight suit...

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Cliff Schecter blogs at Brave New Films.