Nevada Dems Dump Fox News

After weeks of pressuring from Democratic organizations, progressive news outlets and the blogosphere the Nevada Democratic Party has decided to cancel their controversial debate. We've known from the start that it was bad news to allow the right-wing mouthpiece that is Fox News to cover and 'analyze' a Democratic primary debate. Although it took some time for Nevada's Democratic leadership to understand just how bad Fox is with their biased reporting, at least they see the light now.

Fox did not take the news lightly, they issued a harsh response:

“News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus, which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party. In the past, MoveOn.org has said they ‘own’ the Democratic Party. While most Democrats don’t agree with that, it’s clearly the case in Nevada.”

That is awfully nice of Fox to speak for most Democrats, even though they are managed and owned by right-wing supporters Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch respectively. Of course calling a Democratic organization with well over 3 million people a 'radical fringe group' is a clear cut example of the bias in their 'reporting' along with all the other examples. In fact, it was the latest Obama smear that Nevada Dems use to justify the termination of the deal.

Needless to say, the move was well received by the Democratic community. The best response had to have come from John Edwards, who was smeared with anti-gay hate speech by regular Fox News contributor Ann Coulter last week at CPAC. Plenty of other Fox News contributors and anchors regularly trash Democrats while Republicans are praised. Finally the public at large is beginning to see exactly what Fox stands for.