It took a couple of weeks but Obama finally got behind John Edwards and disavowed the Presidential debate sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and Fox News who was to air the show. Of course this is the second debate that the two have joined together to oppose the propaganda-spewing Fox. The first debate was unanimously denounced by all the candidates, but this one was different.
The Congressional Black Caucus plans on having their debate September 23 in Detroit. The candidates generally want to look good for the CBC in order to woo black voters and for Obama, it was apparently a tough call to make. Thankfully he made the right choice. Barack has been a target of the conservative news outlet for some time and he is sick and tired of their crap.
Roger Ailes recently went on the offensive to address candidates pulling out of his channel's debates but ultimately proved that he has some sort of vendetta against Obama.
Check this out from ABCNews:
"Any candidate for high office from either party who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake about journalists," Ailes said at a Radio and Television News Directors Foundation dinner in Washington last month.
"Pressure groups are forcing candidates to conclude that the best strategy for journalists is divide and conquer, to only appear on those networks and venues that give them favorable coverage," Ailes said, adding that any candidate "who cannot answer direct, simple, even tough questions from any journalist runs a real risk of losing the voters."
But in that same address, Ailes joked about the similarity of Obama's name with that of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, saying, "It's true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true President Bush called [Pakistan President Pervez] Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?' "
Why any fair-minded voter would want to deal with Ailes, his cohorts in the message-machine department at Fox or the brainwashed dittoheads that watch FNC night after night is beyond me. I hope this CBC-Fox debate finally puts to rest where Fox sits on the partisan scale. It certainly isn't about journalism, they are down in the mud with the rest of their wingnut friends.
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