Liberal Bloggers Having a Fit over Dems on Fox
By Duane Lester • May 2nd, 2008Poor kids. The liberal blogosphere is throwing a tantrum over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton giving Fox any face time.
With the party’s presidential contest reduced to hand-to-hand combat, Democrats are turning to the ratings leader among cable news channels in a clear rebuff to the liberal activists known as the Netroots.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of the leading liberal site Daily Kos, told Politico’s Michael Calderone: “Democrats are being idiotic by going on that network.”
Ari Melber, the Net movement correspondent for The Nation, told Politico by phone that progressive activists and the Netroots are “not happy about it.”
“I don’t think that it is tenable to completely neglect or ignore what your base wants,” Melber said.
The Netroots are the fringe. Stop pretending there are anywhere near the mainstream. But, there has to be a tiny speck of pity for these folks. I can imagine to them it’s like the Pope sitting down with Satan to have a chat, but the fact is, “more Democrats watch Fox than watch CNN or MSNBC, the channel’s cable news competitors.”
The Netroots have become an obstacle to overcome. And still waiting in the shadows for this election, an explanation from either Hillary or Barack as to why they shunned the Democratic Leadership Council in order to go the Yearly Kos.
The mainstream Democratic party members may be ignorant of this fact, or even what Daily Kos is or stands for. This campaign would be a great time to educate the masses about the Democratic Party’s groveling at the feet of the far left liberals.
