RE: Rep. Ford (D-TN): Why the hell do these people go on Fox "News"?

[AlinPA]

I heard he was going to be on O'Reilly. Why can't we just let them run their stupid propaganda programs on that channel without helping them? This just helps with their credibility. Irritating.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Not really

It might hurt them with us slightly, but it's important to have SOME kind of voice on that shitty ass lunatic right wing network.

[AlinPA]

4. My point is that if we have no Democrats or progressives on there,

it will look more like the propaganda channel that it is rather than "fair and balanced". i.e., it would just look silly, ranting away.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. I think most people see through that as it is.

It's mostly the nut jobs that watch Fox News anyway. And if we can swing a fringe nut job, or at least get him thinking twice, it's worth it.

[trotsky]

2. It's a dilemma.

A) Totally boycott them and risk looking like the party afraid of "fair and balanced", and just give up on trying to expose their viewers to another point of view.

B) Go on and try to get a word in edgewise, but get talked over because your microphone is set quieter and because the host won't let you speak, or makes sure that the Repuke gets the last word.

I don't know the answer.

[AlinPA]

6. Boycott them and let them look like a yelping dog.

[demnan]

3. Maybe a moderate democratic voice

(especially an articulate black one) might give the freepers a different viewpoint.

[Sparrow]

7. he isn't a moderate

Ford is an extreme centrist, there's a big difference.

[Bombtrack]

9. He votes the liberal - left line 80 percent of the time

a true centrist is someone who's half and half

[AlinPA]

8. You have a lot more faith in people than I do.

[KharmaTrain]

10. We Should Get Drones Just Like Repugnicans Have

Get A Cliff May or a Kelly Ann Kirkpatrick (or whatever that sleeze's name is) that you keep on call 24/7 at Faux...the only spokesperson who is armed with talking points. So, say O'Reilly claims the Democrats do this or that, our clone can just pop in and straighten Mr. Spin Zone out. Just talking points, no emotion, no rebuttal. This is what these scum want, why not give it to them and really ruin their party.

The Faux ruse works as long as we bitch about them "not being fair". If we shut up and just let everyone see this network for what it is and keep just a few faces on there, it wouldn't take long before these jackals would start eating their own.

Actually, that's the part of Faux, CNN & MSGOP that I will enjoy the most in the months ahead...the blame game. Who was it in "the media" who didn't see the huge shift away from Bunnypants and how their force-fed messages didn't work. Hume will blame Zahn who will blame Scarborough who will blame Gallagher who will blame Hannity who will always blame Colmes.

Ford tries to play the "nice Democrat". But then the RNC can't supply black congressmen or congresswomen...or any elected official, can they?

[AlinPA]

12. That's a point, the republicans don't have any black members

of congress.

[readmylips]

11. I Love that cute guy Ford on O'Stupid....

He is gentle, kool, super intelligent and to the point. He really makes O'Stupid look even more stupid and mean. I like it when O'Stupid has democrat women on the show. He comes out as mean, disrespectful and women hater.

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. Three reasons

Ego.
Ego.
and
Ego.

[JayS]

14. To convert the unconverted, you have to go and preach where...

...they gather.