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Good for Edwards! At least he’s showing that he has personal integrity and will not be associated with a fake news/propaganda station like Fox News. Fox is the national joke in terms of serious, factual news so anyone who appears on their show denegrades themselves by even being there. He’s calling them for the fraud that they are by NOT gracing their slimebag, phoney station with his presence.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pmIs he dropping out of the race to take care of his dying wife then?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pmGood for him, hope other candidates also realize there can be no fair “debate” when Fox News is involved.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pmJohn Edwards ‘08!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:09 pmWhat’s he afraid of?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:11 pmGood for him! Who wants to be associated with the crass and ill-bred twerps at Pox News?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pm#
What’s he afraid of?
Comment by michael — April 6, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
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The same thing Bush was afraid of when he refused to debate the president of Iran.
Feingold/Gore ‘08!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pmWhat’s he afraid of?
Comment by michael
Fox Rabies
April 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pmOr Fox Pox
April 6th, 2007 at 5:19 pmI hope the rest of them follow his lead. Fox has no business pretending it is a legitimate news channel. Fox can stick with it’s constant oral copulation of the Grand Old Party. We should nto legitimize them one bit.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:27 pm“Fox Rabies
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) — April 6, 2007″
Intelligent response! I see you learned your debating skills in a public school.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:38 pmWhat exactly is gained by NOT going on Fox? They will push their agenda and malign the various Dem candidates regardless. I’d prefer to see a candidate who feels their message is strong enough and important enough that everyone should hear it, regardless of their agenda.
If he went on Fox and appeared rational and composed amongst the standard pack of idiots at Fox, there may actually be a few Fox viewers that hear a word or two Edwards says and it makes sense, or at least it occurs to them he isn’t a anti-christian, socialist, gay man out to take their guns away. If most, or even practically all, of the Fox viewers just absorb the Fox propaganda, so what? Would Edwards be making strides with them by not going on that are somehow lost by showing up?
Please, give me a candidate who can speak to hatred, ignorance, and lies, not turn away because it’s not “fair”.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:39 pmIs he going to take care of Newt Gingrich’s next dying wife while Newt serves her with divorce papers?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pmComment by michael — April 6, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
Coming from someone who is afraid of debating Zooey!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:47 pmHa! That’s great! Don’t reward the cry-babies!
April 6th, 2007 at 6:06 pmHe was the first to drop out of the Fox (Faux) debates and he is now dropping out of the CBC debates. He is consistent and credible.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:07 pmTrolls will make their usual nasty and irrelevant comments as #2 does, but that’s because they are inherently disagreeable people who have aligned themselves with a political party that has become indefensible, so they lash out at anyone with principles.
Intelligent response! I see you learned your debating skills in a public school.
Comment by michael
It WAS an intelligent response, thank you. Edwards, in all likelihood, does not want to give Fox a direct opportunity to distort, spin, lie, or smear (”Fox Rabies” or “Fox Pox”) through appearing on one of their “news” programs. Nor does he want to provide them legitimacy. I do apologize for using my short-hand, sarcastic, snarky comment as I should have been more sensitive to your inability to extrapolate.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:12 pmGood for Edwards.I won’t be surprised if the debate(CBC)& faux news was part of Clinton’s deal with Murdoch.Remember who hosted a Fund raising Party in Manhattan for her,Well, good ole Murdoch himself.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:14 pmIf the head of ABC News declared that ABC News would “advance the Democratic agenda,” would Republicans take part in a debate sponsored by ABC? Rupert Murdoch told a British interviewer that he created FOX News Channel to “advance the Republican agenda.” Why should any Democrat give them the respect of treating them like a normal news operation?
April 6th, 2007 at 6:27 pmGood for you, John. Doesn’t sound like much, but at least we know you can smell shit before you step in it. I like that in a leader.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:41 pmWe need to speak truth to propoganda, or as I call it, propagEnda, this is one way. Walk softly and carry a big stick.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:46 pmIs he dropping out of the race to take care of his dying wife then?
Comment by Jake — April 6, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
How very “Christian” of you, hypocrite!
April 6th, 2007 at 6:50 pmComment by Marie — April 6, 2007 @ 6:07 pm
So true, and they act like they would have voted for him otherwise. What a joke.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pmComment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) — April 6, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
That’s right, now I have to donate again to Edwards for showing integrity.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:54 pm“Is he dropping out of the race to take care of his dying wife then?
Comment by Jake — April 6, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
How very “Christian†of you, hypocrite!
Comment by shane — April 6, 2007 @ 6:50 pm”
ain’t the first time:
” At least Kucinich is not afraid of Fox News (unlike
pansy John Edwards ; )
Comment by Jake — March 27, 2007″
April 6th, 2007 at 6:55 pm“Coming from someone who is afraid of debating Zooey!!!
Comment by Jules — April 6, 2007″
Afraid of the little 6th grader? My Golden is smarter than her!
April 6th, 2007 at 7:22 pm“It WAS an intelligent response, thank you. Edwards, in all likelihood, does not want to give Fox a direct opportunity to distort, spin, lie, or smear (â€Fox Rabies†or “Fox Poxâ€) through appearing on one of their “news†programs.
Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) — April 6, 2007″
That’s a bunch of BS! He knows that people like Chris Wallace won’t hold back and toss him underhand softball questions like CNN or CNBS!
April 6th, 2007 at 7:25 pm“Why should any Democrat give them the respect of treating them like a normal news operation?
Comment by Bluedog49 — April 6, 200″
If they believe in their agenda and can advance it intelligently, why not? Aren’t you trying to reach that group of people who currently have no intention of voting for a Democrat? They know they will be grilled on Fox, so they run………
April 6th, 2007 at 7:28 pmWoW! TP removed one of my posts that simply stated that Edwards is afraid of someone like Chris Wallace because he knows that Chris won’t throw underhand softball questions to him like CNN & CNBC.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:38 pmmichael, I don’t really think it’s that they know they’ll be “grilled” on FOX. I think it’s the fact that they’ve seen how FOX uses its own footage to distort their positions and what they’ve said. Since they know for a fact (straight from Murdoch’s mouth) that FOX News is there to advance the Republican agenda, they assume FOX will use any debate footage as they see fit to that end. They get enough of this kind of thing on networks which haven’t stated their allegence to the Repub agenda. Do you ever watch Hardball? Please. During the 2000 election, Matthews kept saying that Gore “didn’t look like an American,” and he kept saying he like to go to a barbecue with W. And, you must know that FOX is even more of challenge than that.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:48 pmjake is as much a christain as he is a veteran as he is a 75 year old. all he is is a liar.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:55 pm“michael, I don’t really think it’s that they know they’ll be “grilled†on FOX. I think it’s the fact that they’ve seen how FOX uses its own footage to distort their positions
Comment by Bluedog49 — April 6, 2007″
Really? And you can prove this?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:02 pm“WoW! TP removed one of my posts that simply stated that Edwards is afraid of someone like Chris Wallace because he knows that Chris won’t throw underhand softball questions to him like CNN & CNBC.”
wow! i didn’t know edwards had already participated in presidential debates on cnn and cnbc in which he got “softball” questions! must have missed ‘em. how’d he do?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm“The Democrats should do a complete boycott of FOX. They should not appear on their programs and not grant their reporters interviews.
Comment by CaptainVideo — April 6, 2007″
Wow! You’re that scared of us?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:11 pmMaybe someone should tell Jake that WE ARE ALL DYING. From the moment that you are born, YOU ARE DYING. You just don’t know when that day will come, any more than Elizabeth Edwards does. You could die tomorrow, Jake. She could die 10 years from now, and outlive you. Who knows?
Or are you TOO STUPID to realize that?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:22 pmHey, Michael? It has nothing to do with BEING SCARED OF FAUX.
It is about 1) not legitimizing FAUX VIEWS CHANNEL, and 2) not GENERATING REVENUE for them, which they are just going to turn around and use to smear Democrats with.
So Michael, are Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity afraid of “LIBERAL CALLERS” who their screeners refuse to allow on the air with them to debate their rubbish?
April 6th, 2007 at 8:26 pmThat “reaching a group of voters” argument is a bunch of nonsense. If FAUX VIEWS was the only channel that they had on their television sets, then that argument might have some validity. Otherwise, it’s just narrowminded and ignorant.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:33 pmJohn Edwards continues – leading the way!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:25 pmBravo to Edwards, but Hillary Clinton will go on FOX even if nobody else shows up. If she is seen on TV kissing the most ugly man in the world, Rupert Murdoch, then her run for the presidency would be terminated.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:15 pmMurdoch thinks he is a ‘kingmaker’ – he made Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair…. he made Chimpy too. I’ll dance on his grave when he dies…
April 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pmJohn Edwards IS AFRAID OF NOTHING, ESPECIALLY FOX(tm)-FAUX NEWS!!!!! WELL DONE, John!!!!! AND TO THE SWIFT-BOAT-SHIT-SMEARERS ON THIS BLOG AND OTHER SO-CALLED MSM OUTLETS—”UP YOURS, CREEPS!!!!!”
April 7th, 2007 at 1:15 amGood for Mr. Edwards…
…let’s hope ALL Dems follow suit…
…Fox can ONLY lose them cerdibility…
…as for the CBC…
…any one of them who goes along with this farce…
…should be replaced…
…time to get rid of ALL of the Armstrong Williamses…
April 7th, 2007 at 1:22 amDAMN!
I hate typos…
…”credibility” in #39…
April 7th, 2007 at 1:27 am#2,
Maybe he should take a play from the compassionate Conserv666ative playbook and divorce her while she’s in the hospital.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:10 ammichael,
Ooooh the proof argument! You really gottem there!
April 7th, 2007 at 8:16 amEdwards is ANOTHER AIPAC TOOL!
April 7th, 2007 at 10:13 pm#43 You are no better than righty trolls, jackass.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:16 pm