Saying No to Fox News

SAYING NO TO FOX
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: E. J. Dionne Jr.]
[Commentary] I have this mischievous suspicion that Roger Ailes, the creator and chairman of Fox News, secretly admires the bloggers and other activists working to keep Democratic presidential candidates from debating on his cable network. To be sure, Ailes will never say this. On the contrary, he is furious that MoveOn.org and others have struck a chord in arguing that Democrats have no business creating any formal link with a network that so openly favors conservative and Republican causes. What Ailes knows is that the campaign to block Fox from sponsoring Democratic debates is the most effective liberal push-back against the network since its debut on Oct. 7, 1996. My hunch is that Ailes, one of the toughest and smartest in a generation of Republican political consultants, sees his adversaries as playing the kind of political hardball he respects. It's why he's angry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201821.html
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