In a world where Democratic candidates for 2020 are expected to come crawling and kneel before FOX News only to be tarred and feathered anyway as Socialist enemies of the United States, it's nice to finally see a Democrat take a stand by telling the network to go FOX itself.
Elizabeth Warren turned down a Fox News invitation Tuesday for a televised town hall and denounced the cable network as a “hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists.”
The network has been inviting Democratic presidential candidates to participate in town halls moderated by its news reporters. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar already done the events, while Pete Buttigieg and Kirsten Gillibrand are scheduled to. All of them have criticized the network’s coverage of the Trump administration but defended going on the network as a means to reach voters.
Without mentioning her rivals, Warren argued that agreeing to go on the network would ultimately lend Fox News credibility and boost its revenue.
“A Fox News town hall adds money to the hate-for-profit machine. To which I say: hard pass,” she wrote in a Twitter thread. “Fox News is welcome to come to my events just like any other outlet.”
A Fox News representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Anticipating criticism that she's ducking hard questions, Warren noted that since January she's done town halls in 17 states, had 57 media "availabilities" with reporters and done 131 interviews. After her town halls and events, Warren often takes questions from reporters for a few minutes. Her team said that they tabulated that she has taken over 1,100 questions the media since January.
Warren also participated in two CNN town halls earlier this year.
“I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates — especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers,” she wrote. "Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money — big ad money."
It's incredible that this is news, and that it took this long for a Democratic candidate for higher office finally call out FOX News for what it is, instead of simpering and bleating some ninsense about "winning over FOX viewers" as if the network doesn't happily function as the GOP's propaganda arm 24/7.
FOX News is not news, and I'm glad to finally see someone treat it as the media cancer it is. There is zero, I repeat, zero benefit to go on FOX News for Dems, but they do it anyway to appear "bi-partisan" when of course all the viewers would rather see Democrats in jail than on FOX.
That part could be coming soon too, I don't know.
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