Using a fox to lure the hens
By declining to attend a Fox News Channel Debate, Democratic Presidential candidates are apparently banking on three things:
1. Their primary voters don’t watch Fox News.
2. The FNC-watching portion of the general voting public won’t remember this kerfuffle.
3. The FNC hosts won’t remember and won’t take it out on the Dems who gave them the brush off this year.
I’d say that point 1 is largely true. Point 2 is probably true. But point 3? Well, if you’re of the belief that Fox News is biased against Democrats, then you’d have to conclude that they’ll be even more biased next year after they were publicly rebuked.
So is it smart politics that for a short term appeal to an intolerant wing of the Democratic base, they risk alienating a news network that regularly outpolls its competition–often by more than two-to-one?
No, it wouldn’t be. So maybe the Democratic politicians themselves know something that their base doesn’t seem to know: that Fox News isn’t the biased news source that they’ve made them out to be. Maybe the politicians are just using a fox to lure the hens.
