There are but two possibilities - Senator Harry Reid is very stupid, or he is very dishonest:
Nevada Democratic Party officials said Friday they were canceling a presidential debate co-sponsored by the Fox News Channel, following a joke chairman Roger Ailes made about Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
In a letter sent to Fox News, Nevada State Democratic Party Chairman Tom Collins and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Ailes "went too far" with comments made the night before.
Ailes told the following joke in a speech to the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation First Amendment Dinner on Thursday night:
"It's true that Barack Obama is on the move," Ailes said during the speech. "I don't know if it's true that President Bush called Musharraf and said 'Why can't we catch this guy?"'
If Reid believes Ailes' joke referring to Barack Obama was about Barack Obama, or insulted Barack Obama, or any sort of comparison between Obama and Osama bin Ladin, then Harry Reid is a humorless imbecile. If Harry Reid doesn't believe it, if he knows that the joke was about President Bush being confused by the name, as it so obviously was, then Reid is simply being dishonest to play to the rubes in his Angry Left base and to score cheap political points.
Barack Obama says he wasn't offended by the joke, showing he at least has some more sense than many others in his party.
Of course everybody knows the Democrats were looking for an excuse to cancel that debate because of Fox's behavior over the past few weeks, and Ailes conveniently gave them that excuse. I'd say Ailes is the stupid one. That is, unless he wanted the Dems to cancel.
Comment by Mike O — March 12, 2007 @ 7:18 am March 12, 2007
Correcting. Cancelling the democratic debate that would have been sponsored by the fox network was a proper thing to do. I t should have been canceledas a matter of fact, the democratic party and their candidates, republicans alike should stay away for the fox network for awhile.Why? i am fed up with the network. Anti-american,people,racial,and bad women comments.. My god. Have you heard the comments that they make or say about people, and when i listen to it for the first time and i did not like what the wore saying. Thank you Harry Reid for pull that plug...
Comment by Lamont — March 12, 2007 @ 12:31 pm March 12, 2007
Lamont - WE all should stay away from Foxnews because YOU are fed up with it? Get a grip Lamont. You are entitled to your opinion (as we all are) but you being fed up with Fox is no reason for the rest of the world to stop watching the network. As for your complaints, perhaps you'd like to cite some examples? When you wrote, "and when i listen to it for the first time and i did not like what the wore saying" did you mean that you didn't like what they were saying the first time you listened to them? Maybe you should give them a second chance. I daresay that there isn't a network or news publication that doesn't say something about someone that someone somewhere doesn't like. Hmmm...?
Comment by Mark — March 13, 2007 @ 1:40 pm March 13, 2007