skippy the bush kangaroo

Friday, March 09, 2007

reno 911!

the debate on fox news is deader than anna nicole smith. politico.com:

the nevada state democratic party is pulling out of a controversial presidential debate scheduled for aug. 14 in reno and co-hosted by fox news, according to democratic insiders.

the debate was being hosted by fox news channel and fox news radio, the nevada state democratic party and the western majority project.

a fox spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a call for comment.

former north carolina sen. john edwards said wednesday he would not participate in the debate, citing fox's conservative ties as a factor…

the state party has been under pressure from progressive activists across the country, led by moveon.org, to cut its ties with the debate.

according to moveon, more than 265,000 people signed a petition sent to the nevada state democratic party. the organization launched a website -- http://foxattacks.com/ -- as part of its campaign.

fox news chairman and ceo roger ailes gave the progressive activists more ammunition on thursday when he jokingly compared democratic presidential candidate barack obama, the junior senator from illinois, to osama bin laden.
damn! and skippy just mailed back his "team reid" tee shirt only yesterday! if he had waited one more day, he could have kept it!!

seriously, tho, this is another victory for the netroots. thanks to all of you who helped by participating in the aciton alerts, and calling sen. reid, among others, to voice your displeasure.

it's up to us to make sure the democratic party actual serve democratic ideals. otherwise our leaders will become as corrupt as the publicas, we are sorry to say.

to steal from mydd, it's all about due diligence!

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