Crazy, Unlike A Fox
Ed Morrissey

Democratic actiivists have rejoiced this week in the cancellation of a presidential campaign debate in Nevada, arranged by the state party to air on Fox. They demanded that the candidates reject the debate even before Fox executive Roger Ailes made a controversial joke about Barack Obama, but the effort gained so much steam afterwards that all of the candidates acquiesced. Nevadans who had hoped to host an important party function are now outraged over the end of the event, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal has special derision for the activists who screeched with outrage over Fox's involvement:

Hard-core liberals can't stand the Fox News Channel. Passing a television that's tuned to the conservative favorite forces many of them to close their eyes, cover their ears and scream, "La la la la la la la la la!" Then they dash to their computers and fire off 2,500 e-mails condemning the outlet, none of which are ever read.  ...

Instead of campaigning to the widest possible audience, the surrender of the Democratic presidential candidates shows that they want to pander to the extremists of their party. They seem frightened to stage their debates in venues where anyone other than those approved by left-wing activists can see them. How can they then make an argument for their election as a President for the entire nation?

Amazingly enough, CNN has a different take on the matter:

Dems cancel debate over Fox chief's Obama joke 

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- A Nevada Democratic presidential debate that was to have been co-hosted by Fox News Network was canceled by organizers, in part because of a joke by Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes about presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.

Democrats canceled the debate Friday. They said a comment by Ailes during a Thursday night speech to a group of radio and television news directors indicated the network was biased against their party.

"It's true that Barack Obama is on the move," Ailes said, deliberately confusing the Illinois senator's name with that of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. "I don't know if it's true President Bush called [Pakistan President Pervez] Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?' "

Even before Ailes' remarks, there was intense pressure from the liberal group MoveOn.org to cancel the August event as part of its boycott of Fox. ...

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The Kos-trich Party
Don Surber (H/T: Jules C.)

am greatly amused by the whooping and hollering by the lefty blogs over stopping the Nevada Democratic Party from having a presidential debate on Fox News. Taking the Democrats off the most popular cable TV news network is the kind of out-of-the-box strategy by the Kos krowd that got Ned Lamont elected last year.

Oops.

Said the Las Vegas Review-Journal in an editorial today:

Hard-core liberals can’t stand the Fox News Channel. Passing a television that’s tuned to the conservative favorite forces many of them to close their eyes, cover their ears and scream, “La la la la la la la la la!” Then they dash to their computers and fire off 2,500 e-mails condemning the outlet, none of which are ever read.

The Review-Journal gets those too.

For those of us old enough to remember, this reminds us of the 1970s when socialists tried to capitalize on anti-war feelings to advance their agenda. Their Ned Lamont was George McGovern, one of those rare Major Party candidates who failed to carry his home state.

Al Gore may have been the most recent one. He failed to carry Tennessee, but some of us consider DC to be his home.

Anyway, the positions of the “progressives” have not changed. Their tactics are still scorched earth. They set up Congressman Dave Obey the other day and videoed him calling them “idiot liberals.” He wound up apologizing.

Burning a bridge like Obey — head of appropriations — is proof that he employed the correct adjective. Noted liberal David Sirota: ...