IF FOX HOSTS XENOPHOBES, WHY WOULD THE CBC CONSIDER THEM FOR HOSTING A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?

CBC MEMBERS MEETING WITH FOX NEWS REPS

Uh, to possibly upstart Tavis Smiley, perhaps?

Consider what Americablog had to say on the subject:

Aravosis is on CNN. Coulter isn't -- she's hiding out at FOX News, a network that should not host a Democratic debate
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 3/05/2007 07:58:00 PM ET
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John is on Paula Zahn tonight. He'll be appearing throughout the hour. However, as John predicted, Coulter chickened out. Instead, she's appearing on the refuge of the right wing: Fox News. And, to top it off, she's going on Sean Hannity's show. Coulter will get some real tough questions over there, huh?

That Fox News where Ann Coulter feels so safe is also the Fox News that is hosting a Democratic candidates debate this summer in Nevada. Fox is a mouthpiece of the GOP and the right wing. And, if anyone had any doubt (not that anyone should), Ann Coulter's appearance there tonight confirms it. The network that gives comfort and cover to Ann Coulter doesn't deserve a Democratic debate. Matt Stoller explains more here. "Fox Attacks" and MoveOn have a petition here.

I'm hearing speculation from all sorts of quarters that Fox News is going to try and co-host a Presidential debate with the Congressional Black Caucus. If this comes to pass, it's a big deal, and a mistake by the CBC. But here's the thing we ought to realize. If it happens, it's partially our fault.

First off, I want to know a couple of things:

(a) What jackass in the CBC did FOX approach in making the offer? He/she should be asked to resign their membership in the CBC, and there should be a recall effort on Chairwoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick for even considering going to Fox Network for any damned thing. Given their media history regarding CBC members (Maxine Waters and Cynthia McKinney come to mind here), why would the chicken go to the fox and ask for protection from Col. Sanders? Either way, that chicken is toast, because either the Colonel gets him, or the protector shows their true nature and eats him. So why would you think Fox is going to be "fair and balanced" in their coverage of CBC Members and the presidential debates?

(b) See question (a). I'm fresh out of reasons as to why the CBC thinks getting in bed with the Devil is a good idea. Consider this, if you will. Your erstwhile member, former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) was a Fox News Media Darling. Then, during his Senate race, here comes some ads with some bimbo saying she met Harold at the Playboy Mansion and says, "Harold, call me!" Though you can't see where Fox may have had a hand in Harold's demise in the Senate race, I would bet dollars to donuts, that Rupert Murdoch funneled money to Ford's opponent, the junior Senator from Tennessee, Bob Corker. Ford thought Fox would be "fair and balanced" since they gave him all that media coverage, right?

I'm willing to bet that while they built him up as poster boy for "New Black Leader" they were also acting like the fox in the henhouse, ready to eat him alive. Ask if they ran that ad on their network. Yeah, it was probably to demonstrate their "faux outrage" at what was being done to Harold and his campaign, but if they loved him, they wouldn't have shown those ads; considering how Fox has this great tendency to report only what they consider "Fair And Balanced".

The fact that they constantly give Satan's wife, Ann Coulter, a free pass (especially when she called John Edwards a "faggot") says volumes about how they regard any and everybody who is of color, female, and most of all, LIBERAL.

So, why are the CBC considering going to Fox News for anything? Have they become xenophobes as well?

TOM TANCREDO IS A BIGOTED PLAYA HATER

From fellow blogger Jill Tubman, over at JackandJillPolitics :

This is a novel approach notable for its daring. You had to figure that the new power and unity of the Congressional Black Caucus with one member as a presidential candidate and a few others as committee chairs has to be scary. This is a direct, racist attack that I am willing to bet that more wingnuts will be pushing as the CBC begins to assert their growing power.

Tancredo:

"It is utterly hypocritical for Congress to extol the virtues of a colorblind society while officially sanctioning caucuses that are based solely on race," said the Colorado Republican, who is most widely known as a vocal critic of illegal immigration.

Now, if a white congressman is representing a district that is 70% African-Americans, you would think he could ask the Congressional Black Caucus for some help in providing accurate representation. And, because it is the Congressional Black Caucus, who would be in a better position and have a better opportunity to educate their white peers about the issues faced by African-Americans in the community than the CBC? While they denied Cohen's entry into the CBC, per se, they also didn't bother to discuss how they would be willing to work with him.

And it can't be because they are angry, sad, whatever, at the fact they don't count Harold Ford, Jr. among their ranks anymore. He's the Derelict of the bunch among their ranks that they couldn't reign in, or count on for unanimity, and he was always going contrary to the CBC's agenda, while former Chair Mel Watt (D-NC) always provided him, Albert Wynn (D-MD), Artur Davis (D-Alabama), David Scott and Sanford Bishop (D-Georgia) cover for their treachery.

But handing a racist like Tom Tancredo (R-ReThug/CO), ammunition to begin destroying the ethnic caucuses like Newt Gingrich did back in 1994 (cutting off their Congressional Budget) goes beyond the pale, cause he's not going to stop at the CBC. They can't even claim the status of being Congress' conscience, when they show how much their own consciences have been seared by a quest for power they didn't really have, and allowing their marginalization by the likes of the first Woman Speaker of the House, and in concert with the DLC.

It will be, ahem, interesting, at least, to see how girlfriend from Detroit is going to battle this new development, preventing Tancredo's concept from gathering steam and escalating into full blown war. It will also be interesting to see how Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic Caucus responds to the threat. If the CBC is left to fend for themselves, the Latino and Asian Caucus better take note - ethnicity when it's convenient, and disgarded when it becomes trouble.

My concern is whether or not the CBC will read the memo...THIS TIME.