He really was a Fox News Democrat

The numbers show Lieberman had a Fox habit, and kicked it cold turkey when he faced a primary challenge from the left.



Aug. 4, 2006 | The bad news keeps coming for Joe Lieberman. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday showed that challenger Ned Lamont has widened his lead over the incumbent in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary to 13 points. Lamont, until just months ago a little-known Greenwich businessman, had first surged into the lead in the previous poll, released July 20.

Lamont seems to have gained traction with voters after his performance in a July 6 debate with Lieberman. The political neophyte traded barbs with the three-term senator on live television and didn't embarrass himself. Lamont, in fact, got off the most memorable line of the debate, snapping at Lieberman, "This is not Fox News, sir."

With that applause-getting line, Lamont echoed the complaints of the liberal blogosphere and much of the Democratic base. They have long accused Lieberman of having undue affection for the Fox cable news network and its conservative talk show hosts. But does this grievance have any basis in reality?

The numbers indicate that it does -- and they also seem to indicate that someone in the Lieberman campaign, perhaps Lieberman himself, decided his Fox appearances were a political liability. A review of transcripts from the LexisNexis database shows that in the eight months since Nov. 30, 2005, when he appeared on "Hannity and Colmes," Lieberman has been absent from Fox News. By contrast, in the previous eight months, counting that Nov. 30, appearance, Lieberman was on Fox four times. And in his most recent primary, the 2004 race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Lieberman made 25 appearances during the 13 months he was officially running, from Jan. 13, 2003, to Feb. 3, 2004, for an average of roughly one appearance every two weeks.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/08/04/foxnewsdem/

Bipatisanship went out the window with the utter BULLSHIT they put the Big Dog through in the late '90's.:thumbsup:

They wanted WAR? Well, THEY got it... IN SPADES!:grr:

as they challenged the hearsay of what Faux News spouts - like when Gen. Wes Clark told the brainwashed Faux News viewers that, unless they want their children in uniform for the rest of their lives, then there is no way we could invade Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

.....boycott FOX forever!!! They are only used as punching bags, or in Joe's case, a happy DUPE!

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannity-Lieberman.mp3

It's all there.

I had no idea those two were so close. :puke:

and made a Southern Baptist.

Thanks for sharing!

Especially the subtle link to a car odometer.

Joe's ass kissing on them does. However, take a look at Wes Clark--kicking ass on Fox's newscasts as a foreign policy pundit on a regular basis.