From MyDD: Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces the CBC's planned debate with Fox News

[flpoljunkie]

Rev. Jesse Jackson Denounces Fox News Debate
by Matt Stoller, Fri Mar 30, 2007 at 12:58:38 PM EST

And here we go.

Rev. Jesse Jackson today denounced the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's planned presidential debate partnership with FOX. He called for yesterday's decision to be reversed and for presidential candidates not to attend a FOX debate.

Jackson said, "I am disappointed by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's partnership with FOX, and strongly encourage them to reverse that decision. Why would presidential candidates, or an organization that is supposed to advocate for Black Americans, ever give a stamp of legitimacy to a network that continually marginalizes Black leaders and the Black community? FOX moderating a presidential debate on issues of importance to Black Americans is literally letting the Fox guard the henhouse - FOX should be rejected."

Fox's smears against the Black community are compiled in Outfoxed director Robert Greenwald's new YouTube video called Fox Attacks: Black America - which is located at www.ColorOfChange.org and has been viewed by over 230,000 people in two weeks.

Yesterday's decision came after Black Members of Congress and the CBC Institute were contacted by thousands of members of ColorOfChange.org - a 75,000 member online citizen lobby for Black Americans. Privately, some CBC members expressed that the Fox deal was a bad idea, but not a single member would take a public stand like Jackson did today.

"The CBC cannot claim to represent Black Americans and at the same time legitimize a network that calls Black churches a cult, implies that Senator Barack Obama is a terrorist, and uses the solemn occasion of Coretta Scott King's funeral to call Black leaders `racist,'" said James Rucker, head of ColorOfChange.org. "The CBC Institute's decision is shamefully

This was a very bad decision, and CBC members knew it when they made it.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/3/30/125838/558

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. happy to k&r.....

I can't believe this is happening. Is the CBC so starved for media coverage that they turn to Fox? I heard Maxine Waters say, a couple of months ago, on the Tom Joyner Morning Show something to the effect of "you don't see us on TV, because we're not invited". And now to hear that Harold Ford, Jr. is joining the network, and Sheryl Underwood is joining that "1/2 hour" crapfest? What can black America be thinking?

I want FNC starved out of existence. They're only relevant if we make it so, and I refuse.
Thank you Rev. Jackson!

[ellacott]

2. This is an awful decision by the DNC

I didn't know that Sheryl Underwood was going to be on that 1/2 hour show. She claims that she's a republican.

[w4rma]

3. The DNC didn't make this decision. The CBC did. (nt)

[ellacott]

5. Sorry, typo n/t

[cosmicdot]

4. I was visiting friends when Katrina hit ...

they tuned in to O'Reilly ... I was speechless when O'Reilly said something to the tune of:
"You're probably wondering why you've been seeing a lot of Black people on TV lately."

I have witnesses if no one else heard him.


stay away from Faux !