“News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic caucus which appears to be controlled by radical, fringe, out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party,” spat the press release from David Rhodes, a vice-president at Fox News Channel. I guess he missed the point. After a week of intense organizing by progressive advocacy groups and the online Left, the Nevada Democratic Party had scotched plans to co-host a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates with Fox News precisely because it wasn’t a news organization.

Of course, accusing Fox News of conservative bias is about as insightful as suggesting Britney Spears occasionally acts out. The Nevada Democratic party was able to get out of the debate because Roger Ailes, President of Fox News, was kind enough to open a speech to the Radio, Television, and News Directors Foundation with a series of jokes calling the French cowards, suggesting President Clinton was trying to convince his wife to run for president so he’d have more time to philander, and making light of the possibility of confusing the names of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden (something Fox News has, conveniently enough, managed to do on a few occasions).

Mr. Ailes’s classy monologue, however, was just a pretext for the Democrats to bail.

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