Association With Fox News
I am not so sure it is helpful to be associated with Fox News anymore. The latest mailing from the Best of America PAC has a logo for Fox News prominently displayed on the front of the mailing. Why?
In times past, being associated with Fox News was a sort of right of passage for a conservative candidate. If you shunned them, you were considered a left leaning Republican.
I think that started to change ever so slightly during the McCain campaign in 2008. Fox News had a noticeable bias toward the more left leaning candidates starting that year and it has continued ever since. Sure, there are many different personalities on Fox News over the years with their own opinions, but overall, the overall slide away from the right was becoming obvious.
Then Tucker fiasco happened. Honestly, it started before Tucker's "firing". Talk radio has been ablaze with anti-Fox News talking points for a good while, but with Tucker being let go, I've not heard a good thing about Fox News from anyone.
Have we entered the era where an association with Fox News now solidifies one's place on the political spectrum as a left leaning Republican? If so, where does that put Doug Burgum? I don't know, but when you need to keep telling us that you are conservative, as his PAC's mailings are doing, that worries me.
I believe the word "Conservative" is undergoing a definition change. And we all need to be aware of it.
Snail Mail Totals So Far
9 - Never Back Down, Inc. (Pro-DeSantis)
5 - Opportunity Matters Fund, Inc. (Pro-Scott)
4 - Perry Johnson for President Inc.
4 - Make America Great Again (Pro-Trump / Anti-DeSantis)
4 - Best of America PAC (Pro-Burgum)
3 - AFP Action (Anti-Trump)
1 - Doug Burgum for America
In times past, being associated with Fox News was a sort of right of passage for a conservative candidate. If you shunned them, you were considered a left leaning Republican.
I think that started to change ever so slightly during the McCain campaign in 2008. Fox News had a noticeable bias toward the more left leaning candidates starting that year and it has continued ever since. Sure, there are many different personalities on Fox News over the years with their own opinions, but overall, the overall slide away from the right was becoming obvious.
Then Tucker fiasco happened. Honestly, it started before Tucker's "firing". Talk radio has been ablaze with anti-Fox News talking points for a good while, but with Tucker being let go, I've not heard a good thing about Fox News from anyone.
Have we entered the era where an association with Fox News now solidifies one's place on the political spectrum as a left leaning Republican? If so, where does that put Doug Burgum? I don't know, but when you need to keep telling us that you are conservative, as his PAC's mailings are doing, that worries me.
I believe the word "Conservative" is undergoing a definition change. And we all need to be aware of it.
Snail Mail Totals So Far
9 - Never Back Down, Inc. (Pro-DeSantis)
5 - Opportunity Matters Fund, Inc. (Pro-Scott)
4 - Perry Johnson for President Inc.
4 - Make America Great Again (Pro-Trump / Anti-DeSantis)
4 - Best of America PAC (Pro-Burgum)
3 - AFP Action (Anti-Trump)
1 - Doug Burgum for America