Wednesday, April 11, 2007

UPDATE: Politico's Smith claimed "cowards" line "was tongue in cheek" -- but few readers seemed to get joke

Politico senior political writer Ben Smith posted an update to his April 9 Politico.com weblog entry, claiming that he was being "tongue in cheek" when he asserted, as Media Matters for America noted, that Fox News can "confirm to its viewers that Democrats are ... cowards" after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) declined to participate in a presidential debate sponsored by Fox News and the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute.

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