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President Of Fox's Parent Company Throwing Fundraiser For Hillary

Here's something that could irk Dem activists and the netroots alike: On May 30, Hillary will be the guest of honor at a fundraiser being thrown by the president of News Corp, which owns Fox News.

An overlooked article earlier this month in the New York Post reported that Peter Chernin, the president and chief operating officer of News Corp., is helping throw a May 30 fundraiser for Clinton in California for Hollywood bigshots.

Hillary, of course, has had a well-publicized thawing of relations with Fox News and News Corp. uber-lord Rupert Murdoch, who threw a fundraiser for her last year.

But that was well before Dem activists and the netroots launched an all-out campaign against Fox -- a campaign which ultimately won a couple high-profile victories against Fox, most notably getting the Dem Presidential candidates to pull out of the Fox/Congressional Black Caucus debate. Many Dem activists think that Dems should not appear on Fox because it lends credibility to a network that is basically a GOP propaganda outlet that pumps out material damaging to Dems.

In pulling out of the Fox-sponsored debate, Hillary stopped short of criticizing Fox, instead saying


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