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My senator Dick Durbin tells it straight about Fox News and why the president has no obligation to play nice.

“The point is this, and it really needs to be made: Fox is not just another television network,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), a close Obama ally. “Fox has become the official/semi-official voice for the Republican Party, in opposition to the president. And I think calling them out is the only way to delegitimize them as political propaganda.”

Asked if he would follow Obama’s lead and boycott Fox, Durbin said, “I don’t know that I’d never go on Fox, but I will tell you that when I go on, it’s with a clear understanding that this is not a news network. This is the closest thing to the Republican Party’s official voice on television.”

This needed to be said. It needs to be said every day. But the real way to combat Fox News is if the other major networks join game and start reporting on all the falsities being spouted by Fox. When that happens, we'll see a change. In the meantime, Democrats definitely need to be following suit with Sen. Durbin.