Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff (D-GA) turned the table on the Fox News reporter by using the network as his ad against his opponent David Perdue.
Jon Ossoff turns the table on Fox News
DailyKos’ Joan McCarter article “Watch Ossoff’s glee at hijacking Fox News for a live campaign ad for himself and Warnock” was a pleasant surprise.
Here’s a day-brightener if you needed one: Jon Ossoff flipping the script on Fox News’ nepotism hire, Peter Doocy, turning the would-be “gotcha” interview into a campaign ad for himself and his colleague, Rev. Raphael Warnock. Doocy’s aim, clearly, was to paint Ossoff as inexperienced and unqualified. What he actually achieved was giving Ossoff a platform to talk about what’s at stake in this election for Georgians—even those watching Fox News—and the very serious ethical problems of the two Republicans in the race. Doocy tried to interrupt Ossoff’s discussion with reporters about the pain and suffering he is seeing around the state. “Folks have credit cards maxed out and can’t make rent payments, car payments, can’t afford prescriptions or afford child care. People are in dire straits,” Ossoff said, explaining how Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue were standing in the way of help.
“We are live on Fox right now,” Doocy says, pulling Ossoff away. And at this point, check out the look on Ossoff’s face for what he’s planning to do next. Too bad for Doocy he couldn’t see what was coming. Instead, he stupidly barges in with “you talk […] about health and jobs and justice all. Why not talk more about your relevant experience?” Doocy asks. “I’ve made my career fighting injustice, exposing war crimes and injustice,” Ossoff replied. “I run a business that’s exposed terrorism, that exposed sexual slavery by ISIS, that’s exposed judicial corruption. And right now, we have a crisis of corruption in American politics.”
I could not help but build an important narrative on top of it. The bottom line is that many Democrats and Progressives can learn from Ossoff’s techniques.