And if they won't give to him, no Democrat should take money from them.

John Edwards criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company's Fox News Channel has a right-wing bias and Democrats should avoid the company.

Edwards led the Democratic candidates' boycott of Fox's plans to host a Democratic presidential debate. Now he is objecting to News Corp.'s purchase of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. and highlighting the relationships that Clinton and other rivals have with the company's executives.

"The time has come for Democrats to stop pretending to be friends with the very people who demonize the Democratic Party," Edwards said in a statement.

He challenged his rivals to refuse contributions from executives of News Corp., and return any they had already received. The Edwards campaign said it would return less than $1,000 in donations from three Fox employees — a worker at a local Fox station in Florida and two staffers from Fox Cable Networks — even though they are not executives.

Gee -- if FoxNews is so anti-Democrat, why are they executives giving to Democrats in the first place? If FoxNews is so hostile to Democrats, why haven't the Democrat contributers been fired? But John Edwards will show mean old FoxNews -- he won't take any money from any of their employees at all!

Proving once again that John Edwards considers Foxnews a greater threat to America than Osama bin Ladin. After all, he considers the war on terrorism to be a bumper sticker, but he's making the war on FoxNews a centerpiece of his campaign.

UPDATE: Well, maybe not all money coming from Rupert Murdoch's media empire is bad.

"John Edwards will never ask Rupert Murdoch for money -- he won't accept his money," said a statement e-mailed to supporters.

Not so fast, Murdoch's people say. His publishing unit, HarperCollins, paid Edwards a $500,000 advance -- and $300,000 in expenses -- for his 2006 book "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives."

"We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance," News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.

Of course not -- he spent the expense money and took a tax write-off for donating the advance money to charity. What a hypocrite -- taking money from what he claims is a corrupt source AND using it to lower the burden of taxes he says are not high enough.

H/T Malkin, Captains Quarters