McClellan Confirms Fox News Use of Administration Talking Points

File this under "Nice to Have It Official, But ... Duh!"

Via Think Progress, Chris Matthews on Hardball last night got former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to admit that "the nighttime guys" on Fox News routinely used White House talking points:

MATTHEWS: So, you wouldn’t use Brit Hume to sell stuff for them, but you’d use some of the nighttime guys?

MCCLELLAN: Yeah, I would separate that out, and certainly I, you know, they’ll say, that’s because they agree with those views in the White House.

MATTHEWS: Well, they didn’t need a script though, did they?

MCCLELLAN: No, well, probably not.

Keith Olbermann pursued the revelations as well, with McClellan conceding "it was done frequently."

In March 2007, as Democratic presidential candidates considered attending a Fox News-hosted debate (and Dennis Kucinich called the outlet "a legitimate news agency"), kos asked:

The question is, why lend legitimacy to an operation that is trying to actively working in concert with the Republican Party to destroy Democrats and everything progressive?

Are Democrats convinced yet?

(Ongoing discussion in progress in eclecticbrotha's recommended diary as well.)