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Ricks: MSNBC 'just like Fox, but not as good at it,' CNN 'far better than either'

It turns out author Tom Ricks isn’t a fan of MSNBC, either.

Ricks, who made waves this week for blasting Fox News during an on-air interview as “operating as a wing of the Republican Party,” told The Washington Post on Tuesday he won’t be making an appearance on the rival cable network anytime soon.

“MSNBC invited me, but I said, ‘You’re just like Fox, but not as good at it,’” Ricks told the Post. “They wrote back and said, ‘Thank you for your candor.’”

Ricks’s new book “The Generals” hit shelves in late October. The book is currently at #17 on the New York Times’s hardcover nonfiction best sellers list, and the week before it was at #11. It hit the list on Nov. 18 at #6.

Ricks told POLITICO in an email that the Fox News interview wasn't about boosting his book sales.

"As an author, you always want book sales, if only to be able to get another contract and continue to write books," he said. "But no, that was not the motivation."

And as for the other big cable network, CNN, Ricks said he thinks it is "far better than either Fox or MSNBC."

"That said, I generally avoid watching TV news," Ricks wrote in the e-mail.