Will Barack Obama go on FOX News?
Robert Greenwald used a host of CrooksandLiars video clips to assemble this piece called" Bill O'Reilly attacks Obama staffer." (Where there is a petition to sign.) I've already made the case that Barack Obama should not appear on "The O'Reilly Factor" because of the vicious treatment he has received from FOX News...
Barack has pretty much refused to deal with the Roger Ailes operation and the only way BillO figured he’d have a chance to ask Obama to come on his show was to almost get in a fight trying to approach him.
I have a feeling Obama was still caught up in the moment after he finished his speech so I’m asking him now—do not go on The O’Reilly Factor. Do not give him or FOX Noise a chance to benefit from your presence after that network has viciously smeared you and attacked the entire Democratic Party and Progressive ideals every chance they get and will continue to do long after your appearance is over.
What a pathetic showing for a man with a temper like an active Mt Vesuvius. Robert Greenwald has joined me in asking Obama not to go on his show or FOX News. (Take the poll below)
I don't think we should panic on this one. If he goes properly armed with facts and his charm, he should be fine. He is the kind of guy who can make the venom pundits look like idiots. He did it to Rush...
If only Nixon could go to China, then only Obama can go to Fox News
I think at this point, Obama needs to extend the olive branch. If he doesn't give O'Reilly at least a five minute interview after saying he would meet with him, it's just going to keep coming up to pester him and be a needless distraction.
Q: Will Barack Obama go on FOX News?
A: Yes.
On camera, he already said he would, after the primary. Well, to be more precise, he agreed to appear on The Factor.
God, I hope not. He's got them reeling as most of their viewers are sobering up off the Kool-Aid and finding out they've been had for the last ten years.
Why would he want to give them any sense of legitimacy now?
Obama must visit the belly of the beast. O/W he will be called a coward. And presidents cannot afford to be labeled cowardly.
In general, I think Obama needs mucho Kevlar.
This country may hate women, but they KILL black men.
I don't think he will go on.
I think what he said to Angry Bill was just to appease him at the time- if Obama had flatly refused to go on Foxnews right then and there, it would hurt him in the primary I think.
Besides, O'Reilly might start screaming at him for his M-F'ing iced tea.
I think Obama can make this decision.
I'd have to say this is one of those cases where he has to go into the lion's den, if anything it gives Obama some leverage over Faux in saying, 'you smeared me, and abused my staffer, but I'm nice enough to talk with you still.'
Besides, Faux News is going to attack him anyway, might as well make himself look like the good guy.
Time to do to Fox News what Grover Norguist wants to do to our goverment.
I think he should go on there. I suspect he'd totally destroy O'Reilly just by being calm, reasonable, and intelligent. O'Reilly would be defenseless...
peaceful easy feeling @ 3:
I like how he said "after the primary" not after NH's primary! Hopefully if the activist RonPaul supporters can keep it up Fox will be shown to be the propaganda machine that it is and it will be off the air by then. BillO will be fined by the FCC, Hannity and e-hannityswhore.com will be gone....
Hey, let me sleep, I was having a really good dream :)
if obama cant face faux, how will he face al-cia-duh?
The Political Junkie @ 7:
Remember Kucinich on Colbert Report, with all the stuff in his pocket? What if barack came on with a pitcher of ice tea and just sat there and said nothing to BillO. Just came on and sat in the chair glaring at him.
Obama should go on The Colbert Report, not The Factor. He will be asked the same (mis-)leading questions ("Why do you hate America?") on both shows, but on Colbert you know it's a joke, a parody of The Factor. Bill-O does not know his is a comedy show.
He told O' Reilly, "after the primary." Perhaps sometime in 2017?
I have no doubt he can certainly handle the "children" at FOX. He'll be their president too, you know.
Of course he will...once he's done faking out the left and wins the primary and has to pander for more votes.
If he goes he should wait a few more months until we see if he continues to do well. That would be my only advice to him......as if he needs my advice. :lol:
That clip Greenwald made should be required viewing for the Democratic side of the Caucus, starting with Reid and Pelosi, if they want to keep their leadership positions.
You know this boycott is working when Chris Wallace started whining about Democrats refusing to come on the network.
If a chicken knows what's going to happen to it before it gets slaughtered, it wouldn't go near a fox or the henhouse...so why should any viable, true Democrat go where they know they're going to be roasted and served up as appitizers for the wingnuts?
Why should he? Fox is not a legitimate media outlet.
YUP
Pay back is a BITCH!
Obama's response to O'Reilly's invite to go on his show should be to offer a campaign bus interview when he goes to South Carolina. His turf, not Fox's.
I have to agree with Orangutan. This is Baracks decision to make. But at the same time I do understand what John and Robert are saying, that FOX news is nothing but a propanada machine. I just think Barack is aware of that himself and can make his own decision. If he can't make that decision intellegently on his own then he isn't fit to be a President is he?
Remember Kucinich on Colbert Report, with all the stuff in his pocket? What if barack came on with a pitcher of ice tea and just sat there and said nothing to BillO. Just came on and sat in the chair glaring at him.
Bob, I'll go one better. He actually pours a glass of the iced tea and sets it down in front of Bill, saying, "I'm not sure if it's M-F-'ing iced tea, but it's cool and refreshing for a hot head like you..."
No more being Mr. Nice Guy. If he goes on Faux, he needs to stay in clear terms why he will resume boycotting their ass once his appearance is over.
They must be scared that if he gets the White House, guess who won't be on the cocktail weenie circuit anymore, with gilded invites and front row seats at pressers, while Helen Thomas is restored to her respectful place as doyenne of the White House Press Pool?
If Obama goes on Fox, he has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Taking the high ground means ignoring the pettiness of Fox "reporters".
Is there actually any news on that channel? It seems like pundits.commentators only, with no actual reporting.
As much as I would hope that Obama would not go on the BOR show, if Obama wins the NH primary, politically it would be a good thing to do. It would allow the curious of the BOR watchers a chance to witness the phenomenon up close. On the other hand, I would never trust BOR as far as I could throw him...
Be sure to sign the Petition(as referened above) encouraging Obama NOT to appear
on Faux Noise. Over 31,200 have already done so...
Now that the election season is in full sway, I've been listening to Fox News (they put the audio on XM radio), and they have a *lot* of nice things to say about Obama.
Maybe that will change if/when Hillary and Edwards are left in the dust. And it will probably change if anyone but Huckabee or Ron Paul is the Repub nominee. But Obama's playing ball with the framing that Fox loves (bipartisanship, Social Security crisis, progressives aren't religious enough, etc.), and they may well think he's the softest landing after the Bush debacle.
of course obama will go on fux. if he thinks arnold should be in his cabinet, he's already halfway there. besides he probably wants to get murdicKKK's support away from shillary because of the strategic advantage. obama's LIEberman-provided handlers will likely help obama throw his party off the cliff.
I would have Obama make Bill O'rielly sign a contract that the show will not be edited, and that it be film live.
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The Political Junkie @ 4:
God, I hope not. He's got them reeling as most of their viewers are sobering up off the Kool-Aid and finding out they've been had for the last ten years.
Why would he want to give them any sense of legitimacy now?
I find it always interesting when someone makes a comment with absolutely no facts, it makes spinning look like a lifestyle ...for some. Where does one find that most of Fox's viewers are sobering up, or should I ask what statistical data shows that since their ratings are very high and some cases up, or should I ask what does sobering up mean? When one makes a comment like that back I would suggest back it up and be clear. We have more than enough people in this political year spinning.
Obama to Bildo: I have alot of people to talk to back there, and you're not one of them.
I think he goes on to try to gain some republican votes, but what will happen is that the country will get a first hand look as to how the repubs will swift boat Obama. We will see how he responds and the electorate will get a better sense about him.
If he goes on, it could be a big mistake. How many of you think that the people on Fox news and their viewers will actually make nice with Obama?
I think they will trash him as we have known them to trash any democrat.
LibertyLover @ 27:
BOR doesn't have any curious watchers.
For openers, How about Obama shows up on the senate floor and votes. What say you?
O'Reilly should be treated like a pane of glass. Look through him like he is not there. He is rude and dumb. We should not support rudeness and dumbness.
Murdock, Ailes and Fox want to control all media on their terms. Pay them no mind.
are u serious. why shouldnt obama go on fox news. is it because u like to see him get nothing but softball questions. from the other liberal news outlets and do u watch msnbc nothing but anti conservitave talk so it goes both ways pal
centavo @ 36:
Gee, that would be nice if the senate was in session.
HAHAHA.... Walks on, pulls a falafel on a plate from under his jacket, sets it in front of bill. Pulls a thermos and a glass out from the other lapel. Pours bill a glass of iced tea. Puts it down in front of the plate.
Looks Bill in the eye and says, "Here's your mo#$%r f&#^@!# iced tea!"
Walks off.
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centavo @ 36:
He would be alone, since Congress is in recess.
Ummm, I would think since he said he would, rather than LIE, that he should probably go on.
SALLY MONDAY @ 41:
Angry are we? Learn to use that button that says caps lock.
What do people see in this guy?
Whats he going to do about the deficit? China? Iraq?
He should go on, eventually (but let them stew for a while.)
Look, O'Reilly isn't going to attack Obama if Obama goes on his show... Felafelboy is too much of a coward to do anything to Obama's face other than maybe one or two very oblique references... and Obama will handle it with class and style and come off as the bigger man. And O'Reilly may be batshit insane, but he's not an idiot. He knows he's outmatched with Obama.
So an Obama appearance will essentially be a fluff interview, and Fox will save the savaging of him for when Obama's not there to defend himself.
Why should Sen Obama add credibility to O’Reilly's paltry, pathetic, pandering and pensive smokescreen of a show that most of us laughingly refer to as his commentary program?
O'Reilly only makes sense when his mike in in the "off" position.
What the hell happened to my comment at around 33) ... it says it's in moderation ... okay, why I don't know,
But from what I am seeing it's got a shit load of crap attached to it that I NEVER cut and pasted, keyed or put in it
absolutely he should
and he'll change a lot of minds too
mark my words-- foxnews will become a left leaning station once it recognizes how far left of center the center really is....
being unable to beat him, they'll join him.
(i am assuming there will be no further scandals beyond the crooked land deal, the shady ethanol vote, the drug use, and the radical spiritual mentor-- all of which have some merit, but are surpassed, exponentially, by every other candidate running, and by the current admin)
SALLY MONDAY @ 41:
Who let you out of your dark cave?..Oh, I see, it's a weekly thing and while out and
about you can actually communicate...but when doing so, please do it with your
fear mongering type.
There is no way that Obama should appear on BillO's show. But, there are exceptions to every rule. If BillO PUBLICLY apologizes to the staffer (as in "I'm sorry I called you low class. It was wrong" not "I'm sorry that you were offended that I called you low class.") then MAYBE Obama should appear. But it has to be live, not on tape. No split screen. But I'll be picked as the next supermodel before that scenario happens. Obama is getting tons of mileage on his boycott of Faux News.
Of course, he should go on Factor. Unless, he is afraid he can't answer real questions from someone who has a disagreement with his views.
I think if Obama gets the nomination (not to mention wins the Presidency), he can single-handedly destroy Fox Noise by not appearing on it. Imagine a news outlet with no access to the President or the Democratic nominee?
Let's say he will go on a some point. The longer he waits to do it, the longer billO has to wait to say anything bad about him. If billo starts blasting him now, there's not a chance in hell of Obama going on his show. Obama could play this in his favor and stave off Bill for a long time.
Billo was so patronizing, "You're a good guy. We like you..."
(In my best BillO impersonation) SALLY MONDAY needs to take a valium and shut up.
Keith @ 52:
You and MARY(she uses CAPs) need to hook up...
Keith @ 52:
ha,ha,ha,ha.........Real questions.
You should not promote your ignorance on a national forum. Learn to spell. We already have too many idiots in this country.
I would suggest that Obama give the O'Rielly factor simply because it and Fox has continue to attack him and present negative and unfounded statements in order to further their own agenda, So if they want to provide fair coverage to all that come on his show then I would think that no positive thinking person ever appear there again
Which "university studies" have stated this?
serve him ice-t , on a road trip , thats good .
I would go on his show ( me being Obama ,that is ) , only with the understanding that once the ranting starts , then I'am out of here .
I love the way Larry King conducts his programs , ask a question and get an answer , no yelling or screaming , no soap-boxs , and let the person answer .
Rob @ 59:
Who are you speaking to?
CoIntelPro @ 30:
Bravo!
I think Obama should do what he is reluctant to do - take a stand. As in - I don't condone what you do, I don't want to associate with the likes of you, and I don't want to abet the harm you do.
This is an opportunity to tell O'Reilly, Ailes and Murdoch that their propaganda machine is an abomination to responsible news media and an insult to the intelligence of most Americans.
You know, something more like what Edwards would have the "audacity" to do.
Unfortunately we must live in a world where snakes and all creatures live, even though they are unsightly and terrible. FOX NEWS NETWORK AND BILL O'RIELLY ARE SNAKES. THE VENOM FOR BILL IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN A SNAKE BITE THAT KILLS ITS VICTIM!!! Potential President of the USA Mr. Obama should not go on the that show no matter what is being said. We are tired of Bill anyway and his LIAR NETWORK.
More on the OBama staff member. Oy Vey
Could someone ask Obama why he hires lobbyist to run his campaign? Can someone ask him why if he is an "alleged" antiwar candidate why he skipped town on the Kyl LIeberman amendment.
I as so tired of the "obmarama" love fest. Hell this reminds me of the "compassionate conservatism" hype during Bush's run. Could someone please show me the evidence that Obama is an antiwar candidate? His words are empty.
Beth @ 51:
Not a bad plan, if/should Obama make a decison to appear....plus other pre-requisites
should also be demanded...under a written agreement signed by both parties..
Chris @ 66:
32 Clytemnestra Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
ROTFLOL - you're assuming I remember what I wrote. :-) :-D
LOL that's okay, I'll try and remember ... thanks for splaining everything.
Keith @ 52:
If O'Racist was "fair and balanced", then there shouldn't be an opposing view. He should be objective and unbiased.
diamondmc @ 35:
Common Sense would caution all Dems to avoid Faux until after the Convention.
Two things happen if they stay off Faux:
1.Anything that the Faux bobbleheads say will at best be second or third person.
2.ALL Faux viewers will have to go to other news sources to see Dem candidates.
After the Convention the nominee will go on Faux to snag any moderate voters that still watch Faux for the aggravation factor.
Republicans truly don't need PAC's or 527's when they have an entire news organization in tv and radio to do all of their dirty work. I'm sure this point has been repeated over and over for the past seven years, but it is just as true today as it has ever been
Radically Moderate @ 72:
Sounds good to me.
Rob @ 59:
Here. This link is especially for you.
As for senator Obama, I hope he doesn't go on FOX. That was his first promise. Not to grace FOX 'News' with his presence.
An easy out would be to say he had no idea what Bill O'Reilly looked like, and thought he was promising a guy with a public access cable show a visit.
Doggiebobo @ 42:
In or out of session, makes no difference to the junior senator from Illinois now, does it? Talk in platitudes, sprinkle the fairy dust, head for the hills. If pressured, vote "present".
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Dr. Matt @ 61:
The Center for Media and Public Affairs
http://www.cmpa.com/index.html
Dr. Matt @ 61:
Why, the fair and balanced ones of course!
Obama doesn't have the courage to appear on Fox, much less O'reilly. On these venues he will not be treated with kid gloves and soft questions, instead he will be asked some tough questions that he should be willing to answer. But ofcourse he is basically "gutless" and chooses to tuck his tail between his legs and make an empty "promise" to appear while never intending to follow through. This coward wants to be president? Not in my lifetime.
Rico @ 77:
Where is the "study"? Which university are they affiliated with? What is their funding source? Where are the "data"?
Dr. Matt @ 81:
Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University.
Only the candidates that have nothing to hide... go on the O'Reilly factor. That is why most of the Democrats don't go.
It's not to hard to figure out.
Not only, No, but hell No. O'Riley is the second most radical right
this side of sun. He would hang his mother if she was a moderate, progressive or independent. All of these or Liberals which are to be hated maligned. The man is no where being fair and balanced. Thank God there is a constitution and other laws, otherwise this man and others like him would be worse than the terrorist he claims he despise. The man is a certified Nut.
E.J.
Censorship - typical of the liberal media. NO DEBATE ALLOWED! ONLY OUR POINT OF VIEW!!!!!!!
Losers!
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Rico @ 82:
http://www.cmpa.com/releases/07_12_21_Election_Study.pdf
I'd like to see him on Fox IF he gets equal time (Fair and Balanced, no?) to counter all the bad press he has gotten on that channel.
Just get a stop watch and start timing all the times they bashed him and his madrassa, osabama mistakes!
Should keep him front and center on that channel from now till the election in November!
The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a media watch organization.
On its website, CMPA claims to be politically neutral....However, as shown below, CMPA's claim to be non-partisan is incompatible with the fact that nearly all its funding comes from conservative foundations.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs was founded in the mid 1980s by S. Robert Lichter and Linda Lichter. According to Salon.com, "the seed money for [the] center was solicited by the likes of Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson".
CMPA's claim to be 'non-partisan' is undermined by an analysis of its sources of funding. Information provided by mediatransparency.org reveals that the overwhelming proportion of CMPA's funding comes from conservative foundations. The funding information, covering 1986-2002, lists the following donors:
* Carthage Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $267,000 from 5 donations
* Earhart Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation - $730,000 from 15 donations
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Sarah Scaife Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $760,000 from 9 donations
* Smith Richardson Foundation - $416,916 from 3 donations
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_A...
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), have challenged CMPA's non-partisan claim, based on the argument that much of its funding has come from conservative sources, and its founder, Dr. S. Robert Lichter, held a chair in mass communications at the American Enterprise Institute from 1986 to 1988 and is currently a Fox News contributor. (Lichter, who holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, has also been a faculty member at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown, George Washington and George Mason universities.)
SALLY MONDAY @ 41:
Clean-up on isle 41.
I think that he SHOULD go on BillO's show-- but that HE should control both the tone and pace of the interview.
At the start of the interview, Obama should demand an apology. If he doesn't get one, stand up, take off the mike and flatly state that this interview is over.
Once he gets the apology, he should stick to his message and not allow BillO to bluster. If BillO interrupts, wait him out and go back to what he had been saying-- basically, refuse to be drawn into an altercation.
Jack Meoff @ 85:
Yeah just ask Ron Paul, you repubs treated him nicely!
What's with all these trolls? Malkin's site down again?
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Rico @ 86:
ROFL!!!!!!!!! Thanks for making a fool of yourself!
If you think that is a "study", I have a bridge I want to sell you.
If Obama goes on, then he is too stupid to be president. Fox is pure bullshit. Going on will allow them to talk shit about every other Dem that turned (or turns) them down, and they know it. The Democrats do not need to subject themselves to the FOX treatment. This country does not need the devisiveness of FOX anymore. There are other, CIVIL, places they can expound on the merits of their party, policies and programs. For far too long Fox has had free reign bullying everyone and anyone whos opinion differed from theirs. Ignore them and they will go away....
Jack Meoff @ 85:
Yeah like your blogs are known for allowing liberals to comment. Maybe, just maybe it wasn't what you were saying, just the way you were saying it.
Hey site monitors are known to delete stuff from known liberals on this site too. John has established a guildeline on what types of comments are not allowed .. my guess is that yours was threatening ... he's allowed to do that since this is his site.
Don't like it, create your own blog and make sure the comments are always open with no guidlelines
edward salin @ 80:
taking any bets?
Rico @ 78:
From the CMPA study:
Fox News Channel’s coverage was more balanced toward both parties
than the broadcast networks were. On FOX, evaluations of all Democratic candidates combined were
split almost evenly – 51% positive vs. 49% negative, as were all evaluations of GOP candidates – 49%
positive vs. 51% negative, producing a perfectly balanced 50-50 split for all candidates of both parties.
On the three broadcast networks, opinion on Democratic candidates split 47% positive vs. 53%
negative, while evaluations of Republicans were more negative – 40% positive vs. 60% negative. For
both parties combined, network evaluations were almost 3 to 2 negative in tone, i.e. 41% positive vs.
59% negative.
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Even does not mean balanced! Talk about fixing the intelligence around the policy.
Dr. Matt @ 93:
Funny. I found a site dedicated to Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, a group I trust and know, and they say and have said, in so many words, that FOX is not balanced at all. And they document the incidents:
Media Outlet / Personality: Murdoch/Fox News
Kucinich goes on Fox all the time and it hasn't helped him one bit in the polls. Barack should avoid them. It just rewards their Pravdaism
The only people that actually "thinks" faux is "fair and balanced" are the far, far reich-wing extremists.
Jack Meoff @ 92:
So I guess you are saying that there are no "real blogs" on the right..,. since blogs like Free Republic routinely delete liberal comments ..
OH and BTW why should C&L allow everything? So that Bill O'Reilly and the rest at fox can use those comments to smear left wing blogs as what they believe or tacitly approve since they let the comment stand.(like Daily Kos for example)
Or are you just mad that they aren't playing your game anymore. Liberals and progressives aren't going to let you guys do that any more.
Here go create your own blog:
http://www.blogger.com
or
http://wordpress.com/
have fun!
Bill Clinton said it well and fair, that this whole sham about Obama is theee biggest and most obsurd fairy tale ever played out in American history.
I'm sorry but I can not believe the naivetee that many of you Americans share in your support for Obama Borack, I guess I will never ever understand America's mentality on this one.
I feel like I am in a dream. Look, far be it for me to know who's the best among today's candidates, but at least I'm using my intelligence and wit ...and eyes [reading candidate websites] in determining who has the personality, the truthful personality and knowledge of what it takes to be a leader, the education...the devotion...the diplomacy without so much ego...and all I can come up with is HILLARY R CLINTON. Ya dig? And, great, I like many would actually love to see a black person become anything in this country, I'm half Med/ American/, but I'm not going to put someone with a contrived ego, a pretencious demeanor,
who is clearly inexperienced, and "ooh look at me and I got indie cred too" immature persona pretending to be smart and savy...and even little o'l me. who is about to be homeless while unemployed, can see through it
Hey by the way, America, what's Obama's plan again...what's the stragedy? No seriously, what is his bid idea on Change...cause we're still waiting to hear about it.
I'm ashamed of you America! Stop lapping up some self absorbed and self ingrating black man's somatics and grow up! I'm being mean, but damn am I rediculously correct!
Read between the lines when you read is website.
And last but definitely not least, Borak Obama can't even have the decency to help out his grand mother in Ghana who lives in a poor village, without proper and basic needs being met. If he's so good and kind, why not help his own family out. Hellooooooooooooo Earth to America.
Wow, I've never seen so much hatred toward a TV network. It's a network people - if you don't think each and every one of them is biased you better think again. Maybe we should focus on issues and stop focusing on party lines and what the media tells us to focus on.
Rico @ 78:
Thanks for sharing website. You did note,didn't you, that the 481 hours of news(?)
on the MSM were for the period covering Oct lst thu Dec. 15th...BEFORE the Iowa
and New Hampshire Primaries, so I'll withhold my judgement as to the results until
let's say Feb. 10th, AFTER the major primaries are held in more representative States.
Denise @ 103:
I agree, all these reich-wingers having a hate-filled hissy fit over MSNBC, CNN, etc. is amazing.
It's up to him. If he goes on, BillO will make it all about him, and if he doesn't go on, BillO will make it all about him. His slackjawed audience will be the only ones who care.
But seriously, who gives a crap about this little dustup? Are we going to be continually updated on this and every little thing in Obama's campaign? If there was just as much attention on the substance of this guy's platform... I'm still looking for it. Not having much luck.
Last night I personally heard 3 black girls say they were voting for Obama because he's "hot" - so maybe that's it, but I'm really hard-pressed to see the appeal that has been revealed and witnessed by so many in the past five days. Reading the blogs and listening to the news, you'd think Christ had come back or something. And the Obama evangelicals have become as off-putting as those "Get on the bus or get out of the way!" Deaniacs from 4 years ago. (And I'm speaking as a Dean supporter. Even they drove me nuts.)
Rico @ 78:
Let's invite Obama to post here for awhile and see if he wants to "reach out" to friend and troll alike.
THIS WHOLE ELECTION IS A SCAM! YOU DUMMIES!!!! You all are falling for it hook line and sinker!
centavo @ 107:
Let's drill for oil here. Gas won't be $3.25 and we won't need to be in Iraq.
Bill Clinton said it well and fair, that this whole sham about Obama is theee biggest and most obsurd fairy tale ever played out in American history.
I'm sorry but I can not believe the naivetee that many of you Americans share in your support for Obama Borack, I guess I will never ever understand America's mentality on this one.
I feel like I am in a dream. This just can NOT be happening.
Look, far be it for me to know who's the best among today's candidates, but at least I'm using my intelligence and wit ...and eyes [reading candidate websites] in determining who has the personality, the truthful personality and knowledge of what it takes to be a leader, the education...the devotion...the diplomacy without so much ego...and all I can come up with is HILLARY R CLINTON. Ya dig? And, great, I like many would actually love to see a black person become anything in this country, I'm half Med/ American/, but I'm not going to vote for someone with a contrived ego, a pretencious demeanor,
who is clearly inexperienced, and "ooh look at me and I got indie cred too" immature persona---for president. Are you kidding me, people. Wake up the dumb sleeping giant already??? Hello? Anyone home?
Hey by the way, America, what's Obama's plan again...what's the stragedy, ya know while we're in say, a couple of wars and economic scandals, houses being repoed...eh, terror and stuff?
No seriously, what is his big huge idea on Change...cause we're still waiting to hear about it.
Stop lapping up a self absorbed and self ingrating black man's somatics and grow up!
I'm being obnoxious like a mofo, but damn why do I have to so rediculously correct when most should know better! The guy's not even witty enough to be a half wittedly convincing!
Ya dig?
Read between the lines when you read every candidate's website.
And last but definitely not least, Borak Obama can't even have the decency to help out his grand mother in Ghana who lives in a poor village, without proper and basic needs being met. If he's so good and kind, why not help his own family out. Hellooooooooooooo Earth to America.
Rico @ 110:
So, you're admitting we are in Iraq for oil?
My head is about to explode!
What are you radical lefties so afraid of? B. Hussein Obama will never go on "The Factor." For there he will have to answer questions for which he will be unable to rehearse. He and/or any of the other leading democrats running for president would never expose themselves to a forum requiring spontaneous answering of questions. Slogans and "canned" answers are all you will ever get from liberal/socialists who have a hidden agenda. All style, no substance. The youth of the USA had better start to learn and understand our history. It is the only way they will learn and understand why we have degenerated to the place we are today - actually contemplating the election to president of the US someone who calls himself a Christian but refused to use a Bible to be sworn in as senator. He chose the Koran.
JOE @ 114:
Who is B. Hussein Obama?
JOE @ 114:
So, what are you radical reich-wingers so afraid of? The Koran? Wow.
JOE @ 114:
That was Keith Ellison you boob.
I say FUCK FOX! They need Sen. Obama way more than he needs them. Why should Obama go slumming on Fox, patronizing ignorant mouth breathers who get their information from OReilly, Hannity,etc. And don't give me that "win them over" shit! Most of these fools will NEVER vote for a "brother" and you know it. For some reason Repubs still think we liberals need to kiss their stupid asses. Let these people come to us for a change.
JOE @ 114:
You've got a cool aid stain on your collar.
apple pie @ 21:
Fox is not a legit media outlet? Come on, Fox is #1 in ratings country wide... by 2 to 1 at least. Go back to Venezuela, you probably like Chavez and Castro right?
WHY must we scrutinize Hillary's personality anyway? She already has delivered, we see that. And so what if she's more reserved, that's how some people are, and that is why some succeed, no matter what people can say about Hillary. She has shown more honesty, concern, devotion, frustration, and maturity...did I mention intelligence as a politician than any of these clowns. But of course if you have Obama in the lead you might as well have Mccain in the lead among Repubs. U-N-BELIEVABLE. I almost want to m ove to Canada.
I WENT TO COLLEGE IN BALIMORE [contemporary theme: "Believe" was born]
my theme as of now, "I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS."
stan @ 120:
When does ratings equate legitimacy?
Funny you should mention Chavez, because he only supports state sponsored television because it is a propaganda tool for his administration....just like faux and herr dubyah.
Rico @ 110:
Ok, Rico. What's your address? I'll put in a call to Exxon/Mobil. The drilling rigs can start arriving tomorrow. Hope you have city water and not an artesian well!
Of course Obama will go on Fox.
He's pandering his ass off to the right wing, and the wide-eyed liberals don't even notice.
stan @ 120:
Wow, these fox viewers need to try out for pole vaulting in the olympics. . .their leaps of logic and association are a astounding.
Since a study has found that fox viewers are less aware of what is going on in the world around them than those who watch TDS, Keith Olbermann, etc... I'd say fox is to news what Brown was to FEMA.
Gee, i thought ice-t was that rap singer/actor guy. i did'nt know he was a m-f. and what does he have to do with senator hussien obama anyway? is he a supporter like harpo is? and where was this hussien obama born? and is it really true that he is the anti-Christ? inquiring minds want to know!! and where is waldo? do you people all take yourselves so seriously? lifes's short.... relax and realize that you are not in charge and never will be! and why the hell would you want to be anyway?
paranoia @ 31:
Now that's the best idea I have read so far, and I agree.
JOE @ 114:
Man, are you one out of touch with reality idiot. Won't waste my time w/you since
much of what I'd have to say has already been said above. By the way, give me
the identity, please, of this person who when/if elected Prez. will refuse to take the
Oath on the Bible and instead use the Koran. Is this somemore of the BS you have
heard on Faux Noise?
centavo @ 107:
What bunk. The CMPA is funded by rightwing groups. The seed money was raised by the likes of Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson. Dosen't sound like a neutral group.
Obama should snub FOX without flinching and then go on to ignore its very existence. It's not like the die hard Fox viewers would have voted for him anyways. Just look at all of the smears they've thrown at him, and it hasn't hurt him one bit.
Sad that so many think Bill O is such a jerk. He does make you think and Americans in general have been to complacent to long. Whether Obama goes toe to toe with Bill or not will make no difference in the larger scheme of our country.
Albatross @ 40:
LOL!! Second best idea. Filmed live and unedited of course. Post it all over Internet.
apple pie @ 21:
That's right. They won their court case proving they don't legally have to tell factual news and now they can suffer for it. Isn't America wonderful?
Debbie Niemeyer @ 121:
Anything funded by someone with the last name Scaife is a right-wing operation.
JOE @ 114:
Ooh, you used all the good repug scare words and we're still here! Oooh Hussein, hide under the covers! Ooh Koran, Must be an islamofacist, hide the women and children!
Slogans and Canned answers, Hmmm Mission accomplished, Clean Skies, banners behind the pres at every "town hall" meeting. Funny only vetted people live in GW's Town Halls. Kind of like gated community condo meetings instead of open town hall meetings!
Oh and Loyalty Oaths. Fired for Kerry bumper stickers.
Love the right, blinders and all.
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stan @ 120:
Yep, Malkin's site is down and the loonies are lose again!
Bill O'Reilly is a PIG. Why should Obama agree to be interviewed by a filthy-mouthed stupid sexual harasser of women? Must every value of equality be ignored in the name of politics? Would Obama agree to be interviewed by a KKKer or a Nazi?
Sorry, but I'll lose about 50% of the respect I have for Obama if he actually agrees to an interview with O'Reilly. Somebody else on Fox would be okay, but not O'Reilly (or Sean Hannity).
FedUp@124 Man, I don't what you're on, (or coming off) but Sen. Obama in no way is catering to your sorry asses. Defiance of you cocksuckers is the basis of his surging popularity.
centavo @ 36:
I would like to know just ONE change for which Sen. Obama is responsible. He nevers mentions that he belongs to a Church that is for BLACKS ONLY, and has as its mission a
dedication to Africa; isn't that strange for someone who wants to be President of the U.S.? Aren't the people who elected him to take care of their business concerned that he is being paid to not work in the Senate, but be on the stomp?
Doggiebobo @ 128:
From Think Progress:
The Clerk spokesperson said neither the Christian Bible, nor any other religious text, had ever been used in an official capacity during the ceremony. Occassionally, Members pose for symbolic photo-ops with their hand on a Bible.
BobD @ 136:
First fool... It wasn't Obama that used the Koran, it was the congressman from Minnesota. I suppose you heard that from your fair and balanced faux news?
CeCe @ 131:
No he doesn't make me think .. he makes me want to cry for those who listen to him. .. I guess he could be good for the TV industry since he makes me want to send a brick trough my tv screen if I watch him. Just like Denver Bronco fans would do when Howard Cosel would announce games the broncos played in.
Bars used to have contests on who would win the brick.
Morris Clark @ 137:
So George W Bush is black?
But didn't he already appear on....?
Oh! Sorry! That was Saturday Night Live!
gregg @ 133:
Good point and thanks for reminder that Fox actually won a court case wherein
they admitted that their reports were not based upon facts, but "misinformation"
(or lies if you wish).
Fox is propaganda not news. Obama should not go on especially with a crazed lunatic half-brained anti-social aggressive fool like Orrally. No dems should go on there.ever. That will leave them arguing with themselves.
I bet the "Fox news sucks," RonPaulers don't watch fixed news anymore. They are likely not drinking the kool aide anymore.
if obama has no respect for America then America (Americans) should not respect him. he should not lead a country that he hates. do you think he'll deny this of course he will. if elected what better position to be in to destroy a country from within.
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