Letters to the Editor
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Responding to the bitch-slap
See Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com on the subject of bitch-slap politics, and how ineffective response to it was part of what doomed Kerry's presidential bid. Democrats are finally learning how to push back against it, and that's exactly what Obama is doing. Good for him.
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Good for Obama...
If he never did a single interview on Faux News, it'd be no loss to him.
It's not as if morons like Steve Doocy are going to help do anything other than further the ignorance of the wingnuts who get their news from Fox...
I'm GLAD to see Fox scramble for a change.
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If I were Obama, I'd lease a C-130 for my campaign aircraft
Then I'd invite the whole Fox 'news' team aboard. After a few cocktails and some idle chit-chat, I'd have the pilot take us out over the Atlantic and drop the tail door.
One by one I would shake the hand of each propagandist and say, "Thanks for coming" and push them out the back at 16,000 feet.
Ah, I can only dream.
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Trailing by 20 points?
As if coverage by FAUX News would help that any? Are they trying to tell us there's a huge reserve of Obama voters among the people who watch Fox and nod their heads in agreement? If Roger Ailes had his way, Sen. Obama would be trailing by 100 points, and Sen. Clinton by 97 points (the 3-point concession is because she's good for ratings).
And maybe if more political reporters were frozen out from being spoon-fed their daily reports, we might actually have a return to reporters having to hustle up a story and get outside the opress pool and actually having to talk to people and ask some questions!
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Makes sense
Yes, the best way for Obama to move ahead in the polls is more Fox News coverage. How else will he find an audience for his message that, as someone raised as a Muslim terrorist, he wants to destroy America and kill your families?
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Fuxxsnooze
Obama shows yet more promise. Stay tuned (to anything but fuxxsnooze). Kiss my madrassa, Aisles, you neonazi pig.
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Fox News Concern Trolls
Awww... how cute.
To show just how much Obama has hurt himself by freezing out FAUX Noose, I just gave some money to his presidential exploratory committee.
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What about The Weekly World News and The Onion?
While I'm all in favor of knowing that a secret-alien-love-child from Richard Nixon is secretly being hidden in Roswell, NM (as I'd expect the WWN to report) or that "the White House Quietly Retracts Entire State Of The Union Address" as the Onion has reported today, I have to wonder how much access these news agencies have to the Vice President and/or to senators and presidential candidates. When you print fiction or slander - do you expect to be taken seriously? Perhaps Obama should say that he'll speak to Fox when Cheney speaks to Stephen Colbert. Or the New York Times.
And regarding the Fox network spokeswoman pointing out that Obama "is trailing by 20 points in the polls," it seems to me that primary candidates poll standings a year before the first primary are hardly newsworthy either. I care far more about what the candidate's ideas are than their "rankings."
Ian
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Its just smart
Every Democrat should ignore Fox news. What are they going to do make lies up and slander you. Oh! wait to already do that.
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All Democrats Should Take Obama's Lead
If no Democrats (but Joe Lieberman, of course) appeared on Fox News, it might make Fox viewers see even more clearly that the network is a propaganda tool.
Moreover, with no Democrats or liberals, or Dem strategists to interview, Fox programs will have to start eating their own to keep up the shock-news horror show.
Indeed, MoveOn or someone ought to do a petition to Democrats urging them not to appear on FoxNews - ever. Of course, in a perfect world they wouldn't go on Matthews or Russert or Blitzer either, but we gotta start somewhere.
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The right thing to do
If I were Obama I would definitely tell F**cks News were to go. Straight to hell and take the Bush Cheney gang right with them. What kind of journalists are working there anyway? Did they ever hear of confirming a story before reporting it as fact? Turners gang stinks to high heaven. True Repugnican!
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Locutus
The C 133 idea is great, you missed ,however, the White House gang on the passenger list.
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A FoxCott?
Hooray!!! It's about time!
In fact, freezing out Fox will probably do more good than bad for Obama's campaign. Like others here, I only wish that the rest of the Democratic party would do the same and leave Fox to the Publicans and Lieberman et al.
I'm trying to imagine the the effect on Bush's administration of being on Air Force One or in the WH (or in Cheney's hotel room!) and not being able to see any of the majority party's representatives... what would that be like?
Would they eventually change the channel, if only out of curiosity? Or would they just start a rumor that the "Democrat" party no longer exists? ...thus proving their out-of-touchness with Reality?
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If I were
100 points behind and had only the support of my wife and pet dog (don't read too much into that)I still would not let Faux News into my home to "darken my towels". Good for Obama. Guts are what has been lacking in the Dems and push-backs are the only language the V.P. of Other Priorities and his man-servant the Decider understand. He gets his kicks from it. I'd love to see Cheney go off-tackle just once. Without pads or helmet. It's basically what he's been asking our troops and the disenfranchised poor to do for their country for the past six years. Too bad his creepy body isn't up for the task...
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Lets all freeze out FOX
FOX is not a news service, it's a perverse mouthpiece for the worst sort of destructive and mendacious propaganda leading only to wars, division, and hatred.
THERE IS NO REASON WHY RESPONSIBLE POLITICIANS SHOULD HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.
I say freeze them out of the convention too. In a couple years the only people listening will be some swamp-crackers and knuckle-draggers, and of course, Dick Cheney, in his prison suite.
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Don't believe the hype...
Is it nice that a Dem is boycotting Fox for negative, baseless news stories? Sure. Is it great for Fox that it's happened? You bet.
Of course Roger Ailes made a couple calls to Obama. They probably went something like "So, you're not letting my reporters in. Okay. How's the weather where you are?" Getting boxed out is Fox's dream position. It allows their commentators to make increasingly shrill and overblown statements with no blowback whatsoever, and when someone with a brain cell in their head says "That's just not right" the commentator can say "If I'm so wrong, then why won't they come and address the issue?"
That same straw man tactic has been working for Limbaugh, O'Reilly, et al for over a decade. Don't be surprised when you start seeing it happen again with Obama. It's not about journalism, it's about ratings.