Really now no one pays attention to a guy who settled a sexual harrassment suit..

A president must speak to all the people and must understand hateful rhetoric and distance himself from it.

Barack Obama did separate himself from hateful rhetoric by avoiding Fox News.

There is a chance that this article could allow a small reprieve from Clinton/Obama bashing by temporarily focusing all bashing prediliection toward the small and feeble minded BO.

What Obama meant yesterday until the O'Reilly-FOX body language expert weighs in. I thought I saw him blink once as he said "white people."

If Obama is elected President, he will meet with Bill O. without preconditions.

Obama gave a great speech and a historical speech on race. He distanced himself from the Wright statements but not the toallity of his pastor. That is the kind of strength we need in a presdent.

As far as Bill O'Reilly, Hannity and FOX in total. Candidates should just boycott this network. If other pundits and networks would just distance themselves from these divisive characters, their divisive positions, and not give them any press, then maybe the FOX characters will fade into the cracks in the walls from which they crawled out.

I find it pretty interesting that Hillary and her camapingn have been very quiet about all this.

A president must speak to all the people and must understand hateful rhetoric and distance himself from it.

And appearing on Fox would have done that HOW, exactly? Please. O'Reilly's such a wankbag.

I guess Bushit missed that memo...

Wow, this is going to be hard to write.

As a liberal I firmly believe that the only way you learn is by listening to people who disagree with you. If you don't listen to people who disagree with you then you will never know if you're wrong. As a liberal I believe that we should spend our time listening, and talking, to people who disagree with us, and that is why it is essential to talk (sense in)to conservatives like those who watch FOX news.

Now there is obviously a great difference on avoiding a show that is clearly biased to 1 side of an arguement winning; stacking the guests, cutting people off while they're talking, etc. But if FOX news wants to give an opportunity for liberals to articulate and convey our beliefs to the millions of conservative republicans then GREAT!

that's not what fuxxsnooze does. it filters news, colors it, taints it, slants it. Do you want a "debate" moderated by Hannity and Trent Lott? Fuxxsnooze is a tool of the RNC, and any Democrat who thinks he or she can go on that network and get a straight shot is deluded. Yes, we should speak to those who disagree, but fux is not the medium, and certainly not the message. tom

Harry Reid called for a boycott of any of the candidates appearing on Fox for debates (not sure if other things) because they were pushing the "Obama is a muslim" story. So none of them agreed to appear until Clinton - and that was only after she started losing. I think it's better not to give Fox the time of day - one of the commentators compared Rev. Wright to Hitler - they are just ridiculous and to appear their gives the appearance they are a legitimate news source. Any time I watch I'm shocked by the complete lies they freely propogate. O'Reilly was also pondering if Trinity Church should lose its tax exempt status because Wright was making political statements. Could he be any more hypocritical - considering the REpublicans have used churches to promote their agendas the last few elections? Wasn't that the heart of the gay marriage issue? The gist of Obama's speech was correct yesterday - pundits on both sides make a living off of divisiveness - it's up to people to say when they've had enough and instead ask the media to focus on real issues. Besides Keith Olbermann was anyone reporting McCain's major gaffe re: Iran yesterday?

My understanding is he is boycotting the Fox News Channel because of the madrassa story they "broke" and have refused to retract.

No, don't do it!

Obama has not refused to appear on Fox News Channel. He was on last week!

He boycotted a debate co-sponsored by Fox News Channel. And he currently won't go on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

Who would want to participate in a debate moderated by a biased Fox News Channel? And Chris Wallace is a douchebag.

Why is Salon giving Bill O'Reilly a platform to spew his repugnant and inaccurate blather? And why would Barack Obama give Fox a chance to strengthen its ratings by appearing on their shows?

Last night Clinton Adviser Jehmu Greene appeared on The Factor to discuss the boycott over at Daily Kos. O'Reilly repeatedly referred to Daily Kos as "a hate site" and said they do "terrible things on a daily basis." Greene seemed to agree with this description, adding that Kos is "liberal elitism at its worst."

Now, Greene could have mentioned that there are hateful comments on O'Reilly's site or over at MyDD or elsewhere, but she didn't. Instead, she used the opportunity to talk about all the negative comments and "threats" that she's received from Obama supporters on Kos.

The kicker: O'Reilly had the most intelligent comment of the entire exchange. When Greene insinuated that Obama was condoning these comments, O'Reilly cut her off, saying that Obama can't control what people say online any more than Clinton can.

O'Reilly still has a show?

Count everyone's votes if you believe we should come together Obama -- not just the ones that voted for you -- ALL OF THEM.

He'll get the nomination even with everyone's votes -- so back off and let people be heard -- whatever way the nomination goes -- to say 3 million voters don't count in the election is beyond divisive.

Obama -- your resistance to democracy disgusts me.

Now...let's see this is Salon...let the Obamatons loose....5,4,3,2,1....