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I think you're on to something here. I think it would be a tremendous move. He's got the intellectual fire-power and moral presence to hold his own with any of their menagerie of hitmen and hacks.

We would just have to insist they don't doctor the tapes so what we see would be what actually happened.

I think it would be a brilliant move. Obama is so quick on his feet mentally he would destroy any BS the Faux News crew tried to sling. I really do agree with Ms. Joanne...I don't like giving Faux any cred. That being said I still think it could go a long way in helping Obama win this election.

Nice post teemunney...

I'd bet he does just what your saying. There are a lot of Fox News watchers who aren't at all happy with the state of the Union. They're not sure on McCain, or even on the GOP anymore. Their houses are losing value, gas is through the roof, the war was a lie with no coherent endgame offered. These people may not have a lot of the same values as the Democrat base, but they are pissed and quite flippable. Obama needs to be telling the Obama story to them as directly as possible, before their pundits can try to twist it.

Interesting, Teemunney. I too watch them because I want to know what we're up against. (I never watch them live - I always prerecord and then run through them later so that when it gets too unbearable I can flick forward )

Basically I think they're `must watch` stuff if you want to know how the issues are shaping.

I have mixed feelings about him going on O'Reilly. I don't know if you remember but O'Reilly admitted publicly that he'd gone easy on Clinton because he said you have to when you're interviewing women.

What I find most intolerable about the man is when he has people on whose views he doesn't agree with, he bullies them. He doesn't let them finish their sentences, let alone their arguments and reasons for those arguments. He's so damned overbearing - his ego is simply intolerable. It really t's me off the way he loves to tell his audience that people won't come on his show because they're scared of him: I think most intelligent, highly rational people won't go on because there's no point and they've got better things to do with their time!

If he does decide to go on, I hope it won't be without his researchers having gone over all the tapes of previous shows so that Obama knows every single bias/argument O'Reilly's touting so that he's prearmed.

eg have you noticed how O'Reilly & Hannity are both now touting Morris' argument that Obama's lying about not including illegals in his health insurance plan? That if he's going to cover 47m as he argues, then that absolutely covers illegals.

I'd rather he stuck to going on FNS. (Wallace has become something of a hero of mine since that morning during the primary when he phoned those Fox & Friends idiots and publicly told them to stop the Obama bashing. Oh how beauuutiful that was.)

Great points, I agree wholeheartedly, as long as the interview is aired LIVE. We've seen from CBS this week how creative editing can change the meaning of an interview. I don't trust fox news with editing equipment and footage of Barack Obama at all. This type of thing needs to be live or not at all.

I agree with a 100% live interview, though I doubt that would happen. Honestly, though, unless Obama really blows it or the edit job is so egregious even John McCain admits it’s unfair, I don’t see how it could in any way hurt him. And “taking on” Fox isn’t the biggest issue here, but what is important is tapping into a new audience. Not everyone who watches Fox is crazy—there are probably a significant amount of moderates and those who only tilt a bit to the right that watch. They probably have just been bamboozled into thinking that their repeated lies actually are the truth. I was one who actually thought O’Reilly wasn’t that bad—I EVEN bought one of his books 3 or 4 years ago! OK, shoot me. I deserve it. I realize it’s a risk, but seeing Obama fly through the other big “risks” of his campaign…why not?

I would like to see Obama on the O Factor. I would especially like to see him confront the clown about his lynching comment directed at Michelle. Obama is good at turn-about and I am convinced this is already being looked at. My guess is that the campaign is looking at some time shortly after Denver to do it.

This is of course assuming that Bill O the Clown truly wants him on his show and isn't dodging it. I believe this is a huge possibility given the risk of embarrassment to Bill O. Bill O has a lot to lose doing that show and, well, I can't think of anything he to gain by doing it.

Fox News is not a news organization. It is a propaganda machine and nothing else. Everytime a Democrat appears on their network, they give credence to Fox false claims of balance and respectability. This is a mistake.

Moreover, Fox is known to deliberately edit interviews to create a false impression. Yes, I know other networks have done so as well, most recently CBS editing out McCain's stupidity and ignorance. Nonetheless, how can Obama's eloquence serve in an environment where you cannot trust the network to leave his words unaltered. Look what they did with the photos of the Times reporters. That kind of frat boy stupidity is what passes for journalism at Fox - they deserve to be boycotted by every thinking person in America.

Perhaps Obama should do an all in one panel at a nutral location with Olberman, O'rielly and Dobbs.

They each would would gt 1/3rd of the hour to converse with Obama without the other hosts intervening. The other hosts would not be allowed to comment on a previous hosts conversation.

If changes were made to air the interviews on a hosts show, the other hosts and programs would be able to check it against their own records.