The MSM will run the clips of Obama "lashing out" or "attacking FOX", just as they did when Clinton was on with Chris Wallace.

I fail to see any up side to this approach.

Greg, where is the Clinton response to his upcoming appearance? You have their response for everything else.

I'll save you the time:

"For a man who wants change, Barack is appearing on the very network that is synonymous with George Bush and his party. This calls into question his judgment and ability to be a leader, as I have NEVER appeared on the Fox News network. Barack should be ashamed. We don't think he's a closet muslim republican, as far as we know."

I'm not real big on his decision to go on Fox, but I'm willing to accept, begrudgingly, that Obama and some of the people working for his campaign MAY be smarter than me, and thus have thought this through and made the right move.

What's the saying about insanity? Doing the same thing over and over, but expecting something different?

Obama will go on Fox News. No matter how reasonable, sensible, and compelling he is, Fox (and CNN, MSNBC) will pick the most unflattering snippet, and play that over and over and over again.

He'll be fine.

Fox will do their usual crap, but coming on the heels of the ABC debate, it should have a diminished effect. The story isn't as compelling the second time around.

Gee, not long ago it was the Clintons who betrayed Dems by going on Fox. And just yesterday Fat Slob Uberman and his tedious gal thursday Madow were cluck cluck clucking over the very idea of any Dem going on Fox! Oh, the humanity!
Ooops! Guess they didn't get the memo...

For the rest of us it is just more proof, as if more were needed, of what a fraud Obama is.
A fraud and a liar, the ghetto hustler writ large.
And now that Wright is back in the news with a vengeance, this time blaming the media for his hate speech and blithely informing us that his boy Barack is just a politician saying what politicians have to say, well I guess Wright's a racist too!

Obama is going down. Thank god there are not enough AA and KosKids to give him the White House.
And if the Dems are suicidal enough to nominate him then the GE will be his grave and there will be dancing upon it.
Because best of all, the snot nosed progressives will be forced back into their loser closet for another eight years where they can get to work reorganizing their circular firing squad.
This is just beginning to get good!

Well he SURE as heck is smarter than ME, so I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he knows exactly what he is doing . . .

Well, good, I guess - maybe he'll actually get through to some of the idiots who watch Fox.

Keep talking - I suppose bigotry & ignorance are easier to deal with when they're out in the open.

He is being terribly naive. The "questions" will be long narrative "opening statements" such as:

"Sen. Obama, you have courted domestic terrorists like William Ayers for their political support. Ayers, of course, bombed American government builings, never repented, and on 9/11 said that the bombings did not go far enough. When questioned about Ayers in the last debate, you were very defensive and did not, in the eyes of many, renounce Ayers. In fact, you appeared to defend him by suggesting he was just a benign "English professor." Senator, do you regret your association with this domestic terrorist?"

By asking this kind of loaded question, the answer is almost irrelevant. How will he "take on" that kind of question -- if he answers it like he did in the deabte, the FOX headline is "Obama defends Ayers." If he attacks Wallace for having the temerity to ask the question, the FOX headline will be "Obama evades questions about ties to Ayers."

Get the point?

I honestly think that inasmuch as Obama froze Fox out for quite some time for smearing him with the Madrassah lie, that Fox probably is willing to meet some of Obama's terms. The reason I think that is because I think Fox knows he's going to be president and they want access just like every other news org.

The campaign played Fox already - pretty thoroughly.

Well, this seems OK to me.

Obama has said that he will speak to people even when they disagree; tell them what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear. He can do this again with FOX.

Also, with the Indiana primary around the corner it might be a way to reach their voters. It is an open primary in a red state -- some of the Dem primary voters watch FOX.

I might even watch.

Obama will do fine.
FOX will spin against him regardless of what he does.
The larger narrative for rational people will be:
Obama is not afraid to go into any neighborhood to speak for himself and promote his message.

IMHO, talking back to and "taking on" the media is not some capricious project -- it is indispensible for any Democrat who wants to win in November -- Obama can do it credibly.

Democrats have been complaining about Fox and their creepy cable cohorts for years -- be have to make a compelling argument to the American people that Fox (and CNN, etc.) shouldn't be controlling our political debates -- they are a central part of the corrupt, money-driven, gridlocked DC scene that Americans hate and want to change. They helped bring us Iraq, and there will be other disasters until we sweep them back to the margins where they belong.

My guess is that Obama is trying to egg on Fox to ask character questions (lies, hate, racism, patriotism) in hopes to turn these around. I actually hope they do as they'll hand him his head on a platter. His free pass as a Black candidate who people hesitate to criticize for fear of being labeled racist has its limits. Obama has had his 15-minutes of the audacity to shove racism, hate, unAmerican views, and lies upon the public. While it continues to feed the left-wing Obama Cult, I think he seriously underestimates that the rest of America is increasingly seeing him for what he is. Fox is least likely to accept what he spews and has an audience, small though it may be, to answer to.

Matthew
http://www.TheProblemWithObama.com

I am encouraged to read that Obama is lending his marginally respectable name to the support of the ratings challenged entertainment network that provides no programming of social redeemable value.

Perhaps he can defend his indefensible abandonment of supporting our constitutional rights during the Mukasey confirmation . . .

McCain-Clinton ’08

I am heavily leaning toward Obama as the Dem nominee, but this whole going-on-Fox thing makes me very uneasy. I appreciate his desire to take on a network bully, and I'm sure he will go in prepared....but the fact is he'll be going in to a scenario where he is at a distinct disadvantage. That's the problem that any liberal or any reasonable-minded person of any political stripe faces going on that network.

Maybe he has some ace up his sleeve - I sure hope so. If he's just going on to show that he's willing to go on, then I question his judgment. It's not that I think it would necessarily be a disaster, even if it doesn't go well, but it could be yet another ridiculous distraction.

This strikes me as a very bad idea. A fair number of moderates and independents buy into the Fox tag line of being fair and balanced and not being part of the liberal media. While most of us are smart enough to see through that BS, Fox's status as a uniquely defiant conservative media voice allows people to view that as "moderate" when compared to the mainstream "liberal" media.

If Obama gets really confrontational he's likely to convince moderates and independents that he's some wacky left wing communist.