I really don't care at this point.  We have an election where the RNC is trying to get an ad by the DNC pulled that uses only McCain's own words, while a far more offensive and dishonest ad is being run in NC by the local GOP.  We have a campaign where a highly watched television debate on ABC hardly touches the substance of any of the multiple number of issues relevant to most Americans so they can discuss the comments of Obama's ex-pastor.  We have emails circulating that claim Obama is a terrorist and a Muslim (or is it a terrorist Muslim?).  We have a campaign where Bill Clinton goes on Rush Limbaugh and (at a different time) accuses Obama of being the one to play the race card.  Hell, Obama even went on Fox News.  At this point nothing that happens will shock me anymore.

Our politics are a disgrace, frankly.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'd forgive her if she took him a gift...

of falafel.

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Ah, a voice of sanity in the progressive wilderness!

Thanks again, BooMan, You continue to remind me why you are one of my favorite commentators.

A-the-heck-men. This is utter foolishness. I know good people who watch Fox news out of ignorance, not malice. Should Obama not go before them? That's so silly it's almost beneath comment.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

"I think the outcry in the blogosphere about Barack Obama appearing (after a 700+ day boycott) on Fox News Sunday is one of the most stunning displays of self-indulgent foolishness since the Reverend Jeremiah Wright appeared at the National Press Club."

Oh yeah? I don't think it's foolish, anymore than I think your calling out Clinton for appearing on O'Reilly's show is foolish.  Both of their actions fall into the category of "fucking stupid".

I think this post is a little incoherent. You're saying the left-wing blogs are unjustified in hitting Obama for going on FOX News Sunday, but that it IS justified to go after Clinton for appearing on FOX's O'Reilly Factor?

I am no clinton supporter, but I feel as though you are splitting the finest of hairs.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

huh?

You villify Clinton for going on O'Reilly after Obama went on Fox?  But claim that Obama had to go on Fox because Clinton ... did.  I think.  Huh?

I gotta visit TalkLeft and Left Coaster and Joan Walsh at Salon to find out why the O'Reilly two-parter is copacetic. Down the rabbit hole I go!

LOL Bob in Pacifica!!
don't forget taylor Swamp, ooooops  i mean Marsh!

actually maybe her visit with Bill O will be a blessing in disguise for Obama....

The sleep of reason begets tyrants. -Goya

Joan Walsh taylor CESSPOOL Marsh...two peas IN A POD

The REAGAN DEMOCRAT NEO CON Pod....both of them are as is their candidate Hillary Clinton(NeoCon-NY)

AHHH! You scared the hell outta me!  I thought you meant Obama must be going on O'Reilly, which would then result in somebody like Stoller tearing out their own eyeballs.

You're right. FOX sucks a big, fat one. But Hillary sucking up to Scaife, Limbaugh throwing primaries for her and all that is politics (except, of course, if it's actually criminal, then it's just Limbaugh). It really ain't beanbag, is it? My preference would have been for him to stay away from FOX, but he didn't ask me, so here we are. Since he did go on FOX though, Obama's task, his obligation as a viable candidate is to get out there and get his message in front of as many people who vote as possible (no matter how deluded, misguided or thuggish they may be). If he can turn a few on the dark side, so much the better. The thing he betrayed most by going on FOX was arguably the self-importance of a lot of the popular kids in Blogopolis. We ought to ALL tell FOX to shove it, but that doesn't work unless "ALL" is intact. So FOX is a player now. Fine. Great.

And now Hillary's taking her shot, huh? There's a little bit of difference between O'Reilly (which is FOX's crown jewel of entertainment propaganda) and an interview with Chris Wallace (which is just bland, original flavor propaganda). I shudder to think of what she'll say, but in the long run, Obama's got to be able to take what she spews and throw it back in her face. He's shown a little reluctance at times to do this, but I know he's got it in him. I'm not too squeamish about that kind of campaign anymore. Let's get this damn thing finished, already.

It doesn't seem to me like Democrats have that much to gain by walking into the lion's, or in this case the fox's, den. To that extent I support a Democratic boycott. However, I also can't help but think that the Barack Obama who has said he would meet with the Iranians would be out of character to not meet with the Republicans.

In the end this is all just another distraction when we should be discussing the economy, education, healthcare, Iraq, Afghanistan and all the other issues that are actually important, rather than the ones that only seem bigger than the rest because someone is waving them in front of our eyeballs.

I for one welcome our new Twitter overlords. @Omir55

O' Reilly, Murdock, and Fox in general has no impact in my life. What they do is for its entertainment value only. I don't care who appears on Fox - it's for a laugh, a joke, whatever. I'm not interested in ratings. They care only about ratings not credible content. Sorry, I'm not interested in their news because it's not.

I see no difference between BillO and anybody who works for Faux News.  If you work for them, you're evil.  If you watch them, you're ignorant.