Fox uses 'mailbag' to attack Obama

Nick Langewis and David Edwards

Published: Sunday March 2, 2008



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Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace seems to echo the sentiments of his station's CEO in his reading of a viewer's letter about presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

The letter reads:

Obama will sit down with anyone, including Iran's Ahmadinejad, who calls for the death of the Great Satan America, but [Fox News Sunday], that's where he draws the line.

Can we seriously believe he can confront America's adversaries when he won't even sit down with you?

"The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al-Qaeda," Fox News CEO Roger Ailes said, to applause, at a June 2007 awards show he co-hosted with News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch.

Think Progress opined shortly afterwards that presidential candidates weren't afraid of appearing on Fox News, but rather, they sought not to "legitimize this constant source of partisan misinformation by allowing Fox to claim that it is a real news source that can independently manage a presidential debate."

In 2007, a Democratic debate partially sponsored by Fox was canceled because the candidates refused to appear on the often hostile network. However, in the past six months, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have gone on Fox to promote their campaigns, without much controversy.

The video below is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast on March 2, 2008.









