Can someone explain a st ange comment I heard by Obama?

[senseandsensibility]

I believe he was on the Ed Shultz show last week. He was commenting about not going on FAUX (which I heartily support) and then he said something along the lines of he might sit down with one of their serious journalists, such as Chris Wallace.

Chris Wallace? The guy who tried to railroad Clinton and got his head handed to him? He even went on to praise Wallace for being fair. It was bizarre.

Did anyone else hear this? I haven't seen any mention of it on DU.:shrug:

[Inuca]

1. Compared to the rest of the crowd

Wallace is indeed relatively decent. He is not a clown, and at times he is not much more than 50% biased.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. He misses the point, and it doesn't speak well for him. Even if he were less than 50% biased,

it would be a drop in the ocean. And an ocean, moreover, of otherwise almost entirely undiluted mendacity and poison, from what I read about their farcically shameless propaganda.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Did you hear the comment?

To me, Chris Wallace is one of the worst lapdogs for this administration on the air, even by FAUX's standards. That's because he is impersonating a real journalist, not a clown, like o'lielly and some of the others. It seemed like Obama was not even aware of Clinton's slapdown of the jerk, which was big news just a few months ago.

[On the Road]

4. It is a Good Tactic Politically

It makes Obama look reasonable, and that he judging individuals rather than painting everything with a broad brush. I don't know Chris Wallace, but Obama seems to have a different impression of him.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Policy, politics with animals doesn't work. It's naive to think otherwise.

Murdoch is an animal, and Fox the finest expression of his values. As Churchill said of the Nazis, "they are either at your feet or at your throat."

I mean some people tried to satirise their report on the Libby verdict the other day, but what should have been high satire, an utterly farcical joke, was thoroughly trumped by the reality. "Libby found innocent on one count!" or words to that effect.

The Republicans despise the Democrats for this sort of always making nice attitude. I've heard people on here pompously intone that, while they deplore someone's stance, they would fight to the death to defend their right to adopt it. It trips nicely off the tongue, but it's utter bullsh*t. How about the Nazis? The Klu Klux Klan?

Keep them under your heel, and grind it back and fore. The mailed fist is what they understand. Anything else is rgarded as a joke.

People in the UK have been moaning about the privatised behemoths, British Gas and British Telecom, the simple reason being that they didn't even mis-speak the dictum, "Fool me once it's your fault; fool me twice, its my fault." They seem to have made no effort whatsoever to boycott them after the first major scandals they were involved in.

[On the Road]

6. He Wasn't Making Nice

The Fox organization has already been slighted. He was making his point more powerfully.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. A divergence of opinions, it seems.