There is only one reason President Obama is (finally) going on Fox News tonight: He believes he can make the channel look like a peddler of misinformation and lies. He is hoping to stump his interviewer, Bret Baier; he's hoping to inundate the newscaster with such verbosity that Baier will capitulate, or stumble and stammer; that he will look guilty and weak. This is an effort by Mr. Obama to show to the world that Fox News is against his goodheartedness, and that Fox has been in a campaign against not only the facts, but his benevolence. He's been bullied, thwarted, misrepresented.
OK. Maybe there are two reasons for his appearing on Fox News.
Barack Obama's appearance is not about procuring more votes in the House. It's about this:
"Look, I've reached out to Republicans, and I've EVEN REACHED OUT TO FOX NEWS, and they STILL refuse to accept the beauty, the clarity and the moral excellence of my vision for America. They continue to mislead and beguile, obstruct and obfuscate. Republicans, with Fox News as mouthpiece, continue to be an obstacle to progress, justice and equality. Hence, we are left with nothing but parliamentary gimmicks to pass health care reform legislation. This is about history, about who stands on the right side of it, and who stands on the wrong. We haven't any more time to waste on the naysayers. The need is too urgent; dialogue has become nothing more than a stall tactic. The TIME TO ACT HAS COME!"
In other words, Barack Obama is interested in posing, in theater. In pretend.
Look! Don't you see how earnest he is? He believes. Surely that counts for something.
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