Oooops, I totally misread this, thinking you said FAUX "is" a legitimate network, sorry.

He might settle for a diaper change and pacifier.

Wallace was projecting: he's a cry baby. And when he's turned down for a date, he calls the girl (not woman) dirty names.

That is news, criticism, or even opinion. It is name-calling, pure and simple, and nowhere near even pretending to be mature or adult.

IT is, in a word, unprofessional.

But that's what FOX is: guttersnipes who will lie not only behind one's back but also to one's face.

FOX Fraud-on-America is about destroying our democratic system of gov't, period.

Murdoch is clearly a Nazi sympathizer.

AND, it serves to drive a deeper wedge between the Reep News Network and the rest of the media, making it clear to all where FOX actually stands. What a great use of the bully pulpit: clear, powerful, and yet above-the-fray.

It's like Obama told FOX that they need to take a time-out and go sit in the corner, while FOX whines and stomps and grudgingly obeys.

Yo, Wallace? Why don't you use your real name? Chicken? --

"FDR could reach all Americans in his fireside chats because there were no other national media at the time."

Yep: including the corporatists who plotted the coup against him, and all those who called him "socialist" and worse, and would not under ANY circumstances be persuaded by facts and reason.

Including, in short, the overt Hitler/Nazi sympatizers.

"Today, media and communication opportunities are fragmented and must be utilized piecemeal."

That's exactly what he's doing. So he left out a piece of bottom-of-the-barrel ignorant racist white trash-exploiting propaganda with "values" that never rise above "Gong Show" entertainment while LYING that it is NEWS.

"Barack Obama is smarter than anyone connected with Fox and is very effective at correcting lies/misinformation during conversation."

And doing so otherwise, as he did during his speech to the joint session of Congress. He doesn't need FOX. And doesn't need to go on FOX to refute their lies there.

You seem to forget: FOX's audience is a tiny minority, that is and or falls for a far-right lunatic fringe America-hating propaganda, which they believe as if it were a religion. One doesn't reason with them because one cannot reason with them: they lack the simplest of basics of logic so are incapable of engaging with logic and reason.

"He also recognizes that many Americans have legitimate concerns about deficits, size of government, infringement on individual and state/local autonomy,"

99 per cent of that "concern" is illegitimate America-hating anti-Constitutionalism fed to history- and law-illiterates, essentially all of whom are racists. That they uncritically swallow then repeat it doesn't make it any more legitimate.

Take your pick: among the "literate" are those who jabber about The Federalist, which is the wrong "bible" for their religionutism, and about which they know ZERO; or, in the alternative, jabber about "states' rights" -- JIM CROW -- and anti-Federalists -- about which BOTH they know ZERO.

Tenth Amendment? Well what do you know: the Constitution consists of TWO items:

1. The contextless phrase, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms"; and,

2. The Tenth Amendment (and when one points out to them that the word "State" in that Amendment means "GOV'T," they are at a loss for words.

Apparently there won't be this third item --

Art. I., s. 8, c. 15 Congress shall have the Power To provide for calling forth the Militia to Execute the laws of the Union, (and) SUPPRESS INSURRECTIONS --

Until FOX "reports" it. "Unarmed THIS time"?

"and that for better or for worse many of these Americans rely on Fox as their sole or main source of information."

And those who do are out there calling President Obama socialist-communist-Marxist-fascist-Nazi -- and racist -- and will NOT be reached because of their FOX-reinforced "habit" of rejecting not only all views which don't reinforce their preexisting false presumptions, but also rejecting reason itself.

The unhinged aren't LISTENERS: they have something to "PROVE" -- without regard for TRUTH -- and they intend that they be HEARD. PERIOD. "Drunk on someone else's cork" (Mark Twain), they intend -- for now -- to "take it out in blowin'" (Mark Twain).

That summative fact is proven when they are asked for SPECIFICS: they have NONE -- except to yet again repeat the same name-callings, as if those were actually "issues".

99.99 per cent of those yelling about the Constitution being "destroyed" haven't read it yet even the FIRST time.

"While I am sure that even the most spectacularly successful performance by Obama on Fox, from the perspective of Obama supporters, would still only reinforce the negative preconceptions of most Fox viewers, there would be some who would view the President and his policies in a more favorable light."

If such individuals, even the tiniest percentage, could be reached by reason, they wouldn't restrict their source of information to FOX's Fraud-on-America in the first place. They willfully cannot be reached for the OBVIOUS reasons detailed.

So take your apologetics for racist lunacy to Free Republic, and commiserate with the thugs there, who exult in your patently false -- and you know it's false -- nonsense.