How Should Obama Respond to Fox?
Posted: Friday, October 30, 2009
by Terry Mitchell
http://commenterry.blogs.com
President Obama is making a huge mistake by attacking the talking heads at Fox News Channel. In doing so, he is inadvertently giving that network much more legitimacy than it deserves. Instead, he should be using one of three other strategies that I often use on people who are antagonistic toward me.
First, he could ignore them. This would be a good strategy if his goal is to get back at them for the stuff they say about him. People who crave attention would much rather be verbally attacked than ignored. TV networks thrive on attention which, in turn, drives their ratings. And ratings bring advertiser dollars, which mean profits for the TV networks. Ignoring Fox would be a way for Obama to hurt their bottom line – or at least keep from enhancing it.
Third, he could sarcastically agree with them. He could say something like, "You know, those guys and gals and at Fox are absolutely right about everything they say about me. Therefore, I will do my best to change my ways and conform to their ideal of what a president should be." Then, of course, he could just continue doing things the way he always has. And when they start getting on him again, he could repeat his previous statement and the cycle would continue from there.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)What if what Fox News is reporting is true? What would that mean?I think you have a valid point here, Jim. MarijoJim, I'm sure some of it is and he should ackowledge them when they are right. But under no circumstance should he attack them.
I agree that the best defense is no defense. Kind of leaves people at odds with themselves when they don't get a reaction.Linda DLinda, thanks for reading, and I'm glad you agree.
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