Finally, Democrats are voting with their feet. There is no reason to legitimize Fox "News". No Democrat should appear on that network, any more than one would expect a Republican to appear on "Democracy Now".

"Pressure groups are forcing candidates to conclude that the best strategy for journalists is divide and conquer, to only appear on those networks and venues that give them favorable coverage," Ailes said, adding that any candidate "who cannot answer direct, simple, even tough questions from any journalist runs a real risk of losing the voters."

Anyone who has listened carefully to FOX news understands the "so-called" reporters have an agenda to ask questions of the "Have you stopped beating your wife" ilk. The "Gotcha" mentality is clear.

For real news without the BS, try PBS.

Smart move for both Edwards and Obama. Any candidate who appears at a Fox News debate will have one strike against them from this voter. I don't know why any Democrat would want to assist in the perpetration of the total fraud that is Fox News.

"Any candidate for high office from either party who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake about journalists," Ailes said at a Radio and Television News Directors Foundation dinner in Washington last month."

What does that have to do with Fox which is neither a news organization or has any journalists on staff?

Obama and Edwards, way to go guys! Ailes, you can use the time Faux News would have allotted to the Nevada debates for a debate between O'Rielly and Imus. That would be yet another Faux News television event that none of us would watch!

Way to go Barack! There is no need to justify this Fox organization as a news network or as anything that should be taken seriously. I only hope to see more of this in the future from any politician more concerned with the good government CAN do and the level of discourse we CAN have, than with getting their face and message out there regardless of the venue. Cheers!

Now if only the other candidates would boycott FOX also, we would all be better off and learn about the issues rather than the FOX agenda.

Bill O'really's job must be hanging by a thread.

What is the Congressional Black Caucus? Is there a Congressional White Caucus?

I long for the days of a liberal media bias....

Good! It's about time that people stop treating Fox like a real news outlet.

What is wrong with the above story? Oh, yeah, the parts where Fox's Ailes keeps referring to his network's on-air personalities as "journalists."

That is the whole reason for this boycott. And I heartily approve.

Happy to find your sight.

My preference for President and
Vice Pres would be Edwards & Obama!
Smart men for a nice change.

When will Hil boycott Fox? Or will she pull another one of her attempts to pander to Republicans just like her Iraq vote?

My predictions is that she will appear on Fox because she will do anything to get elected.

Hillary????

This is ridiculous. You act as if Fox News is the only news channel with an agenda. Right, and CNN doesn't have a leftist agenda. All media stations are biased, but most of them are towards the left which is why everyone here is attacking Fox rather than CNN or ABC. It's hard to believe that Americans can be as stupid as you are acting. Who cares what a news channels' bias is, if you can't answer their questions, don't run for the presidency. Your going to get alot of tough, biased questions from the press when (and if) you get into the office, so deal with it now and show the American people your not afraid to take on people or entities of opposite beliefs. My goodness, be a man.

It seems to me that Barack Obama's feud with Faux is only begining to heat up. Imagine Obama as president. Would he shut Faux out of the White House??? Should he and can he???

Who cares if it is a news organization or not (I believe it is as much as any of the other cable news stuff but it doesn't matter)? It is a venue that speaks to millions of Americans who may never hear the Democratic (and Senator Obama's) views otherwise. I thought Obama and the Democrats want to speak to all of us and be uniters? Guess not. I guess anyone who watches Fox News is worthless scum who is not worth considering? Oh well Democrats show their true stripes. They really don't care about us red staters. We are just a bunch of stupid hillbillies who can't possibly filter information or integrate news from a variety of different sources with a variety of different biases. I guess people like me, who watch Fox News, read the Economist, the National Review AND the Guardian, the Independent, various liberal blogs, etc. aren't worth speaking to. You folks will never be uniters because you have contempt for the beliefs of a large number of Americans and aren't afraid to show it. Even though you don't really even know what my beliefs are. And I am sure you have never watched Fox for more than 2 minutes so how you can have a personal opinion is beyond me. You just parrot what you hear without any personal experience or knowledge.

I totally agree wih Barack Obama and John Edwards and believe they are setting a course that all Democratic candidates should follow. Anyone who believes FOX News is a legitimate news organization is as uninformed or misinformed as anyone can be.

We have had enough of an "ersatz" news organization that supports the likes of the current president and his regime who fail to hear or accept the will of the majority of Americans.

"Pressure groups are forcing candidates to conclude that the best strategy for journalists is divide and conquer, to only appear on those networks and venues that give them favorable coverage," Ailes said"

I would just like to understand how a person from that network can make a statement like that. Have we not all seen Cheney and Bush and others from this administration run to FOX and ONLY FOX when they wanted the "word" to go out? It's standard procedure for God's sake!
So for FOX to now cry foul when the shoe is on the other foot is truly an ironic twist.

DONT FORGET FOX NEWS IS THE #1 NEWS STATION KNOWN FACT.I'M A INDEPENDENT I WATCH CNN CBS ABC BUT I PERFER FOX. I FIND THEY HAVE A BETTER WAY OF TELLING IT LIKE IT IS.