With apologies to David Letterman's writing crew, mostly because I can't bring myself to make a joke of this; none of these points is even remotely funny.
So fire at will; the "countdown" starts below the fold.
Nailbender's Top Ten Reasons Obama's Fox Interview Has Backfired:
- See the black and orange stripes at the top of this page? They aren't bus tire tracks.
- "Capitulation Or Bust" is a shitty campaign slogan.
- Dissing your base is beyond boneheaded, it's suicidal.
- When you are in the business of restoring our Constitution, our Republic and our national reputation, accommodating and validating the forces that helped destroyed them is counterproductive, to the point of failure.
- So tell us just why did you decide not to participate in the Fox debates again, Barack?
- How politically stupid would it be for John McCain to submit to a Bill Moyers interview - and how much fairer to McCain would Moyers be than Wallace was to you, Barack?
- If that was your definition of "taking it to them," I can recommend several accurate dictionaries you might want to switch to.
- Your complaints and criticisms of the ABC
debate debacle were spot-on and eloquent. So how was the Wallace interview different? What, no one asked Hillary about Bosnia?
- Just put on a flag pin and be done with it, Senator.
- The Fox boycott was fucking working, goddammit.
UPDATE: As if to prove my points, one commenter below led me to a Fox news item where, on the right side of the page where they tout their current ledes, there is a video link to an Ann Coulter piece touting her candidate's (Hillary's) advance following the Fox interview:
Ann Coulter and pollster Doug Schoen on new poll numbers showing Clinton over McCain by more points than Obama