Hillary Clinton is to appear on the O'Reilly show on Fox tomorrow night.
This makes a lot of sense. Obama appeared on Fox on Sunday, on Chris Wallace's show, so any netroots-inspired boycott seems to have gone by the boards. O'Reilly, of course, fashions himself as a voice of regular, blue collar, working folks. Hillary has re-imagined herself as a champion of the white working class in her efforts to beat Obama.
He'll whack Obama. She won't have to.
And, they've both dined at black restaurants in Harlem! Maybe they can talk about Bill's non-condescending reaction to dinner at Sylvia's with Al Sharpton last fall:
"I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people (who) were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
Update: MoveOn.org doesn't like it: "With no plan to call out Fox's Republican agenda, Senator Clinton's appearance on 'The O'Reilly Factor' does nothing more than legitimize a network that will then use that credibility to smear Democrats and progressive ideas in 2008. She's pandering to a small audience that is not persuadable."
Not knowing the numbers, we'd suspect that's not completely true. O'Reilly likely has some segment of conservative Dems as viewers, and they can be persuaded to vote for Clinton over Obama. Plus, it makes her look strong, willing to go into the lion's den.