Joe Panzarello wants to thank Fox News for bringing us the truth about what’s happening in the world. What truth would that be, Mr. Panzarello?

The truth that our president is a Socialist-Communist-MarxistNazi Kenyan-born Manchurian Candidate who pals around with terrorists and has a deep-seated hatred of white people? The truth that he wants to establish death panels to kill grandma? The truth that liberals aren’t real Americans?

President Obama and the White House are 100 percent right to challenge Fox News. Fox has shown over and over again that they tilt their news coverage indisputably toward a right-wing perspective, and they stubbornly refuse to admit it.

They go out of their way to remind us that they are the only “fair and balanced” news channel, yet they are clearly not driven by the news; they are driven by a political agenda and the deep pockets of Rupert Murdoch.

The White House is not saying that President Obama will never speak to Fox News or that Fox’s point of view is illegitimate or unacceptable. They’re simply asking people to recognize, and for Fox News to acknowledge, that they have a point of view. That’s a perfectly valid request.

Obama is accused by some (including Fox, of course) of being too wimpy to come on Fox and challenge them and, as Mr. Panzarello says, to answer the “real tough questions.”

Well, I have some tough questions for Fox: Why are you afraid to admit what you really are? Why don’t you have the courage of your convictions and admit that you are conservative?

If Fox News rises up to the challenge of confessing its real identity and real purpose, then, and only then, should Obama rise up to the challenge of taking on that conservative voice in the media in an interview. That sounds fair and balanced to me. Jody Kepple Simi Valley