PARMA, Ohio — At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested that the channel be changed when he was made aware that televisions were showing Fox News.

Obama and Fox News have gone to war frequently during his three and a half years in office — most recently over a sharply negative teaser shown on Fox and Friends that the White House took as a Fox News-sponsored attack ad on the president.

The Obama Administration frequently used the network as a proxy punching bag for its Republican opponents in the early years of his presidency. Fox's personalities, led by Glenn Beck, fired back with more and more incendiary comments, but a somewhat delicate balanced was reached after the 2010 election in which both sides toned down their rhetoric.

The exchange, per pooler Mark Landler:

As he thanked the group for their support, one of them, Jeff Hawks, gestured to one of the TV's and said, "You're in a building that has Fox news on."

Obama suggested that Hawks ask for it to be changed. "The customer is always right," he said.

"I'll arm-wrestle you for your vote," Hawks said to Obama. "No, I'll play basketball for your vote," he replied.

PARMA, Ohio — At an unscheduled stop at Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant, an Amherst, Ohio bar, President Barack Obama suggested that the channel be changed when he was made aware that televisions were showing Fox News.

Obama and Fox News have gone to war frequently during his three and a half years in office — most recently over a sharply negative teaser shown on Fox and Friends that the White House took as a Fox News-sponsored attack ad on the president.

The Obama Administration frequently used the network as a proxy punching bag for its Republican opponents in the early years of his presidency. Fox's personalities, led by Glenn Beck, fired back with more and more incendiary comments, but a somewhat delicate balanced was reached after the 2010 election in which both sides toned down their rhetoric.

The exchange, per pooler Mark Landler:

As he thanked the group for their support, one of them, Jeff Hawks, gestured to one of the TV's and said, "You're in a building that has Fox news on."

Obama suggested that Hawks ask for it to be changed. "The customer is always right," he said.

"I'll arm-wrestle you for your vote," Hawks said to Obama. "No, I'll play basketball for your vote," he replied.

Is the inability to spell a reflection of IQ?

I believe it is.... Sometimes I get tired trying to figure out what some of these people are actually saying. Then, on top of bad spelling, they don't use punctuation properly either.

When you finally get fed up with it, then you get someone who makes fun of you for knowing how to spell and use punctuation. What kind of response is that? Why not use the spell check and/or reread what you have written.

If you post it by mistake, there is always the edit button.

Well, we have already covered the National IQ tests that don't penalize for spelling. Then someone mentioned, maybe me, that Einstein was a bad speller- Faulkner and a host of other great writers. It amazes me that we are, for the most part ,quite gentle in our evaluation of photographs on this board but when someone spells poorly the resident English Teachers come out of the woodwork. You know what I think? The "Grammar Correctors" have no other way of showing their intellect so they love to debase poor spellers!

....and we wonder why the U.S. is now showing poorly in the world educational standings.

If I were to be looking to hire someone for a job (and I have, many times, in the past) and saw spelling, punctuation and grammar like this, on their resume or job application, it would go in the "other" pile.

With no attention to detail, how do you (or your children) expect to get the high paying, technical jobs that are out there for the educated? Trust me, it's not going to happen.

If you can't do a simple thing like spell correctly, what other things will you let slide by?