Barack Obama will appear on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor on Thursday, the same night that John McCain's nomination acceptance speech will be broadcast from the Republican National Convention.
This is the first time in Obama's presidential candidacy that he will appear on the program. Obama has a strained history with the Rupert Murdoch-owned network, and has expressed concerns over how he has been covered on Fox, the Washington Post reports.
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