DAVENPORT, Iowa: Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday he was not greatly offended by the Fox News chief’s word play about his name that led Nevada Democrats to cancel a presidential debate hosted with the network. Fox’s Roger Ailes made a remark last week about the similarities between the Illinois senator’s name and al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. ‘I didn’t take great offense at the joke,’ Obama said in an Associated Press interview while campaigning in Iowa. ‘I have been called worse.’ At a Radio & Television News Directors Association Foundation event in Washington on Thursday, Ailes said, ‘And it is true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don’t know if it’s true that President (George W.) Bush called (Pakistani President Pervez) Musharraf and said, ‘Why can’t we catch this guy?” according to a transcript provided by Fox. Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or the country’s lawless border region with Pakistan. The Nevada Democratic Party announced Friday it had canceled an August debate, to be co-hosted by Fox News Channel, and cited Ailes’ comment. Ailes went too far, the state’s Democratic Party chairman, Tom Collins, and Democratic Sen. Harry […]