Bill O’Reilly’s pre-Super Bowl interview of Barack Obama was mighty slow going and felt a good deal longer than its fourteen minutes and sixteen seconds. Two or three minutes in I was about to shut it off, but I kept watching, almost fascinated by the sheer pointlessness of it all. The predictable subjects were brought up — Egypt, health care — with completely predictable responses. The only new fact — if you can call it that — to be gleaned was the president didn’t want to be disturbed by his Super Bowl guests during the game. He preferred to watch the contest unmolested. (Oh, and he thought the Steelers would have a problem because they were missing their center. Maybe he was right.)
Well, that’s something I guess, but pretty thin gruel for such a ballyhooed confrontation. But then I thought — what did I expect? These men are both vastly overexposed. There is almost nothing they could possibly say that would surprise us.
In fact, overexposure is endemic to our political life, for politicians and pundits. It’s an endless cycle. Everyone has to be on television at every possible moment to validate themselves, even the president. It seemed as if he felt Super Sunday wouldn’t be Super Sunday without him. And, of course, O’Reilly couldn’t have been happier to comply because he too wanted to horn in on the Super Sunday noise, as if we hadn’t seen enough of him. My only disappointment was we didn’t have Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham into the bargain. (And then the Black Eyed Peas had to log in with their puerile views on education. Enough, enough.)
Of course, no one has that much to say — your humble servant included — yet we all keep on saying it. Few of us know when to shut up.
Lives there a man or woman in this country who doesn’t press the mute button or switch his/her radio dial to another station at the announcement that the next voice to be broadcast is that of BHO?
I don’t want to hear one more syllable out of his sorry mouth until he wishes his successor Godspeed on January 20, 2012. He provided deep despair rather than his vague promise of “hope,” and as for change, the less said the better.
We O’Tooles have a noun to describe men like Obama. That word is putz. And the adjective the precedes it is “feckless.” His recent performance on Egypt exemplifies his tragic ignorance and his total lack of a single adviser with the slightest knowledge of anything helpful.
God help us all.
Nice to see Michael Douglas at the Superbowl. At least he knew how to act the part of the President, unlike our woeful incumbent.
Couldn’t have said it any better!
The sight, and sound anything Obama grates on my nerves.
Exactly! The cadence of his speech…his cliches…the color of his sound – all conspire to give me the creeps.
His speechifying has turned from an asset to a pain in the asset…
I don’t want to hear one more syllable out of his sorry mouth until he wishes his successor Godspeed on January 20, 2012.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a year longer until January 20, 2013.
I don’t listen to Obama and can’t stand Bill O’Reilly. He’s such a pompus jackass that I’d almost prefer being strapped to a chair and forced to listen to John Kerry (or even Obama) speeches as to listen to O’Reilly.
“”I don’t want to hear one more syllable out of his sorry mouth until he wishes his successor Godspeed on January 20, 2012.”
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a year longer until January 20, 2013.”
Phew! Is it just me, or does it feel like he has been Prez for 5 years already? The Interminable Presidency.
I thought it was just me. Diving for the remote control has become a sport in my house. I cannot even stand it when someone else mentions him. When is his 15 minutes over?
Oh, my God. I feel exactly the same way……I detest this man and can’t stand to see or hear him!
Lives there a man or woman in this country who doesn’t press the mute button or switch his/her radio dial to another station at the announcement that the next voice to be broadcast is that of BHO?
Not in my household
Just another exposure to a person who displays he had no parental guidance as he grew-up. How BHO can live in a state devoid of reality escapes me. “Those who hate me don’t know me”! This buffoon has told so many stories about his early life (through college, no less) that don’t connect how can anyone know who he is. The way he takes everything so personally shows an even deeper psychosis of a very troubled person. He’s lost in his own identity and doesn’t know who he is.
More exploratory articles like these by Simon might cause the egg to crack and expose the imposter.
It was a sham. I stopped listening to O’Reilly years ago. The fact that the president would talk to him at is proof that he has no teeth. And what about the right slanted Fox news, year right, another lie told by the leftist press that hates Fox for maybe being not quite as left as they are.
I loved (sarcasm) the butchery of our National Anthem by that tart. Then the reading of the Declaration of Independence, do these idiots know they just stood there on national television and advocated violent resistance to tyrannous policy? So much for toning down the rhetoric, eh? Follow that with Will I Am genuflecting to Dear Leader with his absurd rewrite of his already absurd song. It was an embarrassment. I didn’t watch the interview, by the way. I turned on the pre-game, saw the President and O’Reilly talking, switched channels, and came back to it later.
We have just about quit watching O’Reilley. He makes out that he’s in the middle..but sure leans left. He’s so argumentative. He belittles Beck. We really dislike his “I’m so damned smart” attitude, he’s rude
It was a waste of time interview..so much for getting answers to the tough questions. Will not watch another Obama interview. Can’t stand the man
He never said he didn’t want the “muslim brotherhood” in power…didn’t answer if it was a threat in Egypt. Just it’s well organized. He and Bill should have just gone out for an elitist beer and left us alone
…The hardest problem of Obama’s presidency is that he has lost his personal privacy>>>???? shucky darn , sounds akin to the BP executive wanting his life back.. two elitist in a pod
The statement:
“(Oh, and he thought the Steelers would have a problem because they were missing their center. Maybe he was right.)”
…as I see it..this is applicable to the American public
…we have lost our center and have a problem…
O”Reiley isn’t helping with his milquetoast attitude with Obama..
’Can’t stand Obama, and I totally agree about Bill O’Reilly: ALL he does is spin. I liked him for a few months when we first subscribed to Fox News. Not now: he’s a bloviator who’s given Obama way too many passes for my liking.
O’Reilly and O’Bama are boring and full of themselves. Fie on them both!
I agree with the author that this interview was a complete bust, except for exposing another series of Obama’s perfidy.
It would have been quite different had O’Reilly asked this one simple question:
‘Mr. Obama, the Egyptian public are protesting against what they feel is an illegitimate government…many Americans feel the same way about your legitimacy…they feel you haven’t proven your proper birth status and that you are being deceptive and hiding your personal history…
Why don’t you simply release your long form birth certificate and unseal your school records so you can defuse this issue and regain the full trust of all of the American public?”
O’Reilly would have won the journalism superbowl with that one question, but he blew it. Someone needs to hold Obama to account. We need to keep the pressure on.
~ The Infidel Alliance
I didn’t watch it because of things already said above (I change the channel or hit mute any time al-Bama prevaricates on TV or radio), but you’re spot on with this point. I assumed that O’Reilly wouldn’t ask such a thing, so all the more reason not to watch it. Talk about the emperor’s new clothes…
You are spot on, Infidel. Everyone knew the nauseating know-it-all O’Reilly’s questions would be pre-approved by the White House, even if he did have the nuts to ask the questions we all wanted to hear. In any case, Obongo’s presidency is over. Too bad the country must wait two years for the opportunity to extricate itself from despotism.
“Obongo’s Presidency over” Don’t ever underestimate the ability of the general public to be duped, AGAIN!! For the next two years, we’re going to hear all the right words from Obama and it’s a good possibility that the Republican Party will run the same type of canditates like they did in the last election. God help us!
Well we know Bill O will do his part.
It was a complete bust, waste of time. Intrusion of super bowl Sunday. Obama can’t get anyone to listen, now has to come to game time AGAIN, for what? rhetoric? GEEZ. Overexposure, poor timing, you name it
In the interview, Obama acknowledged that “the people who dislike you, don’t know you…the folk who hate you, they don’t know you….what they hate is whatever funhouse mirror image of you that’s out there…”
Okay Obama, give us a chance to get to know you.
1. Release your long form Hawaii birth certificate, and
2. Release your school records.
That would really help us ‘get to know you’, the REAL you Mr. Obama….or is that Mr. Soetero? After being adopted by Lolo Soetero, when did you officially change your name back to Obama? We just don’t know. Maybe your records could shed some light on that.
We need to keep the pressure on.
~ The Infidel Alliance
It’s his mirror…he should check it out sometime. Fox has become the controlled opposition. And Bill O’reilly adds more proof that Harvard degrees are vastly over-rated.
“So many predictable people saying their predictable things again and again and again, as if locked in a perpetual Geraldo rehash of the OJ trial with Faye Resnick as the co-host?”
Yes, people like Obama keep saying such predictable things. Well son, if that’s the case, then why doesn’t the main stream media EVER report that, let alone challenge him on anything? Why don’t they actually ask him some tough questions? O’Reilly’s interview may have not been the best, but at least I learned that Obama doesn’t come right out and condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, isn’t that worried about it, and wouldn’t really mind seeing them come into power in Egypt. I guess THAT is news. As for Obamacare, I saw a president who is a dedicated Socialist way into “social justice,” which is just another term for socialism.
So, what else do you want in a 14-minute interview?
I have been unplugging lately. I just refuse to listen to a lot of these people. For instance, no one had any idea that this uprising was going to happen in Egypt and yet now that it has everyone is an expert on Egypt. Left and right. No one can shut up and wait and see what happens before they start flapping their gums.
I did not watch this interview. It was just too much ego in one room for me to handle.
I gave up on OReilly long ago- his ego has gotten in the way of real reporting. . . . he is becoming an oblammo shill. . . . and FOX is definitely drifting left. . . . how long will Judge Napolitano be around? He seems to be one of the few left there who actually speaks out about the crap the “o” and co. is pushing.The two “O’s together still adds up to zero. . . . not worth my time. . .
I used to think that the Judge was one of the best that Fox had to offer until read and CONFIRMED that he is a “Truther”. That was enough for me to realise that you can appear normal and still have crazy thoughts.
Then put me in there with him, ’cause I wonder about it too. . . .
O’Reilly jumped the shark when he softballed his 2008 election campaign interview with Teh Won.
BOR is the new Larry King.I will not be surprised if he starts asking women about their sex lives.
But, Roger, if you concentrated on the football during this least rational national holiday, you will miss the most important news event of this newish year.
AP reports (via Drudge to Yahoo News):
“The rest of the menu for the 100 or so guests at the White House bash is tailgate-friendly even if served inside the Executive Mansion: bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep-dish pizza and Buffalo wings with sides of German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes and assorted chips and dips.”
Drudge connects this White House blood-clogging fare with our lovely First Lady’s efforts to feed her subjects, those not attending White House affairs anyway, on gruel, seeds, and wild berries. The White House will eat cake. The rest of you eat too much, eat too fast, eat what is not good for you. You must be regulated into the sveltness that Her Royal Highness has decided you must display.
If you think that’s bad, chew on this. $1 billion in funding is being used to start a new government-funded drug company dubbed the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Soon the government and “private investors” will be working even more closely together to define what medicine is — and repress whatever they say it isn’t. Is this is a strong indication of the United States transitioning into a fascist government? It’s just another bailout for big pharma to overcome their losses from billions paid to victims in out of court settlements. The continued media white washing of the fallacy of health care will insure the continued support of both incumbents and pharma reps by those that never made the class action lists benefiting from billions allocated for restitution of its victims. Only the causualties escape. Now do you catch the drift of socialized medicine? Or do you deserve what you get?
But, Roger, if you concentrated on the football during this least rational national holiday, you will miss the most important news event of this newish year.
Actually, I think the least rational national holiday is Groundhog Day. Supposedly, if the groundhog sees its shadow on Feb 2, spring will soon be here and if it doesn’t, winter will last six more weeks. Has anyone seen spring come any earlier than six weeks except perhaps in a truly freakish year?
My grand pappy used to advise something like, “When you can’t say anything good, don’t say anything..”
So, in his memory as far as the Super Bowl Pre-Game show interviews go, whatever that thing that bellowed and botched our National Anthem was, the stream of dumbed down commercials and that sicko half-time black and purple lights demonstration went…..
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…but then, I’d rather watch paint drying than eat myself into a stupor watching eleven men chase a ball around a field for hours. When did a football game become another national holiday? and WHY? And it’s a dirty one. Memorial Day, Independence Day, King and Presidents’ day all come and go without generating a lot of gambling and human trafficking. I know. This is off subject. Still, Superbowl, BAH, HUMBUG.
Didn’t watch. I like Bill O’Reilly, unlike many on this thread. But there’s nothing on earth that could make me willingly watch Obama smirk and preen and pour on the platitudes.
I like Bill O’Reilly too. But I agree the interview was pretty unexciting. I think he just wanted to come across as a reasonable guy to show people who don’t watch Fox that he is–in fact–a reasonable guy. Makes it harder for the left to demonize him… maybe? It is true that he cuts Obama a lot of slack on his program. But that is partly to make for a good discussion with his guests/panelists. It also is to live up to the “Fair and Balanced” motto. Did you ever hear talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, etc cutting George Bush slack? This is a good thing people, even if you don’t always agree with what Bill says. It was pretty funny though when BOR said to BHO in the interview something like “We try to be balanced and I hope you think we treat you fairly…..” BHO pointedly said nothing! Apparently HE doesn’t think Bill is balanced….. LOL. All depends on where you are standing I guess.
O’Reilly can be good sometimes, pressing public figures with tough questions. But after a time (a short time), I find him very irritating to watch. For someone with such a large ego, his thinking is almost laughably shallow–when it’s not downright stupid. One of his main ploys is to find a way of splitting the difference between two opposing sides so as to make himself seem thoughtful, above the fray and of course “fair and balanced.” He does this almost reflexively, even when one side is 98% right and the other side 98% wrong. This way of taking the “middle road” is idiotic, not thoughtful–though O’Reilly persists and evidently thinks himself rather clever when he pulls it off.
One of my favorite examples of how this plays out is when global warming comes up. O’Reilly doesn’t know if the warming will create serious damage, whether it’s caused by human activities or if the proposed remedies will work or will just bankrupt the economy. Nevertheless, he feels we really need to “get all this gunk out of the air.” The ignorance packed into this one statement is quite astounding: CO2 is not “gunk” like carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide or any other real pollutant. It is a harmless gas that we all exhale and which plants need to survive. It is about 0.04% of the atmosphere. Yet O’Reilly has proven how thoughtful he is by carefully steering between two “extremes”, neither of which he understands.
Did Obama tell us how much religion, God, and his deep faith mean to him, prays every day, etc. He has no shame and many voters have no brains, a perfect match.
Get our favorite muslim on more major telecasts, until sufficient numbers of people are sick to death of him.
O’Reilly, one of the world’s and histories all time great —holes.
Every time Mr. Obama shows up on TV now, it reminds me of a scene in Fahrenheit 451 where the ‘leader’ is speaking. He’s on a TV the size of a wall, and Julie Christie isn’t allowed to turn it off. So, if they can require us to buy health insurance, then can they likewise require us to watch El Supremo? After all, it’s for our own good?
And Obama, most of all, has turned in to President Rerun. Even if he changed his politics entirely, every single idea, I still wouldn’t want to see him ever again. Enough already indeed.
Ditto that.
President Obama has the audacity to claim that there is nothing Socialist about ObamaCare and that he does not want to redistribute wealth.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/02/obama-says-there-is-nothing-socialist-about-obamacare-you-want-fries-with-that-whopper-mr-president-video.html
Does President Obama really think we will believe his assertion in light of all the evidence that shows otherwise?
I’ve watched O’Reilly for years almost nightly, and for a time, found his show interesting. The Obama Super Bowl interview was not only untimely, but dull as hell. The only thing worth watching now on The No Spin Zone is Dennis Miller’s bit, usually on Wednesday nights. If I never saw Geraldo Rivera again, it would be too soon. Laura Ingraham actually does a better job with the interview than O’Reilly when she substitutes, and is far more intelligent.
However, there is one subject where O’Reilly does a world of good, and I haven’t witnessed anyone else attempting it. O’Reilly should devote far more effort to it.
These activist, leftist judges are exposed and dragged into the light for egregious conduct and decisions. They don’t get to operate as King of the Court with a microphone shoved in their face – those are a delight to watch. Nothing tickles me more as the arrogant “robed ones” head for the tall weeds trying to hide. O’Reilly has pushed some of that scum to the glue factory where they belong.
Amazing what having your face dragged across the set for the nation to see does to garner a little humility and restore true justice.
I pretty much agree with you, Tex. I used to be a regular viewer of his show but have become turned off over the course of the last year and now rarely watch it. In addition to the points you make I would add: his frequent references to “The View”, his tit-for-tats with Jon Stewart, etc, and his Hollywood celeb pieces. So much of the show nowadays is simply a waste of time.
I never thought I would say this, but I agree that much of the show is a waste of time. Sad for me because O’Reilly was my 1st exposure to Fox back during the 2000 campaign. It was interesting & fresh. Oddly enough, I credit some things I learned from him about civil debate, when I talk about my shift from left to center right. “You dont point to bad behavior to justify other bad behavior” “No personal attacks, it cheapens your argument (pinhead), trying to hear both sides & be fair etc. Sounds crazy but hey, Im from Detroit, I was never learned that stuff lol!
Now the show is so full of pop culture & other Fox personalities it is boring. He does good work when he goes after the bad judges & I appreciate his pro life stance. I hate to say it, but I think his day is behind him
Oops! I never learned that stuff! Apparently I didnt learn to review before send
For those who watch O’Reilly be prepared to hear and see this much ballihood interview over and over. He’ll want to know how good a job he did from Beck, from the woman who evaluates facial expressions, from Giraldo and on and on. I gave up on O’Reilly some time ago, such a fraud. Fox sorely needs to replace him, give the slot to Laura Ingram or Brit Hume. Either one can restructure the entire show…..it is so boring now. As for the superbowl, we check in only to see what the score is. Didn’t hear the woman who sang the national anthem but read about the botch on Drudge. Would rather clean the toilet than listen to a half time show, better use of time.
I altogether agree. My husband and I now avoid Bill O’Reilly: what a shameless, preening self-promoter he is! If we know Laura Ingraham’s standing in, we’ll watch. She’s tougher and much more intelligent than Bill “the Shill”—for Obama.
(Laura had better watch out!)
I watched Puppy Bowl VII instead of Dear Liar.
The coming presidential campaign has practically been destroyed in advance by Fox News because most of the possible Republican candidates are either constant contributors or have their own shows on the network. Even attractive new faces like Paul Ryan could be old faces before we know it.
If you ask me, they’re trying to duplicate a brilliant masterstroke of the early 2008 Presidential campaign — when Fred Thompson got the gig of subbing of the Paul Harvey Show, thereby making his voice — and his opinions — familiar to many millions of Americans, every day. (And he no doubt got paid to do it!)
Well, O’Reilly doesn’t care what you think. He said on Fox news this morning that he doesn’t read blogs as he thinks most bloggers are mentally ill.
O’Reilly lost me as a viewer years ago with his arrogant and pompous attitude. Nice to know I haven’t missed anything.
Same gig with 0blovate, I was going to watch then remembered why I dropped 0blovate years ago. Looks like I was right, all softball and Ministry of Truth approved questions(?).
Man needs to be replaced by someone sane.
There’s an old joke about the two Arabs going to a soccer match on a camel. When they get to the game there are thousands of camels in the parking lot. One of the two Arabs said to the other as they walked into the game,”How will we ever find our camel?” The other replied, “I know how because as we came into the lot one of the policemen said Look at the two assholes on that camel. So we will look for the camel with two assholes on it”!
What we saw with O’Reilly and Obama was two assholes on a camel!
Now that is funny!
I am with all the above. We will have to stop watching O’Reilly also he us becoming too full of himself. (Like His Oneness). When do the impeachment proceedings begin would have been a good question. How’s about the time you put the state of Louisiana into bankruptcy with your moratorium? Can’t you just keep Michelle in the White House instead of our dining area? Or could you possibly stop insulting the Brits (I wanted to go there someday). Now I will have to wear a t shirt that says “I have absolutely nothing to do with foreign policy”.
I never want to hear His Oneness talk anymore…because it will be a LIE.
I used to listen to O’Reilly when he hosted his radio program, “The O’Reilly Factor”. It dawned on me that BOR was actually a huge Obama backer in the way that he constantly defended Barry and was harshly critical of McCain. This interview, which I gratefully did not watch, is just more proof that BOR is in love with Barry.
Ted Baxter O’Reilly actually looked frightened of Bam Bam during the beginning of the interview. If you looked closely, Bam was not intimidated or nervous about this interview at all. He spoke over O’Reilly and quite forcefully. O’Reilly is a windbag that would roll over like a pet dog if this country were actually taken over and the socialist marched down pennsylavnia avenue. He acts tough but is actually a coward.
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all won the first time they ran for president.
I wonder if America just gets burned out on the perpetual candidates who are always touted as “front runners” when they enter a race but never seem to win, like Mitt Romney?
Did O’Reilly hold up cue cards for his eminence to read from when the camera was on him? Doesn’t he need a tele-prompter to order a slurpee?
What a couple of first class clowns. They are living proof the Peter Principle is valid.
I think that O’Reilly is simply suffering from the same syndrome that has affected hundreds of conservatives when put into intimate contact with the MSM over the last 50 years. He yearns for the “respect” and approval of the vast liberal punditocracy and their political cohorts who mock and scorn Fox at every possible opportunity.
Bill did, after all, go to Harvard and work, for a time, at shows produced by one of the three liberal networks. He simply yearns for his former colleagues to like him – really, really like him. Despite his bluster, occasional outright arrogance and his political compass being clearly to the right of most of the MSM (being to their right leaves the vast majority of the political spectrum open to him, including moderate liberalism), his success has bred an observable and gradual change; he is trying to be seen as a populist guardian of “the folks” as he likes to say, and not so much a conservative, and it shows.
And so it goes. Bill is clearly on the road to be given that “strange new respect” which is always given at the first signs of compromise or surrender of conservative principles to respectable and successfull conservatives new to power and influence, from the guardians of the the liberal and socialist leaning media and political establishment; eventually, if he tries hard enough to gloss over the left-wing demolition of our society in his effort to be “fair to both sides,” he will be given the sobriquet of “not as bad as the others on Fox” and be invited to a few more important cocktail parties. That is the filter through which one can understand his more recent behavior in general and, specifically, his softball interviews with Obama and almost all other important Leftists, save Barney Frank. That is also why he treats Beck (whatever else you may think of him, he is way to the right of O’Reilly) with an undisguised and patronizing scepticism bordering on outright disapproval.
I agree with the other poster that the only time that I watch O’Reilly any more is to see Dennis Miller on Wednesdays. The rest of the time, it is a little painful to see him spinning down into that spiral of hunger for mainstream media approval.
And, last, I fear that after Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes pass away from power (not too far in the future, by the way), Fox News itself will follow O’Reilly down the same rabbit hole and become merely a more “tabloid-y” version CBS News, with just a couple of very slightly-less-lefty commentators doing their best to slow down, but not reverse, the Leviathan super-state. Let’s hope my fear is misplaced.
Sounds as if you would prefer one more Hannity. BOR IS full of himself, for sure, but still far preferable in my centrist pov to Hannity and Beck.
A nice chat between [two] narcissistic piles of human waste! Missing in the ‘interview’ were Keith Olberman, Dr. Phil, a keg of beer and some pole dancers….then it would have warranted some discussion.
Roger and company, we can’t be AT A:: surprised by the mundane interview (anyone else tired of the political blowhards speaking before EVERY sporting and/or widely watched event? Geez, get over yourselves)
The one and ONLY time I watched O’Reilly was when McCain went on his program ~ Super Tuesday ’08.
When McCain claimed to be a ‘Conservative’, I about fell out of my hammock!
Surely O’Reilly would call him out on such a jest.. crickets chirping.
I heard O’Reilly hung out with Al Sharpton some years back and didn’t ask Sharpton 1 question that would bring to a head the man’s hateful, racist, counterproductive actions (for the very people he purports to ‘help’ and all) and methods through the decades.
There isn’t 1 journalist to take these idiots to task.
People say the President is given breathing room in these vis-a-vis interviews, I say ‘BS’.
The economy’s in shambles, public unions, governments are a huge reason behind this and the very man who has a HUUUGE say if it’s business as usual or let capitalism, private business reign etc., & he continues to get a pass? *uck me..
The only people deserving of ANY wiggle room are those IMPROVING matters within their capabilities. Obama.. yeah you ‘know the rest.. of the story’.
OBAMA, BILL O’REILLY AND THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
Obama’s second interview with Bill O’Reilly was a microcosm of his bungling, fumbling, collapsing presidency. Like his disastrous two years in office Obama smiled and lied his way through the interview with a hypnotic self-confidence and denial of reality that borders on psychosis and imbecilic insanity. Hopelessly delusional and helplessly naive on everything from healthcare to the state of the economy this Ronald Reagan wannabe like Carter, Hoover and LBJ is headed full speed to the Presidents’ Hall of Shame. But before this reckless man reaches his tragic political end he’ll steer America and the world into an utterly calamitous train wreck. But don’t despair. God will bring good out of the evil ahead with America rising like a phoenix from its ashes renewed to new heights of glory and achievement. For the 21st century, as George Friedman said, will be the New American Century. And that is the reason for Obama’s ruinous presidency.
A blowhard interviewing an arrogant liar? You watched. Good for you.
Could Obama argue that it’s a form of torture if his speeches were used against inmates at Guantanamo, endlessly repeated?
What about giving the inmates only one channel on a TV, an Obama channel where everything is just Obama talking? It’d be a win-win as any radicals repatriated would either virulently hate Obama or come over to his way of thinking which is to say not at all.
You’re tuning into sports, I’m turning to reality shows. Watching Jerseylicious I’m relatively certain I will not be bombarded with any of the participants’ views on immigration, obese children, or how awful Sarah Palin is.
Which my beloved CSI has recently starting writing scripts around these stupid social issues, as opposed to showing me how big a hole such&such size of bullet will cause.
“Of course, no one has that much to say — your humble servant included — yet we all keep on saying it. Few of us know when to shut up.”
You are an astute student of human behaviour. I’m often amazed at how long some comments are around here. If you can’t be original or interesting, at least, be brief.
I didn’t watch the interview. One thing that should be self-apparent — regardless of what we think of Mr. Obama, he is the President, and O’reilly surely did not want to disrespect the office. There’s a price to be paid for access.
One thing that should be self-apparent — regardless of what we think of Mr. Obama, he is the President, and O’reilly surely did not want to disrespect the office. There’s a price to be paid for access.
If the price of access is having to kiss the butt of the interviewee and/or only ask softball questions, what is the point of gaining access in the first place?
Since O’bama won’t do press conferences, I don’t think there is a point in doing an interview with him.
LOL. A few years ago, I was watching the Egyptian national soccer team play in Egypt on Egyptian state television. Pregame was a big patriotic occasion of course, and the state TV cut to a shot of Mubarak in the stands for all of about three seconds. On that occasion, not even the Egyptians would put the head of state on TV for multiple minutes, unlike us.
We watched the interview after the game which was not as painfully inappropriate. If you have to watch it again, turn the sound off and check out the hand wagging. BOR, in the narrative was quick enough to cut off the BHO speech making, and did try a few hard questions.
What is apparent from the BHO response is that those Teflon infusions from Clinton worked and are still propping into his ‘above-it-all centralist’ personna. BHO’s eyes did pop for a micro-second when the “redistribution” phrase was used.
A few more hours of intense interrogation would have been useful.
According to what Bernie Goldberg and O’Reilly just said, most of the responders so far on this thread would be Kool-aid drinkers. They have a point. Much of the anti-Obama stuff is so blatant and heavy-handed that reasonable conversation…is difficult.
He is the President; he may well be re-elected. Can we be at least a little reality based here?
Dwight,
I really don’t care what BOR or Goldberg might call me regarding my opinion of BOR’s recent bloviating or his interview with the President.
I too respect the office of the President and, personally, like Mr. Obama, or at least the persona he presents the public when he is not appealing to his base. I wouldn’t expect BOR to accuse him of being a “secret Muslim” or some such slightly inappropriate-to-the-occasion question. Just like Bill Clinton, I would love to be his neighbor and get together for coffee and doughnuts on occasion. I’m sure he’d be a wonderful chap with whom to argue.
Regarding Obama’s policies, his ideology, his opinions of the nature of America, our Constitution, middle and upper income earning working people (not the official union-sanctioned definition of “working people,” but the common-sense one), “social justice” (socialism for the definition-impaired), foreign policy strategy, republicanism, the role and proper size of the Federal government and the sovereignty and uniqueness of the United States of America, all these things and more, I and most on this forum vehemently disagree with just about everything he does and wants to do. That does not make us Kool-aid drinkers. In fact, that makes us quite representative of the opinion of a majority of Americans and smack in the middle of most of our best historical traditions.
Yes, you can find some very few here obssessed with his long form birth certificate and his most true opinion of Islam vs. the Christianity he professes, but they are indeed few, and their interests, while tangential to the real damage that Mr. Obama’s policies are wreaking on the country, are at least harmless, amusing and not entirely disproven by available facts. Slightly embarassing perhaps, but not entirely disreputable. Not at all in the “Kool-aid” category.
Last, I would not necessarily want BOR replaced with another “Hannity.” One of Sean is enough. He’s OK, but a little too reflexively Republican, rather than idelogically conservative, for my tastes; I’d love to see Fox hire Mark Steyn as a permanent host. He’d bring a piercingly amusing intelligence to a needed critique of Mr. Obama’s agenda.
You do not sound like a hater, but you know that there are plenty of them here. BOR was just trying to get Monica Crowley to admit that there were Obama haters out there. She was stone-walling, but all one has to do is read the comments here and you hear the most amazingly intemperate things about the current President of the United States.
It is NOT rational. One can be against his policies, or GWB’s policies, but it seems to be just half a click away to the despise, deplore, hate position. Since he is a liberal and liberal to some here = Stalin or Pol Pot, I guess that it is justifiable
I am gratified that you don’t think I’m a “hater.” Neither do I think are most of the other posters on this site. On any site, you will find intemperate, sometimes obnoxious, sometimes even hateful posts. I am glad to say that such posts are present here much less than at most of the more liberal sites, and that most of the comments here are usually pretty well thought out.
As I always say to my son, in every walk of life, for every set of opinions, every ethnic or religious group and every income level, you will find about the same percentage of disagreeable, unsavory and just plain bad individual people – regardless of the merits of their opinions or how much money they make or where they live or what schools they went to.
But, more to the point, I definitely agree with the consensus of opinion here as to Mr. Obama’s policies and, yes, even as to much of his character as well. I don’t think Mr. Obama was very honest with the electorate when campaigning for President. He claimed to be a pragmatic middle-of-the road liberal, a post-partisan healer; he is not and never was. That’s who Bill Clinton was, but only on his very best days. Obama is much closer to a radical academic Progressive Socialist trying his best to get away with whatever policies he can “slip over on” a center-right electorate, while sounding very reasonable, sober and deliberative – unless he’s engaged with his base supporters. In fact, Mr. Obama’s whole history has been spent in the most leftward recesses of the academy, local political “organizing” and even in his choice of mentors. In short, Mr. Obama has not been honest with us. And, despite his recent strategic changes in tone and personnel, I cannot believe that he will deviate from his history if he can again succeed in this pose through the 2012 election cycle. That lack of honesty, dressed in the most grandiose and preposterous secular mellennialism, more than even his misguided and dangerous policies, are what I think drives so much of the intemperate commentary on Mr. Obama – a sort of emotional reckoning and payback. While I agree with the sentiment, I don’t subscribe to the tone. But, at least, I understand why some get so overwrought. This is not to excuse outright hate speech, just rough political talk. If you want to read real hate speech, sometimes coming from those who consider themselves the very image of gentility in most circumstances, read liberal commentary on Sara Palin. That can sometimes make your hair curl in revulsion.
Good luck.
I can not longer watch TMZ live. It is so slow and choppy, not worth my time. Since this has been going on since your upgrade, it must me only me and not worth fixing. Hmm. Time to find a better website. I will miss you.
Wake up Atlanta Roofing. You’re on the wrong website! TMZ is down the street, to your left. Close the door on your way out.
Wow! What an interview, I think O`Reilly got that tingling feeling up his leg, I thought Billy boy was going to shine obamas shoes with his hair. Then on the factor O`Reilly mocks the birthers, even though he can not produce one shred of evidence to prove where obama was born. Why did O`Reilly do that? He did not have to say anything about obamas birth. Maybe some of the birther law suits are turning up the heat!
The anti-Capitalist Mick Irish union guy who has never met a conservative but attempts, poorly, to play one on the yellow-press TV-news channel with its own already-built-in fairness doctrine, pitches puff-balls at the anti-Capitalist murtadd-Muslim modified Marxist.
And the excitement of the occasion overwhelms us all.
Not.
PS, Leprechaun: No-one “hates” the self-and-own-culture-loathing mobbed-up murtadd-Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist mother’s milquetoast you pandered to on Sunday. We hate his fascistic ways, is all.
Here’s how you watch the Super Bowl:
keep the sound on mute until you see the players take the field for the opening kickoff
change the channel at halftime- Science Channel was showing how snowboards are made. very interesting.
return to game as 2nd half begins
easy peasy lemon squeezy
Until last year, I watched BOR because I liked him and thought he did a good job. But now I come back because of the guests. If Laura Inghram, Miller or Goldberg are on, I usually watch the show. I could care less about Mary K Ham or Juan Williams.
Recently Bernie Goldberg had a really funny reply to a long-winded, BOR rap about his visits to the White House and how he really only goes because he can conduct a lot of business there. Goldberg responded: “Oh, you sell a lot of Factor Gear there?” Which got me thinking: Who would buy a satin, baseball jacket with The Factor embroidered on it…and then actually wear it?
Less Nessman is a phony.
Less Nessman reinvented himself as Harry Reid a long time ago.
Oops is that comparison unfair to Less Nessman.
Last night, BOR did not have the balls to say to Laura I, “Yes, you ARE one of those far right loons.”
On the radio. Laura, of course, knew nothing of any such folks on the radio.