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Obama Grants O'Reilly Super Bowl Interview
Sam Stein - HuffPo
First Posted: 01- 6-11 03:53 PM | Updated: 01- 6-11 03:58 PM

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MIAMI -- President Barack Obama has agreed to conduct an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly as part of a pregame package for Fox Broadcasting Channel's Super Bowl coverage, an Obama administration official confirmed to The Huffington Post.

This wouldn't mark the first time the president sat down with a Fox News interviewer, but it would be rare. The White House has sparred bitterly with the network over its coverage of the president, which has occasionally dipped into the conspiratorial.

The relationship hit a nadir when the White House launched an informal boycott of Fox News during 2009. Some bitterness has thawed since then, however, particularly when the administration tried to reach more conservative-leaning audiences during the height of the health-care debate.

That said, Obama's decision to sit down with O'Reilly may be driven less by ratings than tradition. An aide said it is customary for the sitting president to sit down for an interview with the network hosting the Super Bowl.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/obama-oreilly-super-bowl-interview-fox_n_805421.html

:wtf:

:banghead:

:crazy:

I say good for him.

In this context, MSNBC is friend and Fox is enemy.

When has Obama given his friends the time of day?

He's been on Fox, Leno, Letterman. Why won't he go on with Keith or Rachel? :)


EDIT: Forgot Ed!

where he kicked them, guess you can't get much closer than that. :eyes:

So the President agreed to an interview with a man who thinks that the "tides go in and out you can't explain that"?

Brilliant. Really. It should be a hoot.

Good luck to him on that. He's obviously done his research and determined that it's more lucrative for him either politically or otherwise to continue attempting to win over people that hate him and will always hate him than it is to make even the slightest of overtures towards the people responsible for him being where he is.

I hope it works out for him.

yup.

Sit down with somebody not trying to slit your throat.

Oreilly is a moran, but he's reasonably positive about Obama. It's a pretty stark contrast compared to Beck, etc. If I was President (lol) and I wanted to reach the rightwing television viewer, I'd agree to that interview.

had a nice interview the last time I saw... I think this is a tradition.

:puke: I wonder if he will offer Obama a Falafel?

There wasn't nearly enough of that going around already.

They get to keep catapulting that teabagger/birther propaganda, but now with Obama's unofficial blessing. Sad.

:hi:

:rofl:

The problem is that BillO isn't an adult about anything that matters=)
(sarcasm OFF) Other than that, I agree with your statement.=)

than with a man who says shit like "tide goes in, tide goes out, no one can explain it". Obama is being interview by Homer Simpson. Good idea, make a fucking joke out of the presidency, legitimize a propaganda arm of the Republican party, and do it all in front of the biggest national TV audience of the year.

He did it with Katie Couric last year because CBS played the Super Bowl. And O'Reilly is, comparatively speaking, one of the saner ones at Fox.

and only let friednly networks interview him.

...with Tim Russert (I think). It was WAY EARLY in the campaign so any damage could be marginalized. What they wanted was to see if they could go toe to toe when the heat got on. Well, Bush could only spout talking points and they kept him away from any serious questions.

Think they are doing the something similar, to see if Obama can overpower their BS...if so, then they can reach independent voters that watch Fox.

This ought to be precious.

and Obama when they talk.

Billo is his usual bloviating self but now that Obama's the President, it'll be interesting to see what happens.

O'Lielly as being a journalist. I guess MSNBC can't let go of Lock-Up to interview the Prez.

Is there a problem?

end of transmission

Not to sound like a crybaby or "effing re*ard."

BillO is an empty suit

Once you know that, everything will fall into place.

so they had to get someone from that Republican Party partisan arm "Fox News". Wonder why they couldn't use Chris Wallace or heck maybe Shepard Smith?

I think he hated obfuscating the public option away but he's since become quite numb. I used to really admire him (believe it or not) and I still smile sometimes when I see him appear on the teevee.

for words. So FTW.

he's theirs, all he does is kick his base under the bus. Anymore I'm not even outraged or shocked, it's just SOP. :shrug:

besides, o'really is quite likely to tone it down and play (comparatively) nice given the wider audience for the day.

if obama had to give fox an interview, this would be the time and place for it, and this way they can't claim he shut them out.

This mental midget O'Reilly has no idea what's about to happen to him. He just agreed to step into the ring with a lion while wearing a T-Bone suit. You think Obama humiliated McCain when they squared off? Just wait.

No shit, think the mouse will be nervous?

Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

just said God causes the tides. :puke: