After a decade, I still cannot understand the appeal of Bill O'Reilly.
I give him credit for his willingness to be rude and obnoxious to people on both sides of the aisle, but that is just not an approach to an interview that I am comfortable with watching.
As usual, when the first part of a multi-part interview with the Democratic presidential candidate aired Thursday night, it was more about O'Reilly than it was Obama. In the first part, O'Reilly spent most of the time trying to make Obama admit that he was wrong in not supporting the surge. Even when Obama answered the question, O'Reilly continued to ask the question, as if repeatedly answering the question was going to make Obama change his answer.
Obama held his own and O'Reilly grudgingly admitted afterward that the senator from Illinois is not a wimp.
Are Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann really the best cable news can put on. Both would rather listen to themselves than whomever they are interviewing, and one, Olbermann, doesn't bother to interview anyone whose viewpoints differ from his own.
The Obama-O'Reilly interview will continue Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday on Fox News Channel.
3 comments:
Obama kept saying the surge worked "but", and that is what was evasive. I thought Obama also looked like a plastic figure (the makeup was waaay overdone).
You missed Chris Matthews, he won't let a guest talk for rattling his own mouth continuously.
What a pain.
I get it why you don't get it. You don't get a lot of things that regular people get.
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