Obama on Fox: Weigh in
A lot of readers are upset about the decision by Fox News to put Barack Obama on the airwaves on the night of John McCain’s convention speech.
I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. I doubt much of consequence will come of the appearance. Obama has continually failed to follow rule number one of politics: Manage expectations. It’s all hype, followed by fizzle, followed by excuses, blame, and whining for his own failure to deliver.
Why would tonight be any different for Obama? Right?
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Another thought: Obama says he’ll meet with the tyrants of the world without preconditions.
Wonder if he has the same policy with American cable networks?
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I’ll watch, but I’m not looking forward to it; after all the fuss and finagling R. Ailes and R. Murdoch had to go through to set the interview up (according to TVNewser), I doubt Bill will be allowed to ask anything of consequence or press Obama on any of the issues.
Who?
Biden had to be on this morning too, just to try to counteract the carnage from Hurricane Sarah!! LOL!
Did anyone else hear Couric say she was the “governor of Arkansas” last night after the speech, or did I mishear that?
Ob-ah-ah-ah-ah-ma without a teleprompter?
Should be a hoot.
It’s fine. The guy can’t speak without a teleprompter anyway.
“You know, uhhhh, Bill… that’s a… ahhhh… good question. Too bad I can’t… uhhh… answer with ahhh… any… uhhh… specificity”
Obama’s minions had a field day worrying that John McCain was going to announce his VP on the night of the Obama speech going so far to call it “political malpractice”.
John McCain however sent a congratulatory message and allowed Obama to have his night. Very classy.
This folks is another example of the distinct differences between the characters of the two men.
Something else to consider. Could his advisors be attempting to minimize his exposure? There will probably be only one airing of O’Reilly (no re-runs because of the McCain speech and re-runs of it) — plus it will air during the opening game of the 2008 NFL season.
Keyboard, meet coffee!
I won’t be watching. I think it’s very poor form to air this on McCain’s big night.
O’Reilly loves to brag about his ratings. I think it would serve him right to have the lowest ratings his show has ever seen.
I bet he did this with the stipulation that he get the questions ahead of time.
But that would be cheating, wouldn’t it?
You know what’ll happen. Obama does poorly and the left will scream that it was a setup and that Fox and O’Reilly are racist and in the tank for the RNC. Obama does well and the left will trumpet that their messiah has outfoxed the enemy. We’ll see what happens. We’ll need someone to start an “um” counter. Be sure the counter can handle large values.
Libs usually avoid Fox because Fox doesn’t cover for their weakness. No fawning coverage. Let him.
I saw Biden on F&F this morning and was actually impressed. He actually said she did a good job last night, and the attacks on her family were out of bounds.
I’m hoping that Bill O asks the tough questions, but I’m expecting the same soft balls he gave that idiot what’s her name last night.
See my added thought above:
Obama says he’ll meet with the tyrants of the world without preconditions.
Wonder if he has the same policy with American cable networks?
Not interested in listenig to an empty suit. I guess Fox will be able to sell a lot of commercial air time at a premium. That’s all.
Its a good thing. Orielly said he did not let them know the questions before hand. We will see.
I’d like to get Obama on the record in very specific ways. O’Reilly is a blowhard; the resulting winds will preclude any chance of such precision. Obama is so much a shifter and fast dancer. Someone needs to sit him down and pin him down on what he believes and what he’s going to do. O’Reilly won’t do that. It will be mostly a show. Like, Obama’s tax plan. Cut for 90% of tax payers? Or is it 95%? Let’s look very closely at that. No, it will be an ego contest for O’Reilly.
I’m undecided. Bill grates on my nerves by himself… add Obie to the mix and I might just go mental. We wouldn’t want that.
I won’t be watching the interview, and I think the No Spin Zone can continue to not spin in the future without me watching it. O’reilly and his show have been in a slow spin downwards for awhile IMO. His pandering to Obama to get this interview has been outragious.
For the 11 Americans who want to hear what Juan has to say, no worries: Obama will be done hours before McAmnesty is scheduled to appear.
As for Obama: any time we can get him in front of a reporter who is even SLIGHTLY competent and unbiased, without a teleprompter? That’s a good thing.
I’m not much of an O’Reilly fan, but I’ll be watching tonight. This is probably the hardest grilling Obama will ever receive.
Do you think he’ll cry?
Football overshadows the ‘Big Zero’ everytime.
Let Megyn Kendall do the interview.
Michelle, excellent question. He apparently doesn’t care about preconditioning pastors or those who would blow up Pentagon buildings, etc.
#21 sorry, Kelly
Will he sic Accountable America on Fox afterward if it doesn’t go like he wants?
I don’t have much of a problem with it, but I do think it stands in stark contrast to McCain’s classy ad during the One’s coronation last week. I hope O’Reilly challenges him, but I doubt it…
O’Reilly said last night that he took the chance to get Obama this night because he figured there would not be another chance …
and acknowledged that Obama only agreed to the appearance to take some of the attention from McCain’s speech at the RNC …
Bill said “I’m possibly just being used as a pawn, time will tell.”
It’s exactly what it looks like it is….BO and BOR looking
for attention.
I hate that Fox is so desperate to get the Obama interview that they would agree to the blatantly opportunistic timing. And another thing on Fox, while they are my usual TV news source, I had to switch over to my local public television station last night in order to hear Romney and Huckabee because Fox thought that Hannity and Colmes blabbing with 2nd tier pundits and T. Boone Pickins was more important.
Did anyone else hear Couric say she was the “governor of Arkansas” last night after the speech, or did I mishear that?
Obama makes Pagaent girl look smart.
and his hair sucks too! lmao.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Image O’Reilly slappin O’dopey in the middle of his um’s and uh’s to fix him like a scratced record.
Exactly!
All through out this presidential race, Obama complains about what McCain and the GOP is going to do to him, then reacts further as if his predictions already are reality. After the fact, his accusations do not come to fruition and we go on to hear of his next premonition.
With this premeditated stunt to appear on Fox News, does Obama realize that all he accomplishes is the insulting of America’s intelligence?
Please, oh please, ask BHO: Please define a “typical white person”.
O’Reilly fan here:
It’s been obvious to me that over the past few months, O’Reilly was having to ‘work’ at being Fair n Balanced when it came to Obama, and at times looking foolish. Now O’Reilly has his beloved interview and I will be watching to be sure he asks tough questions.
So, as for this scheduling ‘thing’, I’m letting O’Reilly slide since I doubt he had that much a say in it. But if he allows Obama to slide on just one thing, he will lose credibility with me/many of his viewers. Many people are counting on him. Hope he sees where his behavior could be just that opening for the birth of another show/personality to pull us away.
Sen. Obama can’t even give the same consideration as Sen. McCain did and wait until tomorrow.
The Obama camp is in panic mode.
I won’t watch ObamaReilly.
O’Reilly will give him softball questions (that Obama has already previewed) and he won’t press him on anything.
Does anyone really think O’Reilly will force Obama to explain (with facts) why he thinks he is better qualified than Sarah Palin?
There’s no point in watching it.
Ask him how he got this far without a birth certificate.
Couldn’t tell you…When Katie opens her mouth, this happens to me…
If O’reilly has any guts he’ll ask the Obama if he received his summons in the Berg v. Obama lawsuit filed by Philip Berg, the well-known Philadelphia attorney and former Deputy Attorney General for the State of PA, who 2 weeks ago sued Ill senator and Dem Party pres nominee Obama in fed court challenging the constitutionality of his White House bid and just files a Praecipe for Reissuance of Summons.
NJ-Aviator #34 – Agreed. O’Reilly is all talk and no action…he’s a wimp.
Don’t count on O’Reilly as a conservative anymore than McCain. He knows that this is McCain’s hour in the spotlight but I am sure that Obama’s camp told O’Reilly tonight or forget it and Bill went for it. Bill’s going to toss Barry soft balls just like he did for Hillary “to be fair.”
Bill’s in it for the ratings and Obama’s just out to spoil McCain’s night. It shows lack of class by both.
Bill, uh-uh I think that uh-uh-uh the question uh-uh whether uh-uh running my candidacy is uh-uh-uh-uh the equivalent of uh-uh running Wassily or Alaska one of the uh-uh-uh 57 states is uh-uh-uh-uh above my paygrade.
Soft ball meet bat. It’s a win win for Odumbo. He does bad, blame fox and the nutroots buy it. He does good, it’s “see, I beat fox” and the nutroots eat it up.
In the past, I was curious to hear some of the things Obama would say. I was simply hoping he’d make mistakes that would lessen his “glow”. I was hoping for anything that would give McCain a chance to beat him and his “superstar” status.
Now that we have Sarah Palin, I couldn’t care less to listen to him.
Much ado about nothing. I would rather have seen him interviewed by Chris Wallace, but alas I won’t get my wish. At least he is appearing on the network. That won’t sit well in tinfoilhatland…
I think it is funny. Do you really think Obama would go on O’Reilly if he thought he was doing well? Obama knows he’s in trouble.
Obama who?
O’Reilly can ask ‘The One’ if he studied and learned from any previous Chicago Community Organizer like Frank Nitti.
My question from yesterday is, why tonight, and not next week when the convention is over? Why the rush? Was this part of the stipulation to take the spotlight away from McCain?
As 7thSon points out above?
If this was the stipulation, then I still question if he received topic questions ahead of time. I’m still skeptical.
That’s exactly why he’s going on. Hillary did the same when she knew she was losing to Obama.
Laree #45, he’s the guy with satellites on the side of his head.
If O’Reilly thinks he may be being used as a pawn he doesn’t have to take the interview. I wonder if McCain was invited to speak before O’bama’s acceptance speech?
I;ll withhold judgment until after it’s over, but I have to say I am concerned. O’Reilly has been so desperate to get Obama on his show, he has gone out of his way to stifle negative comments about Obama in recent months. And, since McCain did not appear on The Factor right before Obama gave his speech, the perception is already anything but “fair and balanced”.
O’Reilly defended his decision yesterday stating that he had to go for it because he might not get another shot, and that “anyone else would have done it”. So, right off the bat, it appears that O’Reilly is predisposed to serving as a “useful idiot” for the Obama campaign. We’ll see.
Oreilly will not ask anything of substance. He will give Obama a pass. When he does this, I will retire Oreilly to the dust heaps of fake journalist, like Katie, Charlie and the nutbags on NBC and MSNBC.
Actions speak louder than words (which isn’t a phrase that can be used in Obama’s favor).
It would not surprise me if he doesn’t bother to show.
I’ll be watching the speech on cspan. Why would anyone want to watch Obama swat at softballs.
O’Reilly is O’Reilly’s biggest fan. As someone else said, O’Reilly is only looking out for his brand, nothing more.
I heard part of his radio show yesterday, and he said he would play part of the interview Thursday night, and the rest of it on Monday & Tuesday (can’t remember if he also said Wednesday). He’s milking it for all it’s worth. I hope it is worth all of the pandering O’Reilly’s been doing these past few months.
Frankly, I have listened to O’Reilly’s pre-taped interviews and usually they, in my opinion, are not very good. He often throws soft balls. I think I can do a better interview. No offense to Bill, who has other good qualities. One question I want him to ask is who writes BO’s speeches, since the left is going crazy that someone wrote Governor Palin’s speech. BO can barely speak without a speech written for him. He uhs and ahs more than President Bush. No offense to the President.
Oh one more thing. I hope Fox viewer ship numbers plummet tonight.
Michelle, you forgot to add…”and have a campaign spokespeople appear on all the MSM stations, explaining what Obama really meant/said…”
As far as being on O’Reilly…Bill’s excuse was pretty lame…if not him then someone else would have had Obama on to counter the McCain speech impact…it just seems pretty desperate on O’Reilly’s part.
I’ll reserve judgement until after the interview. I think we already know what Obama’s going to say, regardless of the questions posed to him. He hasn’t ‘changed’ his message, nor can he. His surrogates will, as usual, attack Fox News and Bill O’Reilly afterwards for not being fair and balanced. It will all be the same crud we’ve heard before.
They will probably also complain that Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdock lied to them about the line of questioning that O’Reilly would pursue, and refer back the the original “good faith” meeting they had with the Fox Execs.
I’m with rooster #51 on this, but will give O’Reilly the benefit of the doubt until I see the interview.
This interview is a referendum on O’Reilly for me; not Obama.
If O’ blows it, it’s over for him, IMHO.
Jim M.,
I stopped listening/watching BOR a long time ago for the very reasons you just stated. He’s revealed himself to be nothing more than a self-serving phony, pretending not to “know” anything about Obama just to schmooze him into “The No Spin Zone.” Of course, Bill would probably denounce me as a “right wing idealogue.” His “looking out for you” schtick has worn very thin.
even if Obamitler has pre-conditions for appearing on FOX, do you think the Big O’Reilly would admit that?
my first thought when O’Reilly was talking about having Obamitler on his show, i thought, i wonder what the pre-conditions are? has the Big O been given the criteria of ask, don’t ask list(s)? wasn’t there another interview that Obamitler gave the criteria of what would be covered and what wouldn’t? (during his world tour?)
and, i wonder is bill going to really ask the tough questions? does bill even know anything about Obamitler? i think bill is stumbling all over himself because he got the Obamitler to come on his show.
for some reason, i think that bill will allow the Obamitler to ’spin’. i do think that bill is enamored with the Obamitler. his great oratory and charismatic persona.. we will see tonight won’t we.
actually, i think Obamitler is coming on because of bills line last week of Obamitler not keeping his word to bill, so will he keep his word to the American Voters and make good on his promises. i think Obamitler had to put out that fire before it spread.
P.S. I’ll be watching C-SPAN over FOX once again this evening.
I stopped watching O’Reilly when he started last year with the Culture Watch “exposes” telling his viewers that putting clips of “immorality in context” was somehow important. When Laura Ingraham appeared asking if the Fox producers were going through a “middle-age crisis” he showed the Miss America tape of her in her nude swimming suit over and over ad nauseum (sp!). From that point on, the Culture Watch segments began featuring more “nude” fuzzy pictures and other vulgar acts that continue to insult the viewers sensibilities with his “warnings” that viewers should tune-out if they choose not to see the segments. Somehow O’Reilly thinks unless somebody comes on his show for an interview they’re “hiding something” and “afraid of him”. The fact that Howard Dean finally allows BHO to appear on O’Reilly the night of John McCain’s acceptance speech AND O’Reilly accepts, with whatever excuses he uses to justify that, is an insult to John McCain and trashes O’Reilly’s so called mantra of “fair & balanced” reporting. Supposedly, BHO will appear on his show next week, also, when attention should be on the interactions of the candidates with the citizens and each other. O’Reilly is really a “fence-sitter” and his smugness and ego have made him the perfect PAWN in the DNC arsenal to undercut the impact of the conservative awakening and fight for America’s future! O’Reilly has bragged that he “criticizes equally” those on either side of an issue. Believe me his criticisms of anyone who vaguely disagrees with the DNC and the secular-progressives is widely circulated as “agreement” with their views! Also, I am tired of “talking heads” telling me what someone just said “really means”! I can figure it out without the endless “analysts” spouting their own biased opinions! jb
The schedule thing is a total load a crapola. When they tape is subject to Obama’s schedule. When they air it is subject to Fox’s schedule.
If it’s the case that Obama’s camp insisted it run tonight, O’Reilly should have had enough b… guts… to say “No thank you.”
After November, BHO will be a footnote in presidential politics history, like John Kerry and Al Gore. But that he allowed himself to be a stooge for Obama wil be remember by his (former) viewers.
One of the definite preconditions was for the first part of the interview to air tonight, right before John McCain’s speech. O’Reilly brushed many of his vierwer’s concerns aside, saying that there will be plenty of time for McCain to get his message across.
This deal stinks to high heaven. I’ve watched O’Reilly for a long time but really, really just disagree with the tactics he’s used to get “access” to Obama. He’s bent over backwards to get Obama to interview with him and the tactics he’s employed the last couple of months have not set well so much.
The O’Reilly I used to expect is becoming more a fixture of the elite media than even he fully understands or comprehends.
I can only hope that Zerobama gets the same sort of roasting tonight that Megyn Kelly, of Fox News gave to Bradley Jacobs, of “Us” magazine:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/03/video-megyn-kelly-destroys-us-weekly-bottom-feeder-over-palin-story/
Exactly…I guess software engineers think alike.
Perhaps. But, if history is any indicator of future actions, we will have at least four years of “The Republicans stole the election,” and of course, the racial bent, “The Republicans made sure that a ‘black’ man could not win in America.” It’ll be something, just be prepared.
The Democrat Party is predictable, if nothing else.
I enjoy viewing O’Reillys program but in this case I think I will have to pass.
I am concerned about the meetings between Murdoch, Ailes and Obama as a precursor to this interview.
Regardless of what O’Reilly says, he works for these guys and it’s hard to say what type of concessions were made to get this interview.
I think, for the most part, the questions will be main stream and Obama will answer only what he wants to and O’Reilly may not have the leeway to push very much.
I’ll pass, thank you very much…
I’m sorry if someone already posted this…but am at work with limited time…
Anyhow, I think that O’Reilly should allow Megyn Kelly to have the honor! Now that would be a smackdown!
Oh what I wouldn’t give to see Michelle Malkin or Laura Ingraham conduct the interview!
Oh what I wouldn’t give to have Michelle Malkin or Laura Ingraham replace O’Reilly!!
Michelle, I know you used to pinch hit for Bill O and I understand why you don’t anymore and I’m with ya.
I will watch, but I am not optimistic Bill O will conduct a tough interview. I doubt Uuuuuhbama will come across 1/100th as likeable as the Hildebeast did.
I do not like O’Reilly putting obama on just prior to McCain. The Republican convention lost an entire day to Gustav and ought to be given consideration when it comes to the flow of the convention. O’Reilly can do his interview with obama and play it Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week for all I care.
O’Reilly is pretty smart. Looks like he finally found someone to “organize” the green room. Probably needed his shoes shined too.
Also, I heard O’Reilly say that he was airing a “portion” of the interview tonight. The rest will be aired next week. Still don’t think he should be airing any of it tonight.
O’Reilly was practically giddy last night about this interview. He really thinks way too highly of himself and his interviewing skills. I don’t plan to watch him tonight because I can almost guarantee and it will be a soft ball interview, just like the interview with Hillary. Now, if Chris Wallace was interviewing him, OR EVEN BETTER, MEGAN KELLY, I will be glued to the TV. I think Megan is shaping to be Fox’s best interviewer.
You mean with logic and reason?
I hope O’Reilly doesn’t blow (the interview with) Obama.
backwoods conservative wrote:
That’s not going to happen. The reason O’Reilly is popular is because viewers WANT to see him go after people. Otherwise, he would be Charlie Rose; respected out the wazoo, but relegated to the midnight and noontime slots.
O’Reilly brags about his ratings because, like Rush, MSM types are want to say that he’s insignificant, which is clearly untrue in both cases. Remember Harry Reid’s attempt to smear Rush by deliberately misinterpreting the “phony soldiers” comment? He said that Limbaugh’s audience was “dwindling,” yet made it a priority to get all Dems in the Senate to sign off on a letter to Clear Channel Communications demanding some sort of reprimand for something Rush had never said.
O’Reilly has stated he knows this is an Obama plot as payback for McCain cutting into Obama’s attention last week with the announcement of Palin. Doesn’t care and says there will be plenty of time for McCain’s speech.
I don’t look for a hard interview and am predisposed to being ticked. O’Reilly has made excuse after excuse for Obama and his angry wife too many times for me not to suspect bias. Disappointed O’Reilly is allowing himself to be used. Actually, think Obama was nervous about this big indepth look at Obama O’Reilly was planning since Obama wouldn’t come on for an interview. Bet that series is not going to be shown now.
This may be the last night I watch O’Reilly. I hate that he has been such a jerk about Jessica’s law. I am sorry, but we are a republic which allows states to make their own damn laws, and while I appreciate his position, i do not appreciate his policy that all states MUST have the same laws, or he is going to smear everyone that stands in the way. He has also been a bit overboard on a larger group of issues, small enough i do not enumerate them in my head, but I remember the bad feelings. With this said, I have continued to watch him most nights, I record it and just fast forward through the crap parts. This decision to cater to Barack Obama had better come with the red meat of actually pressing Barack Obama on the controversial questions he has never been asked. Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Infanticide. If all of these are missing, then I will never watch the show again.
Ever since Bill stopped using Michelle, I stopped watching his as often. I still watch him, but after tonight, I think I will skip his show. Anyway, he has focused lately way too much on tabloid type of news. I have lost a lot of respect for him and I feel like he gets more and more conceited as time passes. How many times does he mention himself during the show every night. But both BOs (bill o and barak o) are so full of themselves, and arrogant, I wonder who will brag more or who will lavish the other with compliments more.
Sounds like a euphemism to me…
“This doesn’t usually happen… I promise! Really. I’ll do better next time.”
When is an O’Reilly interview about anything other than Bill O’Reilly. He had Howard Stern on his program and Bill talked about Bill. An interview that will never happen is Brian Williams with Biden and Brian Williams asks the following questions: In 1987, you said your debate that generations of Bidens went deep into the coal mines of Pennyslvania and then came out of the ground and played 8 hours of football. Which Bidens are you referring to? Isn’t it a fact that no Bidens ever worked under the ground in the coal mines? Was that a lie about your biography? Senator Biden: You told Frank that you graduated in the top half of your law school class. In fact, didn’t you finish 75 out of 86? Does that sound like the top half of you law school class? BTW, Brian and Katie were on this morning and Brian Williams said he keeps hearing about liberal bias in the media and he welcomes criticism but thus far nobody has shown one example of liberal bias.
It is interesting to see the conflict between O’Reilly’s collectivist tendencies and individualistic tendencies. I suspect he gets the latter from his father, and the former from his ego and lack of capacity for introspection.
Regardless, it makes him very predictable. BOR knows what the collectivist mind considers acceptable for him to pursue in this interview. He will not cross that line into anything uncomfortable to the collective.
And Obama knows it.
Which one has the bigger ego?
O’Bill or O’Barry?
My collie says:
Obama without a teleprompter? Better call T-Boo. There’ll be enough “umms,” “ahhs,” “duhs,” “well you knows” in Obama’s interview to power a windfarm.
A litte off topic –
Has anyone noticed that Obama’s hair has magically started to turn grey? Is this a planned attempt to appear older and wiser? I thought he was new and hip…
He needs Fox now! He needs to reach out to the real public voting! He also, knows he’s in real trouble with his BS!
I won’t bother watching. Something I’ve observed a long time ago is that O’Reilly lacks a “killer instinct” when it comes to his questioning: he’ll back his quarry into a corner, but instead of finishing he suddenly swerves off in another direction.
He’s rather like Japanese admiral Chuichi Nagumo in World War II: Given golden opportunities to deal a decisive blow against the Americans at Pearl Harbor, Midway and Santa Cruz, he declined to take them every time.
Now, if Michelle were skewering Hopenchange, that’d be another matter — I’d watch her interviewing an empty chair — but there’s two problems with that:
(1) She won’t guest host O’Reilly’s show any more, and
(2) There’s no way in hell that Hopenchange would dare face her even if she did.
It’s going to be a waste of time, in other words. My present moments are already too few to blow watching O’Reilly play toothless, declawed cat with the Hopenchange mouse.
Anyone else really, REALLY missing Tim Russert about now? Yeah, he was a liberal, but he cared enough about maintaining the pretense of objectivity to not be as insane as the MSNBC gang. With his blue-collar roots, I bet he’d be offended by the assaults on a woman by the pampered elites.
I tired to take down today my “Conservatives Against McCain” bumper sticker, but it would not come off. So, I will scratch out against McCain and write in For Palin.
Regulus said:
O’Reilly has the killer instinct, he just won’t use it when interviewing popular liberals. If he had gone after Hillary, he would have never gotten this interview with Obama. If he goes after Obama, he will never get that interview with the next big liberal.
O’Reilly fancies himself as Mr. Objective, and bends over backwards to pretend that both sides are on equal footing. He knows better, but it is all about the O’Reilly brand.
I used to be a big fan of O’Reilly (Hannity & Colmes, & Fox News, too), but lately, the thrill is gone. I actually turned Fox off to watch C-Span. That is just sad.
Last night, I saw O’Reilly as an opportunist and Obama as childishly horning in on McCain’s spotlight. Have you noticed that not one media outlet is questioning Obama about making such a bush-league move?
Today, who cares? Obama will do nothing to take the spotlight from Palin and will do nothing to ruin the anticipation for McCain. In fact, there’s a big NFL game that most RNCers feared would trump McCain. I think the game will trump Obama and people will switch over for McCain.
Beyond that, given Palin’s performance, if O’Reilly is filming the interview today, and I believe he is, Obama needs a home run and O’Reilly, if he wants to keep his audience, better get in Obama’s grill about Wright, Ayers, Rezko, terribly naive screw ups on foreign policy positions, and the like. And not settle for talking points responses, but real answers. O’Reilly will blow this if Obama isn’t beatened and bloodied because the media has given the guy a free pass.
Has anyone noticed that since the McCain campaign manager (or whatever he was) who said he would leave if BO is the candidate actually left, McCAin’s campaign has taken a more conservative turn? I think McCain needs to realize that he is not served well by wishy washy middle of the roaders and libs, and needs to stick to conservative values to win, the only way for him to win.
Bill is not a conservative. He is pro-life and a moral conservative.
Economically he is not a capitalist. I don’t think he understands what a free market is about.
He positions himself in the middle and has made a ridiculous effort not to go strongly negative with Obama.
The man’s ego drives him to say and do ridiculous things. He sees himself as a world changer and a social arbiter. It is very sad to watch.
The Obama interview will be balanced with few hard questions.
I think we’re saying the same thing in different ways. It’s not that O’Reilly doesn’t have a working, properly-calibrated BS-detector, it’s just that he won’t follow it to where it ultimately leads — because he knows that if he does, he’ll scare off the next “big name” guest he’s after.
Which is why he makes me feel like Nagumo’s boss Admiral Yamamoto must’ve felt like time after time: “You had them at your mercy, and you turned back! WTF?!?”
groundhunter said:
He’s not even a consistent moral conservative. Like a lot of liberal Republicans, he doesn’t care about the same sex marriage issue.
How can people be so blind? Any issue that involves sex, marriage, or children is HUGE. As the family goes, so goes the nation. You want economic prosperity? National security? Then protect the family!
I actually turned Fox off to watch (gasp) MSNBC to watch Mike Huckabee when Hannity & Colmes decided to talk over him & Romney. Don’t worry. I switched away before Olberman or Matthews had a chance to comment…
I know exactly what will happen. Obama was caught off guard first by McCain congratulating him on the night of his speech and second by choosing Palin and stealing the limelight.
Obama will congratulate McCain and Palin and talk about how all 4 of them love America, blah blah. He will then say very strongly that they need to leave her family alone and I’ll bet he will even look angry.
The bottom line is that Obama lost the high-road and he wants it back. It’s hard to sell “mean republicans” when his own supporters are slandering them.