Bill O’Reilly to interview President Obama during Super Bowl pregame show

[IDemo]

Source: New York Daily News

FOX News host Bill O’Reilly will interview President Obama during the FOX’s Super Bowl pregame show.

O’Reilly will conduct the interview at the White House before the NFL championship game being held in New Jersey on Sun., Feb. 2. The Seattle Seahawks will face off against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.

It will mark the third time the conservative cable personality has interviewed the President. A longer version of their conversation will air the day after the game on O'Reilly's cable show.

It's a tradition for the President to sit for a chat before the annual Sunday football fest, with a rep from the network broadcasting the game.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-o-reilly-interview-obama-article-1.1588939

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"Mr. President...may I call you Ben Ghazi?"

[Cane4Dems]

1. what's the over and under for how many times Bill will interject while the President is speaking?

i'd say 50 times? (in a 30 minute segment)

[Auntie Bush]

33. That's the first thing I wondered.

Obama should make a rule ahead of time that he can not be interrupted.

It's demeaning to the president of the United States to be rudely interrupted.

I think O"Reilly thinks of his interruptions like a killer who puts notches in his gun.

[Frank Cannon]

41. I watched the last interview Billo did with Obama.

He seemed to tone down his usual schtick. Even HE knows when he's outgunned and outclassed, and that he can't just talk over the POTUS and "cut his mic".

[Blue_Tires]

2. Why does O’Reilly of all people deserve to get the spotlight??

[OnyxCollie]

20. Because he paid for it would be my guess.

In 2012, Obama was the top recipient of campaign contributions from News Corp pac and employees.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000227

Top Candidate Recipients, 2011-2012
Barack Obama (D) $165,400
Howard L. Berman (D-CA) $58,300
Ben Cardin (D-MD) $39,375
Mitt Romney (R) $38,150
Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) $22,500

[thesquanderer]

25. If it had to be someone from Fox, who would you have preferred?

I also wonder whose choice it is. i.e. maybe with the "assignment" falling to fox, it's up to fox to decide who they are going to use?

[alp227]

27. If Fox decided, it was based on ratings.

O'Reilly is the most visible Fox News personality, unlike Special Report anchor Bret Baier or White House reporter Ed Henry who could have interviewed the president too. This is to get people to tune in before kickoff. That is why Today host Matt Lauer interviewed the president (if I recall correctly) back in '09 for NBC's Super Bowl pregame, rather than David Gregory (Meet the Press host) or Chuck Todd (the political director and WH correspondent).

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Is O'Reilly going to ask him if he is the anti-christ frontrunner he believes him to be?

O'Reilly had a rabid christian guest on very recently who was savvy enough to not call Obama the anti-christ directly but fudged it by saying that Obama was paving the way for the anti-christ.

O'Reilly was vaguely in agreement whereas intelligent people would have laughed the "guest" off the set.

[Auggie]

4. Desperate to fill the hours and hours of pregame hoopla. I find it ...

[deafskeptic]

5. Why is Obama even granting O'Reilly an interview in the first place? n/t

[onehandle]

6. What West Wing genius came up with this crap plan?

'President Obama pallin' around with a man known to harass women.'

[alp227]

9. You're right. Fox News actually has a real White House reporter (Ed Henry, formerly of CNN).

Since Fox is carrying the Super Bowl this year Fox could have had Ed Henry do a real interview with the president. But ratings, ratings, ratings. Bill O'Reilly is an attention-seeking ideologue.

[onehandle]

10. I wonder if loofahs will be in Fox's green room gift basket? nt

[lostincalifornia]

18. Ed Henry is an ass. He is as disrespectful of the President as O'Reilly. He should not give any of

these frauds the time of day

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. on one hand I don't like give someone like O'Reilly anymore credibility than they deserve - on the

other hand - there is a certain amount of disarming value to granting a friendly rapport to an adversarial figure

[MannyGoldstein]

8. "This time, I'm sure they'll finally realize I'm a man they can do business with..."

Never learns...

[Oakenshield]

19. Is it merely an inability to learn, or is it just vanity?

I tend to think it's the latter. The President wants to make sure there's a long record of his attempts at being broad-minded and tolerant. Which is a good thing, in the abstract....but when dealing with Republicans it's just plain delusional.

[underpants]

11. "How repugnant did you find Richard Sherman's rant?

A to his old white audience

[flying rabbit]

34. Good call!

bet on it.

[MrScorpio]

37. Oh, yeah

Looking for that one now

[bluestateguy]

12. Obama is a damn fool for giving this guy any credibility

It is appeasement.

[lostincalifornia]

16. Absolutely correct. He is no journalist, and I have no doubt he will be treated with the upmost

disrespect.

Absolutely nothing to be gained by a narrow minded bigoted network


I won't watch it or waste my time

[Oakenshield]

23. Agreed.

Although O'Reilly won't be completely disrespectful, I'm sure he'll be putting on plenty of airs as he'll presume to talk down to the President. Which to me is almost worse than outright name calling.

[albino65]

13. Why

Why do we keep participating with these assholes and give them credence? I'm disgusted.

[Grassy Knoll]

14. JackAss....

[lostincalifornia]

15. I am sorry, but the President should not waste his time on this garbage. The network is a fraud,

and they will snipe at him after this interview

Most important though, that it elevates reilly as a journalist, which he isn't

Shaking my head

[Chakab]

17. Why does he subject himself to this nonsense? O'Reilly is going to treat him with thinly veiled

contempt and will likely try to ambush him with that Benghazi nonsense.

O'Reilly is a liar and a propagandist, and President Obama is NEVER going to get anywhere with the people who take him seriously as a political commentator.

[WilliamPitt]

21. Proceed, Bill...

[indepat]

22. effin' Bill O'Reilly surely will eff over the President at every opportunity to eff him over imo

Ye, Gods. Why give a freakin' RW zealot a platform to eff you over?

[beachbum bob]

24. I hate to tell you but Obama is way ahead in the smarts department

all I can say is, O'Reilly will be fortunate not to look the fool when its all said and done.

[mercymechap]

26. It will be interesting to see

if Obama will get a word in edgewise......if he does, Obama will make O'Reilly look like an idiot....will be fun to watch.

[SMC22307]

28. I didn't watch the first two; won't watch this one either. (n/t)

[Mike Nelson]

29. President Obama should cancel this appearance...

...unless he plans to wipe up the floor with BillO, which I doubt.

[MFM008]

30. WHY????????????????????????

WHY WHY WHY Why does he give any legitimacy to that moron? Id rather see Rachel get an interview, I wont watch it, put it on the Puppy bowl for the duration.

[AsahinaKimi]

31. "MR. PRESIDENT!... The tides roll in and Roll out!!"

"You can't explain it..."!!!!

[llmart]

32. Wasn't he also a presenter....

at this year's Kennedy Center Honors? When watching it I was like WTF? All these liberals receiving these honors and they choose O'Reilly to present? His supposed jokes went over like a lead balloon and it was clear that he was only being tolerated by the audience, but not exactly well-received.

Only my impression.

[yurbud]

35. this is to balance out all the times Amy Goodman or Greg Palast got to interview Baby Bush

[MrScorpio]

36. It'll basically be Blabbo talking over the Prez's responses in fits of self-entertaining sarcasm

But even so, I doubt that he'll bring up "BENGHAZI," because knows that Obama will hand him his ass, as the facts are all in.

[Alamuti Lotus]

38. What over/under is Vegas giving for the number of occasions O'Reilly calls him a pinhead? *nt

[Third Doctor]

39. Obama should give this man a the light of day.

He should have refused.

[madokie]

40. That is when the wise man meets the toady

The president will be talking so over his head he won't be able to discern what he says.
Some of us will though and it should be a blast.
Peckerheads like o'Really doesn't intimidate me at all as I see through him like he was a pane of glass and those who don't won't really matter either as there is no getting to them anyway. Stupid can't be fixed