I believe this could be a huge mistake. They will crop his comments and use them against him.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/p...ikeallen/gG5XVP

I gotta record this... You know O'Reily isn't going to give him the time of day to respond... and then he's going to twist all his responses the next day when he can't respond to him.

The questions are probably going to be like:

"So how do your grandparents feel about you being Muslim?"~O'Reily
"F*ck this... I'm out... I tried to give you a chance to be fair"~Obama

Assuming this is a LIVE show, I think it shows major cagliones. The charming and witty Barack will expose Billo the Clown for the brainless, racist, nitwit he is. There is NO WAY that blowhard can match Barack's grasp of the issues or his congenial personality -- and most importantly, he will not allow himself to fall into any kind of trap, due to being well-prepared with the week's RW talking points which, as you know, are geared towards those with 5th grade education.

As far as using his comments against him, that issue is no longer a concern, due to "Sarah Palin is the most qualified to be the next CoC."

{Never mind if it is a pre-taped interview, but NO WAY will Obama agree to that.)

QUOTE (NamelessGenXer @ Sep 2 2008, 07:14 PM)

I think it shows major cagliones; the charming and witty Barack will expose Billo the Clown for the brainless, racist, nitwit he is. There is NO WAY that blowhard can match Barack's grasp of the issues or his congenial personality -- and most importantly, he will not allow himself to fall into any kind of trap, due to being well-prepared with the week's RW talking points which, as you know, are geared towards those with 5th grade education.

As far as using his comments against him, that issue is no longer a concern, due to "Sarah Palin is the most qualified to be the next CoC."

That's what I'm hoping for rather than the cynical response I gave earlier... Only time will tell.

I think i't s a great idea! They're always bitching that he "refuses" to come on!
I say, OBAMA TAKE THEM ON AND SHOW THEM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF!

Barack's gonna block his shot, and do it live!

I knew you were being cynical... I really believe this is an excellent opportunity to speak to those who stick with FUX for entertainment value, even though they are no longer believing the BS and secretly fear what four more years will do to their "Socialist" Security and/or draft-aged grandsons.

It's a 50 State Strategy... if the trailer-park trash weren't buying Obama before, then so what? It can only help with that low-rent crowd.

Obama, please have your girls and Michelle join together with you and with some Girl Scouts and help replace the hurricane-tattered American flags!!!!

I hope you are all right and that I am wrong. I don't trust O'Reilly.

I think Obama can play him like a fiddle.

All O'Rielly does ehen he's losing ground is yell. At least that's how he comes across on YouTube o if i catch his show someplace else on the web.

I think the funniest one was when he had on Steven Colbert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLqqEzT6rg

All Obama has to do is better than that. I think he can

This might be very good. What O'Reilly isn't accounting for is that Obama can and actually will research every comment the spinmeister has ever made about him and be as prepared to hold O'Reilly to account as Billdo ever could hope to be to hold Obama to anything. O'Reilly really may be in over his head on this.

Also bear in mind the subtle drift to the center FOX is taking. Murdoch is aware that should the Democrats take control being the only major cable news network who is completely shut out of the administration wouldn't be a good thing for ratings. Getting scooped every time because they failed to seize the opportunity to build a relationship with the current occupant of the White House sometime in the future is not a place they want to end up, and I don't believe they are confidant enough in a McCain they have in the past been at times skeptical of to throw away their chance at building that relationship now. O'Reilly will find himself in a position to prove that he has some value to FOX in a future with a President Obama or to throw everything he has at Obama and risk consigning himself to the tar pits with the rest of the extinction bound right wing hacks.

Getting the Obama interview certainly pouts more pressure on O'Reilly than continuing to be avoided does. I think they were much happier when liberals were wary of going on their show.

Faux News is known for editing their transcripts. Even live, they don't care, they will change it and pretend it happened just the way they say it did.

For Faux, 2+2=5.

I think we can count on Obama to be fully aware of the format they use. All they can really hope for against a prepared Obama is to edit out all the words and try to make it look like all Obama said was "er...umm...uuhhh." Include ANY of his words and unless they cut and paste like a ransom letter it's going to look good for Obama.

Yeah... I've seen what the typical Oreally interview looks like... Many questions with following conjecture with little time for the person to respond. Oreilly makes your average patient person want to turn fisticuffs. But I've seen Obama's patience at work... and I've seen his tempered response with pure fact and tact. If anyone can handle... I'm sure he can. I know the first line of questioning is really going to be about Jesse Jackson or some experience nonsense.

Don't forget RevWright & Resko. Falafel lips will keep bringing it up over and over and over again.

This is like inviting the vampire into your house only in reverse. Once you enter O'Reilly's evil lair, you are forever trapped in his twisted right-wing spin machine. Obama should have consulted with Bill Moyers before considering this.

Maybe we shouldn't underestimate him. IMO he hasn't made a mistep yet (besides FISA.)


(Nice quote btw.)

Prepare for a barrage of the typical O'Reilly "Some people say...'insert bullshit, anonymous, unsubstantiated claim here'..." questions.

If it was a live show that O'Reilly couldn't run through his Pla-Do Fascist Fun Factory of Bullshit, I'd say game on!

I'll still be watching.

Well, when Hillary was a guest it was fairly cordial...I just hope Barack doesn’t match her with her crazy statement, “God bless us rich people.”

Easy. "Well, Bill, some people may say that, but what those people might not be taking into account is ______. " And if the claim is really absurd and insulting kill 'em with kindness, i.e. Biden's "Rove is great patriot" line. If its so silly that only people who believe anything you feed them will believe it, then feed them subtle sarcasm and let them try to quote it. You don't see anyone making upo much ground with the "Biden calls Rove a patriot" headline, now do you?

Note: please strike the word patriot from the above and replace with american. My bad. Carry on.

You remember what Letterman did to O'Reilly, right? Obama will be fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crhZAAlXME

I think Obama is smarter than many of those Repigs think. He is street smart, and is a strong person. I don't think any of those Repug pigs will get the better of him, including the gang of four at the RNC. The whole Repug thing turns my stomach - it will be hard to wait until November when the creeps will get the hell out of our White House and Congress.

Like they weren't going to do that and haven't been doing that already?

My only hope is that he keeps a cool head and doesn't go Bill Clinton on the guy.

He should insist on one thing, and one thing only.

That he can have his own cameraman shoot the entire thing uninterrupted right alongside the Faux news guys, so that if they try some "creative editing", Obama can just go, "Actually, it happened like this," and spank the shit out of them with it.

O'Reilly is an intellectual midget. The more Obama lays back all rope-a-dope and calmly responds while O'Reilly gets increasingly hysterical, the better Obama will look when he comes out of the corner and just BRAINS Bill with a left hook.

Confirmed: Obama will appear on Billo the Clown show on Thursday night - opposite Grampy's speech (he he he)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8090202730.html

With McCain a pariah on MSNBC and banning CNN he only has Fox left, Obama is going to take THAT away too with this.

Remember he had a sitdown with Murdoch and Ailes in the last week, they obviously came to some kind of accord.

I agree, Fox is smart enough to know they cannot be shut out of every breaking story for the next 4 years and survive. They will make the deal and believe you me, O"Reilly has no chance of taking a swing at Obama. If he does, he will be gone daddy gone, Murdoch may be a bastard but he is also a pragmatist.

If liberals paid as well as conservatives, Fox would be more liberal. Its just about the money to some people.

perhaps it may be a divine opportunity to show what a sleazy, bigot o'lielly is.
that'd be my vote.

You may notice that the Obama interview is scheduled to air tomorrow night, the same night of McCain's speech. Perfect timing, as it will take some attention away from McCain on FOX.

I highly doubt that the interview will turn into a yelling match. Instead, I expect both sides will be respectful. At this stage, it serves the longterm interests of O'Reilly and FOX to be respectful to Obama while he is their guest. To treat Obama rudely in a much publicized interview would dash any further interviews for FOX in the future.

How brilliant of faux news to air them at the same time, then the repubs will STILL not be exposed to the truth and the Faux News can say that they gave Prsident Obama air time on their channel! They don't want voters to see President Obama, because:
1. President Obama scares them and
2. President Obama may actually impress some to vote for him!

Wouldn't it be priceless if that got better ratings than McCain's acceptance speech?

And it would represent a reversal of Bill 'O's trend of losing market share. His ratings have plummeted 74%. He NEEDS the Obama bounce!

I think it's entirely possible, courtesy of the same 38 million people who tuned into Barack's Mile High Speech. They DO need to get the word out and I suspect they will send an e-mail blast about this (stay tuned...)

Personally, I am in full Fascist Convention Boycott mode, refusing to add one nano-point to their Neilsons, PLUS this will be the first (and last) time I 've ever tuned into the Billo the Clown Show.

its a win win


the majority of the people watching the interview wouldnt vote for Obama if he turned water into wine right there infront of billo and the whole god damn world, the small minority of viewers who might be open minded will be impressed with Obama and his JFK like speaking style, or charisma...

He's speaking on C-Span right now at Kent State in Ohio, and making a whole bunch of good sense.

Which is of course, entirely unsurprising.

Barack Obama can handle loofah boy.

...with ease.

Barack Obama has agreed to have an interview with Bill Oreilly, after poor Bill continued to complain about how he does not know him...He needs to be interviewing Palin...I will be sure to watch what happens...

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As a trainer of horses, I have dealt with many equine personalities, remember, when they are pissed they can kill or maime. We have a saying, when knowledge ends, anger begins, but patience prevails every time. That is how Obama will handle O'Lielly. Like a pissed off stallion who should've been gelded a long time ago for his own good. Sadly they chose to let him breed. Obama will piss him off, rather than the opposite. Billo has no patience for those who will not say what he wants. He has no idea what he has gotten himself into. He will make an ass out himself...again.

Obama on O'reilly

I don't know if it's a good move for him to go on there. But I trust his judgment.

Sorry I didn't see this. Merge my topic.

He needs to do something huge to steal the glory from McCain's speech just like McCain did to him. Not that McCain will get much glory anyway. lol

Oh! I don't know what to think of this. I might watch BillO for the first time in years.

Yup, I read about it on THIS THREAD yesterday.

(I don't mean that to sound as snarky as it sounds. Just check out the other thread.)

I'd wait and watch it on YouTube. I haven't turned on Fox News in years

I will leave it up to you fine people to say how it went. I am not watching the RNC stuff. I am not usually like this I tary and be "fair and balanced" but there is too much hate. I heard some of the speeches last night and they were all hate speeches. Bill-O I think will be cordial and I think Obama will be professional.

The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/ob...wildest-dreams/

Just a tease...

I hate it that OReally gets to gloat..

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?pl...listId=playlist