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Poltifact rules President Obama’s claim during his Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly that “I didn’t raise taxes once” as “false.” Yet it’s worth noting that if O’Reilly were interested in conducting a good interview rather than mere publicity, he would have followed up by asking him if the individual mandate fine was a tax, as his own lawyers have been arguing in court.
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Humphry Dumfries | 2.8.11 @ 9:20AM
I've never liked Bill O'Reilly. He's seems for all the world like a pompous jerk, IMO. That said, I refuse to take ANYTHING he has to say seriously since his "Tide goes in, tide goes out" nonsense...
LarryK| 2.8.11 @ 1:13PM
...seems...??????
Bob K.| 2.8.11 @ 9:22AM
Your kidding! Not O'Reilly. The interview was really an advertisement for himself which Obama took advantage of.
Right now as Disraeli would have understood, and that Obama may not have understood, is that
O'Reilly is "blackening Obama's boots." At another time, convenient to him, he will be "blackening Obama's character." A rather simpler task.
Bob K.| 2.8.11 @ 9:25AM
A correction in grammar here: The first sentence should read "You are kidding!"
Anita| 2.8.11 @ 11:27AM
Why do some people feel compelled to correct another persons grammatical error.
I was taught that that is simply not done.
Obviously, it is.
Tim the Enchanter| 2.8.11 @ 12:44PM
Anita... you might have missed this somehow, but Bob K. corrected his OWN grammar. Is there now a new rule that it is impermissible to correct your own posts?
Pelligrino| 2.8.11 @ 9:59AM
Perhaps a better follow-up to the president's statement in the O'Reilly TV interview would have been, "Well, Mr. President, where were you in the mid December (absolute '11 minutes before midnight') discussion in the US Congress about expiring taxation levels for American taxpayers as we neared December 31st?"
"Just how were you 'lookin' out for the American folks' Mr. President on that foundational issue? Please tell me something you were doing concrete to impact that..."
Why just 6 short weeks after that American national leadership fiasco does the media drop the scalding hot pressure cooker on ALL the Congressional and White House national embarassments-acting-as-wannabe-leaders?
If ever we needed proof that buffoons rise to the top, it was that 2-week segement of life within our national capitol beltway.
Michael L. Hauschild| 2.8.11 @ 10:03AM
Sorry, I missed the interview. There is nothing either one of those two clowns could say, and certainly not say to each other, that would influence me in any way.
Tim Williams| 2.8.11 @ 10:05AM
It is mystifying to me why more liberals don't go on O'Reilly's show. He is a terrible interviewer - he never really asks any tough follow-up questions after guests spin him or lie. Even when he has decided going in that he wants to yell at the subject, he doesn't throw back any facts, (as you suggest here on the tax question,) he just yells, and demands they change their answers.
simon templar| 2.8.11 @ 1:08PM
They do not go onto his how because he is more effective in muddling up issues and keeping the independents in his audience confused with muddled thinking. He needs no help from the left which actually sees him as a pare tiger. Hell, if you remember he brought the communist to his show at the lowest favorable poll point for Bam Bam during the election. Helped him raises his ratings and gave him a platform to conceal his real agenda and identity. Ted Baxter O'Reilly is a AID and ABETTER of Liberalism. It's about time he make another appearance on the View...
Pelligrino| 2.10.11 @ 1:45AM
Simon, thank you for reminding me of the name (and character) Ted Baxter.
Your insertion of that name above is priceless.
I'm laughing and hurting at the same time -- hurting because we do need strong, well-schooled, tenacious journalists (not TV showmen with blondes everywhere) as the fierce dogs ALWAYS at the heels of our politicians, appointees, and the armies of bureaucrats.
DOLLI ASARO| 2.8.11 @ 10:15AM
PLEASE HELP ME UNDERSTAND:
At "American Spectator" a comment was made about O'Reilly's interview with Obama. What does this comment mean?
O'Reilly is "blackening Obama's boots." At another time, convenient to him, he will be "blackening Obama's character." A rather simpler task.
Hank| 2.8.11 @ 10:35AM
O'Reilly is a paper tiger and has been for years. He has no problem beating up on people who aren't powerful or famous but whenever he gets a big name he starts pitching softballs to insure that they'll come back.
Jeff| 2.8.11 @ 11:05AM
O'reilly has always been - and still is - and obama poodle.
Al Adab| 2.8.11 @ 11:29AM
O'Reilly chose not to be adversarial with the interview. Perhaps that was the price the White House demanded for granting it. Certainly it did not come without strings. Nonetheless, every time the President shows himself he reveals his lack of depth and understanding. Witness the performance at the C of C. We are left with ever clearer understanding of this man as an empty suit, all show and no substance.
Kitty| 2.8.11 @ 11:59AM
There's a reason why the shameless opportunist's initials are BO'R.
simon templar| 2.8.11 @ 12:59PM
Ted Baxter O'Reilly was frightened..you could see it in his face at the beginning of the interview. He is a windbag opportunist that cares more about his image and career than any of the so-called principles he pretends to hold. The left knows he is a paper tiger..that's why he is rarely attacked by them anymore. The red army could be marching down Pennsylvania Avenue and this guy would still be in denial.
southernsue| 2.8.11 @ 1:31PM
two over bloated egos together. nothing said, nothing accomplished. both are bullies.
Seek| 2.8.11 @ 2:50PM
How, then, did O'Reilly earn a reputation years ago as a leading conservative? Because he's on Fox?
Patty| 2.8.11 @ 9:50PM
You obviously have never watched BOR. He's a registered Independent who sees himself as neutral. He is not a Conservative, he's a populist.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 2.8.11 @ 3:01PM
Bill O'Reilly has become the Michael Smerconish of tv news hosts. I tuned The Factor out four years ago & haven't missed it in the least. Like Smerconish, O'Reilly is infatuated with those on the left in political power. I'll tune in again when the boot Bill & rename the show The Ingraham Factor. Bill is only looking out for Bill.
Kitty| 2.8.11 @ 4:26PM
BO'R is most infatuated with himself.
Jeb| 2.9.11 @ 12:18AM
But not nearly as much as Obama is.
Dale Cord| 2.9.11 @ 10:47AM
O'Reilly,Limbaugh,Hannity,Boortz etc,etc: Media Blowhards. They have all made their fortunes writing books proclaiming their patriotism with pen to paper and orally over the airwaves. The red flag of hypocrisy they have been waving in the face of the nation has gone unheeded.Did you ever stop and think about their own personal wealth and how they acquired it? "Radio announcers" so wealthy they can afford to buy football teams, receive shipments of Gold to their bank vaults, drive the newest automobiles,brag about their worldly trips. Live in the most expensive neighborhoods. These government paid stooges and public pacifiers should have their own awards show, for their deceptive rhetoric and ability to keep a nation as great as America, sucking on the tits of a two party system while it mounts them from behind filling them up with their STDs (Satire of Titillating Deception) until their will of Individualism has been destroyed. Give the masses a forum to voice their legitimate complaints about their future survival under the dictatorship, of a mentally unbalanced President,Congress,Supreme Court,and they will be content marinating in their own illiterate waste. Its a crying shame that the people of this nation has neither the will or backbone, that the nation of Egypt has exhibited in the past few weeks demanding the removal of their dictator.