Bill O'Reilly to interview President Obama on Super Bowl Sunday
Talk about a pregame match: Bill O'Reilly of Fox News will interview President Obama on Feb. 6 -- Super Bowl Sunday -- before the network's NFL championship game broadcast , marking the first sit-down interview between the two since Obama's presidential run in 2008. (During previous years' pregame presidential interviews, Obama has spoken with NBC's Matt Lauer and CBS' Katie Couric.)
The announcement comes during a week when O'Reilly insisted that if the GOP "oppose Obama all the time, the GOP will fail."
Are things getting a little friendlier between them?
-- Melissa Maerz
Photo: Bill O'Reilly. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times
If you don't know wait causes tides, I don't think you are smart enough to ask questions of POTUS.
Posted by: Donald Hyatt | January 07, 2011 at 01:03 PM
O'Reilly believes the country needs to come together more for us to move forward slowly and that there is an air of legitimacy to legislation passed in a divided goverment. He's been saying it for years.
Posted by: InstiGregor | January 07, 2011 at 01:34 PM
As long as O'Reilly goes to the WH for the interview. The POTUS needs not to go to O'Reilly. O'Reilly isn't a intellectual match for the POTUS, it will be interesting to see, how O'Reilly carries this off. If he can get away with saying the things he says on his own show, we'll see? I doubt if The POTUS will be allowing him to get away with it, if it's done live. My Fear it will be on tape, and Fox will have a field day, snipping the Hell outta it. I would not put it past Fox to do such a thing. As for O'Reilly's opinion about divided Gov't, O'Reilly's opinion of the President, and all of Fox News is divided from their false,slanted lies, keeping the real truth from it's viewers. Which in a poll conducted stated Fox viewers are the most ill-informed viewers, and the more they watch the dumber they become. The tact the POTUS chooses to use, by going to Fox, won't change the minds of the viewers, who's lack of knowledge, and hatred for the POTUS(garnered by Fox) won't change their opinions by watching the interview of the POTUS. So I don't know what the POTUS hopes to accomplish? Because I see this as being a bit of a train wreck for his administration, if he does this, which he will.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | January 07, 2011 at 07:41 PM
You obviously have no clue that OReilly has ALWAYS been pro Obama. Did you even see his OTHER interview? Softballs galore.
The only negative thing he's said about Obama is "He's disconnected from the folks".
Big yawn. Waste of time. I'd pay good money to see Obama v Rush, though or better yet, Obama v Mark Levin.
Posted by: allyr | January 08, 2011 at 01:31 AM
Mr. Crawford...who administered the poll? Keith Olbermann? Fox News viewers are the only ones SMART enough to actually get their news from a variety of sources, and make up their minds from there. They report, we DECIDE, remember? We don't just take the reporting with a grain of salt and run with it. Now, if you say O'Reilly is no intellectual match for the TelePrompter, well, that's a different story...
So
Posted by: Kenny | January 08, 2011 at 07:55 AM
O'Reilly is neither pro-Obama nor anti-Obama. He is fair and looks at things from a common sense position. He is as likely to piss off conservatives as he is liberals. If you don't know that, then you don't watch his show.
Posted by: Joe Rubino | January 08, 2011 at 11:30 AM
not going to waste my time with this
Posted by: greenriverkate | January 09, 2011 at 06:40 PM
Donald Hyatt, you are a Pinhead.
Posted by: JimiBob | February 05, 2011 at 07:40 PM
This is show that I've been waiting for. Can you acknowledge that he is a good President. And has done an excellent job cleaning up Bush's mess and has stay on the course to bringing his promises into law - in spite of the efforts of the new and improve KKK aka Tea Party. You can't stop this. CHANGE IS COMING - CHANGE IS HERE!
Larry W.
Posted by: Larry Whisenton | February 06, 2011 at 06:31 AM
How utterly disrespectful. This interview, if that's what to call it, was so unneccessary. Learn to draw the line somewhere Mr. O'Reilly. Show some respect for The President Of The United States.
Posted by: Nancy Kelel | February 06, 2011 at 02:21 PM