In Super Bowl chat, Obama tells Fox News an 'orderly transition' is key in Egypt -- video

Earlier today, right here on The Ticket, we wrote about Super Bowl ads, the Fox News interview of President Obama by Bill O'Reilly and what the chief executive was likely to say.

It was a jolly opening with O'Reilly, often a critic of the Democrat, thanking the president for his help in freeing Fox News employees in the ongoing Egyptian troubles. Key point: Egyptians will demand a more representative government, no matter how long it takes for President Hosni Mubarak to actually depart. An orderly transition is the most important element, Obama said.

A lot of talk on Egypt, and then O'Reilly asked the president the worst thing about being president.

Presumably joking, Obama said having to wear a suit jacket on Super Bowl Sunday. Anyway, here's the video below of their full conversation, courtesy of Fox News.

And just below the video we have the White House Super Bowl party menu, presumably not approved by First Lady Michelle Obama, who's trying to fight national obesity.

Good but healthy?

The White House Super Bowl party menu:

Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Cheeseburgers, Deep Dish Pizza, Buffalo Wings, German Potato Salad, Twice Baked Potatoes, Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels, Chips and Dips, Salad, Ice Cream. Beverages including the following beers: Hinterland Pale Ale & Amber Ale (Wisconsin), Yuengling Lager and Light (Pennsylvania), White House Honey Ale. Coma to come.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[Steve]

I'd ask Bill-O how he feels to be loathed and hated by a majority of Americans. I'd also ask him about his creativity in the use of a loofah. Honestly I can't think of a single person that doesn't feel that Bill-O is at least a self righteous jerk if not an outright unreconstructed fascist. O'Reilly is a man who twists known history so out of shape as to render it a fiction. He seems to feel that his "opines" are more than just silly ideas and conflates them with facts. It is a testament to the oblivious vapidity rampant in our society that O'Reilly attracts any viewers at all and doubly amazing that some believe the verifiable nonsense he spouts. Just what is O'Reilly an expert on? Anything? Anything at all? Really, all he has ever done in his miserable career is read copy to a camera, wonderful. He is allowed his pin headed obliviations as long as they advance the agendas of Mr. Murdoch.

[Terry]

In an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, President Obama says he is confident that an orderly transition process in Egypt will reduce the possibility of a radical, anti-American government.
Is he paying attention to who is rioting? They will be 1000 times worse than what is there. Talk about a nightmare coming out of the Middle East!

[Atlanta Roofing HQ]

I just watched Bill O’Riley’s interview of the President. He asked some interesting questions in the begining of interview, but after that, the thing that really caught my attention is that Bill is the rudest person I’ve ever seen. He’d ask a question and then interrupt the President before he could finish his answer. He wouldn’t let him finish anything. Maybe not all, but I was so caught up with his interruptions that’s couldn’t concentrate on anything else that was said. Now, my parents taught me not to interrrupt when someone was talking. Its just plain rude. Either Bill has forgotten this or his parents totally messed up when he was a kid!