Bill O'Reilly to interview Obama for Fox Super Bowl pregame show
(CNN) - While most of us spend Super Bowl Sunday in front of the TV, President Barack Obama typically spends it on TV - and that tradition will continue this year when he speaks with Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly during the network's Super Bowl pregame show on February 2.
Fox News on Thursday announced plans for the presidential interview.
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The interview might be more lively than other sit-downs with Obama since O'Reilly hasn't interviewed him in three years and since Fox News is the television home of opposition to the Obama administration. But it's entirely logical for the President to do the interview - it's an opportunity to be heard by one of the biggest television audiences of the year.
Obama's first pre-Super Bowl interview was with NBC's Matt Lauer in 2009. Since then he has spoken with CBS's Katie Couric in 2010, O'Reilly in 2011, Lauer again in 2012, and CBS's Scott Pelley in 2013.
Fox said that this year's interview would be televised live by the Fox network (which is a sister of Fox News) around 4:30 p.m.ET on the day of the game. Afterward, O'Reilly will tape a second interview with the President that will be shown on his Fox News program, "The O'Reilly Factor," the next day.
Unlike, say, the "CBS Evening News," which is anchored by Pelley, last year's pre-Super Bowl presidential interviewer, "The O'Reilly Factor" is centered around O'Reilly's own point of view. Fox could have chosen an interviewer like Bret Baier or Chris Wallace to conduct the Obama interview instead. The choice of O'Reilly instead is a reminder that he remains the biggest personality at the news channel, attracting about three million viewers a night.
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Obama shouldn't give that clown the time of day!
megan kelly would be a far better interviewer. o'reilly is an obama apologist. he'll be far too deferential to obama because of the office.
Why would he go all oreilly will do is yell and interrupt him.
BlackThought
Why would he go all oreilly will do is yell and interrupt him.
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Not if Obama actually answers the questions being asked and does it without taking 15 minutes per answer. Obama blathers like nobody else.
-just asking
megan kelly would be a far better interviewer. o'reilly is an obama apologist. he'll be far too deferential to obama because of the office.
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So, being rude and snarky all of the time is a good thing when you interview the President?
hannity should be interviewing obama. i'd pay to see that one. but obama isn't man enough to do it.
This could be interesting.
I hope O'Reilly will ask Barry why its OK for football players to bang heads for entertainment (after all, they are grown men and know what thy are getting into, right??) and suffer possible brain damage from the near-guaranteed concussions, yet the Federal Government must outlaw marijuana growing and use by adults.
Ask Barry why it is OK for the USA to arrest over 750,000 AMERICANS for a decision they make, where no one else is harmed. Ask Barry why he is so GUTLESS on this issue. Does he like seeing his fellow Americans arrested? Does he like seeing so many minorities' lives ruined by an arrest record , when they are doing no one harm?
And for those who think pot causes criminal action, that's because it is a crime, stupid! In Colorado, you buy it from a store just like booze. Or grow your own. No contact with criminals.
Freedom and liberty for ALL.
Why and why oreilly?
Didn't they go through this not too long ago?
"megan kelly would be a far better interviewer."
Yeah, they can spend the interview talking all about how Jesus and Santa are white people.
$10 says O'Reilly tries to spend the whole time on "Benghazi!!!!!!!" and the IRS.
No kidding! A disaster looking for a place to happen!
And, BTW, my vote for Fox Interviewer is JENNA LEE. WaHooo!!
Bill, should not be in the position of interviewing anyone, especially the President Of The United States. His credibility, if any has been compromised more than any reporter in modern times, otherwise he's be working for another company other than FOX. His book is nothing more than a cry for attention, and an outlet for his ego.
I have seen Hannity, Huckabee, and now OI'Reilly in the Ticket. Seriously CNN, I am good for today I do not need any more angry out-of-touch conservatives. I long for that liberal media bias I have heard so much about.
GOOD! Let's see if ol' Bill can actually get some sensible answers from our King....
O'reilly is the most Fair of All the people on FOX.... if you don't believe it.... watch him for one week.... see if what he says makes sense. I dare you!
Ah. The things a President has to do to keep GOPerville happy. Bill O'Reilly? Yeah. Whatever.
-just saying
hannity should be interviewing obama. i'd pay to see that one. but obama isn't man enough to do it.
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hannity is only interested in slow-pitch questions to delta-minuses like Louie Goehmert, not people who can actually think on their feet.
This should be entertaining. I'd like to see the President go offsides on him and commit a personal foul.
"$10 says O'Reilly tries to spend the whole time on "Benghazi!!!!!!!" and the IRS."
$10 says Kelly would do the same.
Tony
BlackThought
Why would he go all oreilly will do is yell and interrupt him.
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Not if Obama actually answers the questions being asked and does it without taking 15 minutes per answer. Obama blathers like nobody else.
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President Obama better speak slowly and in one-syllble words so o'really's mouth-breathing viewers are able to keep up!
I wonder if O'Reilly will interrupt Obama 18(?) times in less than five minutes like he did during the first/last interview.
Alright.....Sounds like good pre-game warmup to me. Go Seahawks!
Finally a REAL interview...CNN you might want to take some notes!!!!!!!
@bobo
O'reilly is the most Fair of All the people on FOX.... if you don't believe it.... watch him for one week.... see if what he says makes sense. I dare you!
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FROM his own website and program: Bill says: " young black men commit homicides at a rate 10 times greater than whites and Hispanics combined" FBI stats put it at about 50/50. He is racist and a liar. He has no business interviewing Obama.