Or his dress code.
I bet next time O’Reilly does an interview with Obama, he stipulates Obama wears a tie this time.
O’Reilly is probably just amazed that the president didn’t start screaming “I want some motherfucking iced tea!” to the White House butler.
Like the Obama White House is an R-rated version of The Jeffersons?
I am afraid some people still think this way.
Or just look at a previous post in this very thread.
I took it as tough guy mocking. “Oh, do you prancing liberals know anything about football? Wouldn’t you rather be watching something gay, like the opera?” The basketball comments I didn’t take as racial, or an indication that a person is only capable of following one sport; I saw it as an attempt to simmer the absurd mocking about football.
:smack:
What hurts is that I do remember reading Dewey’s post. Now.
Pretty silly exchange. And, O’Reilly is the Fox News commentator that I have the MOST respect for. I guess Fox does, too, since they didn’t send Hannity, Beck, or Palin to do the interview. Any one of those would have been much more entertaining, if you ask me.
Not the Marines?
LBJ would have.
I imagine they tried, and the White House press staff were laughing too hard to respond.
May have been a strategic move. A lot of people (including myself) thought that Hillary Clinton was the most “electable” candidate the Democrats had. A conservative who believed that might have quietly hyped Obama in the expectation that he’d be more likely to lose to the Republican candidate.
Googling, it appears it was in Sept. '08. Obama already had the Dem nomination.
I think he was (relatively) polite because it makes sense. Both in terms of attracting other “big names” to be interviewed on his show, and because having a serious Presidential candidate on his show will attract viewers who aren’t necessarily regular O’Reily fans, and who will view O’Reilly yelling down someone whose opinion is obviously more important then O’Reilly’s as O’Reilly being an ass.
Which is why it was weird he didn’t restrain himself more here. The same logic still applies.
That’s not really fair. I’ve heard that he plays a pretty mean loofah, or would at least like to try.