Juan Cole: The Cheapening of American Politics: Why Did Obama Reward O’Reilly With an Interview?

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24. With All Due Respect

It is my understanding that those interviews which are traditional, at least since Bush, are determined by the network televising the game. FAUX chose Bill O'Lielly, who cut the number of interruptions from 73 down to 38. Of course, this was a shorter assault than the last time the president faced off against this hot-headed blowhard. Ergo, instead of asking about TPP or the KXL, we had the president dismantling the FAUX News pseudo scandal gate propaganda. It seems to me that when puppets on that network start howling like stuck pigs, the president fared well.

To the other part of the post, if the president had declined to be interrogated, he would have been declared a coward.

I prefer the president take on FAUX news if he is going to deal with them at all. The whole country understood that he was telling the truth when asked if that network has treated him unfairly. Well, duh!

But don't pay any attention to me, I'm just a democrat who is glad Obama is in the White House.