Obama On O'Reilly: "Looking Forward" To Going On The Factor

Is Obama headed to the O'Reilly Factor? It sure sounds like it, according to his interview this morning on Fox and Friends, where he claimed: "We're gonna see if we can fit it in." Of course, the last time he tried to make time for a Fox interview with Chris Wallace, it took two years for him to get there. Here's hoping for another 2-year wait.

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Comments

[deweshk]

I am going insane over this ___ anything but O'Reilly and all these faux scums. Geez!

[Liberoservative]

How about Hannity then? :P

[dbrockx]

Don't do it, it's a setup, You know whatever you say will be twisted. Why should he have to prove himself to FIX news? I realize he will have a opportunity to show his side, but with the morons like Sean hannity, Bill O, Pat Buchanaan, Newt Gingrich, they gonna say something, They don't want Obama running against Mcain, so they will twist everything around. Don't do it. It's about ratings and Fox is hurting, all they report is trash especially since his election and now along with HRC negativity, the network is probably losing money. If they stop interjecting their own poison, maybe people can decide for themselves. Since Obama been campaigning, all FIX news does is report the trash. Nothing encoraging, uplifting, jut the trash. Don't do it.

[Harrygton]

Look, I am 99.99% sure that he WILL NOT go on the The Factor before this tow front attack is over and done with... which will be tomorrow, I hope! This is politics, not a typical sport with set rules and regulations! Billary opened the conservative flood gates by playing the "I-am-centrist" card so now that she is the champion of the common people and paining Obama as an elitist it is forcing people like Howard Dean, Kerry and Obama to play alone and go there even if only to show that they are not afraid to meet with people that they know to be evil! This is a theater out there and we are all watching the spectacle to see who prevails!!! I thought Howard Dean did an excellent job last Sunday on Wallace... he kicked butt!

[MNmommy]

One word.

Hypocrite.

[hopelessobama]

haha kos is going to go insane with this.

[spotchester]

If by insane you mean zero recommended diaries on it, then yes.

[Independentjunkie]

PANDA BEAR OBAMA now for fox. take that huffingtopnpost, move on and dailykos.... LOL

good for you obama show these groups up...

[Mrwilliams2u]

WHY is Obama Talking to the same people Chris wallace had to scold for Obama Bashing?, this is changing my die hard obama views a little. CLinton is pulling him way in the dirt.

[Nuff2]

You can't change the distortions people have about you unless you engage them. He is not going to be able to preside over this country hiding from people who disagree!

[catchdis]

using the cable channel to reach people he may not have reached yet is just smart, friends. refusing to talk to people is the politics of the past. unless he dissembles or puts on some kind of act for the faux newsists, you should be encouraged that he has the balls to go there amidst the stench of mendacity and continue to get the truth of his message out, and this is not to be confused with the clintons' dirty shenanigans.

[SpoxLogic]

John Kerry has said that he regretted not going on Fox back in 2004. Back then, the Fox viewers only got one side of the swift-boat issue. Maybe, if Kerry ahd done a few appearances, he may have garnered a few votes, who knows.
Similarly, right now, Fox viewers are only getting a one-sided look at Obama. All they know are the Rev Wright sound bites. He needs to go into this den of vipers and hold his own against one of the main vipers, O'Reilly. He may get bitten a few times, but by keeping his cool, he'll let Fox viewers see the actual man.
So, to those of you are saying he shouldn't and are worried about it, I have to ask you:
IS YOUR FAITH IN OBAMA SO LOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE EVEN WILLING TO NOT VOTE FOR HIM IF HE GOES ON THE FACTOR?
If that is the case, then maybe you really aren't a true Obama fan after all!

[NuttyProf]

No, listen, I heard a Fox viewer say that he heard that Obama is a Muslim. I KID YOU NOT. He has to go on so that these idiots can hear him speak for himself. The question is, if he does, will the Fox demographic understand what he is saying if he uses those big, elitist words?

If anyone can unify those dummies he can.

[dajay]

Note to Hypocritical Obama Supporters: Now that YOUR candidate is most likely going on O'Reilly, are we going to see a 1000 plus posts here, like we did with HIllary, saying what Repub he is and how he is in bed with the right wing??

Oh, I thought not. Not even anything from the HF Post, I am assuming, as well.

THe hypocrisy is alive and well in the Obama Twilight Zone.

[globality]

Why are you sinking so low as to go on Fox news. As a huge supporter I can not undertsand why you would give legitemacy to this farce of a news organization ?????

[rachaelisacancer]

He's giving legitimacy to the millions of Americans who watch Fox news more so than to Fox news. I don't think it's about sitting down with O'Reilly, it's about addressing his viewership.

We don't have to like them or understand them, but those people do exist and they are a huge part of that conservative voting bloc which must be reached in order to secure a Democrat in the White House.

[globality]

Also CNN (Clinton News Network) is as biased against him as fox anyway. On their web site they have the same negative story on Obama listed twice (they usally have more negative stories on Obama than Hillary but at least they are different stories)

This is paeg one of their polics section on cnn.com check out the "GOP uses Obama in negative ads" headline posted twice

Dems rally hard before primaries
Dem takes Louisiana GOP seat
Obama: Clinton out of line on Iran
GOP uses Obama in negative ads
Obama rips Clinton's gas tax plan
GOP uses Obama in negative ads
Wright's effect on '08 campaign
Obama wins Guam caucuses by 7

[jupitor]

If he ask about wright, I'd ask him why cathelics like Hannity on fox stayed with his church when their church leaders raped hundreds of children, and often did it behind close doors right there in the church itself! I'd ask Oreilly why no ones asking Mccain about Hagee or Clinton about "the Family " prayer group? It's time if They keep going after Obama, that we let them see that every one comes in contact with people that don't view our opinions or shape our life's or thoughts or Haniity himself would be a rapist today, like millions of cathelics around the world. So,l you cathelics that holding wright against Obama, better clean up your own back yard first---------And remembe the good lord said"Ye, with out sin, throw the first stone"! So, Hannity needs to back off of the wright thing and shut up unless he has not sin, and think raping children like the leaders of his church did is ok!

[coolkraft]

I agree this is a mistake ... Obama does not need FOX news....he should stay on message in the states left for the primaries

[flyguy14222]

And where is all that screaming we heard when Hillary went on? The double standard by the lemming crowd is obnoxious.

[libran38]

once again, Obama waited for Hillary to do something first!

Great way to be commander-in-chief and "leader of the free world"

[ICanHasDemocracy]

The first guys to jump off the boats at Normandy got killed first. Obama's no dummy.

[dajay]

Monkey see. Monkey do.

[jupitor]

Bull she did it to pander to the voter about her dead end gas tax holliday. Dean went on and told chris dobb that fox is bias, and we will prove it in the different way the O'Reilly treat obama to how he treated Hillary! You watch and see! I will give credit where credit is do , if they talk about the issues and stay away from wright------unless of course Oreilly talks about Mccains Hagee, and Hillarys "the family", and Hannitys connection with the cathelic church that raped hundreds of small children all over the United States!

[spotchester]

Once again?

Surely you're going to provide evidence to back this post up.

[Zogtastic]

I'm an Obama supporter and I agree with you. However, you're (intentionally?) forgetting that MoveOn was the one that started the uproar when Obama went on Fox News Sunday and 'treat[ed] the experience as if it was a real news interview". He was attacked first.

So chill.

[dajay]

That's what I want to know. You'll never hear anything derogatory about Obama's performance on O'Reilly, even though he is the one who first appeared on Fox, way before Hillary.

Phony, Baloney, Obnoxious Obama supporters.

[ThirdSection]

Obama will prove himself a living god if he can get even one word in edgewise on the O'Reilly Factor.

However, since I'm voting for who would make a good president as opposed to a living god, I'd prefer that Obama took the time it takes to do the Spin Zone and used it for campaigning instead.

[Bill3rdterm]

That's funny most Obama supporters think he is a living god...

[Nuff2]

I doubt this but the Bush/ Clinton dynasty has to end.

[spotchester]

That's funny, you're incorrect.

[livesimply]

Far from desperate. Remember he's the one who believes we should talk to those we disagree with.

[DebofMD]

Precisely.

[gwhizz]

Unless "we" are Hillary Clinton.

[PKSSK]

Fox should be off the table, there is no value to be gained by giving a platform to those who blantantly want to destroy you and those close to you. Chris Wallace was fine, as he has set himself apart from the neo-con agenda of destroying those who don't agree with you, by referring them to terrorist.

Obama has to stay clear of the racist neo-con agenda of Hannity and O'Reilly, who falsley claim patriotism when they have no clue what real patriotism is. Maybe someone should ask them to define nationalism, as it pertains to patriotism and contrast it to facism. Ask O'Reilly or Hannity if they would send their children to war and then ask them about their commitment to patriotism.

[HowardSanotti]

Middle and rural America are tired of these attacks on Fox News. Alot of us Democrats watch it all the time and truth be told, so do alot of you who say you don't.

[wmfor]

I watch it all the time, too. And it is biased propaganda. I watch it so I'll know what the puppet masters are planning next.

Surprise, surprise! I imagine a lot of their ratings are from people like me. Watch Maher and Stewart for the news, Fox for comedy.

[HowardSanotti]

Fox News is watched by alot of Democrats and Independents. I bet alot who say they never listen to Fox watch it all the time. Fess up.

[OneVoiceInACrowd]

It's actually quite easy to not watch faux all the time, even some of the time is not hard.

[spotchester]

Why would anyone watch Fox 'all the time'?

Smart people use multiple sources.

[4wehttam]

Not The SPIN Factor, oh god!! ORALly is just a perverse instigator, don't give him the benefit of the doubt. Go back on with Wallace or Geraldo and anyone but those lunatics ORALly and Hannity.

[allonfla]

I have heard Obama say that when he becomes President he will sit down with the leader(s) of our enemy countries. Why shouldn't that same sentiment apply to enemies within? He will always have to deal with people/institutions that don't favor him.

I don't watch FOX News, but he needs to counter the garbage that they spew about him. They target the "Low Information Voters" ( nice way of saying ignorant voters) and he needs to reach them and let them know that Clinton is pulling the wool over their eyes.

[Midnightrain]

A nice way of saying "low IQ" voters. I'm concerned about how Sen. Obama appears, his face looks rather pasty and tired. I'm concerned he's running out of steam.

[spotchester]

Low IQ voters, yeah. Dumbshits, you might say. People who still think Obama is a muslim. Yes, surprise, they exist!