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The Titanic ego that we all know as Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, has once again demonstrated the enormity of regard that he has for himself. In an appearance on fellow Foxie Geraldo Rivera’s radio show, O’Reilly critiqued his performance during the Superbowl interview of President Obama saying…<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m going to predict that the interview that I did is going to go down in journalistic history as what should be done. It takes a certain skill to pose questions in a factual way and be persistent without being disrespectful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I totally agree. It does take a certain skill, one that O’Reilly utterly lacks. However, there are many elements of the interview that merit historical remembrance. For instance, he likely broke his own record for flagrant rudeness by interrupting the President forty-two times. He also earned a place in history by raising only the topics<\/a> that his bosses at Fox have certified as official scandal bait (the ObamaCare website, the IRS, and of course, Benghazi), or as Jon Stewart described it, O’Reilly was “dipping whole-scale into the full Fox scandal grab bag.”<\/em> And History will surely note that some 40% of the interview consisted of O’Reilly talking, making him nearly as much the subject of the interview as the President.<\/p>\n
After the interview, O’Reilly was taken to task<\/a> by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post for many of the reasons enumerated above. This caused O’Reilly to bust a gasket, calling Milbank a weasel and a liar, although never once did he specify what Milbank said that was allegedly false. PolitiFact, however, assessed the dispute<\/a> and gave Milbank a “Mostly True”<\/em> rating.<\/p>\n
It’s endlessly entertaining to watch O’Reilly exalt himself as the journalistic eminence that he clearly believes himself to be. It’s like watching a child brag about his sports ability and then taking his ball and going home after he embarrasses himself. The difference is that O’Reilly is so egotistical that he is impervious to shame. So thanks, bill, for showing us all how it should be done – by negative example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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In an appearance on fellow Foxie Geraldo Rivera’s radio show, O’Reilly critiqued his performance during the Superbowl interview of President Obama saying… “I\u2019m going to predict that the interview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bill O'Reilly Says His Obama Interview \"Is Going To Go Down In Journalistic History\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[26,110],"class_list":["post-11451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/oreilly_equation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2YH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11727,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11727","url_meta":{"origin":11451,"position":0},"title":"Between Bill O’Reilly And Two Ferns: Video Proof That Plants Are Smarter Than Fox News Hosts","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/19\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"After Bill O'Reilly did his Superbowl interview with President Obama, O'Reilly predicted that \"the interview that I did is going to go down in journalistic history.\" So far, the only historical notice taken of the affair is O'Reilly's boorishness and Narcissism. 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