Bill O’Reilly wants to assure us that Fox News isn’t ‘out to get’ President Obama. Uh-huh.
Click here to view this media Bill O’Reilly phoned in to Fox News’ Happening Now program this morning to talk over his interview with President Obama with Martha MacCallum retrospectively. O’Reilly’s real impressions sound like classic cases of projection: He thinks, among other things, that the president is “thin-skinned” and probably “self-centered.” Indeed. Our impression of O’Reilly exactly. And then he tried to pull a fast one: MACCALLUM: I also want to get your thoughts — at the very beginning of the interview, I appreciated that you took a moment to thank him, and to thank the administration, for some help that they gave us at Fox News in helping two of our colleagues, Greg Palkot and Olaf Wiig, and the whole thing kind of reminded me too of that moment, way back, when they talked about the fact that Fox News wasn’t a news organization. And clearly we were treated in a very respectful way in this whole thing. I just wanted to get your thoughts on all that. O’REILLY: Well, look, you have to understand that interview that we did yesterday was the most widely viewed interview of all time, because of the Internet — you know, the moment it was done it was all over the world, everybody was looking at it. And I wanted people who don’t know Fox News, and all they hear about is the liberal media defining us, to know that we don’t have any personal animus against the president of the United States — and he did, and Robert Gibbs and the State Department did really, really good work in helping Palkot and Wiig. That’s the truth. So why not say that? And why not say that to him? And I wanted him to get the message that, look, we’re not out to hurt you. We the network. There might be guys like Hannity and Beck who really feel that you’re not a good president and your policies are destructive. But we have other people on the staff who feel the opposite. So, yes, Fox News is skeptical of President Obama, more so than the liberal networks, of course. We’re not personally invested in hurting him and I think that that statement up top was true. It needed to be said. It was in the context of the event, and I’m glad I said it. Of course they don’t hate President Obama at Fox News. They just call publicly wish for him to fail and announce their intention to make him fail . They just call him a racist , a socialist , a fascist , a radical Marxist revolutionary , and an America-hater . But hey, it’s nothing personal. Really. And those “staff” members who “feel the opposite”? OK, my guess is that they’re all members of the janitorial staff. Because you’ll sure as hell never see them on the air at Fox News.
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Bill O’Reilly wants to assure us that Fox News isn’t ‘out to get’ President Obama. Uh-huh.
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