Bill O'Reilly Interview with President Obama

It appears to be the custom that the President of the United States is interviewed on Super Bowl Sunday by whichever network carries the game. This year, it was Fox News. Instead of choosing a "journalist", and there are a few who have journalism backgrounds at Fox, they chose Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly is popular with the extreme right but, in my opinion, is really a slap in the face to the President. Remember O'Reilly came to Fox from Inside Edition, a tabloid entertainment television show.

As expected, O'Reilly did what O'Reilly does best. He was disrespectful. He interrupted the President of the United States 43 times. Sitting on the edge of his chair as if ready to pounce at any moment, he did not allow the POTUS to finish a complete thought. Worse, he asked President Obama what it felt like to be hated and then reiterated it to emphasize hated.

When a lie or an idea is repeated over and over again, some people can begin to accept it as fact. Fox News has perfected this. Granted, these people may already be susceptible to this for whatever reason. I find this to be the most frightening part of today's mass information age.

This video confirms my fear and not because it is in Iowa. These false beliefs are all around the country, perpetuated as news and journalism by Fox. At first, I thought this was a spoof of Fox. But, sadly, it wasn't. It is my guess that everyone in this video, including Frank Luntz and Sean Hannity, could not name the leader of Egypt two months ago. Yet, today, they all have opinions as to how the U.S. and POTUS should be handling this situation.




It is very likely that President Obama does seem like "the other" to these people and to some here in the South. Maybe he is foreign to them personally so, therefore, he must be a foreigner and someone to fear or criticize or label so their small minds can understand. Notice how they dance around with these outrageous claims. Why don't they just say it - we're scared of him because he is black.

Notice too how the extreme right has started connecting liberalism with other "scarier" words like terrorists and Islamists and Muslims. It is my belief that not even the American public would stoop this low if the man in the White House right now was white. Granted, they stooped pretty low with President Clinton but that was personal and not worthy of stockpiling firearms.