The most dishonest thing I heard Sunday came from President Obama when he said to Bill O’Reilly: “Great to be with you.”
Pretty sure O’Reilly was as welcome at the White House as a stomach virus.
I’m here to say, enough is enough. Time to do away with the president interview during the Super Bowl pregame show.
This isn’t about politics. I felt the same way about the presidential interview with George Bush as I do with Obama in the Oval Office.
During Fox’s pregame show Sunday, O’Reilly went at Obama with the same fervor as Seattle’s defense against Peyton Manning. O’Reilly’s pursuit of the truth, if you want to call it that, would have been fine if the program was the O’Reilly Factor.
But it wasn’t. This interview occurred during a program that celebrates the biggest sporting day of the year in America.
How out of place was Obama’s interview? The previous segment was a song by Phillip Phillips.
C’mon. It makes as much sense as inserting a LeBron James interview during a political convention.
To those who say the Super Bowl provides a large platform for a presidential interview, well, so does the Oscars, which pulled in 40 million viewers last year. Since ABC does that telecast, let’s have Diane Sawyer interview the president just after one of the big musical numbers.
Of course, we have Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and a slew of other outlets for 24/7 coverage of the president. Do we really have to be subjected to a political rumble during the Super Bowl?
Also, if you insist on having the president appear during a Super Bowl, wouldn’t you at least ask him some football questions? Seems like getting Obama’s views about the concussion issue would be fairly timely.
It is NBC’s turn to do the Super Bowl next year. If the president’s PR machine was smart, tell him to pull a Marshawn Lynch and say he’s not talking.
The only way the president should be part of Super Bowl Sunday is if he has inside information about the game.
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It’s not that these presidential interviews are out of place, but the person that does them shouldn’t have an agenda. To have O’Reilly attack the president in this forum was totally off base. Yes he could of gotten some of it in, that would be fair. But at the same time this was not the O’Rielly factor it was the Super Bowl and the tradition is to get some words from the President about some things but mostly about the day of football, not politics.
I don’t blame O’Rielly, that’s him and Fox gave him the mantle, who I blame was Fox for allowing that to get so out of hand.
This isn’t about politics, just like O’Rielly wouldn’t of spent 95% of his show on Football.
O’Reilly “attack” the President? You mean ask him some of the questions everyone else in the “softball” mainstream media has failed to ask him for 6 years. I agree however, that this was not the time or place for this interview.
Fully agree,,,and it should have been done before this year. Another thing that it’s time to STOP…music acts at halftime.
Sports are trying to entwine the world with it…and it IMO is sick and now what real sports fans–either at the game or watching on the tube–want to be part of.