Posted on 07/28/2004 11:06:21 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
On Tuesday, 27 July, Bill O'Reilly interviewed Michael Moore at the DNC Convention in Boston, MA.
The focus of the interview was that for every question that Bill asked Michael, Michale would in turn be allowed to ask Bill his own question.
Bill has for months been challenging Michael to come onto his O'Reilly Factor Show and debate Moore's 9/11 Film, among other hot topics.
Out of a fluke meeting on the street in front of the DNC Convention Center in Boston, MA Bill and Michael met this week and both agreed to hold the interview based on the "I ask then you ask." forum.
I was dissasppointed in Bill that with this golden opportunity at hand and with millions of people watching, he and Michael could not get off the WMD DEAD HORSE issue.
I emailed Bill and gave him the quesitons I would have asked Michael Moore if I had been the one interviewing him.
Here they are:
"Why are you demoralizing our troops who are fighting and dying in Iraq with your 9/11 film?"
The second question I would have asked is:
"Why are you befriending nations and are considered a hero in the nations that are anti-American and pro Islamic terrorist?"
And the third:
"Why has Al Qaeda approved of your film and recommending it's showing throughout all Islamic nations?"
Pinging on the Bill O'Reilly / Michael Moore interview at the DNC Convention on Tuesday, 27 July.
I found the entire discussion extraordinarily dull and I thought there would be fireworks.
Boring,boring,boring.
I saw the interview and was never more disappointed in O'Reilly. I could have done a better job. Moore's logic was so full of holes. Sean Hannity would have torn Moore apart.
Bill blew what could have been great. Email Bill and tell him how he "blew it!" I did.
O'Reilly failed miserably.
ping!
Bill,
Don't let the liberals frame the question: "Would you sacrifice your children for Fallujah or Iraq?"
Our soldiers and marines may be our sons and daughters but they are NOT children. Our military services are all voluntary, and whether we like it or not these are young adult men and women who are able to make up their own minds.
We are not marching 10-12 year olds down to the recruiter and saying "Please take our child to Iraq to be sacrificed for "Big Oil".
The way the libs are framing the question is abominable and they should be called on it. You failed to do that with Michael Moore last night.
The question is that if bush lied like moore said, then why isn't he going after clinton or kerry or any of the other congressman or senators for lying about the WMDs? I mean clinton said Iraq had WMDs too and he also lied. Does anyone else see a double stnadard, but of course Oreilly wasn't smart enough to point it out.
..then produce the documented quotes saying exactly what The President has said.
Very cogent questions. In fact, virtually all the questions that needed to have been asked of the slob.
O'Reilly has alot to learn about interviewing. I find I watch his show less and less. Too bad, he had promise.
I think part of the deal in getting Moore on the air was to go easy on him. He had been ducking O'Reilly.
The proper answer would have been, "My children would need to be 18 or older to sign up at a recruiting station and as such I would not be sending them anywhere. They would be volunteering to go. Just like everyone else who is in our military."
Fox News had a GREAT interview with an Iraqi who actually was shot and fell into a mass grave, faked death and then literally crawled out latewr and survived. If Repubs could get this guy at their convention and tell his story
and re frame this whole Iraq issue... Election is in the bag...
O'Reilly could have done so much better. I'm thinking he gave MOO a pass either to try to convince MOO to return to his show, or because they made a prior agreement to only ask pre-read and prepared questions.
O'Reilly should have known better than to softball this guy.
When fat ass asked him if he would let his children die to secure Fallujah. He should have responded with...
"Our troops joined the MILITARY. They SIGNED up to join the MILITARY.What the hell do you think they're supposed to do in the military help old ladies cross the street."
But I wasn't expecting much from BOR
The obvious follow up is this:
OK, we did not find stockpiles of WMD's, but we have found a few dozen which could have been capable of killing tens of thousands of people. Why did the "inspector's not find those? Also, how would we have found them if we had not gone into Iraq with our military?
Are you, Mr. Moore, willing to risk thousands of lives on inspections that did not work and on Saddam Hussein's word that he does not have WMD's? I'm not, Bush is not. But apparently John Kerry is. What say you Mr. Moore?
The question he should have asked was:
Why does anybody care what two overweight bloviating loudmouth doofuses like us thing?
Could this thing possibly be a little more overblown, really people, OReilly stopped being interesting the day his rating came close to Larry King, that's when he sold out and became all about outrage and volume. Who cares what he has to say to anybody, much less an equally uninteresting michael Moore.
The Left does not get the point that WMD's or not, the US now knows for sure. That's a big question to know a certain answer to.
Was it worth a thousand US lives to invade Iraq? Only history and the people who will not be blown up by a nuclear weapon made in Iraq and placed in Boston by Al Qaeda will know for sure. Hussein had options and chose not to use them. Israel was getting close to using the "Samson Option" against the Baghdad support of the suicide bombers. This left the US with only one option. Invade Iraq to find out for sure and to remove Hussein and the funds for suicide bombers in the process. Hussein's money was a "WMD" in its own way.
IMo OReilly did a very poor job of interviewing MM...
O'Reilly is sooooo tiresome...his endless pandering to the Libs who do watch his show so they won't go elsewhere...he must constantly push his "independence" and his harangue that, " the other side does it, too."
He says this no matter how offensive the Lib behavior being described and without the "proof" that he demands from viewers that write in with their complaints.
O'Reilly is sooooo tiresome...his endless pandering to the Libs who do watch his show so they won't go elsewhere...he must constantly push his "independence" and his harangue that, " the other side does it, too."
He says this no matter how offensive the Lib behavior being described and without the "proof" that he demands from viewers that write in with their complaints.
First of all...Is he bigger than the convention ? Granted the convention is boooooring, but I am sick of pundits ! Talk AFTER the event, not during.
Moore cleaned his clock. O'Reilly stammered...and he is the biggest school yard bully on t.v. He embarrassed himself imo, and I thought Moore (who I have no use for by the way )..had a better demeanor, better argument for his "cause", and was talking with conviction.
O'Reilly had upper most in mind ONLY to make a fool out of Moore..and WIN THE BIG EVENT. He is a " fake , phoney fraud " (ala/Bob Grant ! )
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whoops--sorry for double post
Ditto here. I was really expecting something incendiary, and Bill was his usual namby-pamby softballer. Waste of time. And Bill kept hyping it like it was going to blow us out of the water. It didn't.
I like O'Reilly but I think he dropped the ball last night. I suck and I could have handled Moore better than that.
Exactly. I was rather disappointed in O'Reilly's inabiltiy to directly and firmly answer Moore's comment about sending kids over there. I was hoping he'd chew him up. It seemed as if he backed off of Moore-and I think he shouldn't have.
inabiltiy=inability
oops!
Hannity would have just started yelling and talking over Moore, and nothing would have been heard except Hannity.
O'Really is spinning his interview with Moore on his radio program. He's actually glorifying himself much more than his usual self-promotion. Let me quote him directly:
"...Moore could not answer the questions..."
"...there are NO WMDs found at all. But Bush didn't deceive, he was mistaken..."
"...I received 20,000 e-mails so far..."
"There ARE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUES THAT ARE WRONG. They are irrational...stay away from them [strongly implies he is not irrational whereas Freepers and Moore-supporters are irrational]"
(In O'Really's classic annoying tone) oooooo-kay?! Okay.
O'Really is spinning his interview with Moore on his radio program. He's actually glorifying himself much more than his usual self-promotion. Let me quote him directly:
"...Moore could not answer the questions..."
"...there are NO WMDs found at all. But Bush didn't deceive, he was mistaken..."
"...I received 20,000 e-mails so far..."
"There ARE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUES THAT ARE WRONG. They are irrational...stay away from them [strongly implies he is not irrational whereas Freepers and Moore-supporters are irrational]"
(In O'Really's classic annoying tone) oooooo-kay?! Okay.
O'Reilly,
Moore is an anarchist. You laid down and rolled over for him. The only thing you didn't let him do was rub your quivering little tummy. Your so-called interview was a demonstration of what a member of the media does to get "the big one" on air. You sold out.
How 'bout "You've admitted that you don't really care if what you portray on the screen is accurate and truthful, as long as it gets your point across. And you express great disgust that 'Bush lied'. Why is all right for you to lie and yet outrageous if Bush does?"
that's funny!
---but really, it wasn't me, I swear!
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Hope there is another meat wagon waiting for LAME CONSERVATIVE WANNA-BE BLOWHARDS such as Bill O'Reilly. What a waste. You'd think he was interviewing for CNN the way he's pandering and sucking up to these liberal slugs at the DNC this week.
Oh Phil, there's that blob again. I'm not going to utter another word on Michael Moore after getting flamed last night about his talk with Bill O'Reilly!!
Lol, Meek, are you trying to get me in trouble again? I think I'll lay off Moore for awhile!!
Right On,Happy2BMe! And O'rielly you SUCK!
You are dead on right!
Moore has said it is "patriotism" to not want the troops to "fight to support a lie". He also constantly makes up stories of GI's who he says told him they once despised him and now love him. Of course no names are EVER mentioned. You can't get this guy easily. Because, like most Liberal Liars, they have an answer to fit any question, and no amount of falsity required will deter them.
Trouble ? What happened ??
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