Bill O’Reilly goes rogue on Sarah Palin, buffets her in testy exchanges

Daily Caller ^ | 07/13/2010 | Jon Ward

[mad puppy]

I like Sarah.

If she really wants to run for POTUS she needs to be able to handle entertainers like B’OR and do so in much better form then she is today. What I like about these exchanges is that she is clearly using them for “training”.

If she can’t improve, she makes her money, pushes her conservative message and moves on. A year from now, if she is verbally man handling B’OR, it will be because she has clarified her positions *AND* her ability to explain and defend them. Once that is in place, attacking the left will be easy.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

O’Reilly is a freak show. He’s not too different from Olberman, just playing for a different team. I wouldn’t waste my time watching either of them. (Also I don’t have cable, so there’s no danger of that happening.)

[mick]

Hey Al...well, we now know what happened to our girl Rebecca...good for her!!...from the article:

Conservatives4Palin.com was started in part by a woman, Rebecca Mansour, who left the site to become a paid Palin consultant. SarahPAC paid Mansour $22,000 from April to June of this year for help with grassroots organizing and with managing Palin’s online presence, largely through her very active Facebook page, according to Federal Election Campaign filings.

[Clyde5445]

Here is a link to the transcript. It read a lot different than the article describes. Sarah could never finish a thought with out BOR cutting her off.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/how-sarah-palin-would-tackle-illegal-immigration

[Hillbillary]

IMHO, BOR is a Northeastern elitist (Harvard). They are either Independents or Republicans a step or 2 closer to RINO, or in some cases a full blown RINO. White RINO’s aren’t endangered in the TEA party apparently either.

[Nanny7]

BOR is all about show-biz.

[cliniclinical]

Having watched the interview in question (and at this point being barely able to take the blowhard O’Reilly’s interview style), I have to say that Palin was not ready for the follow up question - once the border is sealed, what do you do? She fumbled it, tried to steer around it, and there was my ole buddy O’Reilly to make hay of it...

You have to be ready for that follow up and it has to be clear. Securing the border is the easy part. How, as a humane, compassionate, sophisticated Nation, do we handle millions of illegal immigrants, who in many ways are integrated into our economy, and somehow also honor our laws, morals, and Freedom?

Just take the Central Valley of CA. Who do you think is going to pick the food that is critical to not only CA, but the rest of the Nation? It’s hellacious work and I am not sure that a reasonable solution for just that area alone exists. We do have unemployed people in the country who could do the work, but the wages are low, the work tough, and we have raised a generation or two of very, very lazy people used to the government teet.

Whatever happens, Palin needs a concise, quick, and decisive answer to that follow up question that directly deals with the question and shows leadership. They will chew her up on the national stage without it...

JMHO

[valkyry1]

I have not seen his show in years but I know what you mean I picked it up right away. He wants to be ‘the smart guy in the middle’

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

She even, when asked what to do with immigrants who don’t register with the government, responded: “You deport ‘em.”

You see, Governor Palin NEVER brought up registration. These are O'Reilly's words and he tried to bait her.

Anyone here who believes that Sarah supports amnesty, especially when people are overwhelmingly opposed to amnesty and she was the only Republican to defend Jan Brewer and the AZ law - is a complete fool.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: How, as a humane, compassionate, sophisticated Nation, do we handle millions of illegal immigrants, who in many ways are integrated into our economy, and somehow also honor our laws, morals, and Freedom?

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I get the impression that many FReepers consider the answer to the above question quite straightforward -— FIND THEM AND DEPORT THEM. SEND THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN HOME ( yes, even kids born here in the USA who are considered citizens ).

Easier said than done of course.

That is why I support the Arizona Law. That is the most reasonable step towards enforcing the law in this country.
Evolution, not revolution.

We need a President that’s supportive of laws like these.
If we have such a president, I think that once many other states begin to emulate Arizona, we would see illegals AVOIDING these states and moving to sanctuary states and cities. Once the problems begin to compound in sanctuary cities and people begin to see problems lessened in tough enforcing cities, support for enforcement will skyrocket even more.

THAT is my personal take on the problem. Sarah Palin ought to consider that too.

[Ann Archy]

He was Stupid and RUDE.

[Larry Lucido]

Bill O’Reilly goes rogue on Sarah Palin, buffets her in testy exchanges

They exchanged testes? O'Rielly would have been caught short...

[Jim W N]

I don’t like B.O. I think he’s a wishy-washy soft-core liberal.

[RedMonqey]

But when O’Reilly pressed her to outline what to do with those who do register for normalization, Palin was either unable or unwilling to answer the question:

O Reilly wasn't tough, just asking fair questions.(Although he has a tendency to "kiss ass" to elected Dems)
I'd like to know HOW my future candidates will fix the problems and not give slick "no answer" answers.

Palin has a bad habit of this.

Can you say "Katie Couric"

[Gator113]

Blowhard would be nice to Palin, if the interviews were conducted on the phone and if she would just talk dirty to him.

[Al B.]

You got it, mick. Rebecca rocks. She’s gone from reaming sleazebag Alaska pols like Jay Ramras while at C4P to having twitter battles with Jake Tapper, who’s begging for Palin to come on his show and make him a hero. She’s in the big leagues and still doesn’t take any crap from anybody...LOL.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

“I wish O’Reilly could allow ANY GUEST on his show, not just Palin, to get out 4 words without interrupting them. He does this all the time. He asks a question, the guest starts speaking and almost immediately, O’Reilly interrupts and starts talking over the guest. Really annoying.”

Boy, you really nailed BOR’s disgusting practice. I never watched him much, but now it’s avoidance. He’s a disrespectful bore on top of being a rude turd.

[RedMonqey]

She reminds me of a younger and cuter version of my maternal grandmother... But she was a strong, and opinionated, woman too.

And she and Palin would get hounded out of politics for it, too.

Sarah has the heart of Reagan but she desperately needs to "bone up" on her interview skills and knowledge of national issues.

Reagan didn't become Reagan without many years of hard work and alot of abuse from the Left....

[RobRoy]

>>He wants to be ‘the smart guy in the middle’<<

You nailed it. That is the wording I was looking for. It accurately articulates my view.

The sad thing is that if you are actually smart and informed, you are anywhere BUT the middle.

[SeekAndFind]

Just take the Central Valley of CA. Who do you think is going to pick the food that is critical to not only CA, but the rest of the Nation? It’s hellacious work and I am not sure that a reasonable solution for just that area alone exists.

We ought to revisit the BRACERO PROGRAM that was implemented in this country in the 1940's and 1950's.

The program mandated a certain level of wages, housing, food and medical care for the workers (to be paid for by the employers) that kept the standard of living above what many had in Mexico. Not only did this enable many to send funds home to their families, but it also had the unintended effect of encouraging illegal immigration when the USA's workers quotas were met.

Yes, mistakes were made, but if we ENFORCE IT STRICTLY ( there goes the phrase again ), that program could answer your question.

The program existed from 1942-64, primarily utilized as an agricultural agreement. Laborers from Mexico would come into the United States, harvest crops and be paid a prevailing wage. After their work, they go back home and can re-apply to come back to work during the next harvest.

Cesar Chavez was instrumental in dismantling the Bracero program, in favor of providing those same jobs to American agricultural workers at a prevailing wage. Chavez opposed illegal immigration vehemently up to his passing in 1993.

At its height in the late 1950s, Bracero enrollment totalled about 500,000.

More importantly, the Bracero program worked

It’s worth it. Let’s take a look at this program.

Citizenship should not be offered at this time to anyone who breaks America’s first law by entering the United States illegally.

I believe most Mexicans simply want to feed their families by making a decent wage they cannot earn back home. Well, why not reconsider BRACERO ?