Posted on 02/02/2014 3:44:35 PM PST by bestintxas
President Barack Obama twice blamed Fox News Channel for misinforming the public on issues that have bedeviled his presidency in the past year during a pre-Super Bowl interview with the network's Bill O'Reilly.
The two sat down in the White House on Sunday for a live pregame interview that started about 4:35 p.m. and aired for less than 10 minutes.
O'Reilly first noted that Obama's detractors believe he did not initially say the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead was terrorism because it happened in the heat of an election.
Obama had just weeks earlier said al-Qaida was on the run after U.S. Navy SEALs assassinated its leader, Osama bin Laden.
"That's what they believe," O'Reilly said of Obama's detractors.
"And they believe it because folks like you are telling them that," Obama said in the often testy interview.
"No, I'm not telling them that. I'm asking you whether you were told it was a terror attack," O'Reilly countered.
Obama said it was "inaccurate" to say that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told him the attack was terrorism when he first gave him the news. O'Reilly noted that Gen. Carter Ham, head of operations in Libya, has testified he immediately told Panetta the attack was terrorism, and not the result of a spontaneous demonstration over an anti-Muslim video.
"But it's more than that because of Susan Rice," O'Reilly said, noting that Rice, who was then U.N. ambassador, used the video explanation days later on the Sunday talk shows.
"Just as an American, I'm just confused," he said.
"Bill, I'm trying to explain it to you if you want to listen," Obama countered.
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My kids made me watch this. They are cold. They see O’Reilley for what he is. I see him as influencing a lot of
When he said your heart is in the right place i thought I was going to be sick
OblameU I expect all this from
Yuk yuk uh your heart bl bla who a like in an ball game I don’t expect. Don’t know why by now but no morals. He probably lives alone. He has loyalty to nothing, that BOR
just, kack!
What we need to come to grips with, is b.o. has been one of the most successful presidents ever.
He has achieved his goals
1-grow government
2-grow dependency on the government
3-make life more pleasant for those that don’t work
4-reduce american military power
5-increase power of bureaucracy
i do not get how any conservative can watch Bill O'Reilly... take him seriously... gosh, i miss Tony Snow...
Did O’Reilly actually think Zero was going to start answering questions with any degree of honesty? He got the same old sophistry Zero and his cronies have been dishing out for over 6 years now.
Those who have child like thinking continue to keep blaming. This presidency is unraveling and Barry knows it
Obama’s problems are the result of his actions and inactions, and the same applies to the fellow Marxist travelers he surrounds himself with.
Obama is a pathetic excuse for a President, and we’re judging him the way Dr. King wanted, NOT by the color of his skin, but by the content, or lack thereof, of his character.
A suck up by O'Reilly, so he can get another interview.
“O’Reilly first noted that Obama’s detractors believe he did not initially say the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead was terrorism because it happened in the heat of an election.”
He didnt say it was terrorism he refused to say it was terrorism. He is a boldfaced f’in LIAR and its WAAY overdue for someone to call him one.
Exactly! The fall of the Third Reich all over again.
For Hitler it was the Jews. For Obama it is the Jews and Christians.
I know u don’t want an answer...enemy combatant in the white
dittos!
And the Tea Party, and the Elderly, and the Capitalists, the Libertarians, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the wealthy, the small business owners.....
No, you nitwit, you are the root of your problems!
Without Fox News, the People would not know the truth and Obama would have achieved complete opropaganda dominance over the news itself.
Obama blames Fox because he cannot blame his own nefarious , totalitarian policies.
However, the jig is up. We know who you are now Obama, and you are about to go down as the worst president in the history of the United States, a bane on our Constitution.
A pox on Obama and all of his totalitarian running dogs.
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