Posted on 02/07/2014 10:59:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Geraldo Rivera took on Bill O’Reilly Friday night over whether O’Reilly was disrespectful to President Obama in their big Super Bowl interview. Rivera gave O’Reilly some benefit of the doubt, but other than that thought O’Reilly was a bit too confrontational and didn’t give Obama the kind of respect a president normally deserves.
Rivera argued it was less like an interview and more like a meeting of the minds with the “President of Most of the White Guys of America” (O’Reilly) against the president of the rest of the country, and told O’Reilly that it was out of line for him to refer to Obama as a “community organizer.”
He said it was “unsettling to watch,” and the president deserves “all the respect and dignity” of the office. O’Reilly fired back that his job is not to please, it’s to “get information” and ask “the tough questions,” and believed that he gave enough deference and respect to the office of the presidency.
Rivera concluded that the larger point O’Reilly made about inner-city families was “obscured” by how he “minimized” the president.
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Well, when you have “minimized” president, what can you say?
Remember. You are referring to the man who is almost solely responsible for the homeless problem across the entire country.
Obama is not a normal president and does not deserve the "respect a president normally deserves".
Obama deserves removal only, not respect. And all power to urban plate glass contractors!
Geraldo MINIMIZED himself with that comment.
Off hand, I would say probably not.
So, “all the respect and dignity (of the office)” in Geraldo’s view = treat Obama as god-king?
He deserves the Juan Williams award with oak leaves.
Geraldo hates white Americans. Period.
If he runs as a republican (he has entertained that thought) I will vote against him. That will be my first anti-repub vote.
I thought BOR asked all the questions NONE OF THE JOURNOLISTS have asked the boy-king.
When Obama plays golf, basket ball and bowling, sleeps in every day goes on vacation 4 times a year not to mention Camp David retreats, I would say he has reduced his presidency to being basically a figure head to his totally inept cabinet.
How can you minimize ZERO?
“All the respect and dignity of the office.”?
After this clown there isn’t much left!
He minimizes himself every time he opens his mouth.
Since Bush was treated far more disrespectfully, with far less justification, I’m sure Whore-aldo criticized the urinalists who did so on camera on many, many occasions and can produce tape, right........[crickets].........right?......Hello?
When Billy-O hears Geraldo’s protest, that he (gasp!) minimized the poor Widdle Pwesident, he will pretend to be hurt, offended, defensive and concerned, maybe even angry, when in reality, Bill will feel deeply proud at his televised humiliation (Part Deux!) of Obama.
"Mr. President, we love you. I want to hug you.... This is nothing. Thomas Jefferson did not have this in mind.... I would give Ken Starr the Nobel Peace Prize were he to be man enough not to refer a sex lie to the House for impeachment." ~Whorealdo Rivera
media muppet
That interview was useless. We didn’t learn anything new, and Obama just tossed out the usual lies to the questions I’m sure he expected.
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