I'm a fan of Bill O'Reilly, although I don't always agree with him. I do admire the way he goes after people when he thinks that they have some explaining to do and he generally tries to present all sides of a story when he's trying to get at the truth. There aren't many journalists who do that, anymore.
But sometimes I wonder if he isn't letting his success go to his head. Last night, he apparently got into it with one of Obama's flunkies, who deliberately was interfering with a Fox News crew shooting an Obama rally.
The incident was triggered when O'Reilly--with a Fox News crew shooting--was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson "Move" so he could get Obama's attention, according to several eyewitnesses. "O'Reilly was yelling at him, yelling at his face," a photographer shooting the scene said.
O'Reilly grabbed Nicholson's arm and shoved him, another eyewitness said. Nicholson, who is 6'8, said O'Reilly called him "low class."
"He grabbed me with both his hands here," Nicholson said, gesturing to his left arm and O'Reilly "started shoving me." Nicholson said, " He was pretty upset. He was yelling at me."
Naturally, O'Reilly saw it differently.
But what really amazes me about this story is the sheer arrogance of these spoiled rich kids who want to be POTUS. Very few of them have come forward with workable solutions to the problems that Americans are facing, and those that have refuse to answer tough questions about what they are proposing. They dance and play guitar, answer planted questions to friendly crowds, smear each other left and right and book small venues so that the MSM reports an "overflowing crowd." They dodge, lie, misrepresent, change their positions and think that they are fooling us.
If you can't stand up to some tough questions from someone like O'Reilly, how can you expect us to believe that you can stand up to Iran, Syria, North Korea or Russia? I've said before that I think every candidate for POTUS should submit to drug screening, a complete background investigation and a psychological screening. Then they should be required to sit down across from O'Reilly for an hour and explain to the American people why they should be president.
And if they can't do that, they have no business running in the first place.
So let them have it, Bill. Force Obama to answer those tough questions. Then chase down Billary Clinton and Fred Thompson, next...
Hot Air has more.
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It's amazing how you seem to think you have the inside track on something when you have to copy and past from other sources to formulate your own opinion on it.
Posted by: xeper | June 23, 2008 at 12:16 PM
I guess I'm just not as smart as you, friend, your brilliant opposing argument just dazzles me.
Posted by: Mike | June 23, 2008 at 10:52 PM