Thursday - Obama on “The O’Reilly Factor”

[deadlyaj]

September 2, 2008, 9:27 PM
Obama to Appear on Fox on Thursday Night
By JEFF ZELENY
CHICAGO — Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own.

Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.

For Mr. Obama, it will be the first time in his presidential candidacy that he’s on Bill O’Reilly’s prime-time program. The appearance is intended to put Mr. Obama before a conservative audience, one week after drawing 40 million TV viewers at his own acceptance speech.

Mr. Obama has had a strained history with the network, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Is this a sign of burying the hatchet or simply politically smart programming? Stay tuned.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/obama-to-appear-on-fox-on-thursday-night/

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lets hope Obama gives 'em hell

[d_b]

1. why?

[Party Line]

2. LINK!!!

???

[deadlyaj]

5. nyt

its nytimes

[itsrobert]

3. IMO, it's a mistake

But I'm often wrong.

[Lucinda]

9. It's either brilliant or totally insane.

And there is usually a fine line between the two. LOL

[eissa]

4. Ugh, I wish he wouldn't

waste his time with that tool :puke:

[Stardust]

6. Why? Well, Obama did agree to go on Bill-o's show. I heard him say so.

He'll do fine. And Bill-O will smugly think he conducted a hardball interview and will actually have an influence Obama's policies.
:rofl:

[GrizzlyMan]

7. O'Reilly will tremble in fear of Obama

[JimDandy]

8. Is he seriously expecting a positive outcome

from doing this? O'Liely's regular viewers will simply flip the channel while Obama is on and I don't think independents watch that show. (not because the show always leans severely right, but because the host doesn't adhere to any standards of fairness. I know--I was an Indy until 2004) I think the best he could do with O'Liely is obtain a neutral outcome. So why waste the time?

[democrat2thecore]

10. Absolutely. Freaking. Brilliant. -nt