Just heard this on Fox News. Sen. Obama has finally agreed to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show this Thursday, Sept. 4. O'Reilly has been pressuring Obama for months to come on the program and he has continually said no and sends someone in his place. So he has finally decided to come on the show.

This should really be interesting. Obama better be ready for this one!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4:
• Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama enters the No Spin Zone for the first time ever! Don't miss this 'Factor' event

OMG.....yes, this will be interesting!!! I'll have to look the time up on this, I don't know when he's on, so don't usually watch him.

thanks.

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How on earht will he survive without a telaprompter? UMMMM....UHHHHH!! OReilly is gonna have him for lunch.....I Hope!!

Just set my tv reminder. What fun! Get the popcorn ready!

That sounds exciting.
Finally Obama is willing to set down with someone from Fox news.

I wish that O'Reilly will ask him some good questions..and not the softball stuff.

So true!! This IS going to be interesting.

O'Reilly having Obama for lunch. I find that hilarious. Obama has more intelligence in his little finger than O'Reilly has in his whole body. Obama also has class. You can bet that Obama can handle anything that BOR puts out there.

And from what I understand Murdoch has wanted this bad for some time. Well since it has become apparent that Obama will be our next President. If Fox doesn't get on a good footing now with Obama there will be a backlash for his network once Obama cinches the election. Murdoch is just protecting his ratings which most likely will plummet after November. Its all business.

And airing the first half of the interview tomorrow on McCain's night is a win win situation for both Fox news (Obama will bring in the viewers who they hope will stay for the big speech) AND Obama will take some of the limelight away from McCain. Brilliant!

To say nothing of the fact that Senator Obama pretty much demanded an apology for the trash talk against Mrs. Obama by Hannity and Billo. Thinking Mr. Murdoch had to do some real sweet talking.

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Are you kidding me? O'Reilly will have Obama eating out of his hand! Without someone telling him what to say, O'Reilly will be throwing so many questions at him, he won't know how to respond. It's going to be an interesting hour for sure. Yes, Fox News has been asking for this interview for a long time and Obama has constantly said no. Scared perhaps?? Guess he figured he had to go on eventually. I'm sure he's being diligently prepped for this one!!

Nope not kidding you. LOL. Here's a little back story about how and why this came about.

Rupert Murdoch acted as peacemaker between Barack Obama and Fox News


Rupert Murdoch helped broker a "tentative truce" between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and key News Corporation lieutenant Roger Ailes, the boss of Fox News Channel, earlier this year, according to the media mogul's biographer.

Murdoch, the News Corp chairman and chief executive, was forced to court Obama after the rising star of US politics rebuffed his initial approaches, it is believed because of what he saw as the derogatory coverage of him and his wife, Michelle, on Fox News, according to Michael Wolff.

The News Corp boss also advised Wolff, his biographer, to vote for the man who eventually became the Democratic presidential candidate during the New York primary earlier this year, saying: "He'll sell more papers."

These revelations are reported in the October edition of Vanity Fair magazine, which details contributing editor Wolff's interviews with Rupert Murdoch over a period of nine months for his upcoming biography of the media mogul, The Man Who Owns the News.

After initially snubbing offers of a get-together with the media tycoon, made through the Kennedy family, Obama relented and a secret courtesy meeting with Murdoch was arranged at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, according to Wolff.

When Obama eventually met Murdoch early this summer in secret, they were joined by Ailes, who runs News Corp's Fox News Channel.

Wolff reported in Vanity Fair that during the meeting Obama and Murdoch sat knee to knee, with the older man offering the prospective candidate advice.

"Murdoch, for his part, had a simple thought to share with Obama. He had known possibly as many heads of state as anyone living today - had met every American president from Harry Truman on - and this is what he understood: nobody got much time to make an impression. Leadership was about what you did in the first six months," wrote Wolff.

But Wolff claimed things were different when Ailes took Murdoch's place.

"Obama lit into Ailes. He said that he didn't want to waste his time talking to Ailes if Fox was just going to continue to abuse him and his wife, that Fox had relentlessly portrayed him as suspicious, foreign, fearsome - just short of a terrorist," he wrote.

"Ailes, unruffled, said it might not have been this way if Obama had more willingly come on the air instead of so often giving Fox the back of his hand.

"A tentative truce, which may or may not have vast historical significance, was at that moment agreed upon."

In the Vanity Fair article Wolff also claimed that Murdoch advised him to vote for Obama during the democratic primaries.

"Just before the New York Democratic primary, when I found myself undecided between Clinton and Obama, I said to Murdoch (a little flirtation, like a little gossip, softens him), 'Rupert, I don't know who to vote for - so I'm going to give you my vote. You choose'," he wrote.

"He paused, considered, nodded his head slowly: 'Obama - he'll sell more papers.'"

Murdoch courting Obama marks something of role reversal from the mid-1990s, when UK prime minister-in-waiting Tony Blair actively courted Murdoch as part of his bid for power.

"This is a leap for Murdoch. Murdoch has traditionally liked politicians to come to him. His historic shift in the 1990s to Tony Blair came after Blair made a pilgrimage to Australia," wrote Wolff.

"Obama, on the other hand, was snubbing Murdoch. Every time he reached out (Murdoch executives tried to get the Kennedys to help smooth the way to an introduction), nothing. The Fox stain was on Murdoch."

However, the "Fox stain", as Wolff calls it, does not appear to be one that Murdoch is so comfortable with any more.

Wolff wrote that the influence of Murdoch's wife Wendi and the courting of more liberal figures in the media has raised a conflict in the News Corp founder, as he would love to build on his purchase of the Wall Street Journal by taking over the New York Times.

"He is spending time now in consideration of an even more far-fetched fantasy, the New York Times: he'd really like to own it too," Wolff added.

"Now, everybody around him continues to tell him that buying the Times is pretty much impossible. There will be regulatory problems. The Sulzberger family would never … And then there's the opprobrium of public opinion.

"But it's obviously irresistible to him. I've watched him go through the numbers, plot out a merger with the Journal's backroom operations, and fantasise about the staff's quitting en masse as soon as he entered the sacred temple."

This increasing desire to move for titles away from his traditional right-of-centre political power base is mirrored by a cooling toward Fox News Channel, according to Wolff.

"It's life with Wendi versus life with Fox. (And, too, it's the Wall Street Journal - and maybe the New York Times - versus Fox)," he wrote in Vanity Fair.

"Fox has been his alter ego. For a long time he was in love with the Fox chief, Roger Ailes, because he was even more Murdoch than Murdoch. And yet now the embarrassment can't be missed - he mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it; he barely pretends to hide the way he feels about [Fox presenter] Bill O'Reilly.

"And while it is not possible that he would give Fox up - because the money is the money; success trumps all - in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets."


Another link.

Obama Met With Fox News Executives - washingtonpost.com

Obama’s interview will air at 8:00 p.m. EDT tonight 9/4/08

Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama to Appear on O’Reilly Factor Thursday

COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC

But when I first read the above sentence, I thought it said "DIGITALLY PREPPED". I thought "OMG--what does she know that the rest of us doesn't." My mind went into the gutter for a minute.

Sorry! Now back to your regularly scheduled bickering and sniping!

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Kinda like Bush wasn't digitally prepared in his first debate with Kerry? Remember how lame he was because the little box he was using to get the responses wasn't working?

Obama will be just fine. All politicians use teleprompters for major speeches just like Sarah Palin did last night.

Ah Fox, network of the baby mama comment and the terrorist fist bump!

Some excerpts already being released.

Obama: Surge Succeeded Beyond ‘Wildest Dreams’ - America’s Election HQ


"Obama said he “absolutely” believes the United States is fighting a War on Terror, with the enemy being, “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam.”

He repeated his campaign’s foreign policy position that Afghanistan must become the “central front” in the War on Terror."

As he always does, O'Reilly will try to bully and talk over Mr. Obama, but since he has 1,000 times more class than Mr. O'Reilly, Obama will sit back and let Bill make an ass of himself. At least he didn't pull out of the interview like McCain did his interview with Larry King---and King is a lightweight that McCain should have had no problems with.

But, I am glad for Mr. O'Reilly that he will be on a closer basis with Mr. Obama since Mr. Obama is without a doubt the next President of these glorious United States!

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When, oh when, is the interview coming on? I'm already nauseated from watching him for the past half hour . . .

The segment that played tonight can be found on foxnews.com

or on this link:

YouTube - Bill O'Reilly Interviews Barack Obama 9/4/08

Take some Pepto B. and chill out. That would help your stomach!!!!

Bill OReilly, as usual, is a rude, blustery interviewer who never lets any guest finish a sentence without continually interrupting. This was no exception. BUT Mr Obama more than held his own, spoke intelligently and was not flustered by the bluster of Bill

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"Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope." Anonymous

"Your candle does not lose it's light by lighting another candle" Generosity

Have the courage to be yourself.

Sneak peak at the 2nd segment that will be aired Monday, 9/8/08.

http://patdollard.com/2008/09/sneak-...axes-drilling/

Sigh, what exactly is the point of such a "conversation". If that is an example of the rest of the interview why watch?

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The 2nd segment part that aired last night 8/8

Bill O’Reilly | The O’Reilly Factor - FOXNews.com

Why do people watch O'Reilly? He interrupts every answer and he certainly doesn't listen to anything.

I do agree that O'Reilly interrupts too much. I would rather hear the entire answer a person gives instead of cutting him off.
The interview did point out Obama's "socialist" tax policy. Taking from the rich to give to the poor.
The idea that because someone can (maybe) afford it that someone in charge will make you do the right thing (in their opinion of what is right).

I thought O'Reilly really exposed the policies for what they are. Taking from the rich to give to the poor. I totally disagree with this. O'Reilly did a great job and I can't wait to hear the rest!

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