O'Reilly
May/01/08 03:56 PM
So I watched with amusement tonight Hillary's appearance with Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. I must say that she pulled the whole deal off. She was humorous and at ease the whole time, probably a result of her recent good fortune after Barack's crazy pastor has come back into the spotlight unapologetically proclaiming his insane views (like the idea that the US government created AIDS to exterminate the black population) and implying that Barack really agrees with him, but can't say so publicly because he's a politician. Hillary should be, and is, all smiles after all that.
On the show Bill started off by pushing her on the whole Wright controversy and got her to unwillingly admit that she was offended by the comments and that she would have left the church had her pastor said such preposterous things. Eventually they moved on to health care, where she tried to falsely claim that her plan isn't a mandate or a big bureaucratic mess (it is) and that it doesn't make payers pay for bums who are willingly destroying their own lives by living unhealthily (it does).
Also, I'm glad he pressed her on raising taxes for the wealthy. I was surprised when she openly admitted that she was indeed going to raise them. O'Reilly rebutted, "Raising taxes on rich guys like me and giving that money out to the poor is income redistribution Mrs. Clinton and you know it. And income redistribution is a step towards socialism". We spent the last few weeks in my government class discussing this, so it was nice to hear it applied in the real world. Throughout this whole part of the conversation the two were pretty cheery, poking at who was wealthier and how they pay their taxes.
Then he moved on to the fact that she's such a polarizing figure like himself, as he said. He informed her (like she didn't already know) that the whole race is mostly about character and that she's losing on that end. She didn't seemed fazed though and just spit her canned rebuttal that fighting the good fight for so long creates battle wounds and enemies.
Finally, the piece ended with O'Reilly asking her if she was surprised that his own Fox News has treated her more fairly this election season than the liberal media. She wittily replied, "Oh of course I'm not surprised! You guys are so Fair and Balanced". It was a smart and answer and the show ended on that note. Tomorrow's show will air the second half of the interview dealing with touchier subjects like Iraq, Iran, national security, etc. Stay tuned...
Here's a page that has the YouTube's of the interview in it.
On the show Bill started off by pushing her on the whole Wright controversy and got her to unwillingly admit that she was offended by the comments and that she would have left the church had her pastor said such preposterous things. Eventually they moved on to health care, where she tried to falsely claim that her plan isn't a mandate or a big bureaucratic mess (it is) and that it doesn't make payers pay for bums who are willingly destroying their own lives by living unhealthily (it does).
Also, I'm glad he pressed her on raising taxes for the wealthy. I was surprised when she openly admitted that she was indeed going to raise them. O'Reilly rebutted, "Raising taxes on rich guys like me and giving that money out to the poor is income redistribution Mrs. Clinton and you know it. And income redistribution is a step towards socialism". We spent the last few weeks in my government class discussing this, so it was nice to hear it applied in the real world. Throughout this whole part of the conversation the two were pretty cheery, poking at who was wealthier and how they pay their taxes.
Then he moved on to the fact that she's such a polarizing figure like himself, as he said. He informed her (like she didn't already know) that the whole race is mostly about character and that she's losing on that end. She didn't seemed fazed though and just spit her canned rebuttal that fighting the good fight for so long creates battle wounds and enemies.
Finally, the piece ended with O'Reilly asking her if she was surprised that his own Fox News has treated her more fairly this election season than the liberal media. She wittily replied, "Oh of course I'm not surprised! You guys are so Fair and Balanced". It was a smart and answer and the show ended on that note. Tomorrow's show will air the second half of the interview dealing with touchier subjects like Iraq, Iran, national security, etc. Stay tuned...
Here's a page that has the YouTube's of the interview in it.
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