Hillary Clinton enters the “no-spin zone” tonight for her first-ever interview with Bill O’Reilly. According to HuffPo, BillO told his radio listeners that it won’t be a “gotcha” game.
We’ll see about that.
I really don’t understand why Clinton (and Obama last Sunday) would agree to go on FOX and legitimize them as a news organization when they’re clearly a GOP propaganda outlet created with the sole purpose of smearing Democrats and praising Republicans.
TPM’s Greg Sargent has more, including a strong statement from MoveOn:
MoveOn, a major Obama supporter that hit the Illinois Senator over his Fox appearance and has led the charge against Fox, emails over this response, complete with hyperlink:
“With no plan to call out Fox’s Republican agenda, Senator Clinton’s appearance on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ does nothing more than legitimize a network that will then use that credibility to smear Democrats and progressive ideas in 2008. She’s pandering to a small audience that is not persuadable.”
FLASHBACK: Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson hammers O’Reilly in defense of dKos.
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Why not? She is a Republican.
She’s an pachyderm in a donkey suit, and will do anything to get elected. If that means selling out, so be it. Expect her to accept HeadRush Limpballs endorsement sometime soon.
It’s odd, you know, that CLinton has garnered so many endorsements from the Right-Wing Noise Machine.
What do they know about her that they fear her less than Obama?
“Sweetsie, Look at how Mike and Kitty do it. Try to be closer in, more romantic on camera. I am practicing the loving look, and the creeping hand. Yours for better TV and more demonstrable affection. Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo.”
[Source: My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives.]
This is a network that pulled out all the stops to destroy her and her husband. Sen. Clinton herself popularized the phrase “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”. What little respect I had for her is lost on this decision.
Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades
CNN.com - Apr 30 3:19 AM
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran, OPEC’s second-largest producer, has stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, in a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.
Going on Fox News Sunday is one thing and now all the candidates have as far as I know. I know Hillary did in Sept of ‘07, and I guess McCain has, but to honor BillO with an appearance is a different thing entirely. BillO will probably treat her to a ice cream soda and a pony. He probably will give her all sorts of openings to piss on Obama….wait and see.
I am not wearing a tin foil hat but I gotta say, Hillary is doing some strange things. Joining up with McCain on the gas tax relief plan is just the latest. She has praised McCain. Bill has praised McCain. What is going on here?
This is the hand of the master puppeteer Rupert Murdoch at work. If he can’t have John then Hill will do.
Does she have brain damage or something? Or, is there something we don’t know… but should!
She’s either smarter than they are or totally corrupt… hmm, interesting choices…
Yo, E Rocks! @ 3:
Remeber those CIA drug flights, during the 1980s; they were part of the Iran-Contra Scandal. All those CIA planes full of crack cocaine were flown into Hope Arkansas; which happens to be the home town of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Ever notice how during the campaign between Poppy Bush and Bill the Iran-Contra Scandal never came up. Ever notice how one of Bill’s first acts was to squash the remaining criminal investigations from Iran-Contra. Ever notice that Bill pardoned some of these people.
Think about this; the right wing knows that Hillary will squash any investigations into what Baby Bush was up too.
O’Reilly will try to get Clinton to trash Obama because he know’s Obama will be the GOP opponent in the general election. I don’t believe her decision to appear on O’Reilly’s show makes much political sense in that his audience is predominantly hardcore right-wingers. How is this going to help her with Democrats, Independents or Reagan Republicans? Does she believe that there are Democrats in NC and IN who will decide to vote for her as a result of this appearance? All she can do is provide fodder to defeat Obama in the general election and gain little or no support for herself in the remaining Democratic primaries. What is she trying to accomplish concerning her electibility for the Democratic nomination by appearing on O’Reilly’s show?
why doesn’t she simply OPENLY change her party affiliation to the Repigs… s
Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran.
I like Pie @ 10:
Jeez did you have to drink the whole gallon of Kool Aid this early in the morning….. pace yourself next time lol
All she has to do is
toutdefend her vote on supporting Bush’s war in Iraq and she’s a shoe-in for the Republicans.Obama hacks like Jack Cafferty and Keith Olberman’s pathetic, obvious bias has back fired.
They treat her fairly now on Fox News and that is the story.
much as i hated that obama went on fox, i was somewhat consoled that it was chris wallace… but, o’LIElly, for chrissakes… yeeulch!
I imagine BillO will ask her if Obama is a Muslim? Why Obama doesn’t wear a flag pin? Is Obama related to Saddam? What was Obama’s relationship with Ayres? Does Obama love his country?
That should about take up the whole show.
I like Pie @ 10:
You know, we are very very lucky Bill Clinton got caught with Monica. It interrupted his plan to send out the Black Helicopters to round up us Americans and ship us off to detention camps to train everyone to become homosexuals.
John @ 5:
When I read posts like yours, I already know you never supported Sen. Clinton. It’s a trick obamaphiles have overused, much like obama’s campaign playing the race card one too many times. Here’s the deal. Sen. Clinton will take on Bill O’Reilly and it will be a good thing. He needs to be taken down a notch or two. If you recall obammie was on fox news on sunday after he said he was boycotting that venue. So puhleeeeeeze spare us your faux outrage aka total b.s.
HAHAHAHAHA
I know fox is full of shit, especially with the Lincoln/Douglas thing, and I know basically it’s news to keep people uninformed, but loofahboy is way below the line. Obama type of interview can’t be compared to wonderingdick interview.
This is so hillbilly, I want to square dance.
Hillary will bitch-slap the putz.
This is the precise reason I hate FOX. They unabashly cater to their right wing operatives. Hillary is 08’s Lieberman.
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
Now here’s a story! Wonder how much coverage it won’t get from MSM…
Yo, E Rocks! @ 3:
They think she carries a lot of baggage and is therefore more beatable.
Although she’s to the left of Bill, there’s been recent talk that Obama is even more so.
Although he keeps talking about wanting to reach across the aisle
Which sounds like two contrary thoughts.
Radian @ 2:
Why do you use the term “limpballs” when balls are limped by nature. Isn’t limpdick more fitting?
hillary is really trying to get the best of the nutzoids.
she is really scraping the bottom to prove she’s more white than Obama.
Alice (formerly Hussein, live free of the Borg or die) @ 1:
DING DING DING!
There’s our winner!
fastfeat @ 24:
Gates: New US Carrier In Gulf A “Reminder” To Iran
when did obama say “he was boycotting that venue” ?
links too, of course…
i recall the boycott as being against the “debate” on fox… that’s all…
She’s going on so that she can highlight the Repug smears of
OsamaObama, and deny them (or at least deny origination of them), but still bring them to the forefront of the “dialog” in her current race.She’s becoming more and more evil as we speak…
It upsets me that Hillbot is getting Soooooo much Tee Vee time….when she is incapable of winning the Dem Nomination….
Yet Obama, who is clearly able to lock up the nomination, is just getting ignored other than his silly pastor who was probably put out on the Tee Vee over the weekend by Hillbot’s people.
When I see Hillbot on the Tee Vee now, I get the same viceral response that I do when Dumbya or Darth appear.
Conincidence?
I think not…..
Senator Bottom feeder is so desperate for support. Hillary knows the right wing hates her ass….she also realizes that they fear the black guy even more. What a fucking loser.
Reverand Wright is gone, the media can calm down, nothing will bother the state of affairs that comforts them and their corporate masters.
After buying Stephen Colbert’s book, first in 10 years, out of sheer curiosity and to kill time, I guess it’s time to buy another one, Wright’s that is. One has to be totally closed minded if he or she didn’t like Wright’s performance and the way he described the difference between different and deficient.
Whether there was someone in the middle as he was speaking to the audience, the image of Obama that hasn’t had the fortunes in life that he in fact had and is just a regular junkie now, the image of himself, or the image of countless black boys and girls who Wright has seen throughout his life in Africa and America, those who were dying because of AIDS or expensive meds, or those who were uneducated yet yearning for education, because, despite what the MSM tells us, the world is indeed complex hence interesting.
You have to give credit to Obama. He knows that the media may be afraid. He knows that they were afraid so they let the Iraq war happen. And what could have been a better world for an average American without the trillions in debt, skyrocketing oil prices, 4 thousand dead American soldiers and tens of thousands of injured, unfunded social programs, education, infrastructure and so on, the mainstream media single-handedly ruined.
A politician who cares about the people. That’s who Obama must be, otherwise, his supporters would long be gone cheering for Clinton and McCain and would spend the money that they give away to Obama on better things than politics. Politics that help people. What a concept.
What do you do? Do you move forward with the concept or scare the f*ck out of the media – the folks who, if scared, do bad things to you and others like the whole Iraq thing.
You do the right thing. You think about the people, the future and don’t let your friend and pastor scare anyone.
If that’s what happen, there indeed may be hope. The book should be interesting. Hopefully, Wright knows what he cannot do now if he truly believes that Obama can deliver. Hannity, O’Reilly, Coulter and other cun*s (that appear on Fox News) can f**k off now because fear mongering and scare tactics in this particular case have been officially “nullified”.
robyn williams @ 14:
It’s sad that ‘I like Pie’ nailed it, yet his comments are depressing.
Sam, you seem to be repeating yourself.
If she does not lay into O’Reilly I will have lost all respect for her. At least Wallace is somewhat balanced. This guy stinks
Remember Hillary used her visit to Mellon Scaife’s paper to have a venue to express her feelings about Obama and his minister. She went to the enemy and used that time to attack Obama. Going by what might be becoming a pattern, I imagine she will follow the same plan for this interview.
Basically it’s free time for her to enforce the right’s feelings that Obama should frighten them.
DON’T WATCH IT ON TEEVEE. [Deleted DON’T post in ALLCAPS-Sitemonitor]
She lost the nomination already. When is she going to concede and stop attacking Obama. Just asking.
getalife @ 16:
They treat her “fairly” because she’s one of them. Hillary/Lieberman ‘08.
PssttCmere @ 20:
Amen brother !!!!
brokenarrow @ 38:
That sounded like the beginning of a Dr Seuss story.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
I know for a fact Bill Clinton has tried cocaine, and he did inhale. Therefore, I am sure that it is true that he smuggled truck loads of coke into Hope. The guys got a big nose and it requires a lot of toot to fill it up. Besides, his grandpappy owned a drug store where they sold cocaine legally over the counter. I don’t think Bill ever got over that.
getalife @ 16:
LOL. My gawd. What rock did this guy just crawl out from under. FOX is and has always been nothing more than a right wing propaganda machine. Period.
Found some links to the Iran story:
Iran dumps U.S. dollars in oil transactions
www.chinaview.cn 2008-04-30 20:32:52
Special Report: Iran Nuclear Crisis
TEHRAN, April 30 (Xinhua) — Iran had totally removed U.S. dollars in the country’s oil transactions, an Oil Ministry official said on Wednesday.
“The dollar has completely been removed from our oil trade….Crude oil customers have agreed with us to use other currencies (in the trade),” Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard was quoted as saying by the state television.
“We make our transactions with euros in Europe, but yen in Asia,” he added.
Here’s another story about it:
Iran dumps U.S. dollar for oil trades
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran, OPEC’s second-largest producer, has stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, in a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.
snip
“The dollar has totally been removed from Iran’s oil transactions,” Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard told state-run television Wednesday. “We have agreed with all of our crude oil customers to do our transactions in non-dollar currencies.”
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So will Hillbot go on O’liely and rattle her sword at Iran some more????
I can hardly wait to see how high Oil goes after her little “interview”.
I’m very disappointed that both the democratic candidates have decided to legitimize Fox News.