Rove: Obama "willing to go sit down with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il" but not O'Reilly or Hannity

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527341,00.html

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VAN SUSTEREN: All right, Karl, I have to confess that from time to time, I hold a grudge. I got to confess to that. Now let me ask you about President Obama. I don't know if you've been following this, but he will not come to FOX News Channel, and he took a little swipe at us the other day, and we've sort of teased him back. But this whole idea that -- that, you know, the largest audience is on cable -- of all the cable news is on FOX News Channel -- what do you make of this little spat he has with us?

ROVE: I think it's petty stubbornness. I mean, here's a man who seems to be willing to go sit down with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il, but he won't sit down with Greta or O'Reilly or Sean Hannity. I mean, it strikes that this guy might be a little fearful of -- of having tough questions asked of him.

...

The President of United States should not be afraid of coming on FOX News, nor should the President of the United States diminish his office by seeming to engage in a petty fight with the -- with the -- with a network himself. It's fine to have his underlings go out and complain. I mean, I -- you know, inside Bush White House, we were complaining about The New York Times all the time.

But it is really not attractive and it's really not -- it says something about the lack of confidence on the part of the president when the president himself engages in that kind of rhetoric. We saw it from Richard Nixon with his paranoia about the media. We're now starting to see it with the thin-skinned nature of President Obama about what he perceives to be criticism.

And look, FOX gives him a fair shot. I've been impressed with how often FOX News, particularly the Sunday programs and the evening news programs, have been -- have been -- as opposed to the opinions, where we're supposed to have opinions -- but to the news programs, how fair they've been to the administration.

:crazy:

[joeybee12]

1. Sounds good to me...I'll meet anyone who isn't connected with Faux. n/t

[pleah]

2. Tell me again, why isn't "the turd" in jail yet?

[bdamomma]

18. why is this POS man even on TV he should be behind bars!!

[Autumn]

3. Well that is because Obama

is a very smart man.

[City Lights]

4. Thanks Karl, for putting the Fox characters in the same boat with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il.

Nicely done! :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. +1

:spray:

[katandmoon]

19. BWAH!

[NOW tense]

5. Do Greta, O'Reilly, and Hannity have a nuclear program? n/t

[surrealAmerican]

31. Don't give them any ideas.

[rocktivity]

6. He forgot Rove.

And by the way, Fox News STILL owes Obama a contraction for getting the madrassah story wrong.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[get the red out]

7. I didn't know Hannity and O'Reilly were leaders of countries?

Who knew?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Well duh 2 of these people are crazy megalomaniacs and the other 2 are

the presidents of Iran and North Korea.

[Champion Jack]

9. Ha!

[Vickers]

10. Look at all the times Cheney talked with Keith Olbermann!

:sarcasm:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. I know, Keith for fucks sake I know we all love us some Cheney but come on

having him on the show every other week is too much. :sarcasm: :eyes: :sarcasm:

[Johonny]

11. There's value in meeting leaders of other countries

Faux has no value and pretending it does only hurt democrats.

[Faygo Kid]

12. WHY isn't Rove in jail? Worm.

He is as repugnant a "human being" as walks the Earth, and that includes Rush, Coulter and Cheney.

[otohara]

28. I Had A Chance

to squish him like a bug while he stood in front of my car - why, oh why didn't my foot slip?

[foxfeet]

13. Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il both come across as saner and more honorable than Hannity or O'Reilly.

[OneGrassRoot]

14. I'd love to see Obama say:

"I won't meet with Fox -- 'news' -- for the same reason I feel no need to meet with Rush Limbaugh. Hate speech and hate TV are irrelevant. When they proclaim themselves enemies of the state -- a direction they seem to be proudly moving toward as they incite their viewers and listeners with false, hostile rhetoric -- then we will need to decide whether or not to engage them, just as we must decide with other hostile leaders.

For now, I merely view these commentators, who like to portray themselves as journalists, as irrelevant as it pertains to the job of President of the United States."

:patriot:

[chelsea0011]

15. Rove committed treason and Faux gives him a regular gig. Do the math.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il are important assholes. O'Reilly and Hannity are just assholes.

[katandmoon]

21. Obama did sit down with O'Reilly last fall.

[sabra]

22. Rove is the master of rewritting history... also O'Reilly noted after that interview

that he was very impressed with Obama and his answers...

[Marr]

23. This sounds a lot like Pete Horkstra's self-congratulatory Twitter post.

Rove is comparing Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilley to heads of state? How loony can you get? At what point does a person's opinion become so wacko that it's irrelevant?

[lpbk2713]

24. Hell no... O'Reilly and Hannity are extremist fanatics.

:eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

25. Why should anybody give FOX or the WSJ the time of day?

How many times have they totally blown their credibility?

I don't even watch FOX sports anymore...I'm way too foxy to trust FOX.

[OHdem10]

26. Rove has elevated OReilly and Hannity to Leaders of a Country.?????

Obama sat down with OReilly during the campaign. What happened
Obama did a good job. Fox Channel became the Anti-Obam Channel.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. Meh. Call me when O'Reilly or Hannity are chiefs of state.

Or, rather, don't. Kill me instead.

[spanone]

29. why the fuck would the president sit down with a couple of cable yakkers?

fuck you kkkarl

[Beer Snob-50]

30. didn't candidate obama talk to o lielly?

and bill was not very nice during the interview.

[gmudem]

32. Yeah, imagine talking to people that actually matter

Instead of a bunch of bloviating idiots on tv.

[libodem]

33. Rove needs to kill himself

He ought to be watching his back. Cheney will have him off-ed. He knows too much. It will be a small plane crash or an accidental overdose. After all how can that nerd sleep?