Obama, Bowing Up, Throwing Down

BILL O'REILLY, THE AGGRESSIVE FOX News dude, interviewed President Obama right before the Super Bowl, for some inappropiate reason such as ratings, tried to rip into el Presidente in typical FOX friendly fashion, failed miserably, then proclaimed the interview to be the epitome of all journalistic endeavor, the most seminal discussion of all time, worthy of a Pulitzer, if not a Nobel Peace. Benghazi, ye olde IRS-ergate, the health care flop, all the usual staples were dusted off and paraded out, O'Reilly, looking for weaknesses. No mention of anything relevant, such as ye olde NSA-451, sluggishness in repairing Obamacare, or anything else substantive with which O'Reilly might easily have exposed the President. Those heavy topics were just too much heavy lifting for an aging talking TV face. Go for the jugular, with the straightforward scandal-sheet stuff. But this time Obama, who has been savaged by Bill the Bully before, was ready, and laying in wait. Barack Hussein had the big bad boy so flustered and on the defensive that late in the final round, O'reilly meekly purred: "Mr. President, do you think we at FOX are unfair to you"? Wow. Swing the bat, Obama, a hanging curve ball is on the way. Said the President: "hell yeah, you're unfair, but I like you anyway." Who would have said anything else? Confirm the abuse, then show how little damage it actually does. The only thing Obama didn't do right was predict the outcome of the football game, but then, neither did anyone else, and that wasn't really the purpose of the interview. IN any event the purpose, damaging the President, was never fulfilled.