Obama Steps Into O’Reilly’s ‘No Spin Zone’
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By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: September 5, 2008
It was billed as the ultimate smackdown, and it certainly promised to be a wonk vs. wacko match: the cerebral, conciliatory Senator Barack Obama versus Bill O’Reilly, Fox News Channel’s most irascible, combative anchor: a commentator who calls liberals “loons” and “pinheads” and on Thursday’s show described reporters scrutinizing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as “sniveling, left-wing, wine-drinking, brie-eating.”
Bill O’Reilly of Fox News with Senator Barack Obama on Thursday, the first of four segments on “The O’Reilly Factor.” (Fox News)
The topic was national security, and their tone was civil, but thankfully not ...