O’Reilly: Super Bowl Obama Interview Will ‘Go Down in Journalistic History’

Bill O’Reilly has been getting quite a lot of feedback for his big Super Bowl interview with President Obama, and during an interview on Geraldo Rivera‘s radio show Thursday, O’Reilly predicted that his interview will “go down in journalistic history,” in spite of the wave of criticism O’Reilly got for perhaps not giving the office of the presidency the deference and respect it deserves.

O’Reilly maintained he was absolutely fair to Obama and let the president know ahead of time he wanted it to be a “conversation” more so than an interview. Rivera noted Obama’s sporadic references to Fox News, and O’Reilly explained “we’re an annoyance to him.” He said, “I’m not disrespectful, I’m being persistent, that’s my job.”

O’Reilly told Rivera that anyone who was bothered by that interview at all “is annoyed because of ideology,” and made this rather bold claim about how well it actually went down.

“I’m going to predict that that interview I did is going to go down in journalistic history as what should be done… It takes a certain skill to pose questions in a factual way and be persistent without being disrespectful.”

You can listen to the audio below, via WABC:

[h/t POLITICO]

[photo via screengrab]

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