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Bill O’Reilly Defends Obama From Romney In Interview: ‘He Got Osama Bin Laden’

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After a debate night marked by the multilateral attack facing frontrunner Rick Perry, his closest competitor, Mitt Romney, gave his assessment on the performance and some topics that eluded the candidates on stage to Bill O’Reilly tonight. After a few questions on his relationship with Perry and the dynamics on stage, however, O’Reilly went on the offensive, pushing Romney to explain how, after the killing of Osama Bin Laden, President Obama could be considered a foreign policy failure.

O’Reilly opened the discussion, of course, with questions about the debate in which Romney participated last night, asking whether Romney had predicted that all the candidates would “gang up on” Perry. The former Massachusetts governor countered that he didn’t have any specific expectations, but “I typically know that there are some topics where they all come after me,” and the same holds for each candidate. He also answered some questions in the negative about alleged “bad blood” between him and Perry from several years before, from when he was organizing the Olympics.

“That is not true at all,” he replied of that specific claim, and generally, noted the two were “big guys” and “when this is over, we’ll all come together and support who the nominee is… are there ever any points of friction between us? Of course.”

O’Reilly then turned to the general election, asking Romney whether he thought “Barack Obama has been the worst president in history.” “I’m not a historian,” he answered by way of disclaimer, but tore into the President, particularly for his foreign policy. O’Reilly took the answer as an opportunity to put Romney on the defensive. “I don’t understand what failure you’re talking about– he got Osama bin Laden. He’s dead,” O’Reilly retorted, adding that, in terms of foreign policy, the President has “kept most of the Bush stuff in place” and been generally moderate. Romney responded that the presence of a nuclear Iran was still a serious problem, and responded to questions of what he would’ve done differently by suggesting a “credible option” to intervene to stop a “nuclear folly.” O’Reilly appeared somewhat unconvinced.

The full interview via Fox News below:

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  • Anonymous

    No worries, Mittens!  I’m sure that T-Paw’z endorsement will put you over-the-top!  And not a moment too soon!!!1!

  • Sharpo

    The following people care about a nuclear armed Iran

    – American defense industry
    – Right wing Jews.
    – Israel

    That’s about it.

    and that is what RON PAUL would say.  Iran could attack America.. and America could turn Iran into a crater about 20 minutes later

    MEH

  • Norbit

    THIS is the News taken from O’Reilly!!SOLYNDRAGATE!His bundler walked away with a cool $535 Million of Taxpayer Money (i.e., Democratic Slush Fund), and the “Green” Company had no more Green!LOL!Drip – Drip – Drip – 2012!!

  • Sharpo

    if the middle east (minus iran) really has problems with Iran. why doesn’t the middle east use their emergency force coalition or whatever they  call it and take Iran out themselves?

  • Anonymous

    That phoney doesn’t know the first thing about foreign policy. Especially when he was hiding behind Daddie’s back all these years. Give me a break.http://www.nhgazette.com/display/?id=87

  • Norbit

    Oh, for BlowHard…Appropriate here?

  • Norbit

    I might be amenable to that scenario if they attacked YOUR area first! – and then we respond.
    How does that sound?

  • qwerty

    Obama is teflon on foreign affairs. Teflon.

  • Cain

    No Republican candidate will give Obama credit. 

  • Norbit

    Well Twitter, this certainly isn’t.
    There’s more turnover on Bernie Goldberg’s site.

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is a blabbering, drooling buffoon who seems more disoriented & demented as time goes by.

  • Anonymous

    Playing Devil’s advocate Mr O’Reilly?

    Iran is a very big issue. It’s still too pat to to say we should have got an agreement from Russia to pressure Iran with sanctions. A non starter regardless of anybody’s political persuasion. The Russians aren’t easily swayed or massaged by anyone. 

    I do love the START Treaty though.

    Obamacare and Romneycare.

    You say Toma-Toe, I say To-Ma-Toe let’s call the whole off thing etc etc

  • Anonymous

    With his arrogance and his big mouth , Obama has made the US  the laughingstock of the world .

    Our allies do not trust us and and our enemies laugh at us .

    The next president has a huge mess to clean up .

  • Anonymous

    It even got better. Romney had the guts to say the Affordable Health Care Act was unconstitutional, but the program he signed into law was. O.K. You know if Obama walked on water, the GOP would claim that he can not swim.

  • Anonymous

    It even got better. Romney had the guts to say the Affordable Health Care Act was unconstitutional, but the program he signed into law was. O.K. You know if Obama walked on water, the GOP would claim that he can not swim.

  • Anonymous

    Andyou can bet the media will never allow the next President to say “I inherited” and get away with it….not that any other president would do that.  This guy is a baby, man-child to points the finger of blame everywhere except at himself.
    The Big ZERO

  • Rufus Danegro

    YEAH BIG BILL #1 NAME IN CABLE NEWS SHAKE EM ON DOWN BABY!!!!! THIS VET SALUTES YOU!
    YES SIR!!

    Don’t you just love it when some lying ass GOPn shill gets called out for being the moron that he is on FOX!!!! FAIR AND BALANCED YESSIR!!!

    Heck they had Palin on ;ast night ragging on Perry!!!!!

    BILL YOU ARE A TRUE BLUE MENSCH BABY!!!!!

    ALL THE HATERZ CAN GO SOAK THEIR FAT HEADS!!!!!

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Rufus Danegro

    He caught bin laden.

    Now kindly put a dainty sock in it stooge.

  • Rufus Danegro

    kind of like you!

  • Anon

    America isn’t Israel’s lap dog.

  • Rufus Danegro

    damn skippy!

  • Anon

    are you talking English?

  • Anon

    are you talking English?

  • Anonymous

    That would be a negatory…

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is first and foremost a neocon so he is grateful that Obama has continued those Bush policies and even doubled down.  He sent 60,000 troops to Afghanistan and quadrupled
    the casualties there.

    Egypt and Libya are both turning into rogue states.  Of course, Obama
    helped them.  Turkey is now being very belligerent against Israel, and not helpful to the US in general.  Not much to brag about.

  • Norbit

    Like that Clint Eastwood movie – Who do you see in the mirror, all you Jewish Democratic supporters?

    BENNY – or – BARRY?

  • Roger_Fails

    Boy, they let you get out of your restraints to type that fact-free drivel? That must be one crazy ass mental hospital!

  • Exgoper

    In case it escaped you, polls show that the majority of Americans still blame Bush — not Obama — for our current economic woes. And rightfully so. It wasn’t Obama who lead us into two obscenely expensive wars. It wasn’t Obama who unleashed the banks and Wall Street. It wasn’t Obama who insisted on giving away billions in unfunded tax breaks. It wasn’t Obama who created the housing mess. It wasn’t Obama who passed an expensive prescription drug plan.

    It was your guy, President Shit-for-Brains. Own it or shut up.

  • Exgoper

    They’re genetically incapable. I think their brains just aren’t large enough.

  • Richie

    O’Reilly is right. It is smallball. Romney is searching for a reason to discredit Obama citing Iran’s nuclear energy program. Obama receives fairly good poll numbers over foreign policy. He achieved the greatest foreign policy triumph since the Cold War with the killing of Bin Laden. Republicans are wasting time attacking Obama over foreign policy. If Obama can be beaten it is over domestic policy namely the economy not foreign policy.

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  • Anonymous

    President Obama doesn’t need O’Reilly to back him, the president stands on his own two feet. The president is a true leader compared to the seven dwarfs and “Queenie Meanie” who are intent on shutting down America’s Social Programs while protecting the mega-rich from taxes. We, who never have been seduced by the FOX BOX, understand the double talk that arises from the talking heads and the FOX-TAILS! They will continue to spew their lies and make up numbers to show the president in a  bad light, but it us out here reading and hearing what the president wants to get done while this 112th Congress sits on their hands and bad-mouth or blame the president.

  • Bob

    And again, the right fails to notice the mess occurred while their hero, George W. Boosh, was in office. It’s only under Obama that the U.S. is regaining some of its lost respect.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is the Organizer/Demagogue who will forever appear in history as the most incompetent , ridiculous fool ever to be president . He will fade away in shame and ignominy and barricade himself in his Rezko Estates mansion in Chicago , never again to darken any doorsteps in Washington again . If he is lucky , he will bargain with prosecutors for his many crimes and transgressions against the American people and escape imprisonment . If not , it’s off to Guantanamo Bay Prison for this lowly perpetrator .

  • Bob

    and conservatives never tried to blame anything on Clinton, post January 2002. LOL

  • Bob

    They’re incapable of accepting that fact, then try to accuse the other side of dodging blame.

  • Exgoper

    It’s really pathetic. The GOP is no longer a viable party anymore. It’s a clubhouse for crackpots, teabillies and religious wing nuts. Saddest bunch of losers ever.

  • Anonymous

    ‘…he will bargain with prosecutors for his many crimes and transgressions against the American people and escape imprisonment’

    Exactly what clear and impeachable crimes did you have in mind?

    …Okay!

    As much as you dislike President Barack Obama, I think you may find that Richard Nixon will give everyone a serious run for their money in the Corruption Stakes. Nixon will be ahead by several lengths.

  • Norbit

    Jeopardy question:

    What happens to an economy when you elect a Euro-Socialist demagogue to the White House?

    Rhetorical!

    Rhetoritcal!

    lol

  • Anonymous

    I watched this interview. O’Reilly made Romney explain some of the accusations that have been made about the tension between him and Perry. O’Reilly made him clarify somethings about the debate.
    O’Reilly defending Obama was hardly the highlight of the interview.

  • Anonymous

    Link unavailable.

  • Anonymous

    Someone remind me of any time that a MSNBC prime time host ran to the defense of George Bush.   This is why the attempts to compare Fox with MSNBC fall flat — one network practices journalism, while the other never rises above shallow propaganda. 

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    First, show me a comment left by you that wasn’t based in shallow partisanship.

  • Dickvcheney

    haven’t you figured it out yet? Many of President Obama’s policies are continuations of Bush but now that he’s  in office Republicans view the policies as bad. That and President Obama was given a perfect economy by the Bush administration. Republicans have almost all the answers, the tea party has ALL the answers and Rick Perry is very very very very smart. Really!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Retro-Scifigeek/100001485885738 Retro Scifigeek

    Holy shit O’reilly defended Obama.  That was awesome!  The only down part of this video is using Rasmussen as a statistic.  Those polls are always tainted to the right.  

  • Michelle

    When will you libs see that he’s not the Messiah?

  • Michelle

    But it’s all Frannie saw. 

  • Michelle

    You first.

  • Michelle

    Um, we don’t view his continuation of Gito, anti-terror polices and other things as bad now.  We view it as a vindication and an admission by Barry that Bush was right.  Nice try though!

  • DietCokeHead

    No he’s not. Adults realize that Obeezy simply gave the go ahead to get Bin Laden.  Adults give credit to the people who actually went in and killed that shithead.

    O’reilly is just throwing the left a bone so he can continue preening around like a middle of the road dumbass with no actual convictions.

  • DietCokeHead

    Yep, and we all know the left gives credit where credit is due.  Were you people even alive from 2000 to 2008?

  • DietCokeHead

    And he’s an “EXGOPER” just so you know he’s not just some partisan leftwing douchebag. heh

  • DietCokeHead

    Don’t look now but that “no longer viable party” just beat your democrat in Weiner’s old district.

    BAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!

  • Glutton

    Why would Iran and Russia listen to Romney?  They won’t listen to us no matter who our president is.

  • Anonymous

    “It is interesting thought that Obama caught Osama or Biden Bin Laden whatever, 3 days after Obama finally released his long for birth certificate.”
      Shesh another birther…

  • Anonymous

    “It is interesting thought that Obama caught Osama or Biden Bin Laden whatever, 3 days after Obama finally released his long for birth certificate.”
      Shesh another birther…

  • insideguy

    Is this where we are headed if a republican wins the election, a war with Iran? Man oh man. I don’t know wha on earth Obama could do about Iran developing a nuclear weapon. Bush did nothing, and neither Bush or Clinton could stop north korea. Hell pakistan is in current violation no one could stop them. And israel is in current violation no one could stop them. This is all such bullshit politics.

  • addMoreJuice.com

    RASTA you NAILED IT!

  • Michael T.

    I think Bill O’Reilly might be a governor Perry supporter. Either that or he is complaining about the ‘ganging up’ aspect of the debate to curry favor with Perry in an attempt to book him on his show.

    You be the judge. 

  • Glutton

    The only Republican that could criticize Obama over foreign policy is Ron Paul.  Besides him, the rest of the pack would be complete hypocrites to criticize Obama over foreign policy.  

  • Glutton

    Romney is in trouble. Perry is blowing Romney away in the polls & every time Perry says something ignorant & stupid he sees an increase in the polls. In order for Romney to catch up with Perry he’s going to have to make ignorant remarks as well. That’s why he’s making a big deal about missiles in Poland & Iran’s nuclear program. Romney just needs to get some attention.

  • Glutton

    Even if that’s true, Obama still has more foreign policy credentials than Romney. I don’t get why Romney is letting issues like social security, health care, and foreign policy drive his campaign. He’s just not making the economy an important issue at all. The Romney campaign is failing.

  • L_Salazar

    There is NO Conservative who would go to ANY foreign country and BOW to their leaders, like BHO did.  NONE, NADA, NO!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Warner/100000118373372 Tim Warner

    JohnJGuy,,, let me answer that question for BigEddieGuy. How about sending thousands of assault rifles to mexican Drug cartels and then blaming the Mom and pop gun shops down south and the 2nd ammendment in general, how about sending in agents armed with machineguns to scare the shit out of Gibson guitar employees and illegally confiscating materials and records with absolutely no charges TWICE because of the CEO’s political views, Now that’s creating American jobs! How about refusing to prosecute 2 armed black panther  thugs for voter intimidation! No one got hurt at Watergate, Go tell border patrol agent BRIAN TERRY’s family that Odumbo, and Holder should walk ! HE is dead because of ODUMBO’S agenda ,and his #1 lacky Holder is just as guilty! There , are you happy now? I gave you facts! You dems aren’t really to blame , when the left wing controlled media practices selective reporting, it’s hard to be genuinely informed. And No ,, barry didn’t swim across the ocean ,cross the desert on a camel and personally take out Bin Laden, More than likely he was awakened at night and asked to sign an order (much like Radar O’reilly used to do to Col. Blake on MASH) because the MILITARY (of which I am a Veteran of) found out where he was, more than likely through info obtained through WATERBOARDING

  • Anonymous

    Bravo!

  • Anonymous

    yeah right. in case you are telling the truth google, chickenhawk hall of shame, Mitt Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget to get to bed early tonight and have your homework done. It’s a school night tonight.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget to get to bed early tonight and have your homework done. It’s a school night tonight.

  • Anonymous

    “Adults give credit to the people who actually went in and killed that shithead. ”

    How many Americans did that “shithead” personally kill on 9/11? Did he hijack a plane and ram it into a building or did he give the go ahead for others to do it? Everyone who actually carried out the attack that day died. That didn’t stop us from going after Bin Laden.

    Do you see how illogical your statement is. It’s not just you. A considerable number of people have tried to put that spin on it. It’s just funny to me that they have no problem assigning blame to Osama for 9/11 (His name is more associated with 9/11 than the actual hijackers.), but try their best to diminish President Obama’s role in killing Osama. Be an adult and give The President credit. 

  • Anonymous

    lol. thanks for a funny answer anyway and for not making it a personal attack like most idiots do. Sincerely.

  • chris martin

    your ignorance is astounding!  have you actually BEEN overseas and had a political discussion with anybody in a foreign country?  it’s OVERWHELMING how much they respect obama everywhere i’ve been..and it ain’t a 3 day cruise to puerto vallarta.  what people are astonished about is how the right wing  is so backwards.

  • chris martin

    do you work for the cartoon network?

  • GUEST 723

    are all of your comments incoherent? it appears so…put down the bottle eh?

  • Yukon Jack

    What does it matter?

    John McCain had far more experience than 0bama.

  • Anonymous

    I would almost rather not vote than choose form one of the available options.  I keep hoping that I’ll wake up one day and learn there will be an option on the ballot that says “None of the above” or “No Confidence”. 

  • Anonymous

    I would almost rather not vote than choose form one of the available options.  I keep hoping that I’ll wake up one day and learn there will be an option on the ballot that says “None of the above” or “No Confidence”. 

  • Anonymous

    I would almost rather not vote than choose form one of the available options.  I keep hoping that I’ll wake up one day and learn there will be an option on the ballot that says “None of the above” or “No Confidence”. 

  • CSS

    Romney’s performance was terrible. Even Perry could have done better at talking than this guy.

  • Bob Uda

    O’Reilly is a dork.  He interrupts his guests so often that it irritates me.  I don’t want to listen to that loudmouth anymore.  I would rather listen to his guests.  This guy should be retired soon.  He is a “has been.”

  • troy l bowen

    who cares what this monkey has to say,  we do not watch him, we have a brain, the watchers are braindeath

  • Anonymous

    The thing is Oboma used his intelligence reports to find and kill him. W. Bush had no intelligence to relate to.

  • Anonymous

    Thats why he picked Palin! Your an IDIOT

  • Anonymous

    That would be Obama

  • Anonymous

    You been TeaBagged

  • Anonymous

    NO NO NO, the most incompetent was W Bush most Teabags will admit that. Cheney should be tried even HE thinks that may happen. But if anything Obama needs to get tougher on the tighty righties!

  • FreeMike

    I have absolutely no problem in giving GWB credit for the difference in the state of the country from 2000 to 2008, and beyond.

  • ZipZapMap

    No one will listen to the US until it stops being a debtor nation wedded to its unfunded social programs and its imperial and useless foreign entanglements.

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