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Shocker: Bill Clinton Agrees With Bill O’Reilly That The Media Favored Barack Over Hillary

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Former President Bill Clinton will make an appearance on Bill O’Reilly‘s The Factor tonight (which we will, of course, be covering, Pop Secret and Jujubes close at hand).

In this snippet from the interview, Clinton shares which candidate he believes has, in his own words, “the most consistently conservative economic record of anybody running” — none other than Jon Huntsman.

RELATED: Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle Predicts Obama Already Has Re-Election All Wrapped Up

O’Reilly also asked the former commander-in-chief whether he agreed that the press had favored then-Senator Barack Obama over his wife, current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when they were running against one another in 2008. Clinton’s response? An emphatic yes.

He was, however, less ready to agree with O’Reilly’s assessment that the mainstream media would once again favor Obama, this time over whomever his Republican opponent turns out to be.

Have a look at the clip, courtesy of Fox News, and make sure to check Mediaite tonight for more coverage on Clinton’s The Factor interview:

h/t FoxNewsInsider

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    Did 0′Reilly get splooged?

    He’s sitting with-in blue dress range.

  • Anonymous

    Clinton is absolutely right.  The ONLY reason Obama was elected was because of the media and their desire to see this unqualified, unvetted manchild in the Oval Office.  To believe otherwise is nonsensical.  The “so-called” media, just like they are are doing now, are doing everything within their power to prop up Obama and his lack of leadership and failed policies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bee-Ruled/100001985815996 Bee Ruled

    The reason 0bama got elected is that he doesn’t sound like Snoop Dog when he speaks.

  • Anonymous

    Explain further, please. Why did they want to prop up this particular “manchild”?

  • Anonymous

    You forgot the part about the media loving a black guy who goes to a black church who thoroughly detests America and preaches marxism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F7QCLMHCFRSKBP7ODMJSWXYR3Y Watkins

    @readers:disqus my best friend’s aunt makes $87 an hour on the computer. and last month her pay was $7299 , she learned Kelly Richard’s ways in “Online income solutions”… MakeCash1. com

  • Anonymous

    That can’t be it. While Snoop has gone overboard with the “izzle” suffix, it is much easier to understand him than Sarah Palin. Then again, she didn’t get elected did she? Well, there was Bush before that, so…

  • Anonymous

    LOL. I had to look at your profile to see if you were a parody.

  • Hout Bosques

    I love a cogent reader comment.

  • Anonymous

    You can believe this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plRkc7_a4EM or you can be a complete moron, not believe what they say, and not believe Obama when he said he goes to Wright’s church every week, and that Wright intentionally spoke hate ONLY when Obama wasn’t there.

  • Anonymous

    Damn, are you blind or just in denial?  It is self explanatory and needs no further explanation.  Just look at the state of the country under his guidance.  

  • Gloves E. Donahue

    The No Class Punk from Chicago literally gave Hillary and McCain the finger, not a peep from the media.

    “Reaching across the aisle” sounded bipartisan, but it came from the most consistently partisan member of the U.S. Senate.
    Most of the 2008 campaign was a frantic effort on the part of the media to explain away Bill Ayers, ACORN, the SEIU, Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, the clingers speech, “get in their face,” and the revealing put downs of Hillary Clinton.
    But those were windows into a soul that soon opened even wider — with everything from limb-lopping doctors and polluting Republicans to stupidly acting police and “punish our enemies” nativists.
    The Special Olympics “joke,” the pig reference to Sarah Palin, the middle finger nose rub to Hillary — all that was a scratch of the thin shiny veneer into the hard plywood beneath.”

    http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/when-the-legend-becomes-fact-print-the-legend/?singlepage=true

  • Anonymous

    The state of the country under this President? A debatable subject. Besides, what does that have to do with the media’s motive for propping him up? If it’s so clear to you, explain.

  • freestyler999

    Without the TOTUS, POTUS would be worse than Snoop Dogg.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how America’s 1st, black president, Clinton , ended up being called a racist in 2008.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNdIrnwyfE

    “During the campaign, Bill Clinton appeared to directly attack his wife’s rival, telling PBS’ Charlie Rose before the Iowa caucuses that voting for Obama is “a roll of the dice.” He also said the Obama campaign “played the race card on me” after he likened Obama’s South Carolina win
    to Jesse Jackson’s in the 1980s, and publicly said Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war was “a big fairy tale.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/obama-calls-p-2/

  • Pablo

    Hope! Change!

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    That’s funny. I could have sworn that people on Mediaite have had extensive debates on the state of the country under this president.

    Pablo, why did you hit “like” on the following statement that James posted?

    “Motivations? She’s a religious fanatic and an idiot from a culture that
    can’t build anything or be productive. Even in 2011 they’re using
    frickin’ donkeys. They always tell you what they’re against but not what
    they’re for. That’s cuz they’re not for anything. Islam only exists as a
    foil against non-Islamic cultures and the whole religion is built
    around that concept. When there is no foil, Islam takes long sleepy-time
    naps as there is no culture that actually invents things to get a
    momentary drug fix from. I’m surprised they don’t worship their cell
    phones since those are a mystery they will never solve.”

  • 12voltman1

    Yes it was the media all right. Fox news and all of the Murdock (News corp)newspapers. They all said how great Obama was. You righties keep telling us Fox is the most watched news(Even they say it) so it must be their fault Too!

  • Anonymous

    I HOPE you never CHANGE that avatar. It so suits you. LOL.

  • Anonymous

    Hillary got screwed.
    Even us on the right had to wince in pain when we watched the leftie media trash Hillary and treat Obama with kid gloves.
    Her own party took away her Florida delegates
    Hillary was a tireless and loyal servant to the Democrats who took one for the team with all of her husband’s peccadilloes and never complained and look how they rewarded her.
    They gave Hillary’s turn in line to Obama when he never did a damn thing to earn it.
    Even after all they did to her she still did her duty.
    Obama would never show that sort of loyalty and now because of his incompetence and arrogance they are less than one year away from watching the White House and the Senate go red.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the Dem party for you. Always betraying their own, calling them DINOs and whatnot.

  • Anonymous

    I really do love you “repugitards”, how cute! Using public poll data to prove your point. Since when do you guys believe what you read in polls? I seem to remember when Bush was in office, and 75% of country wanted to end war, you idiots kept repeating the mantra” .. You cant govern based on public opinion” .. hmmmmm! What happen to make you change, and all of a sudden start quoting TPM and polls? oh that’s right never mind  there’s a black man in the whitehouse.. 

  • Anonymous

     You are so obssessed with race. Racist twat.

  • OSTL

    sez the widdle baby…

  • OSTL

    “censure” has no prob his boy lied through his teeth. just as long as he has a d after his name….

  • david r

    That’s most-watched cable news.  Surely you don’t deny that the media favored Obama over Hillary.  I was for Hillary back then, and I’d vote fore her now.  Obama is an empty suit who got where he is by smearing his opposition.

  • david r

    First black man to be President.  Apparently, the first woman to be elected is not as important.

  • david r

    It beats the rabbit wearing a moon pie that he used to use.

  • Anonymous

    I think he should keep The Mark of Cain.

  • Anonymous

    OSTL why did you hit “like” on a comment expressing a wish that citizens of this country, guilty of nothing other than holding a differing opinion, be locked away for life in GITMO?

  • Anonymous

    OSTL why did you hit “like” on a comment expressing a wish that citizens of this country, guilty of nothing other than holding a differing opinion, be locked away for life in GITMO?

  • Ricci Dats Me

    One day in the future, long after I’m feeding worms, the CHILDREN of America will step back and in unison exclaim “ohhhhh” as they all realize; young and old, smart and stupid, that THE MEDIA exists to SELL items. THE MEDIA is a marketing machine. THE MEDIA gets its money NOT from subscribers but from people paying to sell their items. NOW with that said, how long does it take for you -yes you reader- to figure out WHO sells more purses, beer and cars? Hillary? Obama” Fox News with all of its WWF antics?.. you pick, but unless you are truly dense the rank-order would be (in 2007-2008) OBAMA, FOX, PALIN, MCCAIN, YELLOW SNOW, NECK TIES, HILLARY.. period. Anything else that you add is personal and indicative of a problem YOU have overcoming exactly what THE MEDIA is all about. IF you want something that is less biased, make sure its FREE.

  • 12voltman1

    I liked that one. I started calling him wafflehead. Then he went and changed it. Wafflehead was endearing I thought.
    LOL

  • 12voltman1

    I don’t recall any smearing by Obama about Hillary.
    Bush to McCain however…

  • 12voltman1

    Why not ? He could of laid down a cool rap at the swearing in ceremony.

  • Anonymous

    Well there was that time he came up with that 3 o’clock phone call meme that her opponents could have used against her had she made it to the general election. Then there was the time he referenced assassination in relation to Hillary.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, even though he took over after the worst financial melt down since the great deperssion it’s obvious that any other president, McCain, or Clinton ,  would have things completely turned around by now and everything would be just great. It’s obviously because he was unqualified and unvetted that he hasn’t solved all those problems the 8 years of the qualified and vetted president got us into.

    Um..No it’s not self explainitory simple because you claim it is.

  • Anonymous

    so ridiculous

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who believes Black Liberation Theology is accurately summed up in that short video has no desire to judge honestly based on the complete information and historic perspective.

    The GOP courted hateful conservative Christian pastors for years and nobody gave a dam about thier rhetoric. Now when Fox decided to make an issue of it with Wright, candidates like Perry , Santorum and Bachman are being called on thier beliefs and who they assiciate with, and people complain that it’s an unwarrented attack.

  • Anonymous

    I think I will throw it to the theologian James Hal Cone who spreads black liberation theology on this from his 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power:
    “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. ”

    And no, the pastors the right courted for years were no where near as hateful as these people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NR7WKWCD3O4HD3EWQOYMSHLZ4A what

    Hillary definitely would have been a much better president. She is very intelligent and competent, something you cannot say about the current resident of the White House. He is a narcissist in a clinical sense and I dont think too bright, but knows how to read..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_56PV4DT33JX66OBM4KQ537B2NY Mark

    Great interview. You know Clinton wanted to bash Obama but couldn’t do to “party loyality”

  • Anonymous

    When was that written? 1969? I repeat
    Anyone who believes Black Liberation Theology is accurately summed up in
    that short video has no desire to judge honestly based on the complete
    information and historic perspective.
    James Come also said  in that same book,
    “”Being black in America has little to do with skin color. Being black
    means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the
    dispossessed are”
    then in 1977,
    “I think the time has come for black theologians and black church people
    to move beyond a mere reaction to white racism in America and begin to
    extend our vision of a new socially constructed humanity in the whole
    inhabited world…For humanity is whole, and cannot be isolated into
    racial and national groups.”
     OTOH
    Jimmy Swaggart
    I
    get amazed, I can’t look at it but about 10 seconds, at these
    politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I’m trying to find
    a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity
    of men marrying men.”

    I’m gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.

    PAt Robertson
    “Feminism
    is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women
    to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft,
    destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

    Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals – the two things seem to go together.

    It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians

    Jerry Falwell
    God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve

    If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.

    The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

    AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals

    Homosexuality
    is Satan’s diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a
    corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring
    down the wrath of God upon America.

    After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club, “I really believe that the pagans,
    and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians
    who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them
    who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”

    John Hagee,{remember McCain had to ditch him after Fox made such a big deal of Wright. }
    Speaking of Catholicism
    “A Godless theology of hate that no one dared try to stop for a thousand years produced a harvest of hate.”

    He has spoken out against homosexuality, linking its presence in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina as an act of divine retribution.
    He said in 2006, “I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that
    was offensive to God, and they are—were recipients of the judgment of
    God for that”

    Want more? There’s plenty. As I said. All the hateful rhetoric of conservative Christians was ignored year after year as the GOP courted thier votes. Then Fox decided to play a few quotes from Wright taken out of context  over and over, and conservatives were outraged. So outraged some are still talking about it.  Now the hatefulness they ignored year after year is fair game.

  • Joke Scareborough

    As an abandoned child, Obama learned how to be a cunning manipulator to try to get the attention he was deprived of and he learned how to protect his shattered ego with delusions of grandeur and narcissism.

    If you look at every action and every word and movement he makes through that prism, it explains everything you need to know about Obama. As I’ve said from the very beginning, when it comes to Obama, it’s all about him. Now he is no longer the unwanted child, abandoned immediately by his father and then a couple years later by his mother. Now he is loved and wanted by everyone because he knows how to say the words they want to hear. Now people fill stadiums to see him and the mainstream media swoons at his speeches. Now he’s the third greatest President in American history…ahead of George Washington, and if he can get another term, he will no doubt be the greatest President in history!

  • Anonymous

    Yawn this is such utter bullshit. If Hillary would have won you guys would be calling her an ugly socialist whore. These boards would be filled up with the same crap from you tea party guys as it is filled up with now. And one day when Obama is gone and some other democrat is president, you will be talking about how Obama wasn’t such a bad guy, and the new democrat whoever he may be is the worst president ever. You conservatives are more predictable than a clock.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    Hey Joke, And you will do anything you can to prevent Obama from becoming the “greatest President in history.” You may succeed, but there’s a chance you may not. Admittedly, all you Obama haters are doing everything you can to derail  our ‘narcissist’ President, but you may have gone too far.  My question is, why do you hate him so if the majority of Americans like him even though they’re not overly impressed with his accomplishments. What’s so terrible if there’s a little truth to your twisted description of Obama. Look at the nuts jobs who have been President, especially the last one. I feel sorry for you narrow minded rigid and sometimes bigoted rightwingers. The tide is turning and there’s a good chance that despite your best efforts, you won’t be able to destroy Obama. You don’t have nor does it seem likely that you will have a candidate that can beat Obama. Tamerping with electronic voting machine and suppressing the vote may not work. Nov 2012 may not turn out the way you’re fantasizing.
    I keep remembering what Steve Jobs said about a conversation he had with Rupert Murdoch. It was something to the effect that he tried to encourage Murdoch to do something constructive for a change because his media empire was tearing down America. That may be how history is going to see what the Teapublicans tried to do.

  • Anonymous

    Who said we liked her….? 

    She is on your team Einstein.  She got pissed on by Democrats.
    All I said is that we noticed the absolute backstabbery that your side is famous for.
    In typical Democrat fashion your media tossed overboard one of their declared icons the moment she was inconvenient.
    As far as Obama goes I think your prediction of future praise for Obama may be a wee bit premature….just like your performance with your gay lover.
    Not that there is anything is wrong with that.

  • Anonymous

    lol thats real classy of you NeoKong. Pretty much sums up everything that is wrong with your racist, homophobic, and illiterate party.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Says the party that thinks a birther reality host, a half-term governor, a flip-flopping empty suit and a sexually-harssing pizza man are presidential timbre.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I wonder why people think conservatives are racist…

  • Anonymous

    Please forgive me.
    I don’t have a problem with your lifestyle.
    Gay Americans have made many wonderful contributions to society.
    Be proud.
    I apologize if I made you feel ashamed or less than a man.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and if she were president, the rightwing would be accusing her of killing Vince Foster, calling her ‘the most lib’rul president in the history of ever-anything,’ and claiming they would have preferred that reasonable Obama fellow she defeated. 

  • Anonymous

    If you are going to use sarcasm or attempt to be witty, may I suggest you hire a writer for yourself. Because it just aint working out for ya ma man.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A34THPGSJZOZVPEDR3O2JYV7VM edward poe

    Thee three O’clock in the morning ad was from the republicans, rather it was one of their PAcs

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A34THPGSJZOZVPEDR3O2JYV7VM edward poe

    people speak hate to the man every day of his life but does he practice hate that is the question that matters, Reverend Wright has his opinions sure but hearing another man’s opinion does not mean that you buy his whole act. I think that if you had been black in the sixties in chicago you might like to hear a bit of anti government stick it to whitey and god loves poor people on sunday. We all have our audiences to pander to in life.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A34THPGSJZOZVPEDR3O2JYV7VM edward poe

    Preident Clinton also said clearly and unequivically that he is going to vote for President Obama, You wanted to hear him bash President Obama. the former President however if you think about it refused to trash George W. Bush publicly but also stated in a very clear way that he would never vote for the man. I voted for hillary last time in the primaries but she has proven to be very effective as sec’t of state and after President Obama is re-elected I think you will see that the republican party is going to find out that when you abuse your position in this country we as voters will send you home

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A34THPGSJZOZVPEDR3O2JYV7VM edward poe

    This is not football you dunce. it is a process and maybe you got all those gay love fantasies from your days with the coach in the showers

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A34THPGSJZOZVPEDR3O2JYV7VM edward poe

    And you reupukeitards have had how many frontrunners in your little special primary so far it’s like newt’s marriage record

  • david r

    Believe me, there was plenty.  I remember getting pissed off frequently over this back then.  Now my old, reptilian brain just goes from “Obama” to “asshole” without any intervening process.

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