Oct 25, 2008 7:39pm
Who Says Obama Doesn’t Submit to Tough Interviews?!
EmailIn Las Vegas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., just did an interview with Mario Lopez for EXTRA.
Scheduled next: Lark Voorhees, for Access Hollywood. (Not really.)
– jpt
In Las Vegas, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., just did an interview with Mario Lopez for EXTRA.
Scheduled next: Lark Voorhees, for Access Hollywood. (Not really.)
– jpt
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Obama can’t handle tough.
Posted by: me | October 25, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm
Getting a bit one sided with your posts. You trying to make the news interesting? JPT
Posted by: thorfinn | October 25, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
Get real Jake. Obama sat down with O’Reilly. Can you imagine McCain sitting down with Olbermann?
Posted by: Brian | October 25, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
LOL! Entertainment Tonight seems to have a couple minutes open too. Maybe Obama to can do a Fluff Trifecta.
Posted by: mak | October 25, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
Obama has had many barriers to cross-several stages of steps in the primaries and now. People underestimate his abilities.
I was in Colorado today volunteering at their campaign head quaters. It was so busy with people today-Obama has run a successful campaign and people like me from Wyoming are willing to travel to a neighboring state to work hard for him.
I voted for Obama/Biden ticket
Posted by: Sophia Beck | October 25, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
“Get real Jake. Obama sat down with O’Reilly. Can you imagine McCain sitting down with Olbermann?”
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Exactly!
Posted by: ES | October 25, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
ROFLMAO
did you see CBS morning interview with Obama the soft ball questions he got!!!
gimme a break…Obama can’t answer tough questions without a teleprompter
Posted by: steph | October 25, 2008, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
Obama has done many tough interviews, including one with Bill O’Reilly!
Posted by: Virginian Marine | October 25, 2008, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
I bet Obama can handle a question from a 3rd grader, though. Unlike some Vice Presidential nominees we know.
Posted by: hesiod | October 25, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
Wow, talk about the right-wing nuts coming out!
Meanwhile, the closest Palin has come to a press conference is joking about it on Saturday Night Live. And neither she nor McShame have faced particularly tough interviews, though I would say they’ve handled even the softball questions badly.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden — get used to it. It will surely be a breath of fresh air after the last four years for all except the above referenced right-wing nuts who don’t know better.
And thankfully, Sarah Palin can go back to Alaska, where if people are smart they’ll start a recall petition on November 5th!!!
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: jackt51 | October 25, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm
If I remember well, Jake, Obama did a long and tough interview with FOX’s Bill O’Reilly, of all people. That’s facing the enemy, I’d say, and one of the shrewdest and most aggressive interviewers out here.
Obama totally hold his own. After that interview O’Reilly had to admit that he found Obama ‘tough and sincere’ and that he gained ‘a new respect for the man’.
That’s Barack Obama.
Posted by: johnson | October 25, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Has Palin done MTP?
Posted by: Cameron | October 25, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm
The end of unbiased media has been confirmed this election.
Posted by: me | October 25, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
me
CRY MUCH ?
YOUR GUYS LOSING BECAUSE HE IS STUPID AND HIS PATNER PALIN IS A TOOL!
YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON A NUT JOB AND ITS STILL A NUT JOB!
Posted by: MIKE NC | October 25, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm
So the McCain camp has now taken to blame the media for their losing campaign? And once again the media will hide their tail between their legs.
Anyone remember when the Obama campaign launched a major offensive on McCain and the Keating Scandal. The media didn’t touch it. Instead, they continued to hit on Ayers even when the public didn’t care. And then they cry about bias?
Posted by: Mike | October 25, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
Keith Olberman is going to be jealous.
Posted by: Shelley | October 25, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm
Breaking Bill O’Reilly is not a tough interviewers.
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
Concerned in OH
Accusation doesn’t mean everybody is guilty. It is like me saying you are crazy because Ashley Todd is representative of every McCain supporter. You can’t have it both ways, The next time a McCain supporters does something erratic you have to take the blame. I’m sure that Wyoming guy voted in Wyoming by absentee. Call it what it is not what you like it to be. I would like McCain to be racist but I know he isn’t.
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 9:01 pm 9:01 pm
Oh they reported on it. You guys like stretching the truth, you led me to believe they caught them…… But they discovered after the fact not before.
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
Just how bad has the presidential campaign coverage been this year?
So bad that popular online columnist Michael S. Malone, aka ABC.com’s “Silicon Insider,” wrote Friday, “I’m deeply ashamed right now to be called a ‘journalist.’
Posted by: Obama ONE SCAREY DUDE | October 25, 2008, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm
Concerned in OH
Those are accusations becuase if it were fact, Obama would be in jail.
Posted by: MM | October 25, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm
I guess that balances out the interview he did on foreign policy with Joe Klein.
Posted by: Billy | October 25, 2008, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
Showbiz people are voters
too. The MSM shouldn’t be
snide about Mario Lopez and
Lark Voorhees conducting
interviews with a candidate
for POTUS.
Posted by: anon | October 25, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
Why is everybody blameing Obama for Joe the plubmer problems. McCain repeatedly brought the man up during the debate. In his desperate attempt to make Obama look bad. Blame the right one or shut up.
Posted by: Millicent | October 25, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
>>>Why is everybody blameing Obama for Joe the plubmer problems. McCain repeatedly brought the man up during the debate. In his desperate attempt to make Obama look bad. Blame the right one or shut up.<<<<
Obama answered the question honestly, big mistake. Perhaps that is the problem. He revealed himself to be a socialist. Of course if the media were doing their job they would know about his membership (or very close association) with the New Party in Chicago, a socialist party. Documents are easily Googled, but that kinda of research is just to difficult for the media these days.
Posted by: RBR | October 25, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm
Jake..
where is the story about Palin and her Pipeline ethics probe?
you never ever wrote about how a McCain adviser hyped up the story about Ashley Todd and her backwards B hoax story…
Now Palin is caught again, doing favors and breaking ethics laws for friends in regards to that bogus pipeline that has never started….
Wonder why the MSM never covers real stories… they are stuck on the Joe the Moron stories and blaming the democrats for his name being tarnished.
Posted by: lmg | October 25, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
It’s still a lot more than Palin has ever done or McCain has done in the last 12 weeks.
Posted by: Bob Lees | October 25, 2008, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
JD…. thanks for the news about Biden and the Miami WFTV interview…checking it out further it turns out they did a similar interview with McCain two weeks earlier by the same anchorwomen and tossed nothing but softball questions at him…Her questions to Biden sounded like they were based on McCain campaign talking points. So much for a liberal bias media. Oh, for a fun time watch both interviews and you’ll see what I mean.
Posted by: hilodave | October 25, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm
Palin is full of lies and deceptions! Now we find out the pipeline is the “pipeline to no where” – unfair bidding practices was used it could take many years to complete or maybe it will be the “pipeline to no where” that government will say no thanks to the crook that created dirty dealings. Palin should hide after this one! She is a cooked moose!
Posted by: Sharon | October 25, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm
Jake, what about the McCain campaign pushing the Ashley Todd “black Obama supporter/robber attack” story, immediately sending her pic to Drudge, and provising Drudge with info that might even be made up by the campaign itself since they are not to be found in the Pittsburgh police reports on the case?
If that is not a story to be told about the McCain campaign, I don’t get it anymore.
That’s what we all a free ride, Jake.
Posted by: harold | October 25, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm
The one that I would love to see interview all the candidates, including McCain and Palin is Chris Matthews. He never allows the guest to dodge questions and frames questions in a way that forces people to not mince words and say exactly what they mean. This is how Micelle Bachmann R-MN revealed herself to the country and showed how divisive the republican party has become.
Posted by: ttMo2 | October 26, 2008, 12:21 am 12:21 am
EXTRA. PUH-LEEZ.
THIS GUY IS NOT STUPID.
HE DOES NOT DO INTERVIEWS.
Posted by: bill | October 26, 2008, 2:15 am 2:15 am
STUPID PEOPLE CAN’T ACCOMPLISH REVOLUTION
Posted by: bill | October 26, 2008, 2:18 am 2:18 am
Mr Tapper should interview Barack Obama!
When he subbed for George S. on This Week, he asked tough questions and didn’t let guests dodge in their replies. He made sure he got a straight answer from them!
Posted by: CarM | October 26, 2008, 7:36 am 7:36 am
Did Senator Obama reverse his position on public campaign financing before or after your interview with him in June?
Do you think that will decide the outcome of this race?
Posted by: Same | October 26, 2008, 7:46 am 7:46 am
tough customer
Posted by: watson | October 26, 2008, 7:57 am 7:57 am
Concerned in Ohio writes, “Show the interview of Biden on WFTV. He’s an absolute joke.”
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Is that what you call men who know more, have more and have done more in their lives that you? (lol) The green-eyed monster did a number on you. Is that what we can expect from McCain supporters? That they let their insecurities vote for them? Sheesh..
Biden checked the inteviewere the way you would check any idiot. (lol)
Posted by: Dems | October 26, 2008, 10:10 am 10:10 am