President Barack Obama Super Bowl Various Defenses
President Barack Obama Super Bowl Various Defenses
- During an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly ahead of Super Bowl XLVIII, President Barack Obama said there wasn’t even a “smidgen” of corruption at the heart of the Internal Revenue scandal that surfaced last year. The agency admitted to improperly scrutinizing tea party groups when they applied for tax exemption during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
“There were some boneheaded decisions,” Obama said, but insisted corruption did not play a role in the decision-making processes. “Not even a smidgen of corruption,” he said.
At the close of the interview, O’Reilly asked the president who he favored in the upcoming game. Obama refused to pick a winner, but guessed the final score would be 24-21.
- President Barack Obama defended himself against an array of Republican criticism in an interview during Fox’s Super Bowl pregame show.
The president traded barbs with interviewer Bill O’Reilly in a live interview that covered his troubled health care law rollout, the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya and revelations that the IRS targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. “I try to focus not on the fumbles but on the next plan,” Obama said.
Obama would not say why he didn’t fire Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after the failed launch of the government’s online marketplace. He also declined to say that the biggest mistake of his presidency was telling Americans if they liked their health care they could keep it.
- He defended against O’Reilly’s questions about why administration officials initially described the attack in Benghazi, Libya, as a spontaneous protest. He rejected “the notion that we would hide the ball for political purposes” when the attack came less than two months before the presidential election.
And he said there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” contributing to the IRS targeting of tea party and other conservative groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.
With two hours until kickoff in the Super Bowl, Obama declined to pick a winner between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. He predicted a score of 24-21, but said he didn’t know which side would come out on top.
- President Barack Obama took a shot at Fox News in an interview with the network’s Bill O’Reilly ahead of the Super Bowl XLVIII matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. O’Reilly brought up the Benghazi and IRS scandals that have, in many ways, plagued Obama’s presidency. The Fox News host accused Obama of distracting from the scandals to protect his image and campaign.
“Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world [Benghazi] was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out,” O’Reilly said. “That’s what they believe.”
“And they believe it because folks like you tell them that,” Obama said. “These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them.”
Prior to the interview, O’Reilly told Fox’s Megyn Kelly that he was “not nervous.”
“He is not a bad guy, I think people misread him,” he said. “However, my interview this time is going to be very precise.”
- During an interview with Fox News ahead of Super Bowl XLVIII, Bill O’Reilly grilled President Barack Obama on the 2012 attack on Benghazi.
The president admitted that security on the compound was “lax,” and precautions “that needed to be taken weren’t taken.”
“The main thing we have to take away from this is our diplomats are working in some dangerous places,” he added.
Obama criticized those that have politicized the event, saying Democrats and Republicans should be “unified” rather than using the unfortunate event to advance a political agenda. He said Americans have dwelled on the scandal because networks like Fox News continue to rehash it.
“Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world [Benghazi] was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out,” O’Reilly said. “That’s what they believe.”
“And they believe it because folks like you tell them that,” Obama said. “These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them.”
Each year, the president sits down with the network airing the Super Bowl for an exclusive interview. Obama has sat down with Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Scott Pelley in the past.
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