PINGANATOR!
O’Reilly is one of the worst interviewers ever, IMHO. He rather hear himself talk. And he never follows up to answers.
I can’t help but like Herman.
Fox News is so incredibly “dumbed down”, it’s pathetic.
Cain had no answer for both the zero capital gains tax question nor for how to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
BOR may have been a boor, but he allowed Cain a graceful out from his nuclear Iran non-answer.
I won’t watch BOR any more; his arrogance is over the top.
O’Reilly was disgraceful in that interview, not letting Cain finish his answer about how the gov’t would get the necessary revenue if we lowered taxes. Cain started to answer by saying that lowering taxes and regs encourges people to start their own businesses and employers to hire more people. More taxpayers, more revenue stream. But BOR didn’t get it, and interjected ....”yeah, but where’s the govt’s cut??” Cain looked at him as if he were a complete moron (which of course he is), and when he tried to finish, BOR interrupted and said “....ok, we have to move on here.”
DO NOT interrupt Mr. Baxter.
If you do interrupt Mr. Baxter, you will not appear again. (see: Palin, Sarah)
Keep your personal opinions to yourself and let Mr. Baxter lead the discussion. He will firmly direct you to say what he wants to hear.
There are two things about BOR. His columns I read in my local newspaper are usually very good, logical and well-written.
But he is a terrible interviewer. He consistently asks a guest a question, and then before the guest can get out half a sentence, BOR interrupts him, and then all you hear are both of them talking at the same time, so you can’t make out what either one is saying. Krauthammer is the only one he allows to complete a sentence, probably because Kraut is his intellectual superior.
Hannity is almost as bad interrupting guests as BOR. Greta, at least, usually allows the guest to finish his/her point.
IMHO...
Only way to deal with Iran weapons is militarily, i.e., “a war” and a candidate would be way off base if they said literally that - “go to war”.
Because
a) they don’t have all the current info (there could be sensitive communications going on at any given moment between them and an ally or us) and a possible future President babbling war at the wrong moment is unwise
b) it is very unwise to telegraph the detailed tactics of one’s Presidency prior to election, can only speak in general terms and try to keep things positive, not keep saying “I will take the nation to war”, or the candidate will only receive votes from the dedicated warrior types who wisely view that stance as the best one to have peace through strength
c) once in office, the situation could be entirely different, rendering whatever specific campaign promises that were made needing to be broken, thus hurting one’s Presidency
This is the carnival barker for the masses, the “conservative-lite” version of newsman, watered down, opinionated with slick quick sound bite lines; his interviews need to be taken with a tablespoon of salt.
This was actually one his more disappointing performances.
He could have been a bit more articulate in explaining that even if the capital gains tax goes to zero, and you are no longer collecting any tax through capital gains, government revenues increase due to the increased economic activity and increased tax collection from other sources. (And then he could have made a nice segue over to how the Fair Tax would cover that.)
He also blew it a bit on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Drilling for oil here will hurt Iran economically, but it won’t stop them from getting a bomb in two months. He should have flat out said, “We need to stop them at all costs. If that means an airstrike, so be it.”
Otherwise a decent job. He’ll need to close these loopholes in his arguments if he wants to win. I hope he does because I like him.
Oh was that Herman Cain on the Factor? I just remember Bill O’Reilly doing all the talking. a hole.
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I like Cain, but his response to O’Reiley’s question “how will you stop Iran from getting a nucular bomb was irrelevant and nonsensical.
Obviously, this being his first time around the block, Mr. Cain didn’t understand the format of being interviewed by BOR:
Ted Baxter not only asks the questions, he also provides the answers.
bttt
“...didn’t give Cain much time to elaborate on his answers...”
Of course not. That would take too much face time away from Bill O’Really.