OBAMARAMA

FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly likes to browbeat people on the air who don’t accept an invitation to be interviewed by him, in the hope that they will ultimately surrender and come on his show. It’s a very unseemly tactic that unfortunately often works. When they finally drag themselves into the studio and the camera clicks on, O’Reilly, beaming with his sense of victory, magnanimously thanks them for overcoming their cowardice and proving themselves to be reasonable people, and the power dynamic is immediately established.

From the looks of this “Talking Points” segment, he’s trying to do the same thing to Sen. Obama. But if you watch the video below, something in his delivery suggests he’s a little less confident in his attack than usual. Could it be he’s daunted by the senator’s mounting success? Or just that the jab he chooses to make is probably the worst idea since Greedo shooting first?