BILL O'REILLY: My Interview With Obama Will 'Go Down In Journalistic History'
"I'm going to predict that that interview I did is going to go down in journalistic history as what should be done," O'Reilly said on Geraldo Rivera's radio show.
"Because it takes a certain skill to pose questions in a factual way and be persistent without being disrespectful."
O'Reilly maintained that, despite criticism from the President and others, he treated Obama fairly during the interview - and that it was not a different tone or approach he's taken when interviewing both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
"We're an annoyance to him," O'Reilly said. "But you notice when I challenged him, 'How have I been unfair?' He didn't have it. He didn't have an answer. Because I'm a policy guy. I'm just doing policy, and it's based on facts. I don't do the personal attacks on him. I never have, and I've defended him against those attacks."
He added, "My job is to get stuff on the record."
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