Rove: Obama "willing to go sit down with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il" but not O'Reilly or Hannity [View All]

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527341,00.html

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VAN SUSTEREN: All right, Karl, I have to confess that from time to time, I hold a grudge. I got to confess to that. Now let me ask you about President Obama. I don't know if you've been following this, but he will not come to FOX News Channel, and he took a little swipe at us the other day, and we've sort of teased him back. But this whole idea that -- that, you know, the largest audience is on cable -- of all the cable news is on FOX News Channel -- what do you make of this little spat he has with us?

ROVE: I think it's petty stubbornness. I mean, here's a man who seems to be willing to go sit down with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il, but he won't sit down with Greta or O'Reilly or Sean Hannity. I mean, it strikes that this guy might be a little fearful of -- of having tough questions asked of him.

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The President of United States should not be afraid of coming on FOX News, nor should the President of the United States diminish his office by seeming to engage in a petty fight with the -- with the -- with a network himself. It's fine to have his underlings go out and complain. I mean, I -- you know, inside Bush White House, we were complaining about The New York Times all the time.

But it is really not attractive and it's really not -- it says something about the lack of confidence on the part of the president when the president himself engages in that kind of rhetoric. We saw it from Richard Nixon with his paranoia about the media. We're now starting to see it with the thin-skinned nature of President Obama about what he perceives to be criticism.

And look, FOX gives him a fair shot. I've been impressed with how often FOX News, particularly the Sunday programs and the evening news programs, have been -- have been -- as opposed to the opinions, where we're supposed to have opinions -- but to the news programs, how fair they've been to the administration.

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