News and Stuff

O’Reilly interviewed President Bush and it’ll be airing next week.  In the meantime he’s got an article about the interview on his site, and it’s interesting:

For example, I am known for confrontational interviews, but you simply cannot tell a sitting President that you, the interviewer, know more than he does.  That would make you look like a moron.  So open confrontation goes right out the window.

Also, the tone of your questions must be respectful.  Although I asked everything I wanted to ask and there were no restrictions in the interview, my queries were posed less aggressively than usual.  I was direct, but subdued, another departure for me.  By the way, I never show my questions to anyone in advance, and that rule applied to the President.

Security is massive for every presidential appearance.  To even get to the interview room in a New York City hotel, I had to go through hoops that make U.S. airport security look like the Mexican border.  Back elevators were taken, I was perused by at least a dozen Secret Service Agents, and everything was bulletproof except my questions.

There’s also an interesting story about dot-com dropouts -- tech kids who left college to pursue fortunes in the late 90s.  It gives a personal profile of 3 such people and it’s really interesting.