The Rice Factor

Actual quotes ripped out of context and truncated from the interview Fox News' Bill O'Reilly conducted with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday:

O'Reilly: You know who Damon Wayans is?

Rice: I do.

O'Reilly: The press is the most anti-Bush press I've ever seen in any administration, perhaps with the exception of Nixon. [Good point; there was much less criticism of George W. Bush when Nixon was president.]

Rice: I've been black all my life. Nobody needs to tell me how to be black.

O'Reilly: Nothing's easy.

Rice: Nothing is easy.

O'Reilly: Anything you can do to OPEC to have them start -- stop price gouging? It costs them $4 a barrel to get the oil up and marketed and they're charging $65 a barrel. I mean, is there anything you can do as Secretary of State? Can you charm them? Can you take them out to dinner?

Rice: We -- we talked to OPEC and they have every reason not to want to sink the world's economy.