CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he doesn't take it personally when people say they hate him. And the thing he dislikes most about being president is the constant, intense scrutiny."The people who dislike you don't know you. The folks who hate you, they don't know you," Mr. Obama said Sunday in an interview broadcast during Fox's pre-game coverage of the Super Bowl. "What they hate is whatever funhouse mirror image of you that's out there. They don't know you."
Asked by Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly whether his critics annoyed him, President Obama said: "By the time you get here, you have to have had a pretty thick skin. If you didn't, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here."
The 14-minute, live interview sought President Obama's views on a range of timely matters, including the unrest in Egypt and the ultimate fate of the new health care law. O'Reilly also probed Mr. Obama on lighter topics, including which team would win the NFL championship game, and the worst part of his job.
CBS News chief White House correspondent Bill Plante said the president seemed to enjoy sparring with O'Reilly, who challenged him to respond to a Wall Street Journal op-ed which called him "a determined man of the left."
"Do you deny the assessment? Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth?" asked O'Reilly.
"Absolutely," he said. "I didn't raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years."
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