Interesting comments on conservatives on O'Reilly

foxnews ^ | 11/29/01 | Bill Press

[Crustacean]

O'REILLY: All right, if I'm dishonest with the people and I'm a spinmeister, why are they watching this program?

PRESS: Well, here's my theory about that. It's the same reason that Rush is number one in radio, followed closely by Dr. Laura. It's the same reason, I think, Fox is doing so well. I think there are a lot of conservatives out there who don't want to hear two points of view. All they want to hear, if you'll let me finish...

[Crustacean]

Sounds like Bill Press hit the nail right on the head...

[SGCOS]

...Sounds like Bill Press hit the nail right on the head..

Sounds like Bill Press is tired of giving head.

[Hugh Akston]

Sounds like Bill Press has nails in his head, if you ask me.

This is a guy who foams at the mouth that the SCOTUS overstepped their bounds, and chuckled with gless as the SCOFLA ran roughshod over common sense, the law, and everything else in their goal-oriented efforts to install Al Gore as President.

[Wyatt's Torch]

How about we try this: Those outlets are the only place you can hear any conservative/libertarian viewpoint. ABCNNBCBS, WP, NYT, LAT, et al are exclusivly liberal in their "reporting". For the first time, Rush and FNC actually present another side. Nice try Bill but you "logic" fails again.

[MissAmericanPie]

The fact is we have heard the other sides point of view adnauseum for decades now, with our point of view never being offered by the communist press. So right, we don't want to hear any more leftist pap, we have had it up to our eyeballs with it.

We can hear their point of view on any other network, we enjoy Fox and O Reilly giving them the same shaft we have been receiving for far too long.

[JoeSchem]

Sounds like Bill Press hit the nail right on the head...

It was the New York Times that tried to keep its articles off Free Republic, not the other way around.

[RichInOC]

I've grown up listening to Bill Press on Los Angeles TV and radio, as state Democrat chair, and on CNN, and he's not exactly the best one to lecture the right wing about tolerating dissenting opinions.

[AppyPappy]

they're very intolerant

Intolerant = doesn't agree with Bill Press. Press is intolerant of those who watch O'Reilly.

I wonder if Press thinks that people who only watch CNN are intolerant.

[stubernx98]

Bull crap, The deal is that Limbuah, O'Rielly(I can't stand him), Hannity, and the others do not fly under false colors. they say what their policitical position is up front. Bill Press and the rest of the Liberal press claim objectivity. Now if they would put on their mastheads that they are liberals and reporting from a liberal prospective, as does Colmbs, well then OK.

Of course, I would much prefer to hear the news reported and anyalyzed from my prospective. Same with Liberals. You know the old syaing, Liberals are full of good intentions, Conservatives want good results. Who are you anyway to qoute a discredited hate monger like Bill Press anyway

[bvw]

They want to hear people that they always agree with because they're very intolerant.

Sounds like a typical college campus for the past ten years, or the major Networks, or Hollywood, or the Big Apple's Theater District, or ...

But not the people who watch FOX or Drudge or FR or NewsMax or WABC, we just want the whole truth and nothing but.

[suzyq5558]

As a former Antelope Valley resident your comments on Mr.Press are quite an understatement!!
suzyq5558

[Dahoser]

No, Bill, people like watching and listening to what they like watching and listening to. We call them regular viewers and listeners.

[Jthro]

Bill Press is a hateful and miserable intolerant hate-monger. It was refreshing to see him put in a position of having to "face the music" without being able to "spin" his way out in an attempt to save face.

After last night's show, I looked up the definition of "intolerant" in the dictionary. At the end of the definition, it said to se the picture beside the definition. Low and behold, it was a picture of Bill Press!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

PRESS: Well, I'll do it in four seconds. They want to hear people that they always agree with because they're very intolerant. So your numbers are very high. So are Rush's. So are Dr. Laura's, mazel tov. But it's all spin.

The above was the essence of spin.

[No Left Turn]

So I guess you'll always listen to Bill Press, who I'm sure is very tolerant of conservative view points.

[Rightly Biased]

Rush, Dr. Laura and OR (for the most part) give us truth in reporting and in thier opinions we trust. That is why we listen and watch for the truth and nothing less.If we wanted our news left handed and filtered we can get that from those on the liberal left (cnnabccbsnbcetal.)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So your numbers are very high... But it's all spin.

So, the CBS Morining Show's numbers are by far the lowest in their time slot. If they provide more liberal spin Bill Press thinks they will go up?

[rface]

Sounds like Bill Press hit his head with a hammer and then pounded nails into it.

[Digger]

Aren't these liberals easy to denounce when you have a competent debater on the other side. I wish O'Reilly had him on each week. He really is an hateful, pompus, old fart that epitomizes the Clintons & totally comes off wrong - even the liberals must see that he can't be one to carry their water.

[andrew]

First of all: EVERYONE prefers to hear the confirmation of their own point of view to dissenting views. That is hardly the domain of liberals or conservatives.

However, Bill Press is being disingenuous (or stupid), and can be proved wrong rather easily.

Conservatives have control of two types of media: Radio and the Internet. The hallmark of both is the interaction between the people and the media itself. There is a legitimate back and forth and is fueled, greatly, by dwelling on -- not ignoring! -- the opposite point of view.

Is Rush not known for exposing the leftist bias in mainstream media by way of reading ad nauseum and critiquing ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, NY TIMES, CNN, etc? Same goes with Rush's many AM imitators.

Internet news forums thrive to the point of mania the dissenting point of view. the best and longest threads on Free Republic derive from articles in mainstream liberal press which have a discerbable bias built as neutral news dissemination.

On the other hand, LIBERALism still maintains control of television news (ABC NEWS, CBS NEWS, CNN, MSNBC) and print media (NEWSWEEK, TIME, NY TIMES, etc.). [I will concede FOX NEWS is now an exception to the rule, but a late comer indeed.] The hallmark of this type of media is the controlled nature of the editorial process. There is no back and forth but for the rare 'Town Hall' meeting which was pushed on them by faux-populist Ross Perot. And the liberal media has even controlled that back and forth by enforcing politically correct parameters (i.e. there is always a disproportionate representation of aggrieved classes, and conservatives are usually outnumbered).

I don't necessarily mind that the left controls these all-important media, I just lose my mind when they deny that this bias exists and that it manifests in many ways.