Has Anyone Noticed The Change In Oreilly?

[ricoshea]

I have noticed a big change in O`Reilly.The "new" Bill is now not taking sides or giving an honest opinion.Tonight he would not even say who he thought won the debate last night. He said the people will decide.All well and good but he was quick to say that Bush lost his debate last week..He had on Tammy Bruce and Juan Williams tonight.However when Ms. Bruce said she thought Edwards seemed outmatched by Chaney, O`Reilly ran to the defense of Edwards. Last night he said he felt sorry for Rather and even Martha Stewart.I remember for months before the pod took over O`Reilly`s body he was screaming Stewart was guilty and that she must pay the price for her misdeed. What is up with the change in him since the summer? I can barely watch him anymore.

[quantim]

WMB = Weapon of Mass Bloviation.

[dljordan]

Maybe someone told him to shut his mouth and he'ed be the next Cronkite.

[Just mythoughts]

His ratings must be tanking, cause he always claims that there is no difference between the left and right and he sits up above the two sides as the grand judge.

[redspar]

You know it reminds me as to when Barry Goldwater in Arizona was a Republican and then lo and behold he remarries and his politics change. Bleeding Liberal.

[processing please hold]

I emailed Fox & O'Reilly about three weeks ago on this very same subject. I told them that I do not watch fox one tenth of the time I used too. O'Reilly has become too liberal. He cannot make a decision on anything one way or the other. I also think he is becomming an egomaniac. Something very wrong is happening to Fox news and I don't like it..not one bit.

[MisterRepublican]

You will see that Fox is run by liberals in the next few weeks.
They will be all-Kerry, all the time.
They were very pro Gore in 2000.

[bayourod]

O'Reillly has put his reputation on the line that he can get Kerry to come on his program. He has behaved so shamelessly that it's painful to watch his groveling.

By this point he has lost all credibility that he could even have a legitimate interview with Kerry. I would never believe that he hadn't made so many concessions to Kerry in exchange for an interview that he would amount to nothing but a straight man for Kerry's grandstanding.

He would agree to let Kerry edit the show, pre-approve any questions, not mention certain issues, make no comments after the interview, etc...

[teletech]

Well we'll see how he acts soon enough when he interviews Kerry because he announced today that Kerry agreed to do the Factor.

I am sick of O'Reilly too, his head is getting so big I can barely see it on my tv screen anymore!

I really think Fox is sucking up to the RATS in case Kerry wins the election. If that happens Fox will lose ALL its conservative viewers. Fox WAS fair and balanced but no more.

[Zechariah11]

I noticed a change in his attitude when his radio show bombed. He probably holds Rush fans/conservatives responsible for that. You're new around here, but you'll eventually find that there are few of his fans here. FOX is less and less popular as well.

Welcome to FR.

[ladyinred]

He obviously is a kerry supporter. I never cared for the guy in the first place, but now he is just another biased pundit like the rest. Only he pretends to be no spin. HAH!

[sierrahome]

"He wants Dan Rather's job"

You're probably on to something

[NotchJohnson]

If FoxNews is taht dumb to go left then they deserve to lose the overnight empire they built. I doubt they will though. It's not there fault that Colmes and his ilk have lame positions to talk about.

[Conservative Infidel]

He is vying for Rather's job.

[stainlessbanner]

Savage was taking him to task the other night for being a phony.

[Sounder]

I think O'Reilly is very sympathetic to Dan RATher and is trying to draw attention away from his friend,
don't be sucked under by it,hold your your arms straight out and kick !

[NotchJohnson]

He refers to his "humble" roots as much a John Edwards. He could have come from a lot more humble roots. He can't pass up a moment to talk about how he is just a working class guy who "is looking out for you."

[DaveMSmith]

He did an okay interview with the President but asking everyone down to the janitor if they thought he asked the tough questions got me.

He only cares about his ratings and takes himself WAY too seriously.

[ladyinred]

I agree. Fox has given in to the left's criticism of it and is now going too far to the left. They were balanced but the attacks against them must have bothered Murdoch, who is no conservative.

[itslex71]

Fox is killing me. Yeah, I enjoy Fox and Friends. A lot, actually. But the rest of the usual line up is so incredibly narrow that I can't watch. I try but I just can't do it. Brit is great, IMHO. But when the "All Stars" come on, it's always the same thing. Mara coughs her head off and never has anything interesting to say, Juan is just too liberal for me to care, Mort is a nice guy who can't spit the words out, and Fred folds him arms the whole time. I love when Kraut is on but that's not often. Shep makes mistakes over and over and over. And people thought Bush was bad with reading scripts. O'Reilly is an egotist who is always a week or two behind in the news and by the time he gets around to talking about something, we on FReep have already turned it over and picked it apart. Hannity, though a very good guy who tries to bust Dems in their lies shares the screen with that plastic surgery nightmare called Colmes but it's all really the same crap every night.

It seems Fox has a very limited set of guests as well: Dick Morris (ugh!), Ann Coulter, Bill Bennett, Geradine Ferraro, Judge Napalitano, Laura Ingram, Susan Ostrich (ACK!), that Democratic strategist guy with the weird eyebrows and goatee (who is actually not such a bad guy)...

It's the same guest with the same opinions talking about the same stuff night after night on the same channel. The only difference is the time slot. Fair and balanced. OK. Boring? Definitely!

Watching Fox is often like an animated version of the FReep and Drudge headlines. So dull. But, as far as network news goes, what's the alternative?

[Zechariah11]

You know it reminds me as to when Barry Goldwater in Arizona was a Republican and then lo and behold he remarries and his politics change. Bleeding Liberal.,p>Sounds like John McCain in that regard.