I used to burn up at his stepping on the lines and thoughts of his guests until I realized it's a charlatan's tactic to drown out opinions other than his own.
I used to be infuriated at his moral equivalencies and playing both sides of the political fence until I realized he's a coward and personally insecure. He will never get over his Levittown mentality and his fear of returning to that way of living.
Now, I don't analyze him any more. He's not worth the time or effort. I've come to the conclusion he is absolutely the dumbest political opiner on television.
His glibness and airhead opinions and "analysis" hide his laziness in research, preparation and political awareness. He either has the worst research staff on talk show TV or he ignores any help from them.
Worst of all, awash in his unsurpassable ego, he doesn't even realize that we can see most of his sharper guests rolling their eyes and smirking at him on the split screen. They don't even try to hide it anymore when he comes out with some of his off-the-wall profundities.
Laura Ingraham cleaned his clock again tonight. She's about the only one who has figured out how to get a word in edgewise by courageously going mano a mano with him when he tries to interrupt her or throw her off course. Morris, Goldberg, Rove, Miller and other regulars just sit back like good little boys and take it.
Leni
I suspect it's a little of both.
But in his favor: he always has attractive blonds who aren't total air heads on his segments :^(
Great dissection of O’Reilly. He stands for nothing.
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