HOST UNHINGED AFTER SALES FIGURES REVEALED; CALLS DRUDGE 'THREAT TO DEMOCRACY'

(c)DRUDGE REPORT 2003 ^ | THU DEC 18, 2003 09:25:08 ET | Drudge

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TalkerAuthor Bill O'Reilly lashed out against this space during his popular FOXNEWS O'REILLY FACTOR Wednesday night -- just hours after closely guarded book sales figures were splashed over the internet.

Sales figures show how, contrary to his claims, O'Reilly lags far behind rivals Al Franken and Sen. Hillary Clinton for nonfiction props!

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Responding to an exclusive yearender DRUDGE dispatch, which presented NIELSEN's Top 20 BOOKSCAN list of 2003 sales, O'Reilly called the DRUDGE REPORT a "threat to democracy."

"I mean you can't believe a word Matt Drudge says," O'Reilly told the cameras. "Now you've got the Matt Drudges of the world and these other people, Michael Moore and all of these crazies, all right, no responsibility... that is a threat to democracy, I think." O'Reilly warned: "They'll just spin it and twist it and take it out of proportion every which way."

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Last year, the host of Cable TVs most-watched newscast became unbuckled and turned unstable after this space first revealed how O'Reilly was plotting a new radio program to air opposite Rush Limbaugh [who had just lost his hearing] and how WOR-AM in New York would receive cash compensation from VIACOM to carry the program. [The broadcast launched several months later.]

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"There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on the IMUS in the MORNING radio show.

"I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue... And the authorities should know it."

[.cnI redruM]

Brit Hume would do that show so much better.

[stevio]

Speaking of mail. Did he read any email about his assault weapon ignorance?

[FR_addict]

I'm not a big fan of O'Reilly's either, although sometimes he's right on the mark, such as championing the cause of Col. West.

I was wondering about the numbers that Drudge reported for book sales for 2003. Haven't some of these books been on the market longer than O'Reilly's? In that case you would have to compare weekly sales when his book was first released, not the whole year.

Regardless, if O'Reilly said what is being reported, he's a fool. For heaven's sake, Drudge is only reporting book sales and O'Reilly can refute it on his show.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Tammy Bruce rocks, a Dem you can genuinely respect. I highly recommend her book, The New Thought Police.

[RckyRaCoCo]

O'Reillys' got terminal Katie Couric disease.

[patriot_wes]

"I mean you can't believe a word Matt Drudge says," O'Reilly told the cameras

from a man who said Jesus was a great philosopher!

[jim35]

"...Joined the Constitution Party on 12/9/03 and it feels soooo goooood"...

Curious. Only two days after joining FR. This is not the usual impact of this site. Get bored running the DU? A little trolling, maybe, for recreation?

[.cnI redruM]

O'Really does have his good evenings. However, he's so prone to tripping over his ego that he gets old in a hurry.

[martin gibson]

I'll take PJ O'Rourke over either.

Red - PJ is always a great read, but The Drudge Manifesto is also worth your time...

[Steelerfan]

O'Rourke is one of the most underrated conservative writers. Parliament of Whores should be required reading in civics classes and I though Holidays in Hell was hysterical (alliteration not intended).

[Windsong]

"What a pr*ck."

But then again...so is Drudge. Always has been..I guess they were made for each other.

[Arrowhead1952]

O'Reillys' got terminal Katie Couric disease.

LOL!!! Best line ever on O'Reilly and Couric I've ever seen.

[Taliesan]

They're both from 1998.

[Pete'sWife]

Hear, Hear!

I think O'Reilly is a jerk.

[Taliesan]

She is quite smart and articulate. And she laments the death of right and wrong. And she supports abortion.

All of which proves that most people, even smart people, don't form their opinions with their intellects.

[Rebelbase]

Bumping for future refence on "how the mighty have fallen" .

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

sorta weird, the only two left-leaning personalities that, to my mind, consistently make good sense are both lesbians - Tammy Bruce and Camille Paglia

[wardaddy]

It would be remiss to forget that there was a long long time in the wilderness when we lacked a nightly TV quasi-conservative voice like O'Reilley.

I think he is pompous, out of touch with flyoverland and too PC socially myself but he beats the alternative the left gave us for several decades nightly.

and yes...he doesn't know jack about pot or guns...that I admit.

[.cnI redruM]

O' Rourke coined the term 'Republican Party Reptile'. A title I've aspired to ever since.

[ampat]

I read Drudge every day, but it seems the rush to get the headlines, more and more, results in errors and inaccuracies. I like both Drudge and O'Reilly. I'm disappointed in Bill's remarks about Drudge. I'm really surprised that franken's book sells more than O'Reilly's. I may be biased but it must be those billionaire and millionaire liberals buying franken's book by the crate.