Posted on 05/19/2004 10:00:43 AM PDT by cwb
Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. John Kerry's dilemma, that is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points" memo. A new "Newsweek (search)" poll says President Bush's job approval rating has slipped to 42 percent, the lowest of his tenure in office. However, the same poll says that the president and John Kerry remain tied in their race for the top job. Now you would think Kerry would be surging ahead because the president is saddled with chaos in Iraq and punishing prices for gasoline, but that's not the case. Why? Two reasons. First, Senator Kerry's plan to fight terrorism is soft, saying the U.N. is going to help us is a pipe dream. And most Americans don't want to put their safety in the hands of that ineffective organization. Second, is the far left a factor? Just 19 percent of Americans define themselves as liberal. And most Americans actually fear the far left because of the drastic changes that group wants to impose on America. Also, far left tactics are often deplorable and offensive to many everyday Americans, who basically feel the U.S.A. is a good decent country. Here's some examples. Writing today in the "L.A. Times," liberal bomb thrower Robert Scheer (search) says, "In the end, the irony is grim. The U.S. military bans openly gay soldiers, but apparently does not effectively screen out heterosexual sadists." Is that absurd or what? Condemn the American military and tying the Iraqi abuse scandal to the gay issue? Come on. In "The Boston Globe" it gets worse. Columnist Derek Jackson (search) ties the scandal into American race relations. "What happened in Iraqi is a natural extension of the humiliation that has gone on for two decades in this country...the abusing soldiers and the commanders who let it happen assumed that they were dealing with people who had no voice. So thought the Los Angeles police who clubbed [Rodney] King in 1991... How about former Clinton adviser Sydney Blumenthal (search), who wrote, "Bush has created what is in effect a gulag. It stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to secret CIA prisons." Now that kind of hysterical analysis is the hallmark of the far left, which embraces propagandists like Michael Moore (search) and his ilk. That doesn't play in Peoria or most or places where Americans value tradition and believe their country stands for freedom and decency. Wesley Clark's presidential run was derailed by his embrace of Moore. And John Kerry has a similar problem. Many Americans are concerned that he might ally himself with the liberal fringe. And that alarms them. Also, it doesn't help much that a lot of the money backing the Dems is coming from certified extremists like George Soros (search). We'll get to him a little bit later on. So that's why the polls remain so tight. Senator Kerry must decide which choir he will sing to, because if he doesn't decide, independent thinking Americans might well tune him out, no matter what George Bush does. And that's "The Memo."
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While O condemns the comments of liberal hacks like Soros, Sheer and Moore...he ignores that Kerry has made similar comments, himself. From Kerry claiming that al-Sadr is a legitimate voice of the Iraqi people to his claims that Bush's WOT was an exaggeration, Kerry has engaged in as much dangerous hyperbole as any of these people.
I don't know what it is, but O'Reilly has been very timid in exposing the true nature of John Kerry. Instead of attacking Kerry the way he does Bush, Rumsfeld or Ashcroft, O'Reilly infers that it is his constituents who are the Leftist...and that Kerry is some kind of moderate suffering because of his supporters.
It's so obvious, that O'Reilly came to Kerry's defense as some in the congress...who were also veterans, chided Kerry for his behavior when he returned from Vietnam. As they spoke of Kerry's own words, O'Reilly accused them of playing dirty politics. Of course, Bill didn't have the same condemnation for Kerry, who has continually used his Vietnam service as a prop to attack anyone who might not agree with him. What's up, O?
Sorry about the formatting. I put in paragraphs and the system auto-formatted for exerpt and it came out like this. Sorry.
O'Reilly is Bushfault.
I wish O'Reilly would quit giving the A-holes advice.
Maybe O'Reilly's dad didn't talk to him.
Maybe he tried, but Bill was too pithy (I lisp sometimes...)
O is nothing but a big-headed blowhard. He thinks HIS opinion is allmighty and allknowing. He is close-minded and will not listen to any other opinion.....it's his way or the highway. He is just as pompous as skerry and THINKS himself an elitist. I quit watching or listening to him years ago.
For a guy who claims to be an independent, he sure has a desire to have government act like a surrogate mother or father. I swear...whenever there is a some problem, his first response is to have some government agency/committee/commission assigned to straighten it out. Oreilly can't get a plane on time...where is the governmnet; Oreilly can't get a straight answer about the charity debacle...where is the government; Oreilly can't get an interview...where is the government.
Thanks, Pookie. Unfortunately, it took me about 20 minutes to just get the thing posted...especially after fooling around with the auto-excerpt thingy as it kept removing my paragraphs:)
Bill O'Reilly lacks a solid moral philosophical base.
Or to put it another way:
His compass is broke, so you can just never tell where he might end up.
O'Reilly must be exhausted at the end of the day from lugging around that enormous ego.
O'Reilly is friends with sKerry?? Oh man, that explains so much.
About two week's ago, I sent O'Reilly a link from FR, where people were 'opining' how much he had changed and were irked that he was bashing Rumsfeld, among other things.
On his very next show, O'Reilly made a comment on his show that "People think I've changed...my opinion on Rumsfeld..." I'm paraphrasing here, but I think he read the link which had about a million posts.
I don't enjoy The O'Reilly Factor anymore. He seems to be leaning to the left. I did notice on last night's show, that all his topics were in favor of conservatives.
Maybe he's starting to listen. If I want to listen to pundits knock the administration, I'll listen to the alphabet network.
No problem. I heard it last night & thought it would be worth posting once it appeared today.
O'Reilly is a populist, he blows with the wind. I believe I watched him ONCE, a long time ago.
He is OK, ego does not bother me, but populism does.
He and Shawn are for beginnners to politics.
But he cannot bring himself to put Kerry in that box; he references Hillary from a separate holding cell as well.
When Dick Morris is on; telling the truth of Hillary. . .hear O'Reilly laugh; and almost dismiss him with a 'well, I don't know about that(!); or just give a big laugh and a 'come onnnnn!'
Not saying he supports Hillary; but he just won't go; to the 'heart' of her politics; and appareantly does not get the big picture re Kerry either.
Don't worry, O'Reilly will visciously turn on Kerry once he picks someone else as his VP....
Yeah...I watched it to. His softball coverage of Kerry is really starting to tick me off. The very things O accuses the far left of saying, are the same things Kerry himself, has said...and yet, he has yet to disclose those comments.
I heard his interview with Kerry several months ago, and they chatted about their cordial relationship from years back. The other thing I notice about Oreilly, is that he will be extremely nice to people who bow at his alter and show-up for interviews, while just the opposite for those that avoid him.
He seems to be in love with Russell Simmons now, simply because Simmons makes himself available to him. And this despite the fact that Simmons is the very bad influence that O rails on day in and day out. He in essence, uses his bully pulpit as blackmail to bruise people who refuse to come on his show. Heck, he still thinks Gore lost the election because he didn't come on the O-Factor.
I think that the independent O'Reilly is pretty good. I don't think he can come right out & say don't vote for Kerry. On The Radio Factor, I've heard him say how he's for the war on terror & that's it's the most important issue (as echoed by Ed Koch, who's supporting Bush). In the next sentence, he'll say that you'll have to choose who to vote for based on which candidate you feel will do a better job at conducting that war...IMHO, he can't be thinking that would be Kerry...
I agree. O'Reilly makes SOME very good points, but he arrogance and ego are obnoxious.
Have you seen this picture of John Kerry's daughter???
Scroll about halfway down the page.....
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