Posted on 09/26/2004 5:00:49 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
I never got why so many Republicans and conservatives like (d) O'Reilly. I mean yeah, he does ask libs some tough questions - and had a famous shouting match with that idiot Franken last year - but he is pretty much a blowhard and all you have to do is watch him for 10 minutes to know that he is not a conservative.
I am surprised there was enough room for Bill's big head on the TV screen. He is so full of himself. He thinks he made the Fox Network. It was the people turning to an alternative source after years of BS from the Big Three and CNN that made Fox what it is today not Bill O'Reilly. Anyone could have been sitting in that chair.
I can't wait until the day he leaves Fox for a big deal at some other network. We can all watch the new network's ratings go nowhere fast.
This is just flat out wrong. Rush provides more detail, more solid information on topics in the news than any other radio host I've ever heard. O'Reilly's comment (that and his calling Rush "right wing") tells me that he rarely, if ever, listens to Rush.
Anyone else think O'Reilly is full of himself?
I'm watching less and less of FOX lately. I used to have the TV tuned there 24/7, but lately I've been watching other things (HGTV, History Channel etc.). It started with tuning out for OR, and then forgetting to turn it back after his show because they air it twice. Don't bother to write the smuck and tell him you're not going to watch anymore, he gets a kick out of it, just turn him off.
O'Reilly and Wallace: YECCH!!! Proof positive that water rises (or sinks) to its own level. I'd put money on his auditioning for the SeeBS anchor job. I have to lay in a big suply of anti-nausea pills to get through the upcoming "interviews" with the President. Brit Hume should have gotten them.
If he stops talking about himself, there will be nothing but dead air on the O'Bloward Factor. Sorry, I couldn't read the rest of the piece.
The replies will tell me all I need to know.
LOL. The verdict is delivered by ratings. We don't know yet. Bill O'FenceSitter isn't very popular on FR, but that does not necessarily translate into ratings disaster.
O'Reilly is an uppity piece of trash. The sooner he goes down, the better.
Yes. At the top of this web page, click on the title that has the caret (^) after it. It links to CBS's site.
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Verdict: Nobody watches CBS, and for those who do, maybe a couple hunderd thousand have not watched BOR and may be interested engough to watch.
For BOR it was only a pontential ratings boost.
I still watch a lot of Fox. I also watch CNN, MSNBC and even some broadcast news. (You gotta keep an eye on these guys, even if it is ugly.) Fox is no different than any number of other "new" things. In the beginning everyone works hard to show how good they are, and to gain new fans. Inevitably, over time, standards drop and self-preservation takes its place. It happened with Rush. Ultimately, it is about self-promotion, above all else. I just agree with Rush and most of the Fox talent, including, to a lesser extent, O'Reilly. I would go so far as to say, if even John Kerry were to adopt positions that I agree with (which is not likely, and could you ever believe him?), I would consider voting for him. Just like anyone else, I want those who agree with me to have power, even if I otherwise don't care for them. Fortunately, those who largely agree with me are also more agreeable.
I stopped watching him months ago and I ain't goin back.
"He is all over the place in regards to his beliefs and I think he has to many ties to the mainstream media."
---it's called SPIN plain and simple.
The only reason CBS would put on a profile of BOR is that they know he will disavow some of the quote-unquote "gospel" of conservatism. Global warming? You betcha. Death penalty? No way. Swift Vets? Liars one and all. John Kerry? Known him for 25 years.. wotta guy.
Laura Ingraham was right in her guest spot. BOR has forsaken the very people who made him #1 and is now trying to go "mainstream". He is trying, in some self-delusional way, to make himself appear warm and cuddly to the left.
As if the left would EVER embrace him, no matter what.
But the fact he put down the Swift Vets so gracelessly, and found room to diss Rush Limbaugh as well just shows where BOR is now coming from.
You learn more in 10 minutes listening to Rush than you do in watching one month of the OR Factor on Fox.
And dont hold your breath for any kind of profile of Rush on 60 minutes right now. The left wing media would rather scratch their own eyes out than put on a REAL conservative.
O'Reilly is all ego, and unlike a real professional, he can't hide it. That is why he can't last, and people like Mike Wallace do. Limbaugh and Hannity are there too.
Limbaugh has the capacity to teach, which he does, if you are able to overlook his enormous ego. Hannity could be put on tape and played every day, and no one would be the wiser. He has begun to believe he is a wise man.
I'm glad I didn't bother watching 60 minutes. I would much rather listen to Rush than to O'Reilly. I'm sure Kerry, his good friend, will come on his program. Who cares?
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