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Flip-Flopper Bill O'Reilly
AIM.org ^ | 9-29-04 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 09/29/2004 5:45:00 AM PDT by FlyLow

President Bush has joked that John Kerry should debate himself. I've got a similar suggestion for Bill O'Reilly of Fox News. He should interview himself. He has achieved financial success by appealing to conservatives, but went on the CBS 60 Minutes show last Sunday sounding like a liberal. He told the program that he is pro-gun control, anti-death penalty, and pro-gay adoption "as a last resort." O'Reilly also offered the opinion that conservative critics of the Al Gore theory of global warming are "idiots."

A self-described "journalist" who dismissed Rush Limbaugh as a mere "entertainer," O'Reilly told Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes that he might vote for John Kerry, whom he described as a "patriot" he has known for 25 years. O'Reilly denounced the Swift Boat vets' ads against Kerry as "awful" and "terrible."

Nine days earlier, however, on his own "O'Reilly Factor" show on the Fox News Channel, O'Reilly had said that Kerry acted in a "craven" manner when he came back to the U.S. after the Vietnam War "by besmirching all the fine soldiers in Vietnam" when he called them war criminals. While interviewing John O'Neill, co-author of the anti-Kerry book, Unfit for Command, O'Reilly said, "I enjoyed your book."

Some observers suspect that O'Reilly, after having secured an interview with President Bush, is desperate to get an interview with Kerry before the election. In fact, when Kerry advisor James Carville appeared on his show on September 23, O'Reilly virtually begged Carville to set up a Kerry interview for him.

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1 posted on 09/29/2004 5:45:00 AM PDT by FlyLow
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To: FlyLow

Just turn O'Reilly off, sending him back to the tabloid T.V. world he came from.


2 posted on 09/29/2004 5:47:28 AM PDT by TheGeezer
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To: FlyLow

O'Reilly. The emperor has no brains.


3 posted on 09/29/2004 5:47:59 AM PDT by mattdono (Chris Matthew is Zell Miller's b*tch! (and the MSM is FR's b*tch!))
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To: FlyLow

His begging for a Kerry interview is getting really quite pathetic.


4 posted on 09/29/2004 5:48:41 AM PDT by NavVet (“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: FlyLow

It just goes to show that Bill has no character or conviction. He's made money off the conservative movement, and now he figures to do the same with the liberal movement. I won't watch or buy anything connected with Bill!


5 posted on 09/29/2004 5:49:20 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: TheGeezer

Yeah..... I quit watching him a while back.


6 posted on 09/29/2004 5:49:27 AM PDT by kjam22 (What you win them by, is what you win them to)
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To: FlyLow

O'Reilly dismissed Limbaugh? Bwahahahahahah.


7 posted on 09/29/2004 5:49:45 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.)
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To: FlyLow

The WMB (Weapon of Mass Bloviation) is just trying to ramp up sales on his new book. Ignore him.


8 posted on 09/29/2004 5:50:41 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: TheGeezer

i understand he is trying to be "independant" but damn
the swift vets have been rock solid since day one, and his lefty pandering will not get him the interviews he wants.

oreally is selling out in order to be liked.....to bad he is selling out his viewers.


9 posted on 09/29/2004 5:51:06 AM PDT by Casaubon (huh??)
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To: FlyLow

The O'Kerry Factor is old news and old media. Hannity is outdoing him by a landslide on the radio and edging him out on the tube. The No Spine Zone is far more interested in getting the interview nowadays than in getting the story. O'kerry has forgot who brung him and is dancing with those who despise him.


10 posted on 09/29/2004 5:51:18 AM PDT by Wardawg (Hanoi John Forgery le Kerrie was here.)
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To: kjam22
Yeah..... I quit watching him a while back. Me too. Ever since he shrugged off the Swift Vets.
11 posted on 09/29/2004 5:51:19 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("I love the smell of ruined careers in the morning. It smells like ... like victory!")
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To: FlyLow

O'Reillys first and basically only concern is ratings, thats why he wants a Kerry interview. My analysis he's right/ moderate but is getting so bombarded by the left for being ultra coservative that he compensates by trying to give the impression that he is not. His chances of voting for Kerry are less than nil


12 posted on 09/29/2004 5:51:52 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Stillwaters

ping


13 posted on 09/29/2004 5:52:48 AM PDT by lonevoice (Vast Right Wing Pajama Party)
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To: FlyLow

Who watches O'Reilly any more he is so pompous and full of s***, it is torture to listen to his tripe, he "might vote for Kerry" speaks volumes about this boob.


14 posted on 09/29/2004 5:53:45 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: FlyLow

O'Rielly trys to walk the fence, but I think he has missed his footing a few times... Ouch!


15 posted on 09/29/2004 5:54:07 AM PDT by jagfar
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To: traderrob6
"His chances of voting for Kerry are less than nil"

But even if that's true (which I doubt), what kind of "journalist" is he? What purpose does he serve other than his own ego.

16 posted on 09/29/2004 5:54:08 AM PDT by silent_jonny ("I love the smell of ruined careers in the morning. It smells like ... like victory!")
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To: FlyLow

After watching him give that soft-ball interview to Rosie O'Donnel some time ago, I realized that ole Billy is just in it for the money & fame. The man has no real principles apparently and an earlier poster was 100% correct, Billy is more than happy to sound somewhat conservative to get us to watch. The man is untrustworthy, two-faced, and opportunistic. I've turned him out & don't plan to go back. Let the other tree-hugging, global warming freaks (as he is one) watch his show. Somehow I don't think that that will happen...


17 posted on 09/29/2004 5:54:45 AM PDT by DonPaulJonesII
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To: DonPaulJonesII

What Bill will find out someday is that the middle ground he is looking for is populated by 8% of the country. Why would one go after an 8% market, when you could potentially play to the 45% of either side???


18 posted on 09/29/2004 5:56:34 AM PDT by kjam22 (What you win them by, is what you win them to)
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To: silent_jonny

Hes not a journalist he is an anylist....and frankly as few right of center of those that are out there i put up with him...i am stauncly conservative and find myself agreeing with him about 2/3rds of the time...hes is however undoubtedly an egotistical blowhard


19 posted on 09/29/2004 5:58:17 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: FlyLow
Rumor has it that his next book that's in the works now, will be titled:
I'm Looking Out For Me

20 posted on 09/29/2004 5:58:53 AM PDT by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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