Posted on 10/20/2005 5:09:27 AM PDT by goarmy
I've been on vacation, and upon snapping on the TV this morning to check the forecast, I see Bill O'Reilly uneasily in the guest chair chatting it up with Katie Couric on The Today Show! To me, the world had turned upside down. Am I missing something? How long has this been going on? Is he a regular?
From what I saw (in amazement), they briefly discussed the following:
*His new book ("The O'Reilly Factor for Kids")
*Harriet Miers (O'REILLY: "I say, 'Give her a chance!'" and "The right wing are a bunch of hippocrits because they complain about the left's activist judges but they want their own."
*Religion (O'REILLY: "The left automatically assumes that an Evangelical Christian is a nut")
*His program, "The O'Reilly Factor" (COURIC: "Don't you think that there needs to be more news programs that involve CONSTRUCTIVE discussion over issues?")
*His pending retirement (see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505418/posts)
But my favorite was at the end. They said some polite things to each other to wrap up the segment, when O'Reilly blurted the following...
O'REILLY: "Where's (Tim) Russert? I think he needs to be arrested" (over his involvement in the Plame case).
COURIC: "You'll have to take that up with HIM."
Katie looked as if she'd vomit as she took the program to the commercial.
I haven't paid much attention to O'Reilly in a couple of years, but coffee almost came out of my nose when he got that reaction from Katie.
This is a joke, right?
(Does it have a falafel recipe in it?)
LOL....
"This is a joke, right?"
Yeah, I thought it was, too. But read 'em and weep:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6192399/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505776/posts
Bill O'Reilly on Today Show Casts a Pox on Both Houses - Buzz Word: "Ideologue"
Today Show/Newsbusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 10/20/2005 7:10:48 AM CDT by governsleastgovernsbest
All in all, he's #1 on the cable news analysis all by himself because of fools like Rotten Russert and Lardball Mathews. What goes around.....
No joke.
It's a best seller.
Holy crap, that is sad.
Only for parents that are Morons! BOR is the biggest self hyped up steaming pile of crap since PT Barnum!
I enjoyed O'Reilly's interview. He was also good on the Daily Show, and Jon Stewart actually praised him for his independence and not always towing the party line.
O'Reilly knows he's a target, yet he goes on these shows, like the Today show and Daily Show.... and walks the walk. He's got guts - and a bestseller.
To: starfish923 No joke. It's a best seller. Only for parents that are Morons! BOR is the biggest self hyped up steaming pile of crap since PT Barnum!
To: starfish923 I enjoyed O'Reilly's interview. He was also good on the Daily Show, and Jon Stewart actually praised him for his independence and not always towing the party line.
Lol.
Two against, one for.
A little bit of O'Reilly goes a long way.
He's like bitter medicine sometimes, or a flu shot.
He DOESN'T bow to either party, the MSM, ANY foreign country or press or bullies of whatever ilk. However, he shows his own bias by the "experts" he brings on.
Examples:
1. He almost always brings on an Arab for "balance" who is an absolute zero. A Muslim he brings on MAY be less of a zero but it's a Muslim who agrees with O'Reilly. But any Arab is almost always a big fat zero.
The ONE exception I've seen is a Saudi (American mother, obviously) who works for the government/royal family and is OBVIOUSLY brighter than O'Reilly, does ALL his homework, WON'T get rattled by any of O'Reilly's comments about Saudis (no matter how nasty, and they are ALWAYS very nasty) and is a total straight shooter.
Harhar, O'Reilly doesn't have him on often.
2. O'Reilly almost always puts on a sreaming queen to speak about (and for, obviously) homosexuals and their affairs....as if he represents ALL homosexuals.
On the whole, I'll take BOR's occasional stale air for the quantity of fresh that he brings to the electronic media.
I haven't read his book for young teens. It MIGHT even be good. What a concept.
I DID read his detective book. Not bad.
Nor does he have any principles whatsoever. And he exults in his own ignorance -- I've heard him brag that he never reads a book before interviewing its author.
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