Posted on 05/28/2009 6:21:24 PM PDT by kristinn
(Note: this report is a paraphrase based on memory, not tape. Any inaccuracies will be corrected down thread by me or other FReepers.)
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly responded on The Factor tonight to criticisms of his attacks last night on Free Republic and Hot Air by the sites' respective founders, Jim Robinson and Michelle Malkin. The segment last night was on reaction by right and left wing websites on the Judge Sotomayor nomination to the Supreme Court. Free Republic was singled out for an obnoxious comment about Sotomayor being diabetic. Hot Air was singled out for an impolitic strongly worded appeal to block her nomination.
O'Reilly noted Malkin's reaction made on Fox and Friends this morning and Robinson's comments which were posted on Free Republic and e-mailed to The Factor.
O'Reilly agreed that both had points but that the sites should better monitor their comments as he does at his site and that O'Reilly would hold both right and left wing sites accountable.
Hot Air complained that the comment singled out by O'Reilly was labeled a 'blog' entry rather than a comment, thereby leaving the impression it was made by one of the site's official posters.
Jim Robinson's response was boiled down to Jim calling O'Reilly "an elitist gasbag" and noting that offending comments sometimes get past the moderators. O'Reilly did not inform his viewers that Mr. Robinson is a diabetic who has lost family to the disease.
The segment aired about forty minutes into the program tonight.
FR threads one and two.
Video of last night's Factor segment.
Michelle Malkin on Fox and Friends.
I bet he is going crazy seeing Franken another idiot become part of the government. How in heaven did our country get this way.Too much hollywood cultural!
Um. No. You speak your opinion.
I’ve decided. Bill O’Reilly IS an elitist gasbag and a pompous a$$.
I can stomach him for all of 30 seconds before I practically break something grabbing for the remote.
And that’s the memo. ;^)
The word is lukewarm! And Jesus had words for those who are lukewarm.
He has become a big mouthed bore. "Elite gasbag" is a good description.
Turned off the TV November 4th 2008..........Glad JR nailed that POS Presstitute Oh’Really ! Hell Whorealdo has better credibility that Willy Oh’Really !
That's correct, add to that the segments where he shows graphs of conservative and liberal reactions to comments he's made. As if reaction to his own comments is something anyone other than himself wants to see.
Never ping me .
Once upon a time in a Galaxy far, far away O’Reilly was a thoughtful and well modulated interviewer who rarely interrupted or raised his voice.
These last few years he is increasingly a self centered windbag ...
Just some brown stuff on his nose.
Once upon a time in a Galaxy far, far away O’Reilly was a thoughtful and well modulated interviewer who rarely interrupted or raised his voice.
These last few years he is increasingly a self centered windbag ...
I disagree. Fox News is the ONLY news outlet left that provides both sides of any given issue. Take Greta, Beck and my personal favorite, Neil Cavuto, for example. Or Brit Hume, now replaced by Brett (who is also very good), but Brit still appears now and then.
Why would any Conservative want to see Fox’s ratings go down? They truly are the last option we have for getting any assemblence of “fair and balanced”. If you want a right-wing conservative station that only reports conservative views on the issues so everyone can cheer happily along, then that station would be no better than the biased left-wing MSNBC, CNN, PBS, CBS, et al.
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amen amen.O’Reilly has this woman on that I believe was a porn star,stripper,I can’t remember and she talks about interesting topics. Origins of stuff,anyway you can just watch him twitch and squirm when she’s on the show. Cavuto does the same thing with Victoria Secret,women with little clothes on. BS These are suppose to be serious news men? We all know O’Reilly is a pervert now. If I want to find real news I come here!!!!!!!
O’Reilly is a narcissistic as* just like the Marxist Barry Hussein.
You know after reading what you said here,I got it! Bill O’Reilly only likes women for their shall we say sex appeal. Otherwise if they are smart and have the nerve to bring an issue that makes him look lacking he goes after them or tries to make fun at them. Kid around instead of taking them serious. I am sitting here going over in my head at different women he interviewed,I don’t think he likes women.
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