Posted on 09/20/2011 4:02:49 AM PDT by iowamark
The author says O Reilly has an admirable sense of independence (or something like that.) To me it seems more like an intellectual incoherence.
IMO, Mr. O’Reily often gets distracted by his voice echoing around in his head.
the man is a big mouth, arrogant and certainly thinks he knows it all.
He even calls for a VAT but then says it is not an increase in taxes.
He’s a buffoon and even on social issues like the homosexual agenda he hides from it and backed away from it with pro homo , pro cross dressing liberal Megyn Kelly
I stopped watching the blowhard several years ago when he had on a former Israeli PM and tried to inform him about the Middle East.
Precisely. He has no underlying ideological (rule of law) for his opinions, so it is whatever he wants. He thinks this makes him "independent", but it just makes him an irrational idiot. Having a clear ideology is a good thing.
He believes in the government picking winners and losers just like the Dems, he just wants different people to be chosen.
O’Reilly doesn’t even know the difference between a loofah and a falafel.
Yes, he is SOOO “Ted Baxter” indeed.....
stopped watching the fool when he started to cry because he could not get an interview with president zero and then confronted zero.
>>> Intellectual incoherence combined with maniacal narcissism is O’Reilly in a nutshell.>>>
True. And the only redeeming part is that over at MSNBC and CNN, they know he is incoherent, not that smart, and a world class egomaniac - and they also know his ratings still kick their butts.
So while I have no idea what must go on inside the head of a BOR viewer, I know that he is in the heads of the hard core libs. That’s the only good thing.
As an occasional BOR viewer, he is an egomaniac and really thinks the sun revolves around him, but every once in a while, he has a nugget of truth and light.
He is well dressed by Hickey-Freeman.
He is well dressed, and he does sometimes stumble onto a nugget of truth. And I do flip through for a few minutes (usually when it’s Miller Time) from time to time.
I still have no idea what is going on in the head of regular viewers, the kind who drive his ratings and buy all that “Factor Gear” etc. That I just don’t understand. The intellectual inconsistencies drive me up a wall.
(I’m like Monk that way).
I really hate it that he tries to talk over any opinion that isn’t his own! He does have good guests from time to time and then ruins it for me by showing his ignorance. I refer to him as the Jerry Springer of Fox News.
Megyn Kelly is UNWATCHABLE!!!
As if having to endure that interview with BOR's lips planted firmly on obams's bum wasn't evidence enough???
He appeals to a segment of the mushy middle who don't have a lot happening between the ears. He's a populist panderer of the lowest sort...he knows how to appeal to his audience and he does so, shamelessly.
There is one guest that O'Reilly himself is afraid to invite on his show. He is afraid because he cannot take what he doles out. That person is knowledgeable in politics, personalities, ideology, prophetic, and lucid. That highly independent and creative person is Michael Savage, successful writer, philosopher, and radio talk show host.
O'Reilly will not even admit that Savage exists. O'Reilly speaks for the entire Fox network I believe.
I guess you’re right. He definitely is shameless in how he appeals to the dumbed down middle. This explains why he thinks everybody in the political media is simply performing a “schtick” - because that’s what he is doing.
That’s why he has never been able to understand Rush’s program or his audience or his appeal. Like him or not (and I like him) what you hear is what you get with Rush. With O Reilly, it’s much more cynical.
I cannot imagine being so ignorant as to not see through O Reilly - but obviously a lot of folks are.
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