[nopardons]

I started listening to Rush , in 1989. I stopped, a few years ago , after a day, when he spent more than two hours talking about toe fungus. I don't like football, I don't care who he played golf with , nor how many times he went to the bathroom, over the weekend. He lost the fire in his belly, a very long time ago.Once he married Marta, he started to go out, stopped paying as much attention to what is going on, and frankly, for the past several years, his news has been day to week to even month old news, that we had chewed over on FR more extensively.

I tune in, now and again; however , I don't need to hear his continual whoning about the E-mail he gets about hw he should stop his endless Bush bashing, nor the then ensuing Bush bashing tirade.

O'Rielly has bumped Bob Grant ( shocking ! ) , in the N.Y. area and is up against Hannity ; who follows Rush, here. O'Rielly is NO match for Sean. After listening to BoR , for awhile ( b-o-r-i-n-g ! ) , I went back to listening to Sean. I won't tune in again. O'Rielly is no Bob Grant, and I doubt that Bob's faithful listeners are going to stick with Bill. I started listening to Bob Grant in the late 1960's . He changed, after the debacle, of the 90's, and I went to Hannity. Many others did too. Grant's diehard listeners, are NOT going to listen to Bill. My guess is that they'll move over to Sean.

Bottom line ? IMHO, O'Rielly isn't going to make it in the tri state area.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Competition will make everyone's show better. It's premature to say that O'Reilly's show won't make it after one day. I enjoyed O'Reilly's variety of topics and the lack of obsessive Bush bashing. The fact is you now have the option of switching back and forth to different hosts.