[jraven]

I think he's imploding. Even if you LIKE various talk show hosts keep this in mind:
Many (but not all) radio and tv. talk show hosts reach a point in their career where they're getting good ratings or attention...and they CHANGE. This is natural, but the change is often where they lose respect for their listeners or their guests. It's sort of like Citizen Kane, where the idealistic newspaper owner "sells out" the older he gets and says "Rosebud" in the end.
I think O'Reilly has gone WAY down hill. I mean WAY downhill the past few months.
Frankly, I'm becoming a huge fan of the Goldsboro show on MSNBC. That guy seems to love what he does, almost gleefully enter into debate, and is 100 percent blunt. O'Reilly uses the word "success" referring to him and his show and "power" referring to him and his show" an awful lot now.
If he does not halt his slide in this direction he'll likely find he's losing ratings, find it harder to get guests, etc.
Almost all top radio talk show hosts are quite different once they hit the top, from when they were coming up. (An unsung talent is San Diego's Roger Hedgecock)

[onyx]

Do you mean Scarboro, the former congressman from FLA?

[citizen]

I like Joe Scarbourgh on MSNBC at 10PM [former Repub. congressman from FL]

[sydbas]

I think since the war 'The Factor' simply has not been very good. Now to give him a slight benefit of the doubt it's got to be hard to get back into normal type news after a war. However things like his ridiculous looting stand, which we have now learned was not nearly as bad as had been reported, that caused him to give the military a 'B' grade, and which I have yet to hear him say he was wrong about, and now this, just stupid, prom story is really turning off a lot of people, including me.

[pave palestine]

Hedgecock's OK, but he's not Walter Williams. And who was the guy doing Rush's show today? He wouldn't let a caller talk long enough to realize that he was actually for Pres. Bush's tax cuts, before running off at the mouth.

[Claire Voyant]

I LOVE Roger Hedgecock....and Glenn Beck!! But O'Reilly's show is LAME-O.