This hat fits him just fine...
Posted on 09/17/2004 12:18:11 AM PDT by Capn TrVth
For those that don't know what "Jumped the shark" means:
There used to be this pop-culture craze, a 70's T.V. show called "Happy Days" The show's popularity was unsurpassed, it was a marketing, ratings, mania bonanza! Each episode got a little more fantastic.. Then.. They announced for 6 weeks in a row that Fonzie was going to jump his Motorcycle over a live shark in a tank in the parking lot of Arnold's. Well, Fonzie jumped the shark, and the shows ratings promptly dropped like a brick.
Which brings me to my question...
Exactly -when- did Bill O'Reilly jump the shark? was it the street-corner at the DNC haggling with Michael Moore over the terms of Moore's appearance on The Factor? Was it When he soft-balled Bono? -Was it even (post) Current Affair?
It would seem that he has indeed jumped the shark. When Exactly in your opinion did he do it?
I'm convinced that it isn't O'Reilly, but his format that is the winning formula.
People were so sick of these empty Crossfire/McLaughlin Group model one or two hosts/two to four soundbyte-barfing guest Chinese fire drills that reveal nothing that when O'Reilly's lively one on one format debuted in Prime Time, it was compelling.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly is morphing into Chris Matthews.
I always said perhaps the most spellbinding show would be Alan Keyes hosting an hour long "one on one" with Jesse Jackson/Kwese/ACLU/NOW/NARAL/GOPDEM/GayLesbo type guests/representatives. One hour with Alan. Watching him destruct the evil spawn would have been an epipheny. Instead, they threw him into the same "one righty/one lefty spewing talking points for 6 minutes" crap we see everywhere else. Now we watch him flounder in Illinois.
I dunno -- in the last couple o' nights he said he's very, very happy with his new 5 year contract with Fox....they usually don't do that to folks who are struggling.
I still like him -- he's always pro-military.
Oh'Really's unprovoked attempt to punk out Ann Coulter for being too "mean" and too conservative was the last time I ever watched the No Spine Zone.
Oh'Really is dead to me.
His attempts to discredit the Swift Boat Vets, without even bothering to examine the evidence, just proves that I acted appropriately.
NO BLOOD FOR KETCHUP!
Ann beats him on pro-military.
But I was just dreaming anyway.
Opposing question:
When will Bill O'Reilly decide to have his David Brock moment? His ego will know no heights.
Right on!
Amen!
The blow-viater fancies himself a "cut above".
We have cut him out of our viewing schedule.
He's purposely not taking sides and trying to come across as "undecided" so that he could get Dubya' on his show next week and probably Kerry soonafter.
All this is true. The most disgusting thing is seeing him poll his audience on who should be on the show. Michael Moore. Kitty Kelly. He must be a first cousin of John Fraud Kerry.
I was relishing the thought of watching his ratings plummet, but now he is going to have President Bush on next week. Nothing will ever deflate his ego now. I wish the president was going on with Brit Hume instead.
Perfect!
For me it was when he said that he wouldn't cover the Scott Peterson thing. And then a month later he started doing it on a regular basis.
When he went on radio. Rush had the conservative market dominated, so Bill decided to find a niche as a non-partisan moderate.
Add in reduced prep time for his show, and he started sprouting dumb ideas that were not backed by thought or fact.
When O'Reilly, in an interview about homosexuality, referred to something from the Old Testament by saying, "Well, it's not gospel." He was not speaking in Biblical terms. He was using the phrase in the slang sense; he simply meant that what he was referring to from the Old Testamant wasn't necessarily the undisputable truth.
Being picky, but that is not the derivation of "Jump The Shark". Fonzie was on holiday with the Cunninghams and he dared to jump over a shark while water skiing. This has come to mean the time when a once loved show will never quite be the same again.
www.jumptheshark.com for more info,,
I must admit, that seeing Geraldo standing in the wind, stating the obvious about a coming hurricane, did my heart good.
It must have been something to do with finally getting revenge for that Capone vault stunt he pulled on us those many years ago.
Seems the long slide down that high ladder is made more pathetic by the obvious and open loss of self respect that accompanies it.
Swiftie ad dittos. Not sure O'Reilly jumped the shark, or rammed the shark.
It would seem that he has indeed jumped the shark. When Exactly in your opinion did he do it?
The day he started to kiss liberal butt.
I don't see O'Reilly as top dog over at FNC for much longer.
He talks about the right-wingers like their some kind of disease. Mark my words; pretty soon you will see him backpedaling because he is going downhill fast. Ratings are his number one priority, not his beliefs.
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