[Jaysun]

O'Reilly tries to please everybody. Big mistake. It's impossible to "balance" issues by painting both Liberals and Conservatives as equally legitimate. To do so requires that you accept lies and fabrications in order to bolster the Liberal side - there's just no way around it. No matter the issue (environment, economics, abortion, military, patriotism, education, health care, etc.) they're unequivocally wrong and have to use lies and deceit to further their cause.

[Barlowmaker]

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.