Posted on 10/18/2005 2:09:30 PM PDT by churchillbuff
...Gauging the animus against O'Reilly has always been a rough art, but by his own estimation "it's gotten worse. Now it's so bad that I spend an enormous amount of money protecting myself against evil."...
the embattled life of O'Reilly has become an increasingly strange and scary one.
As O'Reilly puts it, here are the facts: There are death threats. He has to hire bodyguards. He can't check into hotels with his family. People on the street with cell phones are stealth paparazzi, capable of snagging a picture one minute, then posting it on the Web the next. He adds that during the past year he's had to "even get more stuff to make it more difficult for people to get through the wire. Who wants to live like that?"
And as a direct consequence of the lawsuit - which was settled for undisclosed terms and which both parties agreed to never speak of publicly - O'Reilly must have a third person present whenever he conducts a rare interview like this one, or talks to someone on the phone. (Dave Tabacoff, executive producer of "The O'Reilly Factor" is the minder on this early fall day.) "Anyone can accuse me of anything and [then] it's on a Web site." So little wonder that when Bill O'Reilly is asked about his future after his current contract ends a little more than two years from now, he blurts out one word even as the question is asked: "Retirement."
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A blowhard has to blow out sometime....Oreilly is out of gas...oh well.
Yes, please retire.
But lefties want peace, and love and kum-bi-ya, why is he afraid???? Because more people died in the name of the so-called "greater good" than for any other reason.
I have done business with this man and the terms overbearing, pompous and self involved do not begin to describe his abrasive character.
That said, he sure made a pile of money since he joined FOX. I wonder what he earns in total on an annual basis? My understanding is he gets paid off the ratings which determine the cost of advertising on his show. he is the ratings leader by a wide margin so I believe he does quite well.
I believe Billy Graham took similiar precautions because there were so many people eager to bear false witness.
But if he retires don't the terrorists win?
Hey B.O. Had you not been an ignoramus regarding the Swift Boat Vets I'd have cared. You blew it!
O'Reilly makes this stuff up to make himself seem relevant, important and controversial.
He is not, in fact, relevant enough to either the far left or the far right to get anyone to hate him enough to actually hurt him. The most he can do is to irritate people enough to toss off a quick email or snail mail to him... Not enough to actually get off their posteriors to actually do anything to him.
O'Reilly is no more than a Geraldo Riviera without the mustasche and sense of style.
If he retires, who's going to look out for me?????
His blaming the neonazis for the rioting in Toledo was way over the top.
The real question is "Who's looking out for #1?"
watch me - no don't watch me - no I mean watch me - I've changed my mind don't watch me - hey you idiot watch me.
Poor guy even can't go to the back room of a Thai sex club without getting his mind blown. Or talk on the phone without some strange humming noise interfering.</sarc>
Not only is he a pervert and a phony. He's an idiot!
Retire?
Sounds like he's making his bed for a new, final blow-out of a contract. Maybe after that, he'll retire.
I rather have someone like BOR on the air than not.
I agree. He said, "Public safety trumps free speech". Like you can only speak your mind as long as no one else violently objects. What an idiot.
Maybe if he were an advocate of the Second Amendment, he could carry his own protection! I know for a fact that he is not.
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