O’Reilly on Radio: It’s a ‘Done Deal’ <Up Against Rush 12-3 EST starting March 2002>

News Max ^ | Dec 24, 2001 | staff

[RobFromGa]

Rush will beat him like a red-headed step-child. O'Reilly is good by TV standards but he is a populist, not a Conservative and three hours is way too long to be merely pithy and provacative.

[tbeatty]

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[womanvet]

GG is on from 12 - 2. Surely Westwood would not shorten a winning program for an unproven radio show.

Sounds like another mistaken announcement.

At least I hope so. Liddy is the most entertaining fellow on talk radio.

[Scythian]

The No Spin Zone is a great show on TV but nobody reads liberals and is more witty and humorous than Rush. O'Reilly will probably look back on this and say "What was I thinking?"

[dep]

o'reilly sucks. when i worked for fox briefly 13 years ago he sucked -- he's not a bright guy. loud does not mean right, except in new york city.

it's sad to see people overreach and turn into geraldos, but in this case i'm willing to make an exception. o'reilly is a professional bloviator, without an underlying philosophy. westwood is cbs, and, well, we know about that, don't we.

dep

[Slyfox]

Boy, O'Reilly's denial on Drudge sure meant a lot. I don't know why but I have never found O'Reilly to be that great. I don't think I'll listen to his show. Notice how he came out with the announcement just days after it is announced that Rush's hearing will improve? How kind of O'Reilly to wait.

[RobFromGa]

As I use the terms:

'Populists' (aka O'Reillyists) are those who go for the popular middle-class working-class votes using the same class division tactics used by the Democrats to woo the lower and lower-middle classes.

'Conservatives' are those to whom the Constitution means something, namely that the Imperial Federal Geovernment of the USA is not an income-redistribution scheme cooked up by the Founding Fathers.

The GOP does not usually live up the Conservative definition above, but hey you've got to get elected and the Constitution is a 'living document' anyway-- right?

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

Rush may do better in some areas, than Mr. Bill might...

But, if any station in the Middle Tennessee area has the gutz to carry his program, I'll be sure and tune in !!

Thanks, for the info !

[cincinnati_Steve]

Sorry to get off of the O'Reilly thread subject, but I haven't heard the G-Man in at least a year. All of the talk stations here are Clear Channel, and they yanked his show off the air a couple of years ago to give a local ex-weather dood airtime. I miss GG...he was the funniest radio personality I've ever heard, while interjecting sanity into the whole shebang. Dang, now I've gotta use a search engine to find his website...

[clikker]

Wasn't O'Reilly lecturing Drudge a few weeks back on how "I know of no such deal" and "they're USING you, Drudge"?

Some no spin zone, huh?

Of course, that is, if this report is accurate.

[Grampa Dave]

O'Reilly had better keep his day job on Fox News!

In today's market and business world, losers on the radio don't get much financial backing.

He is a winner on Fox News as what he does so is unusual on tv!

However, if his new talk show lasts one year, I will be greatly surprised! The only thing can save him would be passionate moderates. Of course that is an Oxymoron, there ain't no passionate moderates. If they were passionate about anything, they would either be a left winged liberal or a conservative!

We know that left wing talk show hosts might make it in a liberal city, but as soon as they try to even go regional, their training wheels fall off! There is no successful liberal talk show host on a regional or national basis! O' Reilly is not a liberal so he will not not even appeal to the weak liberal markets!

He sure isn't a real conservative, and the conservative audiences will tune him out when his progressive Irish side comes out on the radio.

I hope that he loses it fast and realizes that he is good at what he does at Fox and stays on FoxNews and does an even better job!

I'm sure that Sean Hannity's success and Michael Savage's success are making O'Reilly hungry for some of that radio pie. He ain't no Sean nor Michael, and he sure ain't no Rush! He will find this out very soon!

So Mr O'Reilly, you had best keep your day job at FoxNews and not burn any bridges!

[dougherty]

Bring it on! I would love to be able to listen to O'Reilly on the radio. I got tired of Rush several years ago, I don't know why, but he just bores me. I prefer Michael Savage and Sean Hannity any day over Rush.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

Michael Savage and Shawn Hannity are better then Rush but O'Reilly won't beat anyone on radio.

[spycatcher]

O'Reilly is revealed to be a lying snake and Drudge should be calling him on it now, but he's not. We should all boycott the radio show and make him slither back to TV.

[WatchOutForSnakes]

I saw O'Reilly with my own eyes and heard him with my own ears rake Drudge over the coals when he reported this. O'Reilly saying there was absolutely no truth to it and saying Drudge is not a journalist, etc. You know, the regular holier than thou attitude O'Reilly possesses. I guess the no spin zone only applies to his guests. What a lying low life hypocrite he is.

[spycatcher]

O'Reilly actually used the factual report by Drudge to create a false controversy that he hoped would further his bid to sneak up behind a deaf man and try to knock him off his perch when he was most vulnerable. The height of cynicism. Maybe George Clooney is right and O'Reilly is a small pathetic man.

[longleaf]

I've got to hand it to Rush Limbaugh. He sounded fresh for many more years than I thought it was possible for any personality to do so. But IMHO, you are right. He is over.

I'm glad he's apparently going to get his hearing back after the operation, but it won't help the fact that he has run out of ideas. He had a great run, though.

That doesn't mean I think O'Reilly is any better. I won't listen to him. I still think of him as the host of the tabloid TV show called "Inside Edition," which I preferred to its competitor, "Hard Copy," but not by much.

Limbaugh could make a real comeback if Marta would let him start bashing gays and doing "caller abortions" again. It might have been in extremely poor taste at times, but the old, fat Limbaugh was overall much funnier than the slimmed-down, self-censoring one.

"Bah, Humbug" is my take on both these hosts, in case you hadn't guessed. LOL

[fightu4it]

What a shame. We don't need Bill going head to head with Rush. We need a morning man to counter-act NPR's Morning Edition. Bill needs to go head to head with Bob Edwards. Conservative views could then be aired in the morning and afternoon slots. With Fox television News in the evening there would be much better coverage of conservative issues.

[scouse]

, but the old, fat Limbaugh was overall much funnier than the slimmed-down, self-censoring one.

I think both of them are the best two things that ever happened to talk radio.