[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]

duplicate

[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.

[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 !

[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.

[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.

[arete]

Well hoooly cow!

Richard W.

[arete]

How about a holiday bump for the radio deal.

[birbear]

O'Reilly will also join Westwood's stellar lineup of radio talent, which includes Don Imus, Laura Ingraham, Tom Leykis, G. Gordon Liddy and Jim Bohannon.

Stellar?

I think Don Imus might be on some station out of Everett, WA...but I haven't seen nor heard any ads for him in over a year.

Laura Ingraham. WHO!!?!?!?

Tom Leykis -- people still listen to him? He's on some Seattle station, but much like Imus, he seems to come and go from station to station around here.

G. Gordon Liddy -- Again, if he's on a Seattle station somebody please clue me in as to which one...

Jim Bohannon -- isn't he just a remake of the "Fabulous Sports Babe"???

This is a "stellar" line up?
Bill will be in good company then... a bunch of has-beens and never-weres

[1Old Pro]

The water's warm, c'mon in.

[is_is]

I like O'Reilly but i think i would have gone up against Dr. Laura before Rush....

[Sungirl]

Oreilly might be OK...but why is he on at the same time as Rush? Is he out there to compete or to educate? Whose side is he on?

[steveisright]

I don't really know what it is about O'Reilly, but i disagree with him much more than i agree with him, and i hardly find much to disagree with Rush on, except on many nationalist ideals both share. Even though as a libertarian i should disagree with both somewhat nationalist figures, Rush seems to really think the issues through while O'Reilly simply seems to "investigate" things blindly.

My two cents.

[lady lawyer]

Every once in a while, O'Reilly will take on a topic I know something about. When that happens, it's apparent he doesn't have a clue.

[blackbart1]

Interesting...Bill said that he wouldn't run against Rush without his permission. I wonder if he stuck to that and recieved Rush's OK.

I like Bill but I like Rush more. I think that Rush has a more over all outlook or vision than just about anyone (he sees the big picture) and he certainly has the intelligence and is as articulate as any one around. Rush's ideas politically and many other ways are very much like ours. Bill leans to the left in certain things. (Can't name them right now.)

[Lazamataz]

O'Reilly is good.

Rush Limbaugh is better.

It's like Paul Harvey -- the pro's can never truly be challenged.