Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Stewart Vs. O’Reilly
by Jeffrey JenaWhen I heard that Jon Stewart was going to sit down for an interview with Bill O’Reilly, I had to tune in. As a comic I have a great respect for Stewart. We couldn’t be further apart on a number of political issues but along with Lewis Black and Will Durst he is a left-wing comic who isn’t afraid to skewer his own side when it needs it. He’s not exactly an equal opportunity mocker but at least he’s willing to admit his side has a few dunderheads too. He cut his comedy teeth on the club circuit and has great writing and performance chops.
Bill O’Reilly is a sharp interviewer and most of the times willing to ask the tough questions and not worry if the guest will be coming back. I think it will be a long time before President Obama grows the cajones for a round two with Mr. O’Reilly. John McCain didn’t even have the spine for round one.
It’s also obvious that Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Stewart have a mutual respect and a good relationship. I think a few times during the interview it kept Mr. O’Reilly from following up with Stewart and let his lay down a few years of liberal rubber in the “no spin zone.” At times it seemed more Leno Show than a news interview. When Stewart accused Fox News of being a “cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…” it didn’t seem that O’Reilly had his new buddy, Glenn Beck’s back as much as I would have liked him to, but hey that’s just me. That is my only criticism of this otherwise funny and enjoyable two-day interview. It was excellent television.
I give Mr. O’Reilly full marks for the show! It’s tough to do a serious interview with a comedian. If you ask him a question and he doesn’t want to answer he always has the option of going for the joke. Stewart did this a number of times which has a way of putting even the best interviewer off the track. The “comic option” also allows a comedian to bend and mis-state the fact, and if called on it, he can always hide behind the joke. For example when Stewart called O’Reilly “the voice of reason” on Fox News, Mr. O’Reilly asked about Greta Van Susteren. Stewart, who then realizing that there were others on Fox who many might be considered reasonable, parried with a joke.
The real problem with interviewing a guy like Jon Stewart is that nobody wants to hear a comedian be serious. The portion of the interview where Stewart tries to give serious critiques of policy show that he lacks depth of understanding of critical issues. A lot of Mr. Stewart’s answers to Mr. O’Reilly’s more serious questions lacked, and here is your O’Reilly “Word of the Day,” verisimilitude!
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O'Reilly's a moderate. He's not going to have Glenn's back.
You're not ever going to see Stewart and Beck go at it, because Stewart's still going to use his liberal talking points while being snide – and Beck's going to be all about the perfect storm.
The interview didn't disappoint me because I didn't have high expectations to begin with.
O'reilly has been trying way too hard to act like he's "fair and balanced" for quite a while now. He's always too soft on Liberals. I prefer Beck and Hannity.
The full, unedited interview has been posted online at the Fox news website. I think if you watch that, you will see that Stewart's answers were far more nuanced and indepth then you have presented them to be here, Jeffrey. It's amazing how much was cut….
Yes, a thousand times yes. You accurately point out why it is useless to "debate" a mental midget like Mr. Stewart.
In Stewart's his thinking is "oil slick" deep on most issues and consists of sloganeering from the left wing playbook. As always when cornered he resorts to cracking wise and lampooning the questioner which absolves him of having to answer and makes the other side look foolish.
The problem is that in today's society Stewart's drive-by ridicule is considered real analysis.
He snickers that he is just a comedian but this generation thinks his sugar water is real medicine.
The real problem with interviewing a guy like Jon Stewart is that nobody wants to hear a comedian be serious
Good point. I still think Stewart is salvageable, the fact that he was willing to get backed into a corner, and then make jokes about it to get back out, to proves he realizes there are serious ideological questions on the left.
Perhaps being a free-wheeling capitalist comedian in the business has rubbed off on him a bit.
I'll never understand the hoopla over Stewart. He has a show on a rather obscure cable channel where he reads the jokes his writers put on a teleprompter while he makes goofy faces and mugs outrageously before the camera. This is a great talent? We are supposed to care what he thinks because a bunch of basement dwellers and media types think he's profound?
Stewart isn't even remotely funny. Furthermore, why should I care what some hack comedian thinks about politics? It's not like the guy is even close to being qualified.
As Rush Limbaugh put it, Bill O'Reilly is Ted Baxter.
Yeah that these two going at it isn't exactly Buckley versus Vidal.
I do not care for Stewart politic's, but it is actually Bill O'Reilly who has gotten so full of himself, I can almost no longer stand to listen to him. He will ask a question of, say, a Bernie Goldberg and start talking over him within the first 10 seconds. It's not that he doesn't ask some good questions from time to time, but he uses that time tested method to bray louder in a debate to intimidate the other party.
Nonsense. He rambles more, but his answers are still shallow and meaningless, because as vain as he is, Stewart does not understand policy. This is why he was so out of his depth with John Yoo, why Jonah Goldberg argued circles around Stewart, and why Stewart claimed Truman was a war criminal during the Cliff May interview. He's just a comedian.
I thought they both came off as smug and self satisfied, but Stewart seemed more snobby and elitist. JMHO
Is "nuanced" code for "it can be interpreted any way you want if you put forth some effort"?
Did anyone ever like Bill O'Reilly? I recall he kind of made a name for himself for a while by being loud and obnoxious. Then he kind of faded into the background. It's funny that Colbert bases his tired schtick on imitating a guy nobody cares about anymore.
It could be, if Stewart was the "TV" Vidal and O'Reilly the "TV version" of Buckley.
It would've been more entertaining to have "Stewart" and "O'Reilly" tags taped onto a pair of Rock'em-Sock'em Robots (anybody remember those?) and have the duel that way.
Glad to hear it. Isn't is astonishing that the other networks NEVER offer conservatives a chance to appear nuanced and in-depth. On the other networks, it's all about trying to make conservatives look bad. CTG – you probably have no idea what I am talking about, I know.
OhReally continues to this date to inform his admiring audience that he "is watching out for the folks". This Harvard grad has sought to convince the entire world that the Honolulu Advertiser is HIS source for HIS representations that he had verified [on behalf of the "folks"] that BHO was eligible to be POTUS. OMG America, you "really" can't be this stupid! Given the mountain of evidence counter to OhReally's assertions, HIS source being the Honolulu Advertiser is [to put it mildly] in question. It is an immutable law, to maintain a BRAND, requires TRUST and CONTINUOUS QUALITY. If the media charade continues unchanged, OhReally, Beck, and all of the other FOXsters and media elites days are surely limited as dominate BRANDS. Some time between now and the November elections, the ever-growing BHO eligibility issue specific to NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is going to viral on the internet, and when it does, OhReally is "really" going to be in deep do-do with the "folks" who thought he was true to his work/word and was "really watching out for them". Poof, instant diminished brand [remember Tylenol]. It "really" will be comedy to watch these arrogant ego-centric elitists back-peddle and drown in the telepromter talking points. It appears Mr OhReally may not have learned U.S Constitutional history during his time at Harvard; its not the Honolulu Advertiser, but the U.S. Constitution might prove a reliable source as the basis for eligibility verifications:
Nowhere in U.S. history is Natural Born Citizen defined that allows a person with any form of divided loyalty to be POTUS. U.S. History, as well as U.S. Code is unambiguous involving the legal basis of Natural Born Citizen, to insinuate other, is to perpetuate dangerous propaganda founded in an insidious desire to out maneuver and manipulate tax paying legal US citizens. References:
-1758 Vattel’s “The Law of Nations” –The Framers relied on many of the principles to write the Constitution
-1787-1788-The Federalist Papers, including Justice John Jay’s letter to George Washington
-Article II, Section I, United States Constitution
-The Naturalization Act of 1790-repeal of “Natural Born” from the 1790 Act in 1795
-The Framers of the 14th Amendment-(citizenship granted, not Natural Born Citizenship); Rep. John Bingham and Sen. Lyman Trumball define Natural Born Citizen
-Congressional Hearing on Dual Citizenship, 2005, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” discussion.
If you happen to work at Fox, please kindly consider passing the following links along to Mr. OhReally, it appears he is in need of a new source for HIS hero work on behalf of those "folks" he claims to love. Thank you.
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/10/red-flags-...
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/12/his-name-i...
http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/01/16/citizens-h...
I tend to agree. Maybe the word of the day should be "coxcombery".
I thought O'Reilly really blew the Obama interview. I heard not a single hard-ball question.
Anything O'Reilly does, he does for O'Reilly.
Not even taking into account that every guest on his show is pre-interviewed. Which makes his electronic lynching by John Yoo even more satisfying.
You are unhinged.
nonsense. Take, for example, Stewarts cristicism of Fox News making up "news stories/trends" to generate fearmongering. Watch the clip that was shown on TV, then go back to the Fox News site and watch the whole thing. Example "czars". Bet you didn't watch the whole thing, did you? B/c if you were watching objectively, you would have already noticed that was just one example amongst many. But you are right, he is just a comedian, ultimately. And Bill O'Reilly (who I typically like) didn't really come out ahead on this one, and he should have considering what he is.
maybe in your simple little mind.
We weren't talking about other networks. And you sound histrionic.
O'Reilly's show still have huge ratings, but you don't hear about him as much in the mainstream media anymore. I think that's because the media has lessened its fixation on making him out to be a fascist kook that only appeals to the Westboro Baptist church "crowd." O'Reilly, like Ann Coulter, is and will remain a huge draw with a loyal following, but he's not a hot topic.
This article is very fair and well thought out. We need more of this. Just because you disagree with someone politically doesn't mean you have to hate them. This shows both men can be respected BECAUSE of their civil differences of opinion.
If anybody, it's the Liberal media who makes up "news stories/trends" to generate hate/bias and fear mongering. MSNBC are KINGS of false accusations and straight up biased lying "reporting."
Correctly said Carolne. Kailuagirl, Bush was actually elected in 2000, Obama is a citizen and has been president for a year. (Much to our dismay) GET OVER it!
Sorry CtG, but the "czar" story was a legit story. In less than a year, Obama tripled the number of executive-branch "czars" that avoided confirmation than Bush created in two terms. This major bypass of congress lends itself to corruption and allows people of questionable character and values to have way to much influence on our country….check out this chart, look at the massive increase in czars without confirmation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/grap...
I would rather get in the ring with Mike Tyson, than face an audience as a stand up comic. It would terrify me.
when bill isn't talking over his guests, or leering at the blonde news babes, he is hawking his books.
catholic in name only, like kennedy, he opines, and pontificates and furrows his ample brow…letting us know how fair/balanced he is. when one repeats, one wonders.
and so bill i implore PAUCITY NOT PLETHORA
did i mention jon is a douchebag?
O'Reilly started going south right around the time of his infamous "luffa" shower incident a few years back. Between his talking over his guests (as has been mentioned) and his tendency to be under-informed on most issues, I've come to cherish the times when Laura Ingraham subs for him. She. Is. Great!
only not as funny.
Oooooo, great retort there, CTG. That comment certainly added to the discussion.
Truer words were never spoken. O'Reilly's point was that the newspaper announcements were made twice when Obama was born…and nobody knew then that he would become President so there's no way the announcement can be false. And, like you said, the guy's POTUS and it's pretty much going to stay that way until 2012.
You know they lay out the rules for an interview with the pres ahead of time. He can't have someone asking him real questions on national TV. That's why the best way to know Obama is by watching old video of him speaking to unions and such.
"considering what he is."
And that would be… what, exactly???
Seriously. It's like that other weak-minded douchebagger's "God you people are stupid" following a comment that contains nothing of value whatsoever.
There it is! "Histrionic". They like those words- "histrionic", "hyperventilating", "hysterical". All terms intended to demean women or compare men to crazy, out-of-control women ruled by the whims of their ca-raaaaazy uteri.
FU and your idiotic misogyny, douchebagger.
I think it's more because Beck is the new punching bag for the left. God, they love hating that guy!
bill does his job and does it well. He does a lot of great things for the conservative movement, MUCH more good then bad. give him a break! he's a moderate. we are all just human, people. maybe if we were not looking for someone to worship we would not be so let down when we dont agree with everything they do.
No, "nuanced" is code for "way too complex for you to understand, you stupid, peon racist!"
I get the sense that O'Reilly really isn't thrilled with Beck's success. Whenever Beck is on O'Reilly it seems as if there's a little resentment there. O'Reilly's been the big fish at Fox for a long time and all of a sudden Beck comes in and now he's only second to Oprah in popularity. I don't think Beck needs O'Reilly to defend him and I don't think O'Reilly's going to go out of his way to do so. Methinks his ego is a tad bruised. Though, to be fair, I'm not sure how many people in O'Reilly's position would handle the new kid stealing their thunder.
"Hey you knocked my block off!!"
Yeah TJ he, O'Reilly, has been getting harder and harder to take. He can't seem to help himself from interupting Bernie. You can tell by the way Bernie hesitates when commenting or answering, that he's used to being talked over.
I think you are correct. Bill O tries to behave magnanimous, but it is not convincing me.
On that subject, note how well Beck handles the whole situation sort of sensing that he need to massage the O'reilly ego regularly to not "rock the boat"
Anyone seen their show (bold Fresh Tour) at all and if so what was your impression?
Darlings, you don't udnerstand Stewart because his show goes right over your pointed heads.
"obscure cable channel"? COmedy Central hasn't made its way down into your trailer park yet?
Stewart is the lead member of the writing team, so no, he doesn't just read a TelePrompter.
And if making funny faces and mugging for the camera is an issue with you DO NOT watch that clown Glen Beck on Faux news! He'll have you throwing things at your tv.
The way he talks down to his audience, while Stewart writes for a certain elvel of intellect, is clear evidence of the truth of my first statement above.
If you don't get Stewart's jokes, you are probably a Faux News watcher and should stay on that short bus where you're comfortable.
Lauren I am sensing in the hate in you young padawan. Channel you inner unicorn and calm down. Some Dame was just asking a question.
CTG
Thanks for reading but I take issue with your premise. I watched the full interview o the Fox News website as well and think it only further supports my point that when he was "cornered" by O'Reilly he went to the joke as an escape.
O'Reilly is a funny leprican, he makes me laugh more than Stewart.
I think Jon Stewart is a very talented guy, I have seen him live and know him to be an excellent joke writer. His staff includes Lizz Winstead another very talented performer/writer who is also my polar political opposite. I have said this before that if I deny that people who I don't agree with are not talented or are not at times enjoyable I would be limited to Gary Senise and Tom Selleck movies and Country music, not that there is anything wrong with those.
I have also contended that one of the majo differences between conservative and liberals is that we have a greater capacity to laugh at ourselves where libs often give you the "that's not funny" cold soulder whene you are skewering their sacred cows, ie BHO
Nobody, not even on Fox, asks people like Stewart how come it is OK for ALL the MSM anchors to be avowed liberals (Couric, Gibson, Stephanopoulous, etc., etc.)? Then follow up when they deny it with FACTS. I'm always more impressed with the questions they don't ask than those they do.
I thought O'Reilly used all the usual tactics. Being overbearing, talking over Stewart a lot of the time, jabbing his finger, glaring, raising his voice. All the usual bully stuff and I think it worked in intimidating Stewart a bit.
O'Reilly and Stewart are both doing "schtick".
Neither one of them cares about "the folks".
At least O'Reilly has more than 4 facial expressions.
They have both jumped the shark, so now the next stunt is to do an interview together and act like they are sincere.
Oh, I'm sure I'll never reach Lauren's "elvel" of intellect. Thank goodness…
I agree with you sooth, but as MANY of the posts here show, we still have a long way to go before we're back to respectful disagreement. It seems the majority of responses to this article are either to show "Jon Stewart for the elitist, snobby, liberal he is" or to show "O'Reilly for the fascist bully that he is". When did we lose the ability to disagree with someone's opinion without hating and demonizing them?
O'Reilly is aggressive and to the point. He clearly enjoys calling his guests when they mislead or misdirect. I don't know the guy personally, but I like that he generally goes after people who try to get around important questions. Stewart can be funny, and while I don't agree with some of his ideas, he's intelligent and willing to call people out for ridicule when they deserve it.
The last time I checked, NEITHER of them had cloven hooves.
Over all very good TV.
Bill and Jon both have niches that they serve – very different niches.
Since this was Home Game BO give Stewart props.
The point that comes out in all is that very news has some bias – the fact Fox gives more of the "fair and balance" type facts and it's opinion is more clearly labeled makes them the hands down winner they are. Most of the rest of the media have not figured out how to separate fact from opinion – they can not figure what stories are even "news".
Bill has interesting nich – he is not going to the guy everyone wants to talk to as much as he would like think that he is. I do not see a next step for him. Beck is the more questionable – he is like a players type coach with a touch of a comic/actor. Both have strong staffs and do fine research. I think the fued between them is a act. Bill has no looked up to anyone in years-it is just something to talk about.
At this point I don't care about his Birth Certificate. I want to see his HS Transcipts; his college transcripts; his grad school transcripts. Why is he spending so much money hiding them?
Likewise!
So you watched the whole unedited tape for Jon Stewart, did you bother to do the same for Sarah Palin?
What Stewart was doing IMO, was to distant himself from the hysterics of Keith Olbermann. Olbermann truly came unglued over Scott Brown and crossed a line into bizarreness and Stewart wants to be sure he's not lumped with him (i.e., "All those guys on the left, Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart and Chris Matthews are so….).
He's a smart guy and he acquitted himself well on the show. The truth does not lie with the Keith Olbermann's or the Glenn Beck's of the world. It lies between the beliefs of Stewart and O'Reilly.
At the end of the day, John Stewart and his liberal pals in the entertainment industry are just entertainers with opinions. When it comes to politics, they're no different than the guy who works at the neighborhood auto repair shop. Most have no professional experience or policy expertise that makes their opinions more relevant than anyone else's. What they do have that most of don't is a venue from which to opine and a fan base that hangs on every word.
Hard Ball is a different show hosted by a different half-witted blowhard.
BO is the No Spin Zone.
<iso now the next stunt is to do an interview together and act like they are sincere. </i>
Better than releasing a sex tape, I guess.
I think Bill O'Reilly shows his true rudeness, lack of thought, and dirty debate tactics once again. This article almost quotes BillO's points verbatim, and is just as biased as the agenda BillO was trying to push through in this interview. He doesn't ask hardball questions, and he doesn't let his guests complete what they are saying. John was well spoken, used real facts with SOURCES. (I never see sources backing the made up statistics BillO uses) Stewart was intelligent enough to articulate his thoughts and realize that nothing is BLACK or WHITE. Things are shades of grey and everything needs to be given fair and comprehensive analysis by not pigeonholing it to "How's he doing?" John is far more insightful, respectful, and intelligent that BillO. By far the better man.
The thing this article and the comments leave me wondering is… did any of you see the REAL interview between these two? Or did you watch the FOX version that was chopped down to about 15% of the whole interview just to put BillO in the best light possible and save face.
Interesting that comments on this obviously republican (conservative) biased website go through an approval process, and my last few comments that don't stroke BillO's viewpoint doesn't get published. In fact I see hardly any comments here supporting Stewart. Too bad censorship occurs so media outlets like TV or this very website can filter information and push their agendas upon the public.
It is also amusing that BillO tries to nail Stewart for cutting up and editing interviews no matter how crooked or dishonest to push his own viewpoints and make himself look good, when BillO turns around and cuts out 85% of the REAL interview.
Sorry, but Stewart was much more thoughtful, intelligent, respectful, and articulate person. Overall the better man.
In other place and time Jon Leiboviz(Stuart) would be nothing more then a funny shoemakers apprentice in a little village near Mozhaiske or Lublina.
His Jewish ''intellectual'' bolshevism is so unoriginal, makes one cringe. But then again, America's youth had been educated to enjoy and support this nonsense, makes them feel being smart and important.
Leno is just as far left as Stewart and not nearly as funny…
Are you kidding me? Glenn and O'Reilly are best of friends;they are doing the "Bold Fresh Tour" and it has been playing "round the country." You are dis-informed if you don't think O'Reilly has Glenn's back! The tour has sold out almost everywhere and has been shown in movie theaters across the country.
Jeffrey, I'm not saying Stewart is not talented simply because I don't agree with him politically. Many comedians and actors have skewered my sacred cows and I still watch them happily. (Carlin can never be called conservative, yet I think he was probably the funniest comedian ever.)
Those of Stewart's ilk are smugly self-important until they go too far and are refuted… they fall on the old standby of "Hey, I'm just a comedian…" Stewart belongs to the Olbermann school of yuks: talk in a funny, mocking voice, feign moral outrage, and make a silly face…hahaha, my sides are killin' me…
You are right that liberals take themselves too seriously. Stewart fills that bill very neatly.
SQT, could you imagine what Beck's ratings would be if he actually had a primetime time slot? I predict that it is only a matter of time before Beck gets moved to a true prime time slot.
I may have missed it, but I just went through the posts on this article and didn't see anyone mention the fact that O'Reilly had to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him and the details were never released. Also, I haven't seen anyone mention the vicious SOB incident involving Neil Boortz.
"Bill O’Reilly is a sharp interviewer and most of the times willing to ask the tough questions and not worry if the guest will be coming back."
That sentence is laughable.
Bill O'Reilly is so afraid of being called a conservative that he goes out of his way to be easy on liberals because he wants them to come back. Most liberal politicians won't go on his show because they think he's a conservative. Most conservative politicians won't go on his show because he goes out of his way to be hard on them to prove he isn't a conservative.
Remember when Rosie was on The View and the big mess she caused? Bill went after her and Barbara Walters for WEEKS over it. So then he has Barbara Walters on his show and what does he do during the interview? Everything but literally kiss her butt. It was pathetic and typical Bill O'Reilly.
Bill is like the school bully. He talks really big but he's a coward at heart. And trust me, he has no respect for Glenn Beck. I cringed when Bill told Stewart Beck was like the guy on the barstool. What a cheap shot.
Jaynie59,
You are so right about Bill O' and the Barbara Walters and Rosie debacle . It seems that he could be quite cowardly more often then not. Bill O' behaves more like a child so many times, but he has his charm, which is undeniable. Overall, he is alright, but his own book selling is just so over the top, so that it indeed becomes laughable.
I agree with you- he is a school bully, lol
"Pointed heads." "Trailer park." "Short bus."
That's all the Left has left to cling to: its smug and baseless conviction that it is in fact wise enough to see the Emperor's clothes. After all, the only way Leftists can justify their totalitarian impulses is to pretend their victims are so ignorant and unenlightened not to know it's all for their own good.
Whereas we flyovers recognize posing wankerage when we see it.
O'Reilly kissed Obama's butt when he interviewed him. O'Reilly was sucking up to him fishing for an invite to play hoops. It was pathetic. O'Reilly contrary to his own claims is a confused liberal.
O'Reilly has never been able to conduct an interview properly. He doesn't ask questions; he makes assertions, and if the response isn't to his liking, he either shouts the interviewee down or scurries on to the next question. It is just daft bullying, but the audience know what they're getting, and it really is sad that he's genuinely become one of the more sane voices on Fox by default.
Stewart's off-camera 'am I supposed to just let that one go?' before O'Reilly hurried into his next 'question' really summed up this interview. It seemed like a kind of intervention, with Jon attempting to be polite in case he upset Bill, whose flailing about the nature of the station he works for was a little upsetting. It was a man saying that black is white and up is down, and insisting that he's right not because he believes it, but because his salary depends on it.
And nobody's fooled. If you work for a wing of the Murdoch empire, you work within certain narrative constraints. An old friend cut his journalistic teeth on the Sun in the UK, the politics of which couldn't be further from his own, and although he was uncomfortable with it he wrote stories that fit in with the far-right house style. It was just a job, after all, and he'd move on. I'm starting to wonder if Bill has realised that this is it for him, that he's too old to move on and redeem himself, and that he'll have to be a company man until the end.
It appears that as Beck has been learning from experience to not talk over people, let them state their opinions without interruption and actually listen to them, O'Reilly has gone the opposite direction.
I have run into the same problem on liberal websites. It seems as if when I make a solid, factual point about something my comment is not allowed to be viewed. I'm interested though, how do you account for all the comments bashing O'Reilly?
I'll agree he's intelligent and articulate, perhaps thoughtful on some issues from a far lefty point of view, but respectful?? You're joking right?
Very very few shows will show an interview in full or they'd have to devote a whole show to one person, as Beck does. At least BillO has the whole unedited version available online for anyone who wants to watch it, hopefully Stewart will start doing the same.
You mean he knew what he was talking about?
Unlike Rhodes scholars Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh. And Palin.
I love it when BH posters forget they're supposed to pretend to like Jews. It's like when they forget and start talking about the real reason they hate Obama.
O'Reilly is making millions of dollars a year. Why would he move on? As for whether or not he agrees with the politics, I doubt he cares. It's all a schtick. Even Limbaugh would become a Democrat if someone could offer him fifty cents more than he gets spouting Republican rhetoric. They're all carnival barkers, and the only ones who believe them are the suckers lined up to buy the snake oil.
Why is that relevant? Unless you have information about it, why would you mention it? Many famous people have lawsuits filed against them. Some settle them just to get beyond it. Unless you know the facts, why bring it up? The Duke lacrosse case should be a wake up call to rushing to judgment.
Quite. But I've sensed a certain change in O'Reilly of late, like he's sick of the game. It could be professional jealousy, of course; he's always been a bitter egotist, and I doubt that Beck's rise sits well with him. I doubt it's just the money that's keeping him there, as his nest is surely well-feathered by now. I think he's had a moment of clarity now that Fox has really gone over the cliff and become overtly crazy, and has realised that he's turned himself into such a cartoon character that there's nowhere else he could possibly work in a similar capacity, even if he wanted to.
Really? I thought it was his giantasmic ego keeping him there. All along, I have sensed that he was extremely jealous of Beck's increasing popularity. Shows together aside, the ego is probably taking a beating.
From reading comments on this and other websites, I think O'R is starting to lose his mojo. He interrupts too much, is too arrogant by half, and is turning off his fans. It will be interesting to see him "retire," instead of allowing his time slot to be given to Glenn Beck.
Um…I don't think I totally buy into that hypothesis.
I personally know people who have learned more about how our government operates by watching Beck and his chalkboard and diagrams than they did in American History and Political Science classes. He does go out of his way to explain some of the inner workings of government.
Also, the man has inspired quite a few to actually pick up a book and read about their own government and their own history. Not a small feat.
The slogan for the DNC should be "You NEED to be ruled, stupid peasants."
A shout out to Rudy Ray!
Hey all you anti O Reilly Hollyweird defenders out there,O Reilly went to Harvard and Jon Stewart went to the Hollywood school of stupidity.
And for you who like to berate Fox News,It's been the highest rated news channel for ten years.Not to mention the best
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