What's So Bad About Bill O'Reilly?

John Bentley said:
I've been listening to his radio show for a couple of months now, and I really can't see why a lot of the people on this forum deride him so much. Have I just not been listening long enough? Is there some view he holds that is so objectionable? I find myself agreeing with him most of the time, so am I nuts, or what?
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Admitedly this is a biased site, but check this out and get back to us. :)

http://www.dumbass.com/index.php
 
hammegk said:
No, you're just not one of our left-wing blame-America nutjobs who take NBCCBSCNNNYT as gospel and believe Bush etal to represent pure evil (well, not evil, since that concept is accepted by them as meaningless). :)
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Hey, maybe hammy is BO's sock! O'Really, welcome to the fora!
 
This man has a bit of symbolic meaning to me. Years ago I used to like Bill;
I completely agreed with him. But then a strange thing happened, I started to notice that he contradicted himself. Suddenly this became very noticeable to me. I couldn't stand his hypocrisy and I stopped watching his show. I think this is when I began to develop some basic critical thinking skills.

Bill O Reilly is nothing more than an opinionated blowhard and a great hypocrite. I feel sick that I used to like him. But fortunately people can change and develop mentally. I used to like art bell too and I actually believed his stuff!
 
Ladewig said:
After the French refused to support the U.S. going into Iraq, O'Reilly called for a boycott of French goods. When a guest challenged the effectiveness of O'Reilly's boycott, O'Reillt responded by saying that the Paris Business Review had published figures showing that the boycott is hurting the French economy. There is no such thing as the Paris Business Review. Pulling numbers out one's butt and pretending that they are facts is not something respectable news commentors do.

Oh, and while waving the family-values flag, he tried to commit adultery by making creepily obscene phone calls to a subordinate. She brough suit against him and they settled out of court.

The whole "shut up, shut up, cut his micprohone" thing is more evidence that he is unqualified to be a news commentor.
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In all fairness (at least as fair as his ilk are) he is really not a newsperson of any kind, he is an entertainer with a specific audience to entertain (like S. Browne, H. Stern, R. Limbaugh, etc.). That the audience requires so little to be entertained matters not at all. As long as they keep coming back and p[ay attention to the advertising, all is right (joke) with the world!!!:D
 
I suppose all you O'Reilly critics/secularists/Francophiles (I bet the French are sorry now that they didn't get behind the Iraq invasion!!) will be happy when Christmas is banned in the U.S.?


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Darth Rotor said:
Nothing wrong with him, other than:

1. He's an abrasive *******
2. He's a shill
3. He's self important
4. He's rude to his guests and callers

He is occasionally funny, and occasionally right. Even a blind squirrel finds the acorn now and then.
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I'm:

1) abrasive
2) shill
3) not important at all
4) rude to most.

I'm not funny, and I'm occasionally right. Even a blind squirrel finds the acorn now and then because we direct ourselves by scent.

The world stinks.

O'Reilly pisses everybody off at one time or another.

That doesn't make him wrong.
 
pgwenthold said:
.....Springer on TV, however, was completely a character he plays, and he makes no pretense about it. His comment is "I didn't invent my TV show, they just asked me to host it." If you listen to him talk about it, you realize that he doesn't consider it seriously at all, and knows it is just about entertainment.
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You call that "entertainment"?

OReilly, OTOH, likes to think he is doing something important.
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It's damned sure more important than whatever Springer is doing, whether or not it's correct.
 
brodski said:
You do realize that this is a site, set up after Bill O'Riley was caught in his lie, specifically to mock him, don't you?
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Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too subtle when you're talking to O'Reilly supporters. ;)
 
Huntster said:
O'Reilly pisses everybody off at one time or another.

That doesn't make him wrong.
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I'd like to know who thinks that's what makes him wrong. For me, that he says things that are factually incorrect makes him wrong.
 
Yup, at times he's factually incorrect. Can you provide an example of someone under the scrutiny O'Reilly gets with 1hr/5 day a week platform who doesn't make mistakes and get caught in them.

How does Oldermann stack up? Or pick your own example. Isn't the actual problem that you just don't agree with O.R's viewpoints, not the facts presented.
 
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