Roger Ailes, best known for being the first to turn Florida red in an attempt to get his former boss' son elected president, is now fight playground bully Bill O'Reilly's battles for him. The folks at Faux News are apparently unhappy that MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann keeps taking shots at O'Reilly for basically being a grade-A douchebag.
I used to watch O'Reilly, way way back in the fledgling days of Faux News. Unfortunately, as soon as O'Reilly started to become a phenomenon, he, like Jerry Springer, became an insufferable caricature of himself.
The only people who watch O'Reilly now have to be those who either love a bully or who are desperate to see someone pat them on the backs for believing what Bill does, right? The format is terrible. O'Reilly can't conduct an even remotely decent interview. He walks all over his guests. The only guy he's better than is Lou Dobbs, who's nothing more than Pat Buchanan's surrogate on CNN these days. We get it Lou, you don't like outsourcing or NAFTA or anyone who isn't white. Move on.
Olbermann, while he gets fewer viewers, delivers the day's news in a somewhat unorthodox and generally cynical approach that seems to hold everyone in equal contempt. And he's just as funny as he was during his years on SportsCenter. He is, however, no Stephen Colbert.
Besides, O'Reilly used to peddle dirt for Inside Edition. Shouldn't that alone be enough to destroy whatever credibility he once had?
I'd like to open the comments section to anyone who watches O'Reilly regularly. In all seriousness, I'd love for you to just explain how it is that you can stomach this guy. I'm actually curious.
I used to watch O'Reilly, way way back in the fledgling days of Faux News. Unfortunately, as soon as O'Reilly started to become a phenomenon, he, like Jerry Springer, became an insufferable caricature of himself.
The only people who watch O'Reilly now have to be those who either love a bully or who are desperate to see someone pat them on the backs for believing what Bill does, right? The format is terrible. O'Reilly can't conduct an even remotely decent interview. He walks all over his guests. The only guy he's better than is Lou Dobbs, who's nothing more than Pat Buchanan's surrogate on CNN these days. We get it Lou, you don't like outsourcing or NAFTA or anyone who isn't white. Move on.
Olbermann, while he gets fewer viewers, delivers the day's news in a somewhat unorthodox and generally cynical approach that seems to hold everyone in equal contempt. And he's just as funny as he was during his years on SportsCenter. He is, however, no Stephen Colbert.
Besides, O'Reilly used to peddle dirt for Inside Edition. Shouldn't that alone be enough to destroy whatever credibility he once had?
I'd like to open the comments section to anyone who watches O'Reilly regularly. In all seriousness, I'd love for you to just explain how it is that you can stomach this guy. I'm actually curious.
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Did you read in your "grad-A douchebag" linked article about how they're going to tour the country and do live shows of everything, including O'Reilly?
I wonder if they're going to have to lock down that set W'04 style to be sure the audience consists of Card Carrying Back Patters and Sensationalists.
I can just see the blogs popping up to organize the far left so that they are 90% of the audience and O'Reailly would just get booed and hissed for the entire duration of his show.
Maybe Tony Snow can dispatch some Secret Service to run security on the Live Tour.
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