Guilt no longer needs proof - Bill O'Reilly Defends Rather

Boston Herald | 11/27/04 | Bill O'Reilly

[beyond the sea]

BORe's easy dismissal of the Swift Boat patriots was the final straw on my camel's back.

Right on! That was more than disgusting.

[StJacques]

"Who is his wife?"

O'Reilly's wife is not a celebrity, I just raised the point wondering if he might be expressing the need for social acceptance among the MSM.

[Don Corleone]

The O'R spin zone I take it.

[finnigan2]

For motives only understood by FOX and focus groups, O'Reilly seems to be following a deliberate policy of trying to move to the left or, as perhaps O'Reilly might say, to the center when it comes to his programs content.
I guess he figures that if he loses 10% of his old conservative fan base, he will pick up another 15% of a more liberal audience and thus wind up ahead of the game.
It's a calculated gamble but because it is "calculated" I don't think it will work. People now realize that his opinions which attracted them to him in the first place and which they once thought were his firmly held views, are only rating ploys to draw an audience. He can change them at the drop of a hat, depending on the rating needs of the moment.
Once people consider you a phony, you're done for.

[Paul Ross]

Bill continues to reveal himself as a certifiable clymer.. Semper Fi

You got that right. Time to start going after him as the next Dan Rather. We need to confront management at Fox News. No more molly-coddling this lying Rather wanna-be.

[MississippiMan]

I like Rush, and he isn't in the same league as O'Reilly, but yes, despite the fact that he does pound the MSM, he still acts like he craves its validation. He sounds and acts like an entirely different person when he's a guest on a MSM show.

MM

[Babu]

O'Blowhard, you're a national joke, along with Rather and the rest of those clowns with heads-too-large-to-get-through-the-average-doorway you worship.

See ya'. Wouldn't wanta be ya' . . .