Posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is Bill O'Reilly the new moderate voice of America's right?
That would seem to be the case after Bill O' took on Rush Limbaugh, the fire-eating grand poobah of everything right-wing.
O'Reilly took exception to Limbaugh's claim that President Obama was trying to deliberately destroy the economy.
In an interview with Fox News, Limbaugh said Obama represented the most "radical leadership" in the history of the country, and that the economy was "under siege" by Obama.
Limbaugh also said Obama had "not done one thing to revitalize the economy."
In response, Bill O' asked the logical question but one that no right-winger in their right mind would have the temerity to ask, given the power of Limbaugh. "Why would President Obama purposely destroy the economy?" O'Reilly asked. "When that would damage him and never get him re-elected." Touche. But it took O'Reilly to say it.
This is an interesting development. With the exception of Limbaugh, there is no more-popular figure in right-wing circles than O'Reilly.
His ratings have soared to record levels at Fox. Now, he may be ready to take on the big Kahuna, the palladin of right-wing politics, the sultan of swatting down liberals, the king of talk, Rush Limbaugh. Watch this space. There may be a new O'Reilly on the prowl.
He hasn't merely drifted, he's fallen deeply into the administration's line of BS and can't get up.
Dozens of times, as most FReepers would know, BOR bloviates some totally inaccurate BS that has been sliced and diced on FR for weeks. Either his "crack" research team is Greg Gutfeld's mother or BOR doesn't bother to read anything they find.
(No offense to Greg's mom, she's a nice lady.)
He’s no match for Rush, no way, no how. Rush wouldn’t waste his time.
BOR has gone downhill in recent months (we opted out when he joined the Obama Fan Club).
O’Reilly sees it, he is pandering to ZerO still hoping for that big second sit down ‘wit da man’, IMO
Obama IS deliberately destroying the economy.
“Why would President Obama purposely destroy the economy?”
Because, Leprechaun, he needs asany deserate, dependent, helpless people as possible and as bad an economy as possible to get his radical socialist agenda through and to get himself reelected.
A bad economy means more people dependent on the government which means more reliable liberal votes.
Having said that, O'Reilly is actually useful to us, because he is symptomatic of the boneheads we have to win over in order to control political outcomes: that is, people who think they're smart and sensible, who in fact know very little and whose reasoning powers aren't really capable of taking them anywhere. Most of these people (and make no mistake, O'Reilly is one through and through) see the National Democrat Leadership simply as an alternative viewpoint that needs to be considered, rather than as a bunch of rat bastards who have a need to run everyone else's lives.
I despair that O'Reilly is really educable in this regard, but if we can get just a few percent of the people who don't pay close attention to understand how thoroughly radicalized the Democrat Leadership is, we can make some real progress. And you may discover how to reach folks with that putative "thought process" by seeing what kinds of arguments are convincing to "archconservative" BOR.
Bill has always been an obama apologist. I had to quit watching him. He was always defending obama. I believe that he signed on to defending him in order to get the interview with him.
America must realize that even destroying America on purpose would still net him a 30% or so approval rating upon leaving office. There are that many Wright's, Ayres, Unions, ACORN's, Pelosi's and Fwank's out there to give him 30%.
I think that BOR thought that playing it down the middle was gonna work out for him. He didn’t have the foresight to see the Conservative Revolution coming when he started moving toward the middle years ago.
“If you destroy the economy, you can still get re-elected by using a compliant media to put the blame on someone else (such as George Bush or Wall Street), and then promise the voters relief from the misery that you caused.”
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Well that tactic got 0bama in office once, I doubt the left sees any reason to stop trying it.
Because Mr. BOR Moron, the plan is to not have another election that will put Barry in any danger of 'losing'. Remember the fraud of ACORN, the thugs from SIEU, the plan to cook the 2010 census, force as many people as possible to depend on the gumermint for food, housing, medical care, etc. and on and on.
BOR is truly clueless or worse, a sycophant for Barry. Ask the GOP how going all touchy, feely worked out for them.
Reason number 7,842 why I no longer endure his drivel.
Exactly - that is a very naive question on BOR’s part. He has Beck on all the time to help his ratings - yet anybody who really watches GB would know the answer to this.
Mark
On the other hand, while BOR has never claimed to be a conservative, his critics have labeled him as such, in order to try to marginalize him.
Mark
BOR is angry he could not have an afternoon radio program.
Ted Baxter— LOL!
BOR doesn’t want to be sitting across from Limbaugh. The outcome will not be pretty.
BOR needs to stick to more relevant topics such as “body language” or trivia questions.....
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