Let's Bash Bill O'reilly
DrSuredeath
Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
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This is a bit of a stretch. I'd place Brit Hume in that position. O'reilly is merely a personality. Otherwise say what you like. As far as I'm concerned, O'reilly has become increasingly more difficult to watch. Come to think of it-I don't watch him at all. Hmm. Yep.
Yes I completely agree, how is Bashing someone qualified as discussion?
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As for the interview, Im sure there is more to the story than what oreilly-sucks.com has to say. Glick could have told O'reilly's crew he was going to talk about one thing, than went on with another. That said the transcripts make it look like two guys fighting for mic control, and the man that owns the mic one.
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The problem is that the people who watch/listen to his show <i>believe</i> he's a journalist, and take his talking points as fact.
My current favorite, from mediamatters.org (which is the liberal equivalent to the mrc.org):
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->O'REILLY: Now if the [Canadian] government -- if your government harbors these two deserter [sic], doesn't send them back ... there will be a boycott of your country which will hurt your country enormously. France is now feeling that sting.
MALLICK: I don't think for a moment such a boycott would take place because we are your biggest trading partners.
O'REILLY: No, it will take place, madam. In France ...
MALLICK: I don't think that your French boycott has done too well ...
O'REILLY: ...they've lost billions of dollars in France according to "The Paris Business Review."
MALLICK: I think that's nonsense.
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The problem? There is apparently no such thing as the 'Paris Business Review'.
Mediamatters does some research:
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->A Google.com search revealed no mentions of "Paris Business Review," "Revue des Affaires de Paris," or any similar French name. A LexisNexis search for "Paris," "France," or "French" within five words of "business review" produced no relevant results. There is a journal called "European Business Review," which is published in England; however, over the past two years, "European Business Review" has not mentioned an American boycott of France.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Additionally,
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I can't recall who said it, and what they said exactly, so I'll paraphrase wildly here: I've begun to think that O'Reilly <i>isn't</i> a liar-- he actually <i>believes</i> he's telling the truth, and that his organizations and statistics exist, so it's something more pathological than mendacious.
I listen to him every now and then, and actually find myself agreeing with him occasionally, but he's far too whiny for me to take seriously. For the amount of name-calling and bullying he does, it's just way too comical to watch him suddenly turn around, near tears, crying about 'smear merchants' unfairly criticizing your 'humble' reporter.