Saturday, October 4, 2008

How do people continue to watch Bill O'Reilly?

I definitely describe myself as a moderate when asked generally about my political leanings, but I will confess to being a registered Republican and conservative on some issues. I will save the breakdown of my political beliefs for another day, but I think it is important to establish that I am not in agreement with Congressman Barney Frank on most issues prior to commenting on his "interview" with Bill O'Reilly last week. I place interview in quotes because the technical term for what took place would be an interview, but it seems Bill O'Reilly doesn't conduct proper interviews any longer. No, O'Reilly now only schedules sessions with newsworthy individuals where he will force these individuals to sit and endure his screaming explanation of why they are complete morons without providing so much as a half-way fair chance at defending themselves.

I myself basically stopped watching O'Reilly's rants years ago and couldn't stand to watch at all after his seemingly forgotten sex scandal that was quietly ended after O'Reilly paid the plaintiff $10 million when he discovered she had audio tapes to prove her claims. I don't think I have witnessed a more self-righteous, pompous individual in my life and definitely not one of this degree on television that has lasted any notable length of time. For those millions of viewers who somehow still manage to stomach this nightly O'Reilly ranting monologue, my one question for you is - How?

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1 comment:

Shirien said...

great post! that video both angered me and made me laugh at the same time. he really thinks he is the king of the world and can get away will yelling people off his show. he cant stand to be proven wrong (although he's almost 99% always wrong!)