Bill o'reilly

long gone · **Joined:** Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:53 pm **Posts:** 3262

Watching fox news the other day when this guy came on.

Spoke to my mate in kansas yesterday and he said that people worship the guy in his area?

Thoughts?

Do people really agree with this jackass?

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:05 pm

the people he panders to agree with him just like all the talking heads with agendas.

jagged · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:06 pm

oldbullee Wrote:

the people he panders to agree with him just like all the talking heads with agendas.

yea, Fox News is REALLY good at hitting there target audience

A Northern Soul · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:23 pm **Posts:** 3742

ive watched him a few times, and at times i find him entertaining, unbelieavable and enraging. he seems to think canada should be americas bitches. maybe he doesnt realize we're a sovereign country or something.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:15 pm

O'Reilly is pretty much a mascot for why I don't generally bother with television news. Most of these bozos are spitting out whatever rhetoric will but more zeroes on their paychecks.

O'Reilly was the host of "A Current Affair" for god's sake. I can understand working your way up, but the TV guys tend to take anything they can just for one little spore of fame they can culture into a real career.

I'm very openly and obviously newspaper biased, but there's not as much of a showbusiness career arc there. Bob Woodward didn't start off writing for "Teen People" and Carl Bernstein wasn't drawing cartoons for "Cracked".

And as much as I don't like O'Reilly, that fucking waxy headed fuck John Gibson needs to shut his tater trap about goddamn Christmas and a bunch of other shit he doesn't know dick about. He should just grow his hair our and become a Sally Jessy Raphael impersonator full-time.

long gone · **Joined:** Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:53 pm **Posts:** 3262

Elvis Fu Wrote:

O'Reilly is pretty much a mascot for why I don't generally bother with television news. Most of these bozos are spitting out whatever rhetoric will but more zeroes on their paychecks.

O'Reilly was the host of "A Current Affair" for god's sake. I can understand working your way up, but the TV guys tend to take anything they can just for one little spore of fame they can culture into a real career.

I'm very openly and obviously newspaper biased, but there's not as much of a showbusiness career arc there. Bob Woodward didn't start off writing for "Teen People" and Carl Bernstein wasn't drawing cartoons for "Cracked".

And as much as I don't like O'Reilly, that fucking waxy headed fuck John Gibson needs to shut his tater trap about goddamn Christmas and a bunch of other shit he doesn't know dick about. He should just grow his hair our and become a Sally Jessy Raphael impersonator full-time.

Is fox news the most viewed news channel in the states?

Worrying, most people seem to form there opinions from watching this crap. Slapford?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:24 pm

It may be the most watched cable television news channel, but that's still not a majority of homes.

I don't see how forming opinions from Fox News is really any more detrimental than forming opinions from Michael Moore movies.

I rarely, if ever, watch television news.

jagged · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:29 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

I rarely, if ever, watch television news.

same here...the temptation to sensationalize is so much greater for TV news...you can do it some with print, but not like you can on the boob tube

I also prefer the paper because I can control what content I'm taking in, i.e. skipping the story about whatever celebrity raped someone this week

Odds Bodkins · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:32 pm

petecockroach Wrote:

Worrying, most people seem to form there opinions from watching this crap. Slapford?

You are insane!

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:33 pm

According to this anti-O'Reilly page with ratings information on it (I didn't verify because I don't really care, and the other numbers I found quickly were pretty similar, just older), O'Reilly is pulling about 2.5M viewers a night, on average.

Compared to the ~70M or so households with cable, that's not a massive amount of…hey look, "Homicide" marathon on CourtTV.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:35 pm

And the major network newscasts still draw 8-12 million viewers a night.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:08 pm

The worst is the lame ass merchandise he slimily tries to peddle to his audience. No Spin windbreakers, pens, coffee mugs, all kinds of crap.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:22 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

The worst is the lame ass merchandise he slimily tries to peddle to his audience. No Spin windbreakers, pens, coffee mugs, all kinds of crap.

Kinda like band merch, no?

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:30 pm

Not quite. Unless you're talking about Kiss. Most bands just have t-shirts available, right? O'Reilly has his name on anything he could think of.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:37 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Not quite. Unless you're talking about Kiss. Most bands just have t-shirts available, right? O'Reilly has his name on anything he could think of.

Touche

(and not to pick on Wilco, they were just the first band that came to mind)

discostu · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:39 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

It may be the most watched cable television news channel, but that's still not a majority of homes.

I would think that would still be CNN. From my experience Fox News fans are arrogant, right-wingers that just want to have what they believe spoon fed to them via blowhards like O'Reilly. Fox News should be considered "Entertainment" not real news. Kind of sad.

Honestly, the only "news" show I watch is the Daily Show and every once in a while I'll check out BBC World News.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Not quite. Unless you're talking about Kiss. Most bands just have t-shirts available, right? O'Reilly has his name on anything he could think of.

he says 100% of it goes to charity.
which may or may not be true.

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:38 pm

His interview with Stern was pretty funny, otherwise I have no reason to watch the show.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:08 am

discostu Wrote:

Elvis Fu Wrote:

It may be the most watched cable television news channel, but that's still not a majority of homes.

I would think that would still be CNN. From my experience Fox News fans are arrogant, right-wingers that just want to have what they believe spoon fed to them via blowhards like O'Reilly. Fox News should be considered "Entertainment" not real news. Kind of sad.

Honestly, the only "news" show I watch is the Daily Show and every once in a while I'll check out BBC World News.

I said "may be" because I'm wasn't sure if it was Fox or CNN when I posted that. But, when I did find this little bit of ratings info here.

Looks like Fox has a decent lead at the top (Total Viewers):
Total day: FNC: 763,000 / CNN: 387,000 / MSNBC: 197,000 / HLN: 202,000 / CNBC: 120,000
Primetime: FNC: 1,288,000 / CNN: 513,000 / MSNBC: 259,000 / HLN: 327,000 / CNBC: 249,000

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:11 am

Yail Bloor Wrote:

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Not quite. Unless you're talking about Kiss. Most bands just have t-shirts available, right? O'Reilly has his name on anything he could think of.

Touche

(and not to pick on Wilco, they were just the first band that came to mind)

And I don't think I've heard of any No Spin Zonopoly yet either. I don't understand the whole double standard against merchandising. If it's someone you dislike, they are whores. If they are cool or admired enough, it's "Guys, check out this mug I got from The Onion".

Larry the Cable Guy: Bad, ripping off and exploiting his fanbase
Alternative Tentacles: A man purse from AT? Aces, brah!

fuse · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:30 am

I would say that I want to throw him down some stairs, but that's part of the point.

So I just ignore him.

Hegel · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:54 am

One of my profesors in college referred to Fox News as the Holodeck. I thought that was hilarious.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:56 am

More like Homodeck.

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

he gets ratings because snooty ass posters from Europe like to talk shit on message boards about things they have no clue about.

tehobner · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:48 pm **Posts:** 4479

and stop saying "mate" unless you're fucking them. weirdo.

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