Inuyasha
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Inuyasha said:
cnredd said:One of these days...
Just ONE of them...maybe you'll learn that everybody doesn't pander like you wish to make your generalizations so friggin' concrete in your own mind...
From a post made by me over 7 months ago...
Now what you do lovebirds need to do is...
a) Realize that not everyone sucks down partisan punditry like you'd believe...
b) Try to figure out a way of not demonizing everyone because of their political affiliations...
Think you could do either?...
Stinger said:If Obermann wasn't so desperate for an audience there would be nothing here. He is the one obsessed with the other and he does so only because he can attrach the extremist to his show who believe the way to make thier point is to denigrate the other side. ORielly had a point, Donahue hade higher ratings than Obermann, they should bring him back, and ORielly like Donahue personally. Obermann just can't take a joke can he. The ORielly viewers think it funny, the Obermann viewers have thier panties in a wad.
aquapub said:Why is it that everyone who has a gripe with O'Reilly tends to get their information (not that this thread was introduced with any) exclusively from his enemies
Stinger said:If Obermann wasn't so desperate for an audience there would be nothing here. He is the one obsessed with the other and he does so only because he can attrach the extremist to his show who believe the way to make thier point is to denigrate the other side. ORielly had a point, Donahue hade higher ratings than Obermann, they should bring him back, and ORielly like Donahue personally. Obermann just can't take a joke can he. The ORielly viewers think it funny, the Obermann viewers have thier panties in a wad.
If this was really about low ratings, O'Reilly would be petitioning to get Tucker Carlson or Joe Scarborough off the air, both of their ratings are significantly lower than KO's.ORielly like (sic) Donahue personally
http://mediamatters.org/items/200603060009Here are the official ratings, adults 25 to 54 for Wednesday night of this week at 8 p.m. Eastern. O'Reilly, 309,000; this program, (Countdown) 231,000; Nancy Grace Knows What You Did Last Summer [CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace], 131,000; [CNN's] Paula Zahn Now, 81,000. Our audience was 75 percent of Ted Baxter's. It ain't perfect. Then again, he's been on for nearly 10 years, and we're still a month away from our third anniversary. So, now I'm expecting that soon I'll be getting a visit from the Bill O'Reilly police, armed with loofahs.
Inuyasha said:Because O'Reilly doesn't have any friends.
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Room101 said:What a delicious article! Some interesting background and insight. I will print it in it's entirety so I have a hard copy. Thank you for posting the link. Marvelous! It changes nothing, however.
The fact that it is O'Reilly who is the target of so much speculation and venom is a credit to him. The reason he is always in the crosshairs has less to do with his opinions than with his success. You don't see Coulter getting slammed constantly in the media, though she is far more conservative than O'Reilly. That is because it is generally assumed that she is a crack-pot. The left knows she is not taken seriously. O'Reilly, on the other hand, has a large following of conservatives and moderates.
And let's face it, liberals are scared of him. He has a keen mind and ruthless wit. The left is used to being the masters of cutting rhetoric and indignation. Now O'Reilly has built a missile silo on their turf and that makes them nervous. None of the blowhards want to be a guest on his show because they know he can cut them to ribbons.
Hollywood and the music scene have to hate him. He calls them out when they get stupid, ranting against the war while holding rallies for multiple-murderer Tookie W. and singing about the advantages of rape, drugs, and killing any one who shows disrespect.
Despite all this, O'Reilly is the best thing to happen to the left in a long time. He is the Goliath they can fling stones at (from a safe distance, of course). Conversely, O'Reilly gets to play as captain of the guard, defending civilization from hordes of leftist barbarians. Both Goliath and the Barbarians get rich in the process. Straight economics.
This is all business as usual in politics and entertainment. Bill O'Reilly just happens to be better at it than anyone else.
Captain America said:I don't think moderates give O'reilly much concern. Sure the left hates him, the right loves him, but the middle just tolerates him. He is insignificant to us. But you're right about Coulter. She's a nut case. Even the moderates hate her.
Room101 said:What a delicious article! Some interesting background and insight. I will print it in it's entirety so I have a hard copy. Thank you for posting the link. Marvelous! It changes nothing, however.
The fact that it is O'Reilly who is the target of so much speculation and venom is a credit to him. The reason he is always in the crosshairs has less to do with his opinions than with his success. You don't see Coulter getting slammed constantly in the media, though she is far more conservative than O'Reilly. That is because it is generally assumed that she is a crack-pot. The left knows she is not taken seriously. O'Reilly, on the other hand, has a large following of conservatives and moderates.
And let's face it, liberals are scared of him. He has a keen mind and ruthless wit. The left is used to being the masters of cutting rhetoric and indignation. Now O'Reilly has built a missile silo on their turf and that makes them nervous. None of the blowhards want to be a guest on his show because they know he can cut them to ribbons.
Hollywood and the music scene have to hate him. He calls them out when they get stupid, ranting against the war while holding rallies for multiple-murderer Tookie W. and singing about the advantages of rape, drugs, and killing any one who shows disrespect.
Despite all this, O'Reilly is the best thing to happen to the left in a long time. He is the Goliath they can fling stones at (from a safe distance, of course). Conversely, O'Reilly gets to play as captain of the guard, defending civilization from hordes of leftist barbarians. Both Goliath and the Barbarians get rich in the process. Straight economics.
This is all business as usual in politics and entertainment. Bill O'Reilly just happens to be better at it than anyone else.
mnpollock said:LOL, I just got finished watching that clip and like O'reily or not, it was pretty funny.
It reminds me of when Tucker used to be on CNN's crossfire (or is he still on it?) and John Stewert when on and got into it with Tucker. Then tucker said something to the effect of comparing their ratings or something. John stwarts respons was, "The show that comes on before mine is PUPPETS MAKING CRANK PHONE CALLS! If your comparing yourself to me then we are in sorry shape folks!" Oh man, I almost died laughing! Did any of you see that one?
STEWART: But the thing is that this -- you're doing theater, when you should be doing debate, which would be great.
Inuyasha said:Olbermann is in the same position that O'Reilly was after three years on the air.
Of course he's looking to increase his viewer base.. To suggest that anyone on TV isn't is just plain stupid.
Donahue's ratings were higher than Olberman's? maybe but so far no one has given definite proof of this.
Bring Donahue back? Why it won't work and if MSNBC does what some jackass on another network tells them to do...nah just more stupidity.
maybe next year Ford will listen to advice from GM. Sheeesh. Just plain dumb.
Take a joke.. sh¡t O'Reilly only cracks a smile over an old lady falling under a bus or a truck load of dead babies and preferably Muslim ones at that.
Inuyasha said:You like O'Reilly and In you face TV, I don't. That's it. We agree to disagree. End of story.
George_Washington said:If it was just a matter of personal dislike, than why did you attack him so visciously? It would appear to go beyond that, at least according to your own emotions.
Yeah that "In you(r) face" stuff really sucks...Inuyasha said:You like O'Reilly and In you face TV, I don't. That's it. We agree to disagree. End of story.
Inuyasha said:Aw I see the party of morality doesn't see morally reprehensible behavior when it's one of theirs. And you say that liberals have double standards. That's what it's really about. If it was Al Franken you'd have blue balls over it.
Inuyasha said:You have said it all aps. Aquapub is so "blinded by his own ideology" (a phrase used by O'Reilly before he becme mad as a hatter) that he can't see the forest for the trees here.
Inuyasha said:Take a joke.. sh¡t O'Reilly only cracks a smile over an old lady falling under a bus or a truck load of dead babies and preferably Muslim ones at that.
Saying someone you obviously have a bias against would "crack a smile over an old lady falling under a bus or a truck load of dead babies and preferably Muslim ones at that." and then say "I" have anger issues...Inuyasha said:Wow you're way more angry than I will ever be. Too bad. Hope you sleep well tonight.
cnredd said:Saying someone you obviously have a bias against would "crack a smile over an old lady falling under a bus or a truck load of dead babies and preferably Muslim ones at that." and then say "I" have anger issues...
You run with that...Let me know how it turns out...