Saturday, September 29, 2012
Fail to Factor
I was astonished to see how ill-prepared that Ted Koppel was when he appeared on "The Factor" last week. He actually allowed Mr. O'Reilly to bamboozle him into thinking that Fox News was far more fair and balanced during the day-time. I couldn't frigging believe it.............................................................................................I mean, does Mr. Koppel simply not do his homework anymore? "Fox and Friends" (3 conservatives and no liberals), "The Five" (4 conservatives and 1 liberal), "Cavuto on Business" (Mr. Cavuto is clearly a conservative - an affable conservative but a conservative nonetheless), and even the supposedly straight news (except, of course, for Shepard Smith) with people like Megan Kelly and Bill Hemmer are all constantly, 24/7, putting Obama and the Democrats on the defensive. The fact that a journalist the caliber of Ted Koppel wasn't just able to rattle this stuff off was hugely disappointing to me........................................................................................As for Fox News in general, I think that I've been pretty darn fair to those folks. a) I've praised them when they hire decent people (Chris Wallace, Ed Henry, and John Roberts, for instance) and b) I've commended them for doing a very good job of covering most non-political stories. But for O'Reilly to try and say that they're non-ideological in the day-time is demonstrably ridiculous, I think.
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Glad I missed the episode...
O'Reilly is probably one of those arrogant prima-donnas who thinks that he is the only one that matters at his station, and he ignores lowlies who inhabit the other hours. Which means he pays little attention to them.
Prima-donna isnt necessarily a horrible thing if you are at the top of your game, at the top of your field as O'Reilly is. This puts him in contrast with the complete failure Keith Olbermann, who acts like he is somebody.
O'Reilly is a pompus self promoter,but the truth is,he draws more viewers then all other cable news stations combined.He makes thirteen million a year just for his FOX show and much more for his long list of best sellers.His last book Killing Lincoln actually was pretty good and he's got Killing Kennedy hitting the book stores next week...its sure to open at #1.
That's a series that can't go much further. The next volume in this series is sure to be "Killing Benjamin Harrison", written from a germ's point of view.
O'Reilly seems to have grown calmer as he gets older...
His eyes are a lot beadier, too. I think it might be a result of all these years of falafel sex.
dmarks, wasn't it the grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who died from the infection (as opposed to Garfield and McKinley who both took bullets to the noggin)?
Yes, you have it right. I got the first names wrong.
I'm thinking Garfield & McKinley
suffered abdominal wounds?
Entirely possible.
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