“remarkably nice” much to the chagrin of the losers that watch Fox News.

>its hard to tell if O’Reilly has become more moderate or there are just more extreme examples of the form

Any normal conservative will be seen as a moderate next to the extremists that Fox News have on daily.

Fox News, by the way, has done a very good job at mainstreaming fanatical and hard-right conservatism. It’s incredible that Bill O’Reilly, which is not a moderate by any means, is considered “the thinnest guy at fat camp”.

By the way, I really think Obama would’ve gotten a better interview with O’Reilly than Baier. The fact that he was in a timid state of mind with Napolitano just reinforces the notion O’Reilly down to the bone has a world view with a rigid hierarchical system. Sort of like how dogs bark at people who aren’t their masters.

O’Reilly loves playing the phony “independent”, and there are plenty of frauds that can’t see through the veneer.

The people who hate Fox the worst seem to be watching the most.

>O’Reilly loves playing the phony “independent”

Agree with that. I wonder why he does it? I mean, either he’s intellectually dishonest or completely delusional.

It appears O’ Reilly is in a lose-lose situation. If he comes on strong, he’s a conservative bigot. If he takes it easy, he’s being dishonest.

I wasn’t a big cable news watcher before the Presidential primaries. I started watching Fox because I agreed with Geraldine Ferraro that they (Fox) were giving Clinton the fairest treatment. The interview that O’Reilly did with Hillary Clinton during that time was excellent! I think it was probably by far the best interview she has ever given (Van Susteren also does an excellent job at interviewing her). I believe the Clinton interview is still on O’Reilly’s homepage. I think he treated Napolitano the same way he treated Clinton.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that O’Reilly was trying to lure Obama to the Factor with the Napolitano interview. When he interviewed Baier, he said that the President tried to dominate the interview, and was being humorous when he called Bair “a mean guy.” I think it’s plausible to suggest that O’Reilly might have even given Baier some pointers before the interview. Baier made a comment that the way his questions came out wasn’t really his style.

writer says:
March 18, 2010 at 11:34 am

It appears O’ Reilly is in a lose-lose situation. If he comes on strong, he’s a conservative bigot. If he takes it easy, he’s being dishonest.

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Well, he is a White Christian male in Amerika …. “No bo-ody kno-ows the trou-ou-bles ….”

same2u…Why would he be a phony independent? If he could be like Hannity or Beck and still get the ratings why not be a hard right like you think he is?
If you read his book, he really is pretty much in the middle . But he believes in being Green and to reform health care and many other things that others on Fox might fight against.
I think he bases his thoughts on Facts and does not play into emotions.

I am more concerned with a journalist being as respectful as is possible in the context of the honest give and take of the interview. In other words, the interviewer needs to be as nice or rough as the interviewee will honestly and candidly answer the questions. In Baier’s interview, it was clear that obama was trying to filibuster and avoid direct and candid answers to the questions.

I watched the interview and frankly, I DO think he was being soft ball (remember the Barney Frank interview?). These are perilous times we are in and I think it is the job of ALL (not just Fox) to hold the feet of our elected officials to the fire in a pretty much constant manner.

Over the years we as the “public” and the “media” have really failed to keep watch over the ins and outs of the washington political class to our detriment. We need to be tougher and in this case I think Bill should have been much tougher.

(White) Royal seems to believe that since (white) Christian males exist, this somehow makes his stereotyping okay. I can’t really see how the one thing connects to the other, but hey, that’s the King.

Writer, you’re still not getting it. It’s okay to stereotype all white males. (especially if they’re Christian and live in the south.) However, if you were to stereotype blacks or hispanics, then that’s bad. Explain it again, TRRK, so we’ll all get how your ‘mind’ works.

Hey, I get an indulgence here, Herr Autobahn. I am a White Christian male living in the South (if you consider Texas the South). I just don’t pretend that being a White Christian male living in the South was an impediment or a handicap. Sure, I taught myself to form a sentence without saying, “I’m fixin’ to ….” and I stopped calling the gasoline station the “fillin’ station”, but my grown son calls me “Daddy,” and when I am talking about my father, I call him “Daddy”. I just don’t have this overwhelming need to display my ignorance that you have, Righter.

Here’s what you keep dancing around, (White) Royal. Being a white Christian male doesn’t make it right when you stereotype all whites as privileged or all white southerners as a bunch of ignorant hillbillies. So no matter how much you bleat “Oh, writer, you poor thing, you were discriminated against”, that has nothing to do with your decidedly un-Christian practice of stereotyping in negative terms anyone you disagree with.

TRRK, I have to agree with writer. If you stereotype all whites or all southerners, what’s the difference between that and stereotyping all blacks or any other group? I can’t see how ‘accusing’ someone of being a white Christian somehow excuses it.

Its a d**n good thang y’all 2 aren’t in Austin, or I’d open up a big ole can a whoop a** on botha you.

Y’all mean like all them thar watermelon-eatin’ black fellers?

TRRK id like two axe u a qwestion why u be hatin on da white man all da time? i gets so pissed when sum punk like u try to ac like u no what it be like too be black. u just be frontin like all dem uther bitches. u not be fo reel.

He be posin’.

werd

Had Mr. O’Reilly not been throwing marshmellows at Secretary Napolitano, he would have asked here what she meant when she said “the system worked perfectly” when the panty bomber was subdued by a flight attendant and a passenger. He gave her a pass and I guess he didn’t want to embarrass her any more than she has been already.