Bill O’Reilly Credits Factor Viewers For Killing “Corrupt Spending Bill”

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by Matt Schneider | 4:29 pm, December 18th, 2010

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Bill O’Reilly proudly declared on last night’s Factor, “you want action? You’ve come to the right place.” O’Reilly was referring to the fact that on his Thursday night show he encouraged viewers to contact their elected officials and express discontent with the pork-filled omnibus spending bill. When combined with his railing against the huge amounts of proposed congressional spending throughout the week, O’Reilly congratulated his viewers for effectively putting enough pressure on their elected officials to drop their support of the bill.

In his Friday night Talking Points Memo, O’Reilly stated:

Just before the Talking Points Memo last night, [Senate majority leader] Harry Reid pulled the corrupt spending bill off the Senate floor. Wow, do we get results or what?

Regardless of who gets credit, O’Reilly concluded that Americans would never support big government handouts and then later be angry over their elimination (the motivation for current protests in European countries), because “American people value self-reliance far more than Europeans do.” Whether the death of the bill truly was a result of the Factor viewers raising concerns or Reid’s calculation that other priorities needed to be addressed is up to Factor viewers and non-viewers alike to decide.

Watch the clip from FOX News below:

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Harry Reid, senate, Spending Bill

Big Eddie

Bill is looking out for the folks , unlike Barry , who is looking to put stuff over on the folks .
Dosser

hmm,Reid pulled that sucker back faster than a right-hook punch he used to give back in the 60′s.
haha.
Big Eddie

Big Eddie said:
Bill is looking out for the folks , unlike Barry , who is looking to put stuff over on the folks .

You can have the last word , and then be quiet while Bill has the final word .

Hey , better than Olby , Behar , Schultz etc .
The Real Royal King

Given how misinformed FOX “News” viewers are, as established in recent studies, I’m not sure that they could have any effect on anything, except, perhaps news M&M colours.
dhg

A study done by the “biggest party” school etc etc…

Way to spin it King…
The Real Royal King

dhg said:
A study done by the “biggest party” school etc etc… Way to spin it King…

What do you rightistists have against parties, about having a good time, about laughing?
Kird

The Real Royal King said:
Given how misinformed FOX “News” viewers are, as established in recent studies

Please cite these recent studies. This sounds interesting.
The Real Royal King

Kird said:
Please cite these recent studies. This sounds interesting.

Dear, just go back in the Mediaite archives a day or two.
The Real Royal King

This will take you to an informed and informative study.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/study-fox-news-viewers-most-misinformed-of-all-news-consumers/
dhg

I’m not a “rightistist” and doubt that’s a real word.

The point is I don’t know anyone who uses FNC as thier sole source of news.If you use FNC and also other channels,the newspaper or the internet are you still “most uninformed”?

Studies like this have no meaning.Where do you draw the line?What percentage of news from FNC qualifies you to fit the study’s needs?

And the fact that it comes from the most liberal aspect of the educational system has to be pointed out.What would you really expect a study like this from a college to say?

Personally I watch FNC some,but I also watch MSNBC,CNN and I read my local paper and I go to sites like Newser and Daily Beast.Does that make me “most uninformed”?

It’s a pointless attempt to demonize FNC by an obvious foe of it.
Kird

The Real Royal King said:
This will take you to an informed and informative study.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/study-fox-news-viewers-most-misinformed-of-all-news-consumers/

The University of Maryland? A Mediaite article? I’m not convinced. I hold a communications degree and have examined Sped Smith’s program compared to the broadcast news programs and CNN. They’re basically equal in informativeness and MSNBC turns into a DNC infomercial come the noon hour.
Moderate

“American people value self-reliance far more than Europeans do.”

That sure is true, their primary concern is going on Holiday.
BonzerWolf

Progressives make me LOL. Libtards really thought middle America was going to embrace liberal fascism just because they were dumb enough to elect Obama prez. It took less than a month for Independents who determine national elections, to realize they had phucked up.
halekai

King, as smart as I really do believe you are, I cannot believe you put any stock in a study like this one, ESPECIALLY when it is done by a university (ANY university) in this country. And I say that as one of the many they tried to brainwash all the way through graduate school. I think it is just King being King and playing with some of the people here.
sticks

halekai said:
King, as smart as I really do believe you are, I cannot believe you put any stock in a study like this one, ESPECIALLY when it is done by a university (ANY university) in this country. And I say that as one of the many they tried to brainwash all the way through graduate school. I think it is just King being King and playing with some of the people here.

King, will disappear once anyone with an actual brain starts commenting… Especially when they call him on something he’s said… That poll from Maryland University can be taken apart by the dumbest third grader on the planet… But, because it agrees with him, he will refer to it unendingly henceforth…
sticks

halekai said:
King, as smart as I really do believe you are, I cannot believe you put any stock in a study like this one, ESPECIALLY when it is done by a university (ANY university) in this country. And I say that as one of the many they tried to brainwash all the way through graduate school. I think it is just King being King and playing with some of the people here.

And when I say he will diappear, I mean… He actually does leave, or magically turns to one of his many other user names… I’m betting on the latter
Scott_in_MI

The Real Royal King said:
What do you rightistists have against parties, about having a good time, about laughing?

Yeah we should be taxing them to or at least start regulating them to ensure that ALL the people only have an AVERAGE time
Scott_in_MI

The Real Royal King said:
Dear, just go back in the Mediaite archives a day or two.

Yes please do…in that thread, you’ll see that the Maryland study was funded by some extreme left-wing groups like the Tides Foundation and Ben & Jerry’s Foudation.

Thats like the KKK paying someone to conduct a poll on race. Would you believe the results of such a poll RRK?
notsofast

I am so glad that Barry caved to the Repubs. He will get used to more of this in 2011!
ImNotBlue

A review of said “study” that King, Mediaite, and other haters should read… but probably won’t.

weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/12/survey_on_fox_news_who_defines.html

When the conclusion is what you WANT to hear… you spend little time investigating it. Isn’t that right, King & etc.?
The Real Royal King

notsofast said:
I am so glad that Barry caved to the Repubs. He will get used to more of this in 2011!

He certainly did cave in to the Republicans on DADT, didn’t he?
The Real Royal King

Scott_in_MI said:
Yes please do…in that thread, you’ll see that the Maryland study was funded by some extreme left-wing groups like the Tides Foundation and Ben & Jerry’s Foudation.

Far left because FOX “News” says they are far left, but we already know FOX viewers are the most misinformed, which has to mean FOX “News” is spewing misinformation. Logic icsn;t your strong suit is it?
ImNotBlue

^ So you deny that those groups are left-wing? Really?

Are you allergic to honesty, or just this much of a hack?
The Real Royal King

ImNotBlue said:
^ So you deny that those groups are left-wing? Really? Are you allergic to honesty, or just this much of a hack?

You mean in the sense they are dedicated to protecting civil and Constitutional rights and our environment. That they are concerned about education, hunger and poverty? That they don’t elevate tax cuts for the rich to the status of sacraments? In that sense, yes they are.
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ImNotBlue

Oh Royal… if we could wrap you in copper wire, we would have an unending clean(ish) power source… because buddy, boy are you spinning.

It’s sad that you think people are dumb enough to belive your BS… and even sadder that you believe it yourself.
The Real Royal King

ImNotBlue said:
Oh Royal… if we could wrap you in copper wire, we would have an unending clean(ish) power source… because buddy, boy are you spinning. It’s sad that you think people are dumb enough to belive your BS… and even sadder that you believe it yourself.

You really had to strain to get that one out, didn’t you.

If you don’t agree with the study, fine, don’t agree with it.

The protocol and methodology seem sound, however.

This is something akin to arguing someone doesn’t deserve an Oscar for his or her perforamnce in a film simply because you didn’t care for the screenplay. Superficial in both instances.
ImNotBlue

Royal? How does that analogy relate -at all- to this situation?

A well know television critic, with strong credentials, and a history of criticising FNC as well as other networks, seems to disagree with your over-eager desire to accept anything and everything that attacks FNC.

Seems to me, you’re not being honest… again.

But don’t worry… I remember you telling me there were a number of situations where you just didn’t think you could be “fair” or “decent.” I guess this is just another one of those moments.
BFD

Fuck O’Reilly. The three earmarks he singled out were all from the left.
The Kennedy, Murtha and PBS pork.
If he was fair and balanced he would have pointed out at least one GOP earmark for ridicule, as there were many.

I’m glad the bill was scuttled, we just can’t afford this kind of shit anymore, but as usual Bill was spinning for the Right in “The No Spin Zone”.
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Kird

BFD said:
Fuck O’Reilly [pork cut] as usual Bill was spinning for the Right in “The No Spin Zone”.

Bill’s a righty sure, but he does expose his viewers to more liberal viewpoints. Other political talk shows explicitly do not engage in that. People can call Bill a rino or a nazi till they’re blue in the face, but his show is #1 because he allows all forms of thought to roam free.
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Bil O’Reilly is a great asset to the american society, to democracy as whole, and his viewers are concious of that.

That could be true, for sure!
CAconservative

Bill O’Reilly has earned his position at the top of cable new shows but, all too often now his enormous ego is starting to get in the way. He, and a few other ego-centrists, believe that they, with their bully-pulpit are the guiding light for the sheepal at large and without them we would flounder in perpetual ignorance. There are times that O’Reilly should take his own advice about bloviating.
my dogs gone

O’Reilly would take credit for the sunrise if Beck hadn’t already done so.
Maybe he should ask his devotees to ask for the troops to come home.
Good luck with that, Bill.
my dogs gone

CAconservative said:
Bill O’Reilly has earned his position at the top of cable new shows but, all too often now his enormous ego is starting to get in the way. He, and a few other ego-centrists, believe that they, with their bully-pulpit are the guiding light for the sheepal at large and without them we would flounder in perpetual ignorance. There are times that O’Reilly should take his own advice about bloviating.

You nailed it.
But the Fox narrative is “We are right.” Foolish folks like to hear that. It is reassuring.