Stephanopoulos and O’Reilly Talk Health Care on ABC’s Cable Outlet: Fox News

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:01 am, September 11th, 2009

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oreilly_9-10 ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos appeared last night on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor to talk about health care.

So that’s what they talked about – but the question is why is an ABC anchor going on a Fox News program? Maybe because nearly four million people watch it every night.

The segment included a comment by Bill O’Reilly that seemed to echo a sentiment written about here yesterday – getting Pres. Obama to come on The Factor:

He can com on this program, as I just said, he can come on your program, he can hold up a chart, he can say this is what we want to do. He hasn’t done it. He’s given speech after speech after speech and I don’t know what he’s talking about. Now last night I knew what he’s talking about it.

It wasn’t Stephanopoulos’ only appearance with a Fox News personality yesterday. He also stopped by Sean Hannity‘s radio show.

Stephanopoulos is working to make This Week #1 on Sundays, in a fierce competition with current leader, NBC’s Meet the Press. These appearance to appeal to a new base of viewership can only help. And for the Fox hosts who welcome Stephanopoulos – well it certainly wouldn’t both them if NBC – a frequent target of their attacks – loses their long-standing top status on Sunday mornings.

Other ABC personalities come on Fox News as well – Senior Political Reporter Rick Klein (our guest on Office Hours yesterday) is a frequent guest on Shepard Smith‘s Studio B.

Meanwhile some ABC anchors have taken it a step further – as TVNewser reported yesterday, ABC’s John Stossel is leaving the network for FNC/FBN.

Check out the clip around the four-minute mark when O’Reilly seems to slip and almost call himself a Republican – before going with “Independent”:

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I don’t understand why O’Reilly doesn’t bring up the fact that he is/was a registered Republican? http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/images/registration1.jpg (I know what URL it’s on; but I couldn’t find it uploaded anywhere else)
JimW

The O’Reilly/Stephanopoulos discussion on healthcare was the BEST and most HONEST discussion on the subject I’ve seen on TV. No wonder so many people watch The Factor. Also, Bill O’Reilly was right: If the government doesn’t add to the national debt and undocumented aliens are not covered and abortion isn’t covered then the president is telling the TRUTH. If those things do occur, then Obama is toast. And one last thing, this whole mess is Obama’s fault for waiting so long and being so murky about his plans. The Factor deserves its huge audience (and MSNBC deserves to be nearly non-existent).