An altercation happened near the White House between Bill O’Reilly and an Occupy protester who approached him while Bill was on his way to the White House. Word of it got out so O’Reilly opened his TV show with his version of what happened. You can get the video for yourself on several sites including FoxNation or Media Matters (I include the Media Matters link as those on Fox tend to disappear). This clip includes two full segments
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…ws for comparison. Furthermore, he tries to play this off as suggesting that The Daily Show isn’t very balanced. His own show is covered in this same study and it shows that 66% of his viewers are conservative with only 3% being liberal. So much for balance. Next up he goes on a ridiculous rant about how Stewart has to play to these viewers to retain them as if he’s immune to such things or suggesting to us that all TV personalities d
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…a crime because????) “…. who has completely RUINED the news operation…” (Really? More staw-man in a long list and it’s not true. It’s his opinion. NBC News is at the top of the heap drawing 10 million viewers nightly. Fox can’t even get to a tenth of that number. Interesting metric there Bill.) “…. turning it into the most far-left outfit in the HISTORY of broadcasting…” (Does this
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It’ll be very interesting to see what Bill O’Reilly says about the whole Jaycee Lee Dugard case. For those that aren’t aware, back in early 2007 O’Reilly made some incredibly insensitive comments about another abduction case involving a child named Shawn Hornbeck. On his show he had this to say about the Hornbeck case: I’m not buying this. If you’re 11 years old or 12 years old, 13, and you have a strong bond
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…utright lying about elements of different topics including his own past. He also often sounds elitist to me. Much as Rush Limbaugh does. By the way, just yesterday, I heard Rush say in surprise, “How can you even have a 2,400 square foot house in an upscale neighborhood?” Typical comment from someone so stuck in their own world that they shouldn’t be commenting about the rest of it. Bill is the same way. He’s continually a
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…his case, are nowhere to be seen. Want specific examples? Okay, fine. Back in September of last year Jay Leno‘s monologue on the tonight show included this joke: “Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. And you thought John Edwards was in trouble before! Now he has really done it.” So, where was the outcry then? Leno’s joke has all the same elements. Undera
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…ee. Conversely, I don’t see a damned thing wrong with calling the corporate party a “holiday party”. That’s an inclusive term, not an exclusive one. Corporate America realizes that it’s no longer 1920 (when the use of Christmas trees first became fairly universal in this country by the way). Their workforce is diverse and their parties are for everyone, including employees who aren’t traditionally Christian in
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Ah, the rigors of traveling for business. I do it all the time and often find time to hit the local cinema to appease my endless movie fix. This time I ended up seeing a rather timely film about travelling for business. It’s Cedar Rapids starring Ed Helms (from The Hangover, The Office and The Daily Show fame). Ed plays insurance salesman Tim Lippe from a very small town in Iowa. The curious thing about Tim is that he only marginally reco
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…looking over the numbers they seem extremely impressive on first glance. If you’re to compare O’Reilly’s numbers to any other cable news show then there’s generally no contest. He often has a 2-to-1 or 3-to-1 advantage in viewers. It’s not that dramatic for Fox News in general but they too usually have a substantial lead over other cable news networks. However, I then started thinking about what those numbers mean an
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was for a sales associate question and seems like a bad question. I don’t know the answer and there clearly is an answer but eliminating great candidates with a clear trivia question isn’t a good idea in my book. 3. “Explain to me what has happened in this country during the last 10 years.” This is very much like question #1. They just want to see that you’re alive and can expound on a topic and how much detail you can offer. I
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