He's a busybody bully, a shill for whatever authoritarian counter-cause is rallying to undo or seize the authoritarian status quo, and has never taken the individualist's side on any issue. A disgusting man.
If government is a quest for the One Ring, he is Gollum.
O'Reilley is like a lot of people. His views are based upon what's best for him. He wasn't a 2A supporter because he wasn't into guns. I think he became one when he saw it would help his career.
It's sad to see someone with no core convictions, whose only platform is what suits him best and to hell with the rest of the world.
I just don't get it. I'd rather watch Keith Olbermann. At least Keith admitted he was a liberal. O'Reilly pretends to be a mix of conservative and "fair and balanced". He's neither. He and a guest just did an episode of raking Senator Cruz over the coals and throwing in at least one dig on Rand Paul.
This guy is why I never watch Fox; I came in from work and my wife had it on his show.
How in the world is this joker's show the #1 talk show on the news networks?
He's a busybody bully, a shill for whatever authoritarian counter-cause is rallying to undo or seize the authoritarian status quo, and has never taken the individualist's side on any issue. A disgusting man.:facepalm:
If government is a quest for the One Ring, he is Gollum.
He's smarter and more reasonable than you. That is why you are a conservative ideologue, and he is a wise and thoughtful moderate.Well, he's not a "moderate" but Fistful has managed the best description here yet.
He's led around by his paycheck. Michael Savage predict he'd go squishy as soon as news broke that a Saudi owned 19% of FOX stock. Took less than a week before O'Reilly flipped.
Bill O'Reilly is an entertainer, His views are beholden to whomever is selling the most soap; he is a squishy liberal.
Russ
He's a *expletive deleted*.
http://youtu.be/Ob94_pw9E8Q
He looks to politicians and analizes them from the point of view of their problems-solving ability, not their ideology....
Well, he's not a "moderate" but Fistful has managed the best description here yet.
Thank you. I see my sarcasm was not entirely lost on you, just mostly. "Ideological" is another way of saying "principled." O'Reilly, as you and I have both described him, sees the ends as more important than the means. Ideology (hewing to notions of right and wrong) must be sacrificed when it gets in the way, and the principled be derided as "too rigid," "old-fashioned," or currently, "ideologues." It does not help that O'Reilly seems to have a need to feel he is smarter than other people; in this case the ideologues.
If you think you have any idea about the actual inner motivations and beliefs of any pundit from watching their show you're in error. They're actors playing a part.
Bill O'Reilly is an entertainer, His views are beholden to whomever is selling the most soap; he is a squishy liberal.I will concede he is an entertainer but the rest is antipathetic twaddle.
Russ
He became a 2A supporter when he saw what happened in Nawlins after Katrina.
If you think he has no convictions then you don't know him that well.
He's a *expletive deleted*.
http://youtu.be/Ob94_pw9E8Q
I haven't watched broadcast or cable TV in years, so I'm just going on my impressions of him from the past. If he had a come to Jesus moment on the 2A, that's good. At the time I was watching, it seemed that his convictions were based upon his situation. Maybe I was wrong, or maybe things have changed.
/yawnMy apologies for boring you, Balog. Perhaps you would be more interested in another thread? [popcorn]
Fanbois are tiresome.
Someone recently told me that the political divide is no longer Republican vs. Democrat....or even conservative vs. liberal. It's authoritarian vs. libertarian. And it makes a lot of sense to me.
Guess which side O'Reilly is on.....
Authoritarian versus socialist. Libertarian is not even in the picture in government - at any level.
How can you be socialist without being authoritarian?....
Authoritarian versus socialist. Libertarian is not even in the picture in government - at any level.
How can you be socialist without being authoritarian?....
I think you all missed Bob's point.
He's saying the Right and Left are the Authoritarians. Libertarians have infiltrated the GOP and begun screaming loudly to some degree, but that the rest of the GOP is an authoritarian socialist front.
He's a *expletive deleted*.
If you think you have any idea about the actual inner motivations and beliefs of any pundit from watching their show you're in error. They're actors playing a part.