Bill O�Reilly....A GOD?!

I don't think you're watching close enough.

how is his show news?  He almost completely ignores international issues.  The whole fox network spends half their airtime focusing on: the peterson trial, the jackson trial or the aruba incident. 

O'reilly invented a fake war on Christmas for ratings, and all he does is comb the country for freak incidents and blow them out of proportion.  Like a judge letting a bad guy off the hook or a liberal teacher or something.  Stuff that in a country of 300 million isn't worthy news, especially revisiting night after night.

His stuff is emotional reactionary garbage 50% of the time.  I remember his opening bit last week.  Here it is:

"If a man confessed to raping two American women - adults - do you believe that man would be sentenced to probation anywhere in this country? The answer of course is no, because if he did every women's group and every media outlet would demand the removal of the judge. Yet in Ohio, a man who confessed to orally raping a 5-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy over and over was sentenced to probation by Judge John Connor. Was there an outcry by women's groups? No. What about the press? Most of the Ohio press defended the Judge. The politicians, well, most of them don't want any action against Connor. In Vermont we saw the same thing with Judge Edward Cashman who initially sentenced a man who raped a 6-year-old girl to 60 days in jail. Media outrage in Vermont? None. Political outrage? None. In fact soon after that story broke, the Vermont legislature voted down Jessica's Law with Democrats leading the way. Today in Texas, the Houston Chronicle is calling for "enlightened justice" for Andrea Yates, who brutally murdered her five little children. The Chronicle feels sorry for Yates and wants her in a mental institution instead of prison. If you are sensing a pattern here you are correct: children in America have been devalued. You can rape them and escape prison; you can kill them and receive compassion. American kids these days are targets. They have few defenders in the press, no political clout, and a society that is not engaged in protecting them."

http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShow&showID =727#1

Half the stuff he claims to be a new epidemic, is just invented.  At any given time you can find stories which give the impression of a trend.

His entire show is dedicated to "judicial activists" and bad judges.  He uses a few rare cases as basis for judges running wild.  This is part of the conservative agenda he's pandering to which seeks to undermine the judicial branch.  Check it out.  His entire news show is about judges.

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/

Agreed. Now if we could only get the left to be a bit more honest about the many networks that favor it's particular brand of bias we might make progress toward a broader social understanding. Ah well, a guy can dream, can't he?

-Akolouthos

I should also toss in that only on the o'reilly show will you hear talks of

-boycott France

-boycott Canada

-possible boycott on Vermont

he's a crybaby.  If a politician doesn't come on his show he dresses them down and says they're a coward.  A boycott of Canada was concieved because they had two army deserters.  Woah!  Countries do this kind of stuff all the time and he nit picks to get a story.  He is still embarassed that Jon Stewart interviewed Kerry and he didn't get to.

He considers himself a big name and a respected journalist, trouble is he's got a long way to go.  He's won Peabodys....er Polks.  Wait that was Inside edition...a tabloid show...after he left.

Let me ask this; when was the last time he covered somebody abused by the legal system.  When did you see him rail against a judge who was too harsh or a law which was unfair?  I can assure you this happens far more often in real life than judges letting murders and rapists off scott free.

Originally posted by lennel Originally posted by Dark Age Originally posted by Ponce de Leon Also, your still in college. Do you have to deal with a lot of ranting liberal teachers? Most teachers out there are liberal and in case you haven't been informed, education in general is a sign of progress (for both personal gain and society) and is therefore liberal.  A "conservative" education would be one sorely lacking indeed, especially when religion takes the place of concepts people have yet to answer. Those teachers are only reflecting the views of the majority of the country.  They are simply trying to teach their students common sense, not gross misconduct. I always find it amusing that republicans cry foul that the nations most educated are more often liberal....gee, maybe theres a reason for this!

Although we should all be able to agree that education does not necessarily imply intelligence. The efficacy of education, among other factors, is a guarantee of success.

-Akolouthos