O'Reilly now.............skeptical

[Loonman]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/people_nm/campaign_bush_oreilly_dc_3


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative television news anchor Bill O'Reilly said on Tuesday he was now skeptical about the Bush administration and apologized to viewers for supporting prewar claims that Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction.



The anchor of his own show on Fox News said he was sorry he gave the U.S. government the benefit of the doubt that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s weapons program poised an imminent threat, the main reason cited for going to war.


"I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this," O'Reilly said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."

[Beetwasher]

1. Holy Crap!

I'm amazed...Shit's hitting the fan...

[Wapsie B]

4. Maybe the powers that be

have finally decided that it's better for the bottom line to go with someone else in the WH.

[eek]

5. sign of the apocalypse?

dang-i'd better go look for more on this story.
ANd write to o'Realy
Maybe ask him to address the aWol thing!

Yummy!

[The Blue Knight]

2. Hahahaha

My friend is a BIG O'Reilly fan, I'll DEFINATELY be showing this to him when I see him here in the next two hours.

[Fovea]

3. What will we do if he endorses Kucinich?

I mean, :wtf:

[OneTwentyoNine]

20. LOL--look for the sun to burn out tomorrow......

[Richardo]

6. Now the corrollary - he can't trust the B administration ever again...

...at least that's what he said when he said he'd apologize...

[evil_orange_cat]

7. dear god... armageddon is upon us...

seriously... O'Reilly apologizes?

[Imalittleteapot]

8. I can't stand O'Reilly but I'm ready to send him a

thank you email.

[Wickerman]

9. Rats, ship. sinking.

O'Really?

I love the smell of fear. The smell of desperation. Career decisions. Dennis Miller must be shitting bricks - he has NO WHERE to go.

[Bluzmann57]

10. His WAAAAYYYY overdue apology

wouldn't have anything to do with all the emails and petitions that he and faux "news" recieved would it? He's still a walking, talking advertisement for birth control.

[OneTwentyoNine]

18. Yep,maybe a combination of both,but I'm still surprised....nt

[eissa]

19. It worked

I can't stand him, but I give him credit for the apology, no matter how forced it may have been. Insanity and PigBoy would NEVER do this.

[JasonBerry]

11. Interesting

You know, it's funny, I had never watched or listened to O'Reilly before up until about two weeks ago. I have listened a bit now, and surprisingly, unlike how I feel toward most right-wing talk shows, I found him pretty entertaining! I don't agree with him on much of anything of course, but he is not what I expected after reading about him here at DU for so long. He seems to not really care who he jumps on and for what and I kind of admire his little streak of independence -- and for his ability to say he was wrong on WMDs.

[MidwestTransplant]

16. Don't be fooled

he will rot your brain!

[Greylady]

21. And he's still a bigot

but I'm proud of him for taking responsibility for his words. Now, has he apologized to France?

[judge_smales]

12. We really need to start thinking in a new way

We're no longer the voice in the wilderness. Bush is going down. Not "going to go down", not "looking vulnerable", he *IS* going down. America is waking up to what we've been saying since the selection. It's like Carville said "We're right. They're wrong"

Now let's start acting like it, damn it!!

[fertilizeonarbusto]

13. Hear, hear Judge

Time to show guts and stay on-message, gang!

[salinen]

22. PEOPLE!

This is the slime of the slime here. Over the next few months we will be savaged by this fake moralist because he apologized. We are all Al Franken now.

[Greylady]

23. No Doubts, Judge

the Truth is out there, the Anger is out there.

[Imalittleteapot]

14. Go rate this story.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040210/people_nm/c...

[OneTwentyoNine]

15. Har har.......Was that the "official apology"??? nt

[SpiralHawk]

17. E-mails Away! Hearts and Flowers for republican citizens

all around.

I have already copied the story and sent it to my hard-core RW brother (a Vietnam Vet) and his even harder core RW spouse.

They are beginning to sniff out a Major Stinkerooski with the AWOL thingy, too.

They think O'Reilly is a God.

Like most "gods," he has feet of clay.

May this tidbit help them awaken further -- for they are wonderful people in all other respects.

Thank you, Good Morning America !

[Jack_Dawson]

24. Apology? I didn't hear it.

Did he apologize? Wasn't that what he was SUPPOSED to do?

[lefty_mcduff]

25. Seems to me that the RWs are scrambling for cover...

...and that the shit has truly hit the fan.

I'm also watching hampster-boy Scottie getting reamed by the press corp....

[Fovea]

26. Will Roger Ailes fire him?

Or is this a signal for Faux to flip?