O'Reilly: "I work at Fox News. It's not a right-wing enterprise"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

O'Reilly opined on why Fox News is not "a right-wing enterprise"

Summary: Bill O'Reilly stated that "some believe" Fox News "is a right-wing enterprise" but that "I work there, and I can tell you that it is not." O'Reilly claimed that it was "a fact that no newsperson at Fox News toes any kind of ideological line at all."

During the April 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly stated that "some believe" Fox News "is a right-wing enterprise" but that "I work there, and I can tell you that it is not." O'Reilly claimed that it was "a fact that no newsperson at Fox News toes any kind of ideological line at all," ignoring such "newspersons" as Neil Cavuto and Brit Hume, whose purported straight news shows -- Your World with Neil Cavuto and Special Report with Brit Hume-- all contain a segment or panel discussion featuring the host's often conservative commentary; White House correspondent Carl Cameron, who was caught on tape gushing about his wife's participation in President George W. Bush's 2000 election campaign; and former Fox News host Tony Snow, who recently became Bush's White House press secretary.

O'Reilly went on to assert that "if you do an analysis every day of the voices and the time given to stories and people, you'll see that liberal people get just as much time as conservative people on" Fox News.

Additionally, O'Reilly claimed there "isn't a organized right-wing cabal" because "there's nowhere to take that cabal." O'Reilly concluded: "So you could get Richard Mellon Scaife and a couple of other -- the Coors Family -- and a few other very conservative Americans to pony up money to do something on the Web or wherever. You could do that, but it's never gonna get into The New York Times. It's never gonna get on CNN. There is no funnel for it."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604280008

[Dr Fate]

1. O'Reilly also said that Saddam had WMDs and that he was connected to 9-11

And the lies keep on coming.

[burythehatchet]

4. He also said that if there turns out to be no WMD's

He would never believe Bush again.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

He also said he doesn't do personal attacks.

[burythehatchet]

2. I used to think he was just a buffoon

but he really is fucking insane.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Um...OK sure.

[kenny blankenship]

5. ..if by "right wing" you mean Nazis in stormtrooper regalia goosestepping

down the hallways, then technically that's correct. FOX is not right wing by that scrupulously restrictive standard. But they're always striving for improvement and purity there, so don't count them out yet.

If you're using any definition of rightwing that a non-Fascist would recognize, however, then yes they're rightwing as hell.

[benny05]

6. When Bill K agrees most Fox Pundits Should Work for *

on Colbert's show...whether that's serious or funny...there is truth in both (serious and humor)

[mtnsnake]

27. Bingo!

You have a way with words!!

:toast:

[Kali]

7. "...you'll see that liberal people get just as much time as conservative

people"


hahahhahahhhahahah I don't even watch television and that is just so much bullshit. Sure they spend time on liberals - bashing them.

[Lars39]

8. Anyone else remember Fox admitting that they had Pentagon

censors in the studio at one point?

[C_U_L8R]

9. Liar or Idiot. Pick one.

Or Both :-)

There is no reason to believe a thing this man says.

[booley]

10. A slight problem of credibility

Of course that' s like Goebbels sayign that the Nazi party isn't anti-semitic.

[killerbush]

11. OMG!!! Tell me he didn't just say that!!

[Ringo84]

12. Re:

Well gee.. if Bill O'Reilly says it, then gosh darn it, it must be true!

'Liberal people get as much time on FOX as conservatives'? Right. If you consider the maybe two minutes of interview time Alan Colmes gets on "Hannity and Colmes" in most cases (considering that Hannity usually gets the most time), and the fact that colmes, as the Token Liberal, probably has to do most of the janitorial work at FOX.
Ringo

[annabanana]

28. Hey! Welcome to DU, Ringo84!

Gosh Darn it! O'Reilly is just a paragon of "fair and balanced" isn't he? heehee

[ClintonTyree]

13. Oh for christ's sake.....

what a piece of shit he is. :puke: Right, Bill. :eyes: Whatever you say.

[brucefan]

14. And,I'm married to Morgan Fairchild

that's the ticket!

[AlCzervik]

15. i post at du--it's not a left leaning web site.

[NativeTexan]

16. I guess there is only a "liberal" media?.......

Fox isn't fair and balanced, as we all know. At best, if you believed in the liberal bias of the media, which I don't see much of at all, they could call themselves "ideological and BALANCING".

O'Reilly is a facist in the first degree, and should be hung up like the Mussolini apologist that they ALL are!!

[Skittles]

17. fuck off, falafel boy

piece of shit

[Maddy McCall]

20. LOL.

Don't mince words, Skittles.

:thumbsup:

[Mz Pip]

18. Hey Bill

You know where you can stuff that loofah.

Spend some time calling a few dead guys. When you get an answer, get back to us. :crazy:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[OneBlueSky]

19. thanks, Bill . . . THAT was "fair and balanced" . . . n/t

.

[BenDavid]

21. As John Mason said,

in the movie "the rock"and it is very applicable to o'reilly,

"Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot".

[Robbie Michaels]

22. O'Reilly Also Said

We have a "rule of law". Apparently that's not the case if your name is Rush Hundson Limbaugh.

[Disturbed]

23. O'Liely is one of the best...

Comedians on TV.

[Zorra]

24. O'Reilly is a paid RW propagagandist. Of course he'd say that. n/t

[0007]

25. This is how all independents think that work for a non-bias fair

and balanced news organization? Bill O'Reilly does advertise that he is an independent.

I can't think of anyone who hasn't bitch slapped Mr. Bill O'Reilly silly over the course of time.


Here's looking up your old address Bill

[riona]

26. You don't look like you're telling the truth, Bill

[4dsc]

29. What's next, the liberal media

I wonder if O'Lielly really believes what he claims??

[doc03]

30. Tony Snow has filled in for Rush Limpballs and O'liely

for years while at the same time doing doing a "straight news report" on Faux. Can you imagine the hell raised if Dan Rather would have filled in for someone on AAR?

[sofa king]

31. "And I don't own a vibrator, either."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris14.html

[rasputin1952]

32. I have often wondered why so many of these RW self-aggrandizing

buffoons just haven't burst into flames at some point. You know, some kind of Divine Intervention or something...:)

How deluded can someone be to make a statement like that?

Just how stupid do these people think Americans are? Oops, might be a bad question, but at least bush and the RW pundits that support him are being seen as the complete fools they truly are. It's all in the dropping ratings of RW talk and bush's push for terminal velocity in the polls....:D

[columbusdem]

33. I think it could be...

I think it could be that Bill actually believes what he's saying. I don't know if anyone on TV has ever been as clueless as he is, so it wouldn't surprise me that he doesn't even realize what's going on in his own immediate surroundings. Or maybe he was confusing his network with their sister channel, which gave us such gems as "Trading Spouses" and "Unanimous".