CRONKITE and orielly

[FARAFIELD]

With all the things on Countdown lately i just have to get something off my chest. A few years ago O'reilly hit Cronkite hard for talking about the war. Saying his time had passed and what not. A month later or so CRONKITE hobbled out on stage for the Emmys and got a standing Ovation, for just being CRONKITE. I think Orielly is jelous, not only that, in the vain of that old monthy python routine "he is not worthy to lick cronkites boots". Orielly wont be remembered as a journalist, important person, or someone that his peers look up to. PERIOD. He was contreversial and He Hated, thats Orielly. Unless Fox News has a 50th anniversay special, Orielly wont ever recieve a standing O from anything other than a right wing crowd. As far as Im concerned him and all his right wing friends can just sit in a corner and suck on that info.

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1. O'Reilly is a windbag tool for his creators and will fall on his face

when they drop him.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Ironically, O'Reilly now says we should leave Iraq ASAP.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220007

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. O'Reilly is not mentally stable

The only time I listened to him for any length of time was when he was on Fresh Air. From what I heard, I would say the fellow feels he is prosecuted and also that he has a heightened sense of himself. I doubt if he could ever make light of himself, like Keith Olberman did the other night. I also think O'Reilly realizes he isn't as good as those he would emulate, but instead of trying to improve himself, he tries to tear the other people down. Personally, I think he needs to go to a psychiatrist for therapy and quit feeding his manias by being on television.

[catmother]

7. every now and then when olbermann goes to commercial is say

to my husband "well let's see what old man o'reilly is complaining about tonight?" it always the same -- the whackos on the left, george scoros and moveon.org., etc.

[liberal N proud]

4. O'Reilly is a pimple compared to Cronkite

Cronkite was a news reporter where as O'Reilly is nothing more than a whore for the regime.
I wish we had a modern day Cronkite on the airwaves.

[JanusAscending]

5. Sorry to say...............we did, but...............

now he's gone. I'm talking about Peter Jennings of course. I think a close second at this time would be Kieth Olbermann of "Countdown" on MSNBC. He tells it like IT IS, and adds in a bit of humor to lighten things up. We could all use a little humor these days!!

[catmother]

6. did you hear that o'reilly is trying to get olbermann cancelled and

replaced by phil donahue? i'd love to have phil back but i get dan abrams and tweety twice. why not take one of those repeat slots and give phil back his show. o'reilly might just have given MSNBC some food for thought -- i'd like to have keith and phil.

[Catchawave]

8. O'Reilly is a mean, hateful gasbag.

This is a good source of proof:

http://www.newshounds.us/oreilly_factor/

[Ksec]

9. Oreally was against the war

and he talks about the war all the time. So why cant Cronkite? Our problem is giving oreally a platform. We drive up his ratings and make him feel like hes really a credible newsguy. Im guilty myself- although its rare that I watch his show, occasionally I do. So we are the problem here.

We watch. Until we stop he keeps going.

[Golden Raisin]

10. Puh-leeze!

That's like comparing Michelangelo to the muddy paw-prints your dog tracks into the house. Cronkite was an authentic reporter/journalist who worked his way up to the top anchor position in the nascent television news milieu of the 1950's/1960's when TV was the new and cutting-edge technology of the day. He covered World War II in the field, and then the Nuremberg Trials after the War. O'Reilly is a hired hand of Rupert Murdoch's. Not a reporter. Not a journalist. He's a "personality" paid to spout his personal opinions as if they were irrefutable facts, read cue cards and spout the Fox conservative line in his own particularly offensive way: bullying and shouting down his guests (a la Joe McCarthy.) I grew up watching Cronkite and he was a gentleman. He never sneered, shouted or exhibited the kind of offensive arrogance that O'Reilly does nightly. The shocking drop (in only 50 years) in standards from the pioneers of television news (Edward R. Murrow, Cronkite, Huntley/Brinkley, etal.) to what passes for news and TV anchors today is simply staggering and almost unbelievable.