READING O'REILLY | 2006-06-05
I used to watch O'Reilly all the time. Now I haven't watched him in a year or so.
First, there was his attempt to prove he was not a racist by his lead "exposure" that some white kids in Georgia held their own senior prom.
Long before somebody put the label "interrogrator" on it, I had common sense. So I can always tell what kind of response O'Reilly got from his fans. He is energetic when he is on a story that his viewers like. He looks like a stormcloud when he gets heavy flak from his own people.
When he did a commentary on that Great Expose the next week, he looked like a hurricane in a bad mood. He read a couple of the attacks on him for attacking these teenagers.
"There's all black, why not all white?"
"You really HATE the South, don't you?"
And so on.
I finally quit watching, though, when O'Reilly became sort of a bad-tempered old school marm. All he talked about was Catholic mores, how if you don't drink alcohol the way heroes like him don't you won't be alcoholics, and a list of similar bitches I simply cannot remember.
He also sticks carefully to pet guests.
If a liberal is willing to go on his show, O'Reilly is the perfect respectable conservative.
The week after he spent his whole time yelling at David Duke and David still managed to destroy everything he said, he came on like a stormcloud.
Against the NATIONALLY Accepted Villain of both Poltiical Correctness and respectable cosnervatism, he got slammed by his viewers. I don't think he read one single comment.
I haven't checked, but I assume that O'Reilly is still just a bad-tempered version of Larry King.