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Your daily "Bill O'Reilly is nuts" moment
This is becoming almost a daily thing. But that shouldn't be a big surprise at this point. On last night's The O'Reilly Factor, the FOX News host said this:
"If FOX News is the dominant number one rated cable network, and our presentation appeals to millions, why are we hammered in the press? The answer, of course, is ideology.
We can't find one TV critic in the United States of America, not one who isn't a liberal or a registered Democrat. Most are committed liberals, who dislike us for giving conservative and traditional Americans a fair shot.
By the way, if you know of a non-liberal TV critic, please let us know because we always want to be fair and balanced."
I want to write here that he's so obviously wrong that it's crazy, but it's so obvious that it's not worth mentioning (oh, sorry, I just mentioned it). But I'm wondering why anyone at FOX - or any other news outlet, whether it's CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, C-SPAN, TNT, or Animal Planet) would even bother to take the time to check into whether TV critics around the country are liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between. And then to top it off, he makes gigantic statements like "we can't find one critic in the United States of America, not one who isn't liberal or a registered Democrat..." I'd love to know how they would check on such a thing. There must be hundreds of TV critics around the country.
Bill O'Reilly is either a liar, someone making an outlandish statement for attention, or a bad investigative journalist (and one that should be concentrating on other things than what party a TV critic belongs to or some "war on Christmas"). Of course, he's not a journalist. He's a guy with talk show on cable. That's all.
It's amazing that he says that he's fair and balanced and responsible and that his show is a "no spin zone," then he makes an outrageous statement like this. It's also proof that he wants to divide this country, into "liberal and conservative," "us and them," and "we're right and they're wrong." What, are conservative TV critics supposed to send him an e-mail to dispute his theory? I doubt many will, because if they watch his show and like it, then they'll want to keep this myth going and not contradict him. But I hope someone does contradict him. Of course, if they do, he'll just say "oh, we only found a couple" or 5 or 7 or 30 or whatever the number turns out to be. Then he can say in an update on his show, "so, we found some conservative TV critics and we thank them for responding, but the fact remains that 97%* of all TV critics are liberal and they hate us. That's a fact."
*Or whatever number he makes up.
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