Does Maddow (peace be upon her) respond to every right wing blog attack on her? Of course not, because to do so would diminish her. Bill O responding to the sainted Maddow would do the same thing to him. It is like when the Maryland baseketball team played at Duke a few years ago and the fans there chanted “Not our rival”. The message was do not flatter yourself that your program is on our level. Maybe in a few years the market for self satisfied liberal smugness will be as big as populist conservative bombast but until then responding to Maddow, no matter how easy it would be to crush her on the merits, would diminish him. You never wrestle a pig, you just get dirty and the pig likes it.
O’Reilly can only aspire to be “brought down” to Rachel’s level (even if he has the directions mixed up). It would improve him tremendously.
I see what you did there. Maddow’s a terrorist! It’s all so clear now.
I had a talk with the pig. He said that he wouldn’t wrestle with O’Liely for any amount of money, because it would only diminish him.
It’s O’Reilly, you liberals think you’re so smart but somehow spelling escapes you. I bet Maddow is smart enough to get his name right.
Speaks for itself.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Cut him a break, guys. The only biting taunt tightie-righties understand is I know you are but what am I?
By this idiotic logic, who exactly is “worthy” to debate with him? If hosting a daily one-hour show on a nationally-televised cable network with good ratings isn’t suffiicent, then what–pray tell-- exactly are the standards by which someone achieves his “level” enough to engage with him?
This is the most chickenshit excuse for evasion imaginable, though to O’Reilly’s credit, he himself has not directly made it. Only your pathetic self.
And I’m pretty sure that Maddow would acknowledge a conservative blog if it correctly pointed out a mistake she had made. And even if she wouldn’t, she should.
By puddleglum’s logic, Bill O’Reilly has no right to ever attack network news organizations since the ratings for network news still dwarfs his own. As self-important as O’Reilly is about his ratings, they are really only big by cable standards. The reality is that even on a good night, only about 3% of Americans are watching his show. His ratings don’t even hold up to network tripe like The Bachelor, so who is he to try to pretend he’s the equal of Katie Couric, whose ratings are twice what his is?
Hanna Montana.
The sad thing is, she’d probably win.
Nope.
That’s when O’reilly brings in his “body language” expert to examine Hannah’s interview, and deduce that she was lying.
Then he brings in the “culture warriors” to figure out why today’s youth lie so much, and who’s fault that is.
My bad…I was assuming we were holding him to a formal, neutrally refereed debate…
Even if it was, I can’t see how that would stop either party from spinning it, as desired, on their regular show.
After O’Reilly appears on The View, for example, he analyses his interview a day or so later on the Factor. I’m sure the ladies on The View may have a different opinion of what resulted from the segment(s).
I see this here, on the Dope, too.
“I think O’Reilly made [Michael] Moore squirm.”
“You’re clearly insane. Moore trounced Bill-O.”
How often do you see Katie Couric engaging in debates with Bill O’Reilly? Fox News is implicitly comparing itself to network news with its “Fair and Balanced” slogan. Yet network news does not debate with Fox News and tries to denigrate it whenever possible. This is because airtime and viewers are valuable and you do not give valuables to your competition. It is not so mysterious, this is the way every media competition works, whether radio, tv, or the internet. O’Reilly know this, even Maddow knows this and yet she pretends that it is not true and her sycophantic followers lap it up. Think for yourselves people.
If that’s the case, then why is Bill O’Reilly so obsessed with getting into pissing contests with MSNBC?
Yet another Foxer who cannot tell the difference between “news” and “commentary”, I see. Real news departments do not “debate” or attack other news departments, and I doubt very much that you will find any denigration of Fox News on network news programs.
See, you are just wrong, el Capitan. He was say wrestling shows are a legitimate source of news because of their ratings. Monseignor, please pay attention.