While I don't agree with many of O'Reilly's positions and often find him somewhat arrogant, I would REALLY love to see some documented accounts of partisanship from him. I keep hearing that he's a "smear merchant" or a "conservative lap-dog". Show some examples where he made derogatory comments about someone without a factual basis. He is as politically independent as any talking head out there, and far fairer than the VAST majority of them. He slams the right as fast as he slams the left. If you do or say something stupid and you're in the public eye, O'Reilly is going to call you on it. If you're a hypocrite, from either side of the ideological divide, expect to hear your name on the Factor. Yes, he's opinionated, but he's not reporting the news either. He's a commentator, not a newscaster. Commentators comment. What they are and what they do kind of go hand-in-hand. And I said it earlier, and I'll say it again - the lefties really stepped in it when they took a shot across O'Reilly's bow. He's gonna hammer them. And it's going to be so fun to watch.

The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers

Billo is the biggest 'smear merchant' of all, what a joke

If you know anything about O'Reilly when it comes to this sort of the thing, it's not exactly about right & left, it's about power. He has always said the rich & powerfull protect each other. It's in their mutual interest to do so.

As for smear, he puts himself out there, he gets hit, & he also hits back.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

"I've been watching this charlatan nearly every night for the past nine years"

If he is such a "charlatan" how come you have helped him build his little mud empire by watching?

I can't stand two minutes of the real charlatans.

"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...

Jer,

I'm with the peanut gallery on this one. Why would you spend five hours a week watching a guy you think is a charlatan? Forgive me, but that seems rather foolish. Do you consider yourself to be a masochist?

You know, I think Al Gore's a charlatan, and I couldn't last more than five minutes into "An Inconvenient Truth" before I changed the channel. The one time the folks at the MRC asked me to watch and tape "The View" for them because it was being pre-empted on the East Coast due to a Bush press conference, I suffered emotionally for weeks, and will NEVER accept that gig again.

As for Olbermann, if I don't quickly change the channel after "Hardball" before his abomination begins, I break out in hives, and am irritable and appetiteless for days.

As such, could you please explain how you watch someone you hold in such low esteem five nights a week?  ns

I am sure BoR thanks you for the ratings.

Did you eat alot of paint chips growing up?

A new definition for the Democrat Newspeak English Dictionary:

smear (v): a conservative telling the truth about a liberal, esp. when the conservative has documentary proof and/or quotes the liberal in context.

smear (n): the truth when applied to a liberal, esp. when non-forged or non-fraudulent documents or direct, in context quotes of the liberal are used as proof of the true statement.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan