Bill knows that if it weren’t for the rock hard stupid people that make up his “base”, he wouldn’t have a job.

Amazing.

The right-wingers have been claiming for decades now that ALL the news media are “liberal,” even during the years of Faux News and right-wing owned newspapers like the Washington “Moonie” Times, and now apparently Bill O’Reilly has brain-washed his own self into believing there is no such thing as a right-wing news media, including at Faux News…even with all the evidence to the contrary and after all the lies spread through the “liberal” news media in support of Bush’s, Cheney’s and the neo-con Republicans’ mad desire to start an unprovoked, preemptive war against Iraq.

So,

a) O’Reilly really, really believes he’s part of an all encompassing “liberal” news media, thus making him and everyone else at Faux News somehow “liberal,” or…

b) O’Reilly, being somewhat delusional, has his own definition of what “liberal” and “conservative” are, which doesn’t exactly match reality.

BTW, I’m not at all surprised that newspaper readership continues to plummet around the country, especially after so many “liberal” newspapers whole-heartedly backed BushCo back in 2002/2003 in the lead-up to the start of hostilities in Iraq.

I knew BushCo war propagandists were lying about the supposed national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein and far away Iraq, as well as the blatant lie that Hussein was somehow behind the 9/11 attacks…but as far as the “liberal” news media were concerned, finding a dissenting voice among their “coverage” was a waste of my time and effort.

This is when I started looking to the internet and blogs for fact-based, reality-based-community information…and stopped getting my local newspaper and the NY Times daily at my local newsstand. I occasionally get my local newspaper, maybe once or twice a week, but after the Judith Miller debacle, I completely stopped buying the NY Times. Why would I waste money to read such blatantly lying right-wing propaganda pieces?

My local newspaper is a prime example, the Austin American-Statesman. In the year before Molly Ivins died, it stopped running her column as frequently as it once had, instead opting to run columns from fact-challenged right-wing “columnists.” And Ben Sargent, the great political cartoonist, is under constant attack from right-wingers posting comments on the A A-S website and in letters-to-the-editor, with whatever right-winger is running the op-ed page printing these smears. (On the other hand, after a Scott Stantis cartoon ran on the A A-S editorial page prior to the Iraq War beginning in March 2003, in which Stantis drew Normandy Beach, showing only Republicans storming it in face of withering Nazi fire, with Democrats cowering in the LSTs, the A A-S didn’t run one letter to the editor pointing out what an evil lie this was, including my own letter).

So, I understand why a large segment of our nation’s reading public are a bit disillusioned with O’Reilly’s “liberal” news media and “liberal” newspapers, with an increasingly large portion turning to fact-friendly, reality-friendly websites like Think Progress.

It’s all a matter of trust, and after what many members of our nation’s new media pulled before the Iraq War, buying into the lies and spreading the lies of the Bush administration and corrupt neo-con Republicans, I know I lost a lot of trust in the reporting ethics and journalism standards of the entire Fourth Estate, even though a few rotten apples across the media spectrum, like Faux News and a whole slew of right-wing columnists, are to blame.

People like Billo and Jonah deny who they are, because they are hardcore closet fascists. They need religion and the fear of the spread of sodomy because they love the thought of fear being in the lives of everyone else.

Fear is their best friend, lover and companion. Which explains why they have never found any happiness in their own.

Life is a season of unending joy
A medley of extemporanea
Love is a song that can never go wrong
And I am the queen of Romania.

– Dorothy Parker

For some reason this sprang to mind…

The 2007 study was devestating. On THREE of the most important and topical issues about the war. Fox viewers werent UNINFORMED they were MISINFORMED. They believed three myths that were undeniably WRONG. It aint what you dont know that hurts ya its what ya know that just aint so. Fox LIES to its viewers. It IS rightwing, it is a propaganda organ and any attempt to deny either of those propositions is a foray into denial and delusion.

And “I’m an honest guy?” I wish Turner said, “Whatever you say, Bill.”

Nice to bring up someones past relationship, which had nothing to do with the interview.

Bill’s just jealous. If I could say that sleeping with Jane Fonda was something I used to do, I’d be a happy boy.

That statement was GROSSLY overstated the case & and FLAT OUT WRONG! Using the qualifier of ‘among’ while accurate is misleading. Three studies over five years do not indicated to me “consistently.”

The 2007 Pew study linked showed network morning show viewers scored lowered.

The 2008 Pew Study linked DID NOT show any to be accurate: It showed that ELEVEN other categories, including CNBC, Local & Network news (17%) & CBS (10%) scored lower!

Nice to bring up someones past relationship, which had nothing to do with the interview.

Okay Mr. nice and honest guy trying to do the best you can.
And I’ve developed quantum physics and mastered molecular fusion.
AND I’LL DO IT FCKIN LIVE!