Bill O'Reilly, blowhard Ted Baxter - Says Richard Mellon Scaife's RW Newspaper

[RamboLiberal]

Once upon a time, Fox News talk-show host Bill O'Reilly truly served well his role as the overseer of the "no-spin zone." With the greatest of precision, he dissected the prevailing shibboleths of the day and restored fact-based common sense to so many debates.

That was then, this is now. And you know something has changed, dramatically, when those on the left start referring to Mr. O'Reilly as "the moderate voice of conservatism."

O'Reilly has become a classic blowhard (not to mention a Butcherer Royale of the King's English). Indeed, Rush Limbaugh was not far off the mark (in Zev Chafets' recently published biography of Mr. Limbaugh) in describing O'Reilly as "Ted Baxter," the buffoonish news anchor from the old Mary Tyler Moore series.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_702338.html

Eating their own!

[3waygeek]

1. Not very original...

KO's been saying that about BillO for years.

[louis-t]

2. His "no spin zone" was never spin-free.

He never brought common sense to any debates I ever heard. Hey Trib, what else ya got?

[davidinalameda]

3. can I get a butcherer royale with cheese?

[msanthrope]

4. It's BillO's support of gay rights---such that it is......

Look, I'm not gonna say BillO deserves a foundation award.

I'm not gonna say BillO is a 'friend' of gay people.

But BillO is decidedly tired of flogging "teh gay is evil" line of the Republican party....

And that's what pisses Scaife off.

[HopeHoops]

5. That's not fair. Ted Baxter was just as much of an idiot as BillO, but he wasn't a mean asshole.

[Orsino]

6. O'Reilly's ego is getting in the way of the fascists.

Why can't he subjugate it to corporate will, as he did with his intelligence, wit and integrity? Shouldn't being rich be enough for him? Why is he determined to remain a virgin in his left ear?