O’Reilly admits Fox News is a conservative media outlet, suggests Obama visit “loyal opposition” on Fox News Sunday
September 17, 2009 5:58 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From Bill O'Reilly's September 17 column, headlined "Obama and Us":
From my perch in the media, it seems that the president thought the left-wing press would protect him against right-wing media scrutiny. After all, liberal media outlets heavily outnumber their conservative counterparts. But that is not happening. MSNBC and CNN are not competitive with Fox News, and newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe are in serious economic trouble as readers have turned away by the thousands.
In public relations land, the biggest mistake the president is making is avoiding moderate conservatives who would give him a fair shake. This Sunday, Mr. Obama is going on all the Sunday chat shows to talk up health care-all except Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Bad decision.
Mr. Wallace is no ideologue, and Fox News is dominating the national conversation right now. By avoiding Fox, the President looks weak. I mean, he is preaching to the choir on the network news shows. But the choir is obviously losing members. All the polls show that.
So if I'm Barack Obama, I take the economy, the aggressive stuff I'm doing against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and I bring it over to the loyal opposition. That would get some attention. And it might also bury the ACORN scandal in the process.
Avoiding a propaganda outlet is a weakness? What type of "logic" is that exactly?
Seems like O'Reilly rolls about this perverse logic every few months to slam anyone with common sense that avoids faux like the plague.
The same opposition that's been concocting and selling nonsense like lack of birth certificates, death panels and charges that the president is a racist?
That loyal opposition?
As we say in West Texas, "I'm calling Bulls*** on that one." The lie of the "liberal media" is old and unfounded. The folks on MSNBC have been very vocal in their criticism of Obama. Olbermann and Maddow have both criticized Obama on his failure to follow through with his promise to rectify the damage done to our Constitution by the Bush administration and his failure to bring the folks who trashed our Constitution to justice. [Those are two of my biggest issues regarding Obama.]
O'Reilly is full of horse hockey, except for the fact that he has admitted that Fox is not a "fair and balanced" network. I will disagree that Fox is dominating the conversation . . . its viewership is very small. Just being vocal doesn't mean that you are "dominant" nor does it mean that you are "right." Just loud and obnoxious.
Perhaps it was a bad decision by FOX not to carry either of President Obama's last two nationwide speeches.
"Mr. Wallace is no ideologue..."
This one fails the smell test:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909130011
http://mediamatters.org/research/200908300012
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908300010
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908300001
"But the choir is obviously losing members. All the polls show that."
I'm waiting for some evidence to back this up, Mr. O'Reilly. More than one poll, conducted by FOX, of whoever is in Murdoch's Rolodex, please.
"And it might also bury the ACORN scandal in the process."
Burying the ACORN scandal by going on FOX, who supported, then broke, and continues to lie about it? C'mon, Mr. O'Reilly, even you cannot be that soft in the head.
The Scoreboard: Wednesday, September 16
By Kevin Allocca on Sep 17, 2009 04:40 PM25-54 demographic: (L +SD)
Total day: FNC: 483 | CNN: 178 | MSNBC: 165 | HLN: 173
Prime: FNC: 1009 | CNN: 284 | MSNBC: 329 | HLN: 261
5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O'Reilly:
624 512 463 1137 1150 741 623
CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper:
130 136 196 232 319 301 204
MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann: Maddow:
177 189 190 392 341 255 191
HLN Prime: Prime: Issues: Grace: Issues: Grace: Showbiz:
153 126 263 354 211 237 246
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data
***BINTX...be able to back your statements up...or you run the risk of looking like horse hockey yourself.***
Really?
Really?
Really?
Really?
And that's just in the last couple of months...
He is a contemptible corporte punk, however.
Here are the numbers: http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/05/sunday-morning-news-show-ratings-august-31-abc-spin/4953 .
Get real, O'Reilly. You work for the fringe.
He's the first cable dude to give the broadcast news a run for their money...literaly...
ABC "This Week" 2.59M
CBS "Face the Nation" 2.51M
FOX "Fox News Sunday" 1.21M
The President will show up at FOX right after he makes a speech at the next RNC luncheon. Both appearances would be useless since both audiences are set upon screwing around with anything in their grasp regardless of the needs of the country.
except talk radio, right?
and?
so are the weekly standard, new york post and probably the washington times, as well.
no, they are avoiding him.
oh please, tell us more, billo.
HAHAHAHA... *pause*... HAHAHAH
because of your super duper high ratings, right?
no, it's smart, because he is giving a cold shoulder to the only network that incessantly bashes him 24/7.
and bush didnt do that with fox news for the last 8 years?
no, it isn't... and no, they don't.
what else can he do? the employees were fired, and obama is not linked with acorn in anyway. only the conservatives claim that.