Ed Driscoll
John Roberts joins Fox News. What could go wrong?
A week later on May 5th 2008, Roberts, before the softest of softball interviews with then-candidate Obama, assured him that CNN was now safely a “Wright Free Zone,” even going out of his way to coo to the then-Senator, “Is that OK with you?”
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Should John Roberts forget where he works and click back into See-BS psychosis then behavior modification drugs in his hairspray should do the trick.
viking01 on January 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM
Lemme guess, Bob Dole was a RINO?
I guess Dubya was, too (since he spent like a drunken Kennedy, but I repeat myself)? As was Bush 41, since he raised taxes? Then again, so did Ronaldus Magnus, but….
Look, someone can be a conservative and disagree on items here or there or when they’re in a decision making position compromise with the left in order to get things done. Rudy Giuliani is OBVIOUSLY a social libertarian (at-best), social-liberal (at worst) but his fiscal & security approach are about as conservative as it gets, no? No, Rudy isn’t a con, but he’s not a freaking centrist, either, just because he’s pro-choice & prolly leaning towards gay marriage….he just disagrees with cons on several issues. On the big ticket items that aren’t social, he’s with “us”.
Greta is a centrist, folks. O’Reilly is on the right. Denying such obvious stuff makes us look like hardliners who claim everyone who deviates one angstrom is a RINO….let’s not emulate the left, okay? BOR is a righty, just not as far right as Hannity or Beck (who is probably closer to Rudy on social issues than Reagan, btw).
rjwest21 on January 4, 2011 at 9:43 AM
O’Reilly is more of a populist whenever that will boost his ratings. The guy made a name for himself as anchor of easy virtue / gossip-head on the seedy tabloid show “A Current Affair.” Phil Donahue-esque in its tawdry artificiality. He still flips back into that mode of salacious tidbits and pandering to Obama if he thinks it will boost audience or land an interview.
viking01 on January 4, 2011 at 9:55 AM
I’m starting to wonder about Fox as it is.
This morning, they referred to the issue of keeping the current tax rates, as “tax cuts”.
C’mon. They aren’t cuts. No ones taxes are going down, they’re simply remaining the same, and rather than point that out, they use the MSM’s mantra of tax cuts. Which isn’t true.
So now…is Fox just going along to get along, or fearful of government intervention, and retribution? In otherwords, pander to the administration, or suffer the consequences?
capejasmine on January 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, I’d categorize him as a righty-populist. He’s for a bunch of stuff that cons dislike when it comes to fed regulations, for example, but I’m willing to bet my house that his last three presidential votes were anything but Gore, Kerry & Obama. No freaking way he voted Dem. None.
rjwest21 on January 4, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Calling BOR a liberal would lose credibility, but the guy clearly takes the left seriously and thinks it’s worth listening to their arguments (as though we haven’t heard them for the last 80 years). I didn’t say he is a liberal, I said he is a centrist. Compared to KO he’s Madison, but that’s not the measuring stick.
Show me the issues upon which you would base your argument that BOR is purely a conservative? Social issues go both ways. Reagan is a bad example because in the late 70s social issues were in a very different place in the political spectrum. For example, calls to end the “Drug War” are coming mostly from the Right these days.
Yeah, I see lots of conservatives calling for a public option. But do you see the BOR tactic? He’s not for a complete public option, just one for “the folks.” Centrist drivel.
On what premise could any “conservative” commend the president on helping improve the employment situation?
You mentioned the death penalty, well let me use that to illustrate how utterly unprincipled BOR is… he is against the death penalty EXCEPT for in cases like Saddam Hussein. How does that work exactly? How can you think that the state taking a life is MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE… except sometimes when it does?
Your problem is your view of what a conservative is… the center has moved so far left that you think a centrist like O’Reilly is somehow a conservative. He’s Bob Dole with an attitude. And FNC is weak but comparatively conservative that we readily accept the left’s picture of it.
http://bleechers.blogtownhall.com/2007/04/25/fox_news_amateur_hour.thtml
mankai on January 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM
FNC has been Hannitized.
Kilmeade and Carlson have a combined IQ around 80.
“It’s like, OMG, did you totally hear what Nancy Pelosi said? Let’s, like, totally play that clip 4000 times.”
mankai on January 4, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Of course BOR wants to keep his pile and would vote accordingly yet he is an entertainer-showman who would readily morph and cheapen his presentation accordingly. His becoming chameleon of the day to land the Zero interview is a prime example.
viking01 on January 4, 2011 at 10:22 AM
BOR is one of the few people left who will take Al Sharpton seriously.
’nuff said.
mankai on January 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM
I thought John Roberts was moving to Atlanta to be with his pregnant fiance (CNN anchor Kyra Phillips).
RedRobin145 on January 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM
he’s going to be a very low man on the totem pole at FOX. He’s going to have to prove his worth to Roger Ailes.
mizflame98 on January 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM
That’s funny because I like Kilmeade, he says stuff in passing, that no one pays attention to, that are great. It’s like watching Popeye cartoons as an adult and noticing all the snark being said under the characters’ breath. I think he gets away with a lot because people think he’s dumb.
Cindy Munford on January 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM
A. I love Popeye for the same reason!
B. Gonna have to watch more closely as BK has never struck me as anything but a 40 u.o. pimply bumbler.
mankai on January 4, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Considering that Carlson was valedictorian of her high school class and graduated with Honors from Stanford, I’d say you’re quite generous – I thought 80 combined sounds a little too high for them.
Bizarro No. 1 on January 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Is that any way to talk about a former Miss America?
Cindy Munford on January 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM
I don’t think there is a problem with him being both. But he can be funny.
Cindy Munford on January 4, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Maybe we should ask Kilmeade…
Do you remember when she played violin for the talent portion of Miss America? Man, she was so awful it sounded worse than Justin Bieber trying to sing like Dylan. That kind of playing was about what you’d expect from someone with an IQ as low as Gretchen’s. I’d bet you that stupid Gretchen’s IQ is even lower than Democrat intellectual superstars like Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee.
Bizarro No. 1 on January 4, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Wait, you’re telling me that the host of the #1 cable show for a decade should, instead of having vigorous debate with the ideology of one of the two major parties in the USA (and for the last few years, the one that has been the elected majority) should instead presume that the folks he disagrees with are not worth listening to at all & should not have their points of view flushed out so as to have all views presented & let the viewers decide who made the best argument?
Isn’t that what the show that O’Reilly crushes every night at 8:00 (by a margin of about 3 to 1) does?
Didn’t say he was purely a conservative (with your emphasis), I said he was clearly on the right. He is. That you changed the basis of the argument so that I would have to be arguing that BOR is PURELY a conservative in order for you not to be wrong tells me that deep down you know that he’s on the right but probably not as much as you’d like.
Bill’s a righty. Bill defended the Tea Party. Bill’s defended Palin. Bill’s covered & chronicled the left-wing media bias more than probably any television show in history – as his having on Bernie Goldberg weekly to discuss just that illustrates.
rjwest21 on January 4, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Anyone who thinks Bill O’Reilly is a ‘righty’ must be so far left that he / she must think that 0bama is a centrist.
LegendHasIt on January 4, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Anyone who thinks O’Reilly is not a righty must be so far right that he/she thinks that people with ACU ratings in the 80′s are RINO’s.
Cam Winston on January 5, 2011 at 8:35 AM
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