The segue from an O’reilly Journalist harassing a newspaper/magazine editor on a bus to saying “Paparazzi is disgusting, it shouldn’t exist in America.”
It would make more sense if the video actually worked. All I’m getting is the audio. No matter: I already saw the clip on The Daily Show. Ambush interviews are loathsome.
That seems like a rather extreme and senseless reaction. First of all, whether you go by the amount of bombast he possesses or the “extremity” of his veiws, O’Reilly isn’t nearly as bad as some of the other talking heads out there (Hannity, Savage, Coulter, etc.). Second, to want to decapitate people because they say stupid and disagreeable things reeks of fascism. If you don’t like what the Bill O’Reillys of the world have to say, just ignore them and/or mock them from afar.
Yes, it IS possible to be an idiot and have a “college degree.” It’s just a damn piece of paper, nothing more. It does not prove intelligence, nor does it give anyone the right to act as if they are superior to anyone else. I’m with Jaks on this one.
It is plenty possible to be an idiot and have a college degree. It is pretty damn hard to be an idiot and earn three college degrees, one of which is from an Ivy League school.
He says and does these things on purpose, making him an idiot.
OR, He’s quite capable of being intelligent but even though it’s his own show he let Fox News control what he says and does, making him an idiot and a sellout.
It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of thing.
I’ve read a few of O’Reilly’s books and in them he doesn’t come across as especially intelligent or particularly stupid either. He spends a lot more time trying to appeal to common sense, as he sees it, than he does making intellectual arguments. That said, he works within a format - cable news and talk radio punditry - that actively discourages intelligent discussion in favor of soundbytes and shallow insights. So my theory is that he probably isn’t dumb as dirt, but he’s not operating under circumstances which allow him to put what intelligence he does have to use.
Eh…well at least the point remains valid about his job on Fox. Besides, he’s probably got enough money raked in to retire. One can only hope he uses it soon.
Thus far the only plus side to the O’reilly factor that I’ve seen is despite Bush no longer being in office, Jon Stewart still has plenty of material to cover due to this show.
Crude humor, fixed clips, biased viewpoints and a never serious attitude, I likes’em like I likes’em.
From what I’ve read of O’Reilly I’d honestly consider him someone of average intelligence. He isn’t an idiot, but he’s definitely not a particularly bright person either, as evidenced by his frequent embrace of cognitive dissonance. Academic success isn’t necessarily dependent on someone’s ability to think critically. If that were the case almost all of the seats in congress would be empty.
Sean Hannity’s decent into madness has by far been the most entertaining result of the election.