{"id":628,"date":"2004-09-27T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T18:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2008-11-05T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T05:24:55","slug":"a-few-oreilly-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"A Few O&#8217;Reilly Talking Points&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/OReilly60Minutes.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">While I look forward to his interview with Bush tonight (and for the next three!), I&#8217;ve had a few &#8220;No Spin&#8221; items spinning on my brain for a few days that I&#8217;d like to toss out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">ITEM #1: Last week, on <i>The Factor<\/i>, O&#8217;Reilly attempted to marginalize <i>Air America Radio<\/i> two days in a row by claiming that they were meaningless and failed because they are currently only carried on &#8220;20 affiliates&#8221;. Never mind that when O&#8217;Reilly launched <i>his<\/i> radio show, he had enough money to actually <i>pay<\/i> stations to carry his show! But more notably, O&#8217;Reilly has a long term grudge with Al Franken, one of the AAR hosts, and can&#8217;t even manage to say his name on his &#8220;no-spin&#8221; program, spinning him as &#8220;Stuart Smalley&#8221; instead of using his real name.  So O&#8217;Reilly continues to spin his own opinions about Franken and AAR by simply lying about them.<\/p>\n<p>A quick check of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AirAmericaRadio.com\" target=\"_blank\">Air America Radio website<\/a>, would have told O&#8217;Reilly that they are on &#8220;32 Stations Nationwide&#8221; according to the banner headline on the front page of their site. After his statement the first day we could have been generous and called it a mistake. Repeating it verbatim the next day, however, was no mistake. It was just spin.<\/div>\n<div class=\"list\">ITEM #2: For the last several weeks O&#8217;Reilly has been going on about James Carville and Paul Begala working with the Kerry Campaign in an unpaid advisory capacity while continuing their role as co-hosts on CNN&#8217;s <i>Crossfire<\/i>. While, unlike O&#8217;Reilly, neither Carville nor Begala refer to themselves as journalists, but rather as admitted partisans who host the liberal side of a political debate show. At the end of last week O&#8217;Reilly huffed at one of his guests who challenged &#8220;the bloviator&#8217;s&#8221; claim as disingenous because Fox does virtually nothing <i>but<\/i> support the Bush campaign. O&#8217;Reilly then launched into a challenge asking him to &#8220;Name names!&#8221; about who does that at Fox, promising he would call them out if they did! <\/p>\n<p>The answer (that the guest didn&#8217;t have at hand) is Sean Hannity who lent his imprimatur to the Republican National Party by narrating videos for the GOP Convention website. I wrote O&#8217;Reilly to name the name, but so far, I haven&#8217;t noticed any on-air corrections or condemnations for it. You can still hear Hannity at the GOPConvention website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopconvention.com\/rewind\/pre\/hannity.mov\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"list\">ITEM #3: As you may know, O&#8217;Reilly still has his silly on-going &#8220;Boycott&#8221; of France. Here&#8217;s a quick snippet on that from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,132946,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s interview with Jon Stewart<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">STEWART: Do you really believe France is, in any way, worthy of a boycott?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: I do. I think France has really hurt the USA, to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: Really?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: More than like Saudi Arabia? You would advocate a boycott&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: No, I&#8217;m not going to say more than Saudi Arabia. But I&#8217;m saying we do a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>STEWART: So why not boycott them?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;REILLY: France is supposed to be our friend.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;And he didn&#8217;t have anymore to say on the matter as the subject was then changed. But Stewart makes an excellent point there. Why aren&#8217;t all those ridiculous French Bashers out there calling for a boycott of products from <i>Saudi Arabia<\/i> &#8212; who is also &#8220;supposed to be our friend&#8221; &#8212; instead? $1.97 a gallon says you know the answer. Hypocrites.<\/div>\n<p>The spin goes on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I look forward to his interview with Bush tonight (and for the next three!), I&#8217;ve had a few &#8220;No Spin&#8221; items spinning on my brain for a few days that I&#8217;d like to toss out. 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