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Bill O'Reilly, my hero

Strange but true.

I nearly stood and cheered when Bill O'Reilly of Fox buttonholed a Cato Institute wag on the oil companies' exploitation of a natural disaster to jack up profits.

Global warming, my eye. Hell just froze over.

Posted by Allen Johnson on September 1, 2005 11:58 PM | Permalink

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Doug said:

Mr Johnson,
Face it like him are not he says what he belives and gives others a chance to be different.He may hog the conversation, but at less you get a chance. He prints letters both pro and con to whats on his program. Can the NR make this claim?

Posted on September 2, 2005 5:47 AM

Jason Clarke said:

@Doug: I think I speak for everyone when I say: "Huh?"

Posted on September 2, 2005 9:02 AM

Allen Johnson said:

Doug:
Yes we do allow other views. You're getting that chance now. And you also could write a letter to the editor, if you'd like.
Unless you missed my point, I was AGREEING with O'Reilly, which I do fairly often.
Of course, I also disgree with him often, too.

Posted on September 2, 2005 9:21 AM

Doug said:

MR Johnson,
I know you where agreeing with him.It was the hell freezing over I did not understand.Yes I love the bogs, have said it before and I say it again, its the only source us middle of the road democrats (like me) and the righties have to vent.
Allen ask your self this question ( I do not need to know the answer) How many times has your paper reprinted letters straight off the internet (like the Downing ST Memos.Ask yourself? how many times this one letter was in your paper.How many letters have you printed about how shabby the state of NC is ran? 49TH worst managed state.As for Mr. Bill and Fox News they are busting there butts to help the hurricane folks, .Allen please never take anything I may blog personal, I have no desire to hurt anyone. Have a good week end,and pray for the people in hurricane zone.

Posted on September 3, 2005 6:09 AM

mrproduce said:

I about fell out of my chair when I heard him hang that Cato dude in the wind to dry. He has been pretty much right on in this Katrina coverage also. He has shown no mercy for government, from local to federal in calling ALL to bear for lack of planning.

Posted on September 3, 2005 7:38 AM

John Appel said:

I rarely watch O'Reilly, or many of the news/talk shows, because I don't find people shouting back and forth to be entertaining. If I did, I'd watch Jerry Springer re-runs.
That said, I've found that O'Reilly to be pretty hard on whatever he doesn't like, without regard to partisan politics. He poses hard-hitting, common sense questions. However, like many on the national scene, he sometimes thinks that the solution to an intricate problem is a simple solution.
I've seen it on many interviews, and see it in the letters and blog entries on here. "If President Bush/Governor [insert name here]/Mayor [insert name here] would just do [insert simple solution here] then this problem would be fixed. It's so simple I can't understand why they haven't done it."
In most circumstances, if it was that simple, it would have been done already.

Posted on September 4, 2005 12:00 PM

mrproduce said:

That's the point John, it's so simple that most foks overlook the obvious. It takes someone who can see the little stuff, to poimt out the obvious. You must not be married because wives are notorious at doing this. Well, at least mine is.

Posted on September 5, 2005 9:20 AM

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