XISMZERO Sep 10, 2007
No, I used FAIR as a source regarding the statistics about ratings. If you can prove that the article is wrong, then I'd like to see it. As for criticizing Fox and O'Reilly for being rightwing, you already consented that fact. You're the one that called the viewers of TDS and CR 'ignorant'; you passed judgment, not me. Your spin regarding that matter hasn't changed---O'Reilly made the comment and was responsible for his having been wrong. As for Glick, if you read the transcript you miss out on everything---I recommend actually watching it. Glick isn't the only thing, but it is all that is needed. The "9/11" defense is not enough.
I said most Daily Show viewers are ignorant because most of them are; young, college-aged, looking to heckle what they see as establishment or serious topics that are much more complex than the simplication and one-liner treatments they get on Colbert and TDS. Colleges are very influential, liberalism-dominant establishments too. If you think all viewers of O'Reilly are mindless followers then at least I might come off as somewhat reasonable.
Amending to that, you referenced a blatantly biased source of 'statistics' from a man whose very much biased himself. He wouldn't have posted it if it didn't make Fox look bad and you know it. Why don't you just start grabbing accounts from OutFoxed! You don't see that in your analysis?
What people behind the news support with their money is not to be taken into account. What does count is their objectivity. Just because you believe in the liberal media bias myth doesn't make it true, even if you hear it repeated often. If there was such a thing, then they'd have not pandered to the administration and we'd not be in the Iraq quagmire.
Most journalists are human and they bleed their inherent beliefs into their stories. Let's also note that when a journalist is hired, he must adhere to the editor, who imposes a belief system based on his/her own. In this case, more Democrats/Liberalists run high positions of influence in the media and it kind of showers right on down. For the record, many top ranking Democrats actually voted for the war(s) in the first place so I'd hardly pin it on 'the administration.'
You people with your false political dichotomy... you'd dig up anything to support your cause, but will spin away, if not completely ignore, everything that threatens your worldview as "that's been years ago!" O'Reilly isn't a rarity. He's quite common. A shill doing what he can for his next paycheck.
Whatever O'Reilly said to a guest is wholly irrelevant - so why does it really matter? Also, I never said "that's been years ago", you must have misquoted me.
How ironic, yourself.