O'REILLY Taking a Look at Run for Prez

[UTUSN]

Well, if Shrub, Ahhhnuld, Dennis MILLER can have megalomaniac thoughts and Zell can be a "Democrat", repulsive strangeness is certainly not beneath O'REILLY. The good part is that he has this strong streak of paranoia, always claiming that Far Left ideologues are out to discredit him. It was Tucker CARLSON who said O'REILLY's facade is susceptible to instant crumbling (will look for a link on that). In the meantime, have a laugh:

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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-p2toptv3537788nov13,0,1515537.column?coll=ny-television-headlines

But the most interesting thing about O'Reilly isn't "The Reagans," or Al, or even the train wreck of a lawsuit. It's this little question: Bill O'Reilly for president? ....

"I may take a look" at running and "certainly the option is open if I want it. But what I want to do over the next few years here is clean up the process. We have the bad guys on the run - no question about that."

While he says there have been "lots of offers" to run against Clinton someday for her Senate seat (there are four years left on his Fox contract), he also quickly adds, "I'd lose.... It'd be a fun race I'd drive her crazy, but she would ultimately win." Besides, he has no interest in the Senate: "I'm not a quid pro guy" who'd have to play at pork-barrel politics to bring "goodies" back to the state.

The prize would be the White House, but "the country's not interested in an independent candidacy. Maybe in 10 years they will be, but right now, you have 50 percent of Americans who don't know anything - they're totally disengaged from the process, the 'Mall People.' They don't know anything, don't watch the news or listen to radio or read the newspapers. The other 50 percent - and there was a recent poll on this - are a third crazy left and third crazy right and third in the middle. So the pie you're going for is a very narrow pie." ....

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[Skittles]

1. no, he's not a quid pro guy

he's a quid HO guy.

[AWD]

2. Go ahead Bill...

You'll see just how unpopular you really are.

Also, I wonder what ticket he'd run under????? Hmmmmmmmm........'

Geez, this guy is OBSESSED with Al Franken. Al announces a Senate possibility, O'Whiney has to one-up it. What an ass.

[stevedeshazer]

23. Totally obsessed w/ Franken

I know Bill lurks on DU.

Hey Bill, can you talk about us on the air again, please?

BTW, Bill, are you still shocked and confused as to how you registered as a Republican while telling everyone you are an independent?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62722-2000Dec12?language=printer
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O'Reilly insists his TV persona – the working-class hero taking on "the big boys" – is an honest guise,
despite his academic achievements and professional status. "I've had the same friends since I was 6 or 7 years
old," he says. "It's not a question of money; it's a question of sensibility. You have to maintain your values. I
don't go to the parties. Hell, I don't get invited to the parties. I could wear a Rolex watch. I could have a limo. I
choose not to."

So he's the slightly angry populist. Nothing animates O'Reilly more than the chance to pound Washington
over some alleged abuse of power or waste of the taxpayers' money. His book, as well as his "Talking Points
Memo" at the opening of each show, frequently bashes "the D.C./Beltway Establishment," "the Hollywood
moguls" or "the media barons" (O'Reilly's boss, Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch, fits the latter two
descriptions, though O'Reilly hasn't mentioned this on the air). A classic O'Reilly refrain: The Fed has been
too tight with credit, thus harming the working class. When Greenspan hinted at a rate cut last week, O'Reilly
crowed, "We put the spotlight on Greenspan. And he has responded. Thank God."

Robert Reich, the former labor secretary and a frequent guest on "The Factor," says O'Reilly always gives
him a "fair hearing" even though he often finds O'Reilly's commentaries "180 degrees wrong, absurd and
stupid." He calls O'Reilly "an obvious conservative Republican. But he can't say on the air. . . . He
can't have his perch and be an avowed conservative Republican."

In fact, O'Reilly was a registered Republican – until last week. O'Reilly acknowledges that since 1994 he was
listed on the Republican voting rolls in Nassau County, where he lives. But he says it was the result of a
clerical mistake, which he's rectified. "I've always been an independent," he says. "I always split my ticket. I
vote for the person I think is best."
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BWAAAHAAHAAAAA!

[homelandpunk]

39. News that Al considers Senate, so very next day Bill wants to be Prez

He is obsessed that AL bested him...can't get over it. Psychotic. But very funny...he has no idea how he looks either. Jesus, what a hoot.

[MessiahRp]

26. I actually hope he runs

He would do for Bush what Nader did for Gore, even if it were to a smaller percentile. :)

Rp

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. oh there he goes again

calling himself an independant. What he really means is the drain's clogged with bottom-feeding republicans right now, and its not a good time for another one to get in.

[alphafemale]

4. Just when I think the guy can't possibly get any more delusional.

Incredible.

[Ficus]

5. My only comment

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[maddezmom]

6. hey that's what

I was thinking.

[Loonman]

7. If you want to see video games and porn banned outright

Vote O'Reilly!

[Zero Gravitas]

8. LMAO

Please, please, PLEASE run for Prez. Bill you arogant self-centered jerk! That would be fricken hilarious. Any debate would be "must-see TV". Remember to tune in early folks, and I'm taking bets on how long it will be before thin-skinned Bill storms off the stage in a huff.

[CMT]

9. he should run

he would pull votes from Bush.

[UTUSN]

10. Good One! Here's T.CARLSON's Quote on O'REILLY

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/09/13/carlson/index1.html

.... Morton Downey to me is a metaphor for all TV talk. There's a reason he reached his apogee two years into his career.

In your book, you compare Bill O'Reilly a bit to Downey.

Well, look, O'Reilly is really a talented broadcaster. Bill O'Reilly gets much better ratings than I do and there's a reason: He's better than I am.

Better in what way?

He understands the medium better than I do. He's a better communicator than I am.

Is he better in a way you would emulate?

Absolutely -- as a communicator, sure. But his shtick is a really dangerous one, in my opinion.

But his shtick is a big part of that success.

It is, but his shtick is predicated on the idea that he is who he pretends to be. It's all about him. It's Bill O'Reilly, the gritty son of the working class made good who is looking out for your best interests against the powers that be. Bill O'Reilly's not right-wing, he's a populist. And of course the normal, stupid FAIR-type groups miss that. Rush Limbaugh is right-wing, but O'Reilly is an Irish Catholic populist.

But the second that image blows up, the whole edifice comes crumbling down. So the first time he makes people take all the green M&Ms out of his bowl, and that makes Page Six, it's over. ....

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[UTUSN]

12. "War Correspondent" in The Falklands War

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http://aggressive-voice.com/zz593.html

.... His analysis on Bill O'Reilly was a treat for me because most critical analysis of O'Reilly comes the hard left. In addiction, I was curious to see what kind of respect a CNN employee would give to O'Reilly who is the highest-rated talk show host in cable news. Carlson's review is for the most part positive, but presents a hypothesis original to most O'Reilly-haters, and it is that O'Reilly has let his ratings get to his head.

On a panel in Washington covering the topic "The Press in War Time," O'Reilly, according to Carlson who was also on the panel, tried to glorify himself when asked what he thought of the media coverage of the fighting in Afghanistan. O'Reilly went off, explaining how he's covered wars before and has faced the dangers. But as Carlson points out, having served as a reporter in the Falklands isn't that impressive to a room full of veterans who've covered much more dangerous wars. Carlson writes, "O'Reilly had just patronized them…It was little like bragging about your National Guard service to a room full of Navy SEALs." ....

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[papau]

20. O'Reilly saved the sheep on the Falklands - was he even aboard a boat?

Man - this fellow lies so much he should part of the Bush administration or our US media -

oh wait, he is, isn't he.

[xultar]

11. OK if that happens were all going to hell...I'm movin to Paris!

or Rome or quite possibly London.

[quinnox]

13. Possible v.p. picks

He might go with Buchanan or even Coulter. Great, just great.

[dkamin]

17. that's brilliant

An O'Reilly-Coulter campaign. Thinking about it makes me laugh.

[Bandit]

14. Every post so far is saying how impossible it would be but all I can say

is Ah-nold.

[elperromagico]

35. Ah-nold won because he's a movie star

and all he ever said during the campaign was a lot of shit about "bringing businesses to Calliefornia."

I'm telling you, in a legitimate year-long race, Arnold would not have won. 56% of those who voted for him thought that "personal attributes" mattered most of all in choosing a candidate. You don't usually see those kind of numbers in a lengthy election.

[dkamin]

15. Question

Which party would he run for?

He is very fair and balanced, you see, so it's unclear whether he would run as a dem, repug, or independent.

If anyone wants to make a bet, I'll take Repug.

[realFedUp]

16. My first laugh of the day.

thanks

[markses]

18. Bahahahaha

That fucking rubberneck couldn't win an election for dogcatcher - of his "working class" hometown of Levittown!

What a schmuck! Watta bagiagaloop! What a shtootz!

President! Garghahaha. I'm friggin cryin' ovah here, O'Really!

[MadHound]

19. Pleeeeeeze Bill!! Please, please please run for President

It would be so fun to tear that hypocritical, lying, scum sucking asshole a new one. He wouldn't make it past the primaries, but when he finally gracelessly bows out, he would have to crawl home, with his reputation and psyche in tatters.

Do it Bill! Do it do it do it. I'll even double-dog dare you to DO IT!

[Paxton_Free]

21. Wow.

That's... all... I can say.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. That would be funny

In 1998, Bill Sizemore, a rabid, nasty, dishonest, anti-tax crusader got the nomination for Oregon governor. The wingnuts who captured the once-reasonable and environmentally conscious Oregon Republican Party thought he was a hero.

However, they ignored the fact that he had won the everlasting enmity of every union member and schoolteacher in the state, besides being an ideologue who didn't want to face facts. I once saw him on a "Town Hall" program with high school students from around the state. The students were telling him how badly their schools had deteriorated, and he was basically saying, "No they haven't."

Democrat John Kitzhaber won in a walk. Some candidates inspire the other side to hate them better than they inspire their own side to support them.

[bearfartinthewoods]

24. O'REALLY IN '08...please santa..please?? i've been very good!! please?

[FDRrocks]

25. What an ego that man has. n/t

[Cat Atomic]

27. HA! I'd love to see that fraud run for office.

My family is blue collar, and extremely... butch... so to speak. Diesel mechanics, firemen, truck drivers, etc.

We all laugh at Bill O'Reilly. He's an elderly rich boy, a pampered, pretend tough guy; and it's obvious to anyone who's not a borderline retarded Fox News fan.

[Faygo Kid]

28. What an ego - he's nuts

Guy can take NO criticism. He can no more run for public office than Rush. Both are Playground Bullies who can dish it out and not take it. Hard to say who has the bigger ego. What a couple of blowhards.

[eyeontheprize]

29. O’Really acts and looks a lot like an alcoholic

Very grandiose, explosive temper, refuses to listen, has a logical reason (to him) for any transgression, totally out of touch with consequences, puffy face…

In modern Republican America that more than qualifies him for presidency or some very powerful position where he can inflict untold harm on millions.

[AnnabelLee]

30. Kick

:kick:

[BringEmOn]

31. O'reilly's first press conference

as president.

[illini]

32. I would love that.

But, what would be more likely to happen is for O'lielly would run for Senator. :puke: :puke: :smoke: :puke: :puke: :smoke: :puke: :puke: :smoke: :puke: :puke:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. "the country's not interested in an independent candidacy."

sure, Bill. whatever.

anyone have handy the pic of his GOP registration card that's in Franken's book?

[elperromagico]

34. He's too thin-skinned

Any Democrat worth his/her salt would eat him alive.

What would he do at a debate if cornered? Tell his opponent to shut up? Have their microphone shut off?

Let's get real. O'Reilly's a fucking pansy.

[kentuck]

36. Good for him... I suppose he would run as an Independent ?

And take mostly votes away from George W Bush. He has a lot of right-wing support. Please run, Bill... :)

[elperromagico]

37. You know what they say

"You always hurt the one you love."

[Jacobin]

38. Oh'Really's Delusions of Grandeur have gone to a whole new level

Honestly, I fully expect this dingbat to end up on a tower with a rifle shooting at people the next time Franken pulls his chain.

[AnnabelLee]

40. Kick

:kick: