When you lose O’Reilly you lose.
The top-ranked cable news host Bill O’Reilly admitted tonight that he’s starting to lose confidence in the Obama Administration. He also said the White House lacks bold confidence in its decisions and there’s a lot of confusion in the White House.
He’s just starting to lose confidence in Obama?
Related… More bad news for the Obama– FOX News ratings are up almost 10% since the White House declared war.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:29 pm | #1
He’s just STARTING to lose confidence in Obama???
Where has he been for the last 9 months?!?!?!?
October 26th, 2009 | 7:32 pm | #2
The Whitehouse isn’t confused – they know exactly what they are doing; O’Reilly is confused because he actually anticipated Obama would meet at least some of his expectations……nope.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:32 pm | #3
I like the guy but sometimes he’s a dope. He was better in the past but ever since Bush got re-elected in 2004 O’Reilly seems to bend over backwards being super extra fair to lefties when it is not necessary. I used to watch his show every night but now I just glance at it occasionally.
It’s not the same. He got no fight anymore.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:37 pm | #4
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October 26th, 2009 | 7:39 pm | #5
I have to agree with NeoKong. Bill O’reilly tends to give more “benefit of doubt” to the Obama administration than they deserve. And I’m not really sure why. But you aren’t alone, I’ve noticed it also.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:42 pm | #6
This is proof that Obama is terminal. O’Reilly cares only about ratings, so he is clearly no longer worried about alienating his audience.
He did the same thing when it came to the Iraq war. Once he realized that the public had turned against it, he did, too, and had guest after guest who told us that we had lost the war and it was all hopeless.
O’Reilly must be convinced that Obama will never recover, so he has to get on the “right” side of public opinion.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:45 pm | #7
What is taking him so long? Even after Obama tries to slander and destroy FOX News?
Well, O’Reilly is stuck with playing a game.
Ever since he had a radio show program, up against Rush Limbaugh’s time frame, O’Reilly adopted the “play the middle at all costs”.
It is regretful.
But tonight on that program, he offered more folly. For example, he provincially defines the Bush Presidency as being ‘hated’. This is simply playing to tired Partisan exploitation and slander.
For example, GW Bush and Cheney were clearly not “hated” by the liberal PM Tony Blair.
Having traveled the Globe extensively, this is utter nonsense to repeat Democratic Partisan portrayals in this manner. Mr. O’Reilly knows better than this.
President Bush and much of his Administration may have been opposed by many, but ‘hated’ is simply a gross exaggeration of sophomoric proportion.
Yes, in many Democratic Partisan arenas, GW Bush was and remains hated. In many European arenas, GW Bush was strongly, sometimes bitterly opposed. Certainly all Americans are “hated” by the likes of Al Qaeda. But it is an utter myth, that GW Bush was universally “hated” around the globe.
Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Kerry, etc., all the unethical Democrats, pushed the mythic conceptions of the USA’s diminished reputation around the globe for their own pathetic personal gain. We know some very ugly forces around the globe played on this gross distortion of the Bush reputation, like the communist group ANSWER, and even the pro-Al Oaeda and pro-Saddam Hussein supporters.
The Dalai Lama is just another example, of a foreign leader who openly declared his embrace for President Bush.
Was Mr. Bush bitterly opposed by Chiraq? Yes. Was he bitterly opposed by Schroeder? Yes. Did they have personal – political reasons to oppose the Bush Presidency? Yes.
However, they were later defeated in Elections, having their popularity destroyed by opposing the USA, as well as the Bush Administration’s policies. The so-called Bush “hatred” simply doesn’t sell well.
Sorry, but to throw this provincial fashion around, only creates misguided distortion. This is adding “spin”, and Bill O’Reilly can do so much better.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:47 pm | #8
Hypogean states it well.
O’Reilly was so laughable, running away from the Iraq Mission.
He plays the popular fashion all the time, and it is revealing he is slowly showing ‘doubts’ about Obama.
He will play the game until the end.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:48 pm | #9
Joanne, NeoKong…….
+1 Each.
Cheers !
October 26th, 2009 | 7:49 pm | #10
i always thought that BOR wanted another interview with obama and thought that if he played nice he could get another one. but since the administration is now attacking fox he realizes that’s not going to happen, so now he’s going to stop giving obama the “benefit of doubt”
October 26th, 2009 | 7:51 pm | #11
So O’Reilly is getting a little concerned eh?
Took him this long to kinda figure this out mmmm.
Didn’t or couldn’t be bother or could less about President Wee Weed past.
What a meat-head.
October 26th, 2009 | 7:52 pm | #12
I’ve posted before about how O’Reilly seemingly changed after he interviewed The One.
Perhaps he’s feeling challenged by Beck’s ratings. Oh, how I wish Beck had O’Reilly’s time slot!
October 26th, 2009 | 7:56 pm | #13
It’s a gig O’Reilly does it for the money.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:02 pm | #14
…he’s starting to lose confidence in the Obama Administration.
Obviously the polls indicate that Bill is in good company, with alot of people losing (or have lost) confidence in this presidency.
Obama is a failure, but it wasn’t completely unexpected. After all, he had no qualifications beyond teleprompter oratory skills, had no experience beyond working with corrupt ACORN activists, had no accomplishments beyond writing a Marxist field manual, and has been, since day one, in over his head.
It would be best if he resigned. As bad as Biden is, he couldn’t be any worse then the spendthrift in chief we have there now.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:07 pm | #15
Apparently the Janitor-in-Chief is still mopping the floor. Fox news radio just ran another clip about him complaining about the mess he has to clean up and how to hold the mop. He seems to want to hold the mop his way.
I “Hope” he would “Change” careers.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:13 pm | #16
Bill just doesn’t want to be accused of being a RAAAAACIST. He has no guts to stand up to the libtards.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:21 pm | #17
Poor Obama, affirmative action victim. And left to mop things up. Poor baby.
I wonder if he MOPS the sand traps at the golf course.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:28 pm | #18
Congraulation to FOX NEWS NETWORK! FOR THE HIGH RATINGS.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:31 pm | #19
I’ve Lost Confidence in Bill O’Reilly – There’s a Lot of Confusion in his mind.
October 26th, 2009 | 8:32 pm | #20
O’reilly is one of the 3 puppets. He was the one that certified Obama a US citizen, so this about face is not too believable.
Once a puppet always a puppet
http://www.youtube.com/user/ATLAHWorldwide#p/u/21/H-2dQX3nUvw
October 26th, 2009 | 8:40 pm | #21
CAUTION, you are entering a NO SPIN ZONE.
wtf???
October 26th, 2009 | 8:46 pm | #22
Bill O’Reilly is hard for me to watch.
I’m just not interested in him telling me that Obama is a royal screwup. We know that already. He just argues, without offering proof like Glenn Beck. He isn’t as smart as Beck….no one is.
So will BOR now turn into a bloviating mess? Maybe. In the least, he will stop bragging about the ratings. It got old last year.
October 26th, 2009 | 9:21 pm | #23
Bill O’Reilly: “There’s a Lot of Confusion in the White House”
WOW! I am stunned. I would never have imagined that O’Reilly was capable of such understatement.
October 26th, 2009 | 9:58 pm | #24
Not as bad as the White House coaching all the news agencies to pressure and rat on Fox, a fascism of the media against dissenting voices.
This way, the WH can have their fig leaf of cover. They aren’t fascists, it’s the media that’s “watch-dgging” each other.
And since WHEN is it the MEDIA’s role to dictate news by committee consensus to competing independent news outlets?
Tired of people acting like George Stephanopoulos is some sort of media scion. He’s a political hack who got placed in the media by his political bosses. He’s pushing the “watchdog” line.
Any other business with the quality product of the current MSM would have been out of business by now, but the news outlets keep getting subsidized to keep going – they are not operating on any profits, but by sucking performing companies like GE dry to support their unwanted drivel.
Since they are all losing ratings to FOX, they also have a vested interest in destroying FOX or anyone else as competition, and the WH has just given them marching orders to do so.
Nasty.
October 26th, 2009 | 10:01 pm | #25
O’Reilly is an irrelevant old fool. If he’s just starting to see through Teh One now then his judgment is obviously WAY off. The man seems to be obsessed with winning the hearts and minds of liberals in his quest to become known as “fair and balanced.” What he doesn’t realize is that the left will despise every bone in his body no matter what he says, because he’s O’Reilly and he’s on Fox News.
I can’t watch O’Reilly and haven’t done for years. It’s just too painful.
October 26th, 2009 | 10:03 pm | #26
I had no faith in this administration even before it began. As soon as I heard of ‘reverend’ Wright, I knew we were dealing with a rotting carcass (i.e., no soul). Anyone with an IQ above 50 could have won the election by hammering that home, but I won’t get into that.
This moderate stuff sickens me, but then again he did get Obama to sit down to an actual interview. Nonetheless, in the words of Margret Thatcher:
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.”
October 26th, 2009 | 10:23 pm | #27
Bill O’Reilly: I’m Starting to Lose Confidence in Obama
There wasn’t any reason to have any confidence in the guy in the first place.
October 26th, 2009 | 10:39 pm | #28
Charles Gibson asks???
Who is this O’Reilly guy!!
Viva Obama!!
October 26th, 2009 | 11:00 pm | #29
Bill has been real slow lately. His reaction time, and reflexes need a little check up.
Glenn blew right by him months ago and grabbed alot of the independant thinkers in his audience.
Bill will soon become irrelevant unless he gets with the program.
He doesn’t even know the science on AGW is fraudulent….now there is a dinosaur for you.
October 26th, 2009 | 11:01 pm | #30
I have to agree with NeoKong. Bill O’reilly tends to give more “benefit of doubt” to the Obama administration than they deserve. And I’m not really sure why. But you aren’t alone, I’ve noticed it also…
I think Bill O’Reilly was being kind to Obama in the hopes of getting an interview. But reality has set in. There will be no interview and O’Reilly doesn’t want to be the last personality at Fox News to see Obama for the debacle debacle he is.
October 26th, 2009 | 11:39 pm | #31
“i always thought that BOR wanted another interview with obama and thought that if he played nice he could get another one.”
Pretty much what I’ve always thought.
“but since the administration is now attacking fox he realizes that’s not going to happen, so now he’s going to stop giving obama the ‘benefit of doubt’”
Makes sense.
October 27th, 2009 | 1:37 am | #32
There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker (Biden) to the thief (Obama)
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief…
October 27th, 2009 | 5:10 am | #33
O’Reilly has defended Obama to the point of being ridiculous. I understand he wants to be “fair and balanced” but come on, there is a point that you just have to see this administration for what it is, people who really, truly do not care for this country.
Confidence is the one thing they don’t lack.
October 27th, 2009 | 5:15 am | #34
O’Reilly must have finally decided that a second interview with Obama wasn’t going to happen .. the man is too paranoid of FoxNews at this point that even his narcissism isn’t enough to get him on O’Reilly.
Face it, the only fear the press has of Obama is that they will lose their all important “access.” O’Reilly knows he won’t get him again so there is no need for “access,” hence O’Reilly has no need for him anymore.
October 27th, 2009 | 5:28 am | #35
He’s STARTING to doubt him? Bet O’reilly voted for him…..he was really impressed by obama during the “interview”. Still has a tendency to gush over obama.
October 27th, 2009 | 6:04 am | #36
This just in! Bill O’Reilly thinks there might be more to that story about the break-in at the Watergate Hotel!!
October 27th, 2009 | 8:41 am | #37
Andreas K. Make a POSTER and ship it to us. Even my children know that Hendrix Song “All Along The Watchtower” ***** Andreas K.
October 27th, 2009 | 1:37 am | #32
There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker (Biden) to the thief (Obama)
Theres too much confusion
I cant get no relief…****** Here is the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJrGTo1JnnA
October 27th, 2009 | 10:09 am | #38
Bill O’Reilly was seduced/hypnotized by the charisma of That One during their one-on-one interview. It was evident. He fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
In addition, O’Reilly is very proud of the contact he has directly with the WH. He talks about having a “source” in the WH, unlike others at FOX, no doubt.
He’s probably flattered that they seek him out and feed him spin, but he doesn’t seem to realize that they are playing him.
And he DOES repeat their talking points. To be fair, perhaps only to play devil’s advocate, but don’t ever dismiss the power of Irish-Catholic white guilt.
IF O’Reilly would take off the blinders, he would do this country a huge service. But he wants Obama to succeed, as the first AA president.
When O’Reilly has Beck on his show, it’s evident that O’Reilly doesn’t even watch Beck’s show or SEE THE EVIDENCE that Beck presents. He doesn’t WANT to see it.
It’s almost as if O’Reilly has his hands over his eyes because he wants to see no evil with regard to Obama.
What’s also discouraging is how Ailes met with Axelrod recently (not that it did FOX much good). BUT I see a decided toning down of rhetoric and even a difference in the guests on O’Reilly’s and Van Susteren’s shows.
FOX is enjoying huge ratings because alone among all media outlets, some of them ARE telling the truth. However, if they EVER muzzle Hannity or Beck, they will do so at their peril. I, for one, will never again watch FOX if they knuckle under to the Obama threats.
October 27th, 2009 | 10:24 am | #39
The only thing you find in the middle of the road is a yellow stripe and dead possums.
October 27th, 2009 | 10:37 am | #40
Billy O is a self-promoting grand-stander. He will kiss any butt any where anytime if it will advance his ego.
He is a certified wimp who wants to appear Mr. Macho Man.
He belittles Glenn Beck because Beck’s ratings at Beck’s time slot are killing O’Reilly.
Bill can be counted on to always cover his ass.
October 27th, 2009 | 10:47 am | #41
I might add that O’Reilly works from a false premise–that Obama has the best interest of America at heart.
No, Obama, if his best interest doesn’t concern himself, if anything has the best interest of the world at heart.
O’Reilly wants Obama to do more to save the US economy. Yet he’s assuming that Obama WANTS to save the US economy.
O’Reilly worries about the deficit and the debt, apparently assuming that Obama wants to prevent the country from going bankrupt.
It doesn’t seem to occur to O’Reilly that Obama might WANT the US economy to fail and also for the country to go bankrupt, thus diminishing our role in the world, making us just one of many countries, and allowing Obama and his HAND-CHOSEN (not poorly vetted) communist/Marxist advisors to rebuild America “brick by brick” into their ideal socialist utopia.
This IS the essence of the Cloward-Piven strategy and it is completely evident in their “health insurance reform” proposals and the cap-and-trade bill.
They KNOW this will overwhelm the system. It’s not that they don’t realize this. THAT’S THEIR GOAL–TO overwhelm and bring down the system.
WHEN O’Reilly disabuses himself of the notion that Obama wants for America what O’Reilly, the vast majority of Americans, and (nearly) every previous president wanted for America, then he will be able to see Obama’s policies for what they truly are:
Marxist/communist/destructive to our Republic and our way of life.
October 27th, 2009 | 11:10 am | #42
His show lost me years ago — his rants against corporate America had to be posturing because no one can be that economically illiterate.
Corporations are only dangerous when governments grant them special favors. If Bill really wanted to cover the issues he would have spent his time railing over the government’s game of playing favorites. And he would have championed those companies targeted by government avarice.
Instead, he stirred the pot of economic populism, diverting attention from where it needed to be focused. A lot of good that did.
October 28th, 2009 | 8:34 am | #43
I think this is all calculated on O’Reilly’s part. He’s unfairly cast as a human pejorative, the stereotypical nut-job right winger, by the left. Those who don’t watch him believe what others say; they embrace this inaccurate characterization. So, by feigning to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, even to tepidly support the new president, O’Reilly goes a long way at once in combating this false perception as more and more viewers, out of curiosity, tune in to his show plays to his viewer base, independents and in satisfying his existing viewers.
My guess is that O’Reilly, ever the shrewd operator, senses that the time to strike is now. We may rest assured, therefore, that a majority of Americans are now comfortable hearing their trusted thought leaders calling Obama weak.
The meltdown will be televised. I’ll pick up some beer on my way home this evening. Please order a pizza. Do we need potato chips? Just let me know.
October 28th, 2009 | 8:37 am | #44
Sorry for the weird edit:
***So, by feigning to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, even to tepidly support the new president, O’Reilly goes a long way in at once combating this false perception (as more and more viewers, out of curiosity, tune in to his show) and satisfying his existing viewers, largely independents.
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