O'Reilly On His Way Out?

[babylonsister]

O'Reilly On His Way Out?
by Steve Young | Sep 17 2007


To Driveby Liberal Media™, it might just look like Keith Olbermann's beating the TV Factor ratings - on his Bill's birthday yet - is getting to the Nospinster....

Like a former leader of the pride, the beaten old lion is losing his power - and his sexual appeal to the under-65 year old lionesses - to a younger, more virile young leader. But that's not what is driving the Nospinster bat-crazy.

It's more. Big time more. Big time "Al Franken will be doing an 'I'm good enough' back-flip in the Minnesota senatorial campaign snow" more.

The buzz around the watering hole is that the Big Cat may be losing his radio gig and it's got to be driving him off the deep end.

It's always rather pathetic when the lion becomes the wildebeest and drinking from the dried up Kool Aid waterhole makes him even more vulnerable...and sad.

The air, thick with inside-the-loop chatter telling of the Bill O'Reilly's Radio Factor's possible demise, Bill's patience, what little he had to begin with, is wearing as thin as his mane.

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9978

[annabanana]

1. He's been on his way out for years..

The latest ratings backsliding is just speeding the process up a bit..

[luckyleftyme2]

4. I HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT

I find I draw a different opinion every time I watch him. one is he's crazy,the other is he's in dire need of physics. cause the whites of his eyes are getting brown!

[Doctor_J]

10. You're one of the few still watching him

why?

[Snarkturian Clone]

2. This bastard will never die.

His grave stone is going to read "I am suing you, sir, for libel for implying that I'm deceased! That's a ridiculous notion! You must be living on Mars, counselor!!!"


I have a feeling fox news will play him forever even if his ratings tank. Sort of like the Simpsons and SNL which go through periods of AWFULNESS but stay on until the next upswing. The difference here will be that fox news will keep on saying o'reilly has high ratings even when he totally bombs.

[Deb]

3. sweet -

"Like Joseph McCarthy, Bob Grant and Wally George before him, Bill's divisive histrionics along with an aversion to fact-based truth will soon leave him a flamed-out asterisk on the ass of broadcast infamy." :-)

[jojo54]

5. He will hang around like Coultergeist

Just when you think it's o.k. to breath a sigh of relief, she jumps out at you, claws bared.

[JenniferJuniper]

6. I hope he sticks around

I'd enjoy watching him slide slowly but steadily into the abyss that is his own self-made hell. Besides, Worst Person in the World would never be the same with O'Really in retirement. Grab your falafel and gird your loofahs, Bill0! It's going to be a bumpy ride.

[silverweb]

12. That was my first thought!

"Worst Person in the World would never be the same with O'Really in retirement."

As for grabbing falafels and girding loofahs...

:rofl:

Thanks for the belly laugh!

[groovedaddy]

7. we can only hope and dream

that this will come to pass.

[Forrest Greene]

8. Pathetic, Yes

Sad? No.

[hisownpetard]

9. Me too, what he said. n/t

[5fingersurfer]

11. Definitely.....

one among the list of people in the msm that wouldn't bother me if they lost their job. He had better hope the severence package includes RX benefits!

[silverweb]

13. Oh, noes! O'Reilly? O'Rly?

:rofl:

[Doctor_J]

14. Lying, blotchy, unemployed bully

life is good

[tomreedtoon]

15. So, we're all into Wishful Thinking, eh?

In case you haven't observed it yet, once you have Made It in America, it takes a concerted effort to fail. O.J. Simpson could kill his wife and a stranger and get away with it; he had to do armed robbery after that to be arrested. Britney Spears could sing and dance badly; it took body abuse and shaving her head to send her on the way down.

Some people never fell. Art Linkletter sold crappy "adjustable" beds to senior citizens, and used his daughter's suicide to become a "teenage drug abuse expert," but nobody ever thought he was bad. Bob Hope cheated his former show business partners and was a bitter and angry man, only "on" when he was on stage, and Vietnam soldiers started booing him, but he never truly fell; he only sort of faded away.

So no, Bill O'Reilly will never disappear. He may not be dominant, but he has Made It in America, and he'll never be on the street or have to deal with all those nonwhite people whose lives he made so painful.

[frogcycle]

16. last night in response to a viewer email

he said "Oh, yeah, tell that to the millions who watch us every night"

Since I had heard Olbermann quote "demo" numbers in the 400,000's I did a fact-check. Yes, the total viewer numbers are between 2 and 3 million. But yes, only 400k of that is between 25 and 55! I had heard his average audience age was 71; now I believe it! So what's up with that? Are old people drawn to him because he's a curmudgeon? I wonder if the presidential-approval polls are similar? Who ARE those 23%?

It occurs to me that a lot of the PNAC leadership are on in years - all those Reagan-era holdovers. The youth movement among the RW seems to be largely the Regent's University types, who, although annoying because they were put in positions they should not be in, don't seem much of a threat to actually drive the agenda on their own.

Do we have a new Age of Enlightenment around the corner?

Being an old hippie, I thought our generation were the Enlightened. But the Young Turks, founders of moveon, DailyKos, are all pretty young - maybe there's hope!