& in the 2nd item, O'LOOFAH indulges his Masochistic (= in the EXPLICITLY CLINICAL sense) martyr complex by making his staff collect every single mention of him overnight from every source in the media, then he fallafels himself by savoring every morsel.
Last night he played clips from throughout the past year of his various appearances on NETWORK (REAL media) outlets (Dave, LENO, Today), and asked why he is SO MISUNDERSTOOD. Besides Dave bashing him, LAUER with his head down introduced him as "Conservative," leading to the predictable verbal abuse erruption by O'LOOFAH, "I am NOT Conservative." LAUER said, "So what are you?" O'LOOFAH said, "I'm INDEPENDENT!!1 You know that!!!1 How long have you known me?" LAUER said, never raising his hunkered down head, "Twenty years?"
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http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/96792O'Reilly reaction ignites slew of responses
Bill O'Reilly fired back Tuesday at an editorial by Dan Radmacher of The Roanoke Times.
By Erinn Hutkin
.... The piece attacked the "'War on Christmas' nonsense" and cited TV commentator Bill O'Reilly as pushing it.
On Tuesday -- on radio and on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," -- the conservative host fired back. ....
The reaction was strange, Radmacher admitted Wednesday. When he wrote his column he never expected to reach O'Reilly's radar.
"I could see jumping onto something in The New York Times, but to make a big deal of a relatively small newspaper seems counterproductive," Radmacher said. "I had no idea he (O'Reilly) would be that easy to provoke." ....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237995,00.htmlThe Culture War Rages in the Press
Thursday, December 21, 2006
By Bill O'Reilly
Every morning my staff gives me a folder entitled "Bill in the News." It contains articles and TV transcripts that have mentioned my name overnight. Ninety percent of the press is negative.
The same holds true for FOX News in general. Most of the media coverage critical.
So we decided to find out why. If FOX News is the dominant number one rated cable network, and our presentation appeals to millions, why are we hammered in the press? The answer, of course, is ideology.
We can't find one TV critic in the United States of America, not one who isn't a liberal or a registered Democrat. Most are committed liberals, who dislike us for giving conservative and traditional Americans a fair shot. ....
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