Is O'Reilly turning to the left?

[samsingh]

Is his support for the Public Option a signal to Fox?

[Downtown Hound]

1. If it is

Then it's only a sign of just what a putrid slimeball that man is. He basically waited for Glen Beck to come and steal his act, and when he was no longer the supreme right wing asshole on Faux he moves to the left.

O'Reilly, we don't need you and we don't want you. You made your circle of friends, now live with them. Batshit insane though they may all be.

[iceman66]

2. It only seems that way,

because the rest of Fox "news" has moved even further to the right!

[LeftinOH]

3. More likely that the RW noise machine is moving further to the right,

which merely puts Billo to the left of *them*.

[BlooInBloo]

4. I don't believe him for a second.

[foxfeet]

5. Naw, but his ass still beeps when he backs up.

[thereismore]

6. Nah, just messin' around. Beck is drawing too much attention you know. nt

[drm604]

7. Do you have a cite for this?

O'Reilly is supporting the public option? Are you sure he wasn't being sarcastic or something?

What is his definition of "public option"?

[KatyMan]

8. My wife thinks it's because he's Catholic

And the US bishops want a public option, so he's towing the Catholic line instead of the Fox line. Just an opinion....

[Clintonista2]

16. The pope was against the Iraq invasion

but O'reilly wasn't

[FBaggins]

9. No

Though he's not as far right as most on Fox.

He wasn't really coming out in favor of a public option. I think that's an oversimplification of what he was saying.

[Faryn Balyncd]

10. The RW grand strategy is to have a demagogue to represent EVERY POSSIBLE SHADE of reactionary :

The only thing that the various parts of the RW choir always agree on (from Limbaugh to Kristol to Levin to Savage), is that every 2 years they all come to the "conclusion" that they and their followers need to vote against Democrats and for Republicans.

Certain members of the RW choir (Savage and O'Reilly in particular) like to propagate the myth that they are actually "independents", and in order to burnish this falsity, it serves them to stake out strategic issues in which they differ from the Republican party line.

It is worth while noting that these differences just happen to occur greater than 6 months before an election.

Savage, for example,spent most of 2007 castigating not only Bush but the GOP.

All the better to burnish his credentials with the particular demographic of disgruntled outsiders, to whom he is the official GOP missionary.

[Vidar]

11. Sounds plausible.

[UTUSN]

12. No. It's just that BecKKK gives him cover by being SO whacked he makes O. look "normal". n/t

[samsingh]

13. Beckkk as the new right wing baseline is scary - compared to him

so many of the past right wing maniacs seem reasonable

[LynneSin]

15. Beck could make Charles Manson look like an upstanding citizen

Beck is that Whack

[OHdem10]

14. No, it is on this issue.. If another issue comes up and he believes

the Dems have the better solution, he will probably
say that. He will go issue by issue. Independent
who leans right.

[dugaresa]

17. Perhaps because he is smart enough to know that if he is among the crowd that kills the public

option that eventually the dopes in the GOP tent will awake from their stupor and realize they might have benefitted from a public option.

It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

[Ron Green]

18. He, and ALL THESE CLOWNS, are entertainers and nothing more.

It's a sad indictment of our society that anyone considers them to be part of our political process.