Bill O'Reilly and Andrea Mitchell

[exenrontexas]

I highly respect Ms. Mitchell is HIGHLY professional and HIGHLY restrained. One of the Fox and O'Reilly tactics is to say outrageous things, like O'Reilly did do in this clip, and then shout down the other person who reacts to it. It was only her cool and measured responses which denied O'Reilly that opportunity.

[XforeverlongingX]

Why didn't she say JOE SCARBOROUGH?????????? HE's CONSERVATIVE!

[bttrflykiss7701]

ugh.... bill0 makes me want to puke... what scum

[kellykinsellives]

She couldn't name one conservative thinker! Obviously she admitted she is not a conservative!!

Geez, she is a complete idiot. It is not fair to label journalists as liberal or conservative? She has got to be one of the dumbest fools around

[lonewolf2777]

Andrea is a sado and pedo she fucks 7 year kids for fun and forces them to dink her piss and her shit and she beats them for not doing it even MSNBC don't want her there she has killed 5 people and gave someone else the blame for it. It chear for you Andrea.

[LoonyLiberal6312]

I don't know why Andrea Mitchell is so ashamed of the fact of MSNBC leaning left. Since Olbermann and Maddow became the prime-time liberal voices, MSNBC's ratings have skyrocketed. Stop hiding it; say it loud and proud.

[RUSH2LIMBAUGH]

I really love and adore Andrea Mitchell, but I'm getting really nostalgic for the conservatism of the Bush administration.

[pococolo]

No bias? Andrea Mitchell? Bill is trippin'.

[freelovelana]

I'm 100% sure that Fox favored Bush for the 2004 election.

[nossful]

@ freelovelana

And I'm 110% sure that CNN favored John Kerry. (Clinton News Network)

[Balldez]

Bill is lying here. Fact check him.

[exbronco1980]

"oh, so you're saying there hasn't been an increase in violence since saddam's execution?" "it's only been a week"

lol.

[ancbcc]

Question: Are reporters Americans first, or journalists first? If given an 'either or' choice, would they choose being a journalist over an American, or being an American over a journalist? Someone out there ask an 'American' journalist sometime...

[Formula405]

..as though theres diversity on fox?

[money4412]

"I don't think it is fair to describe journalists as liberal or conservative"....Wow Andrea Mitchel is living in a fantasy world. If you watch this video closely you can see her squirm in her seat. Congrats Bill OReilly for exposing NBC news!

[tessler6868]

as are you, penniless.

[Balldez]

Do you even know what a journalist is you fucking retard? Journalists are supposed to be impartial you stupid tea bagging factless inbred moron.

Now go have a nice suck on Boss Limbaugh's cock you sill tea bagging faggot!

[money4412]

Is there any reason you are being so vile Balldez...calm down for your own good pal.

"Bill has high ratings because stupid watch TV rather than read" ignoring the fragment here Bill has also written numerous New York Times best sellers that people actually have read so his career goes beyond a successful news program.

[Balldez]

O'Rielly is a vulgar human being and so what he had a best selling book. Mick Foley the fake wrestler had two best sellers. Seem that wrestling fans buy Billo's books.

[fzavalatjc]

sure he does,

you call the american people stupid yet they are the ones that elected the messiah

now "they" are the ones putting fox news at the top of the ratings.

if you want crap news, turn to cnn, mslsd, cbs, abc, nbc, and the new york times

extremist watch those channels

[Balldez]

Stupid people voted for McCain and that dumb cunt and slut Palin.

McCainwas born in Panama. GOOGLE IT!

[fzavalatjc]

man you are one sick puppy, and very stupid...and a coward!

how could you denigrate a woman like that?

what does McCain being born in panama have to do with anything??

you are probably the biggest idiot ive encountered this year, your up for an award buddy, 1st place

[Balldez]

Palin is a slut. We all know that, She raised a slut for a daughter. Palin opens her slut mouth and than denigrates all women.

You tea baggers and Faux News junkies made a big deal about Obama's birth place but you kept you ugly shit spewing pie holes shut regarding the fact that McAmnesty was born in Panama. Why are you people such fucking liars.

[fzavalatjc]

look at how you talk about another human being, a mother, a woman...you coward

thats what you are a coward, you hate her so much because you cant find a meaningful relationship, you are jealous of her, jealous that everyday americans have a life way better than yours hahahaha

by the way, McCant was was a liberal, i didn't want him in office either.

Ball-es, you have a pathetic life my friend, it is so transparent, you yourself cant see it, but trust me, people can

[money4412]

"so what he had a best selling book"

So having a best selling book means nothing in your world Balldez? You discredit Mr OReilly's fame by saying that his popularity was borne with lies and slander yet his news program and ideology is quite the contrary. If Mr. OReilly was the person whom you paint him to be, then he wouldn't have attracted such a large fan base over the years. Be logical when you try to rip up others...it seems that your hatefullness is perpetrated by a leftist ideology.

[Moo206]

check this out bro. bill is a very smart man... he's a "genius" so to speak... i know this, he's proven it.. he's a well educated guy.. but that gives him no excuse to be as ignorant as he is. ignorance doesn't always tell u how smart someone is... well, at least in some categories.. but ignorance is poison non-the less. bill said that girl who got brutally raped and murdered was a "drunk moron" and pretty much said she asked for it.. now that is ignorant poison.. u can't tell me that aint wrong

[money4412]

yes I agree with you here, Bill bloviates too much at times. However, I hate when people like Balldez get hysterical and make these outlandish statements about his character. OReilly has an opinion just like everyone esle, but opinions should be respected if they are in the norm of what people would consider normal and just.

[Moo206]

word, respect, and yea dont listen to balldez... i cant stand it when people have similar ideas to me but ruin them with stupid assumptions and retarded broken speech+insults... arguing with assholes like that on youtube is 100% pointless..

[JediKenobix]

"but then there's no reality"... WTF???

[Tansey81]

Thought Andrea Mitchell handled herself very, very well. O'Liary came off as a fool. (As per usual.)

[Konkel123]

Hahah! O'Reilly you goddamn fool. Does he even know what he talks about?

[fzavalatjc]

a fool?? his ratings kick ass!

[DiederickABecker]

So did the ratings of Chris Crocker, your point?

[Balldez]

Bil has high ratings because stupid watch TV rather than read. Also, a lot of libs watch Billo because like everyone else they love train wrecks.

Billo is a vulgar yellow journalist.

[hipmama715]

What an ass.

[bobbytiger]

How could O'Riley keep a straight face when he said that Mitchell shows no bias?

The "lady" is tilted so far to the left, that she almost falls over when she walks.

[neilcandelora]

Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan are both NBC analysts who are conservative, Joe Scarborough, a 4 term Republican congressman from the ultra-conservative Florida panhandle has three full hours to give his unedited conservative opinions on NBC. Tucker Carlson had his own hour long show on the network. Pat Buchanan is almost always on air giving his right-of-G. Gordon Liddy opinions, you really have to train hard at being an idiot to not find conservative view points at NBC and O'reilly does just that

[Blank3]

1) He was talking about NBC, not MSNBC

2) He wasn't talking about political consultants but actual anchors and commentators

[tommyd417]

Bill O'Reilly:

"if it's all one way..where is the diversity?

LOL...Nobody is more one way than gasbag o'reilly. Oneway..straight out his ass and into dumb conservative brains.

[blazer79]

EXACTLY!

[dookykins]

"Andrea Mitchell is a cunt" Ah, ah, ah!!! Naughty! That's speading a bad light on cunts everywhere!

[luvmegan]

GODDDAMMM, O'reilly, you are so disengenuous. If Fox is fair and ballanced then cancer is cute and funny. You ream Andrea for 6 fuckin' minutes then you kiss her ass for the last minute. Admit it you phony bloviating clown, you wer thinking Keith Oberman the whole time. Andrea Mitchell is a journalist and a professional and O'reilly is neither. O'reilly is a bully and a fool. PS The US was not founded on Judeo/Christian principals. Love, God. Jesus thinks you are a dick.

[superpowernyc]

NBCommies! Brokaw Is Another Moron! Obama Is A Pompous Elitist! And Andrea Mitchel Is A Total Robot! I ROCK! \m/..\m/

[CTFLY]

Bill is WAY wrong here. She is extremely biased. She is such a Obama supporter its sickening. I like the way he hugs her and then slaps her in the face as he pulls away!

Way to go Bill!!!!

[neilcandelora]

CTFLY, Andrea Mitchell's husband is Alan Greenspan, one of the most conservative people to work under George W. Bush, you don't think that influences her away from liberalism? And you have a problem with Obama? Well he's our president and if you don't support him, you can get out of our country you fuckface!

[mastior]

She's Older than Mccain, death warmed over

[tnecvolfan2001]

god, bill is being waaaay too kind to andrea mitchell. she is a far-left reporter who can't let a report go without nothing the "vicious attacks of McCain on poor unsuspecting Obama." just listen to one of her reports. she is definately BIASED

[domdidomdom]

"Next on the rundown, some muslim cab drivers..." Ha, I wonder where that was going.

[dotifa]

This is ridiculous. Bill tries to bring on a real journalist from a real news organization and have a conversation like this with her? It doesn't work like this. He tries to bring NBC news down, basically saying that they're just as biased as Fox is, just oppositely so. Just because Andrea Mitchell will not point fingers and name names as to who is "conservative" at NBC news doesn't mean she can't name one. She wants to think of the NBC news team as journalists, not politicos, and rightly so.

[justinvt]

Pat Buchanan is on MSNBC for like 1/3 of their daytime programming. Joe Scarborough has a 3 hour morning show and was a republican congressman for 6 years where he was "regarded as a reliable conservative, receiving a 95 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union." She legitimately didn't want to shit on her coworkers by calling them "liberal" or "conservative" - also, let's not get it twisted - even NBC refers to the people who do visibly identify with a party as "analysts."

[phoosc25]

he just crushed andrea mitchell haha

[PenaltyKillah]

Bill O'Reilly has a hard time identifying ONE liberal in FOX News's network newsroom whose views aren't oppressed by the network.

[phoosc25]

plenty of them there, watch the network

[operas6]

I am a gay man who hates O'Reilly but would love to be fucked by him... He is so fucking sexy.

[rjl2000]

She is totally nauseating!

[kperrel]

who the hell gave bill o'reilly a microphone?? he is a total wackjob who needs to be stifled- how can he call nbc news biased when fox was just proven to be under government sway! he sounds like a little child- "i've got it in for nbc..blah blah blah.. i'm going to whine and point fingers because my good old boys have got my back" Liberal vs. Conservative is not a war; we are one nation, he needs to stop drawing lines in the sand and making it into a civil war!!!

[tompegg482]

the news should be unbias regardless of if your a liberal thinker or conservative thinker, otherwise then your not going to get fair viewpoint.

you should present both views and then allow the general public to make up their own mind.

I think that Fox news doesnt have many, if at all, truely liberal thinkers and broadcasters, likewise with MSNBC with conservative broadcasters. They bring on guests with opposing viewpoints but neither party has truely opposing political parties on thier networks.

[weakperception]

Asking someone if they want their country to win in Iraq is a false dictomy. It neglects the fact that they dont want there to BE a war.

[JIMMYJIBLETS]

i am quite well known among friends and family to absolutely DETEST billo, but to be fair to him, this interview was less abrassive than most, i can commend him on that , he is learning how to be a social person.

[QuasiTraction]

Wait a second.

He said 18 months before that it would be fair to call the Bush Admin. A failure in iraq if things did not improve. WHICH THEY DID NOT.

YET. He endorses a policy to continue our stay in Iraq, to "help stabalize" it.

What a hippocrate. Stick to your guns Billy. You're spinning faster than a NASCAR engine.

[crrlm8]

Somebody please put a couple of bags on her head. She had to have sucked a lot of dick to get her job...The problem is who would want to look under their desk and see that face.

[GstateBALLER925]

to be fair to oreilly, he did apoligize for berating her about the commentators on msnbc and nbc. however, oreilly is still a fascist propaganda tool who loves bashing every other network just for not being like fox.

[BAYYtalibanGOhard]

joe scarbourough and tucker carlson are both "conservative thinkers"

[GstateBALLER925]

lets not forget pat bucannan

[cml22cml]

FOX news fair and balanced give me a break.... and Andrea Mitchell didn't desereve that beating by bill gezz he had her crying it looked like... what a bastartd

[southdude89]

Once again, O'Reilly comes into an interview brandishing a whip and it's the guest that ends up whipping him.

[wmd66]

She didnt whip O'Reilly..he caught her off guard and stumped her. She couldn't answer his question. He may be wrong on some things but is 100% right on this topic

[iddi420]

she wasn't stumped, she was diplomatically refusing to label her colleagues. she was so diplomatic that she wouldn't even call fox news biased.

[maloney7211]

Andrea Mitchell is incapable of telling the truth. Remember her part in the Valarie Plame case? How did she get away with that?

[UnrealPictures]

Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, who both have their own shows on MSNBC, are self proclaimed conservatives.

FOX is a sorry excuse for a news network, and Bill O'Reilly is a sorry excuse for a political commentator (which he's not, he's an agenda peddler) and a human being with all of the shit that's dribbled out of his mouth.

At least NBC is a news network and not an ass massager for every conservative in power in Washington DC.

[thorn35]

Because Mitchell, Brokaw and Lauer pride themselves on being impartial? lol..fluidz Tell me how many conservative reporters are on nbc? or abc? or cbs?

impartial news means you have both conservative and republican commentators and reporters. Tell the people are all leftists you liar.

[ZeroM11]

The Fox News Channel is overwhelmingly right-wing/conservative in their assessment of the news. They may strive to be fair and balanced, but the underlying right-wing biases are still there, and inform much of their analysis and presentation.

O'Reilly himself is a self-molded personality with a program and style designed to appeal to Republicans, independents and traditionalists more so than other political blocs. Mitchell knows NBC leans left; O'Reilly wants to shove it down our throats.

[ZeroM11]

Many of the critics and commentators at NBC lean left. In that sense, the network routinely expresses liberal points of view. But, this should be obvious to regular viewers of the network

Andrea Mitchell failing to name ONE conservative speaks volumes. She lost credibility when she denied the evident liberal prejudices of Matthews, Brokaw, & Lauer. The fact is most journalists have biases that inform their reporting esp. if you're a commentator, pundit or the custodian of an opinion show.

[fluidoz]

You've got to be kidding. NBC is very non-biased with a long tradition of even-handed reporting, unless your idea of "center" is FOX News. The problem with your perception of the "MSM liberal bias" is that reporting FACTS inconveniently intrudes on flawed right-wing policy and spin. Sorry.

[ZeroM11]

No, you've got to be kidding. I never said NBC's reporting was unbiased. I said many of their critics, commentators and editorializing (i.e. NOT STRAIGHT NEWS REPORTING) express points of view that are undeniably left of center.

Also, read my second comment below. I have no perception of "MSM liberal bias" as you put it. Do 4 people at NBC comprise all of mainstream media? Next time, please read comments more carefully before responding in such an accusatorial manner.

[ZeroM11]

N.B. I meant to write: "I never said NBC's reporting was biased."

[thorn35]

i will say it nbc is all left and so is the today show and everyone on cbs nbc and abc and that's a fact.

Find me one conservative reporter on abc nbc or cbs

just one...they dont exist and this video proves it andrea mitchell cannot name 1 on nbc!

[nickirusty]

Why is it so difficult for liberals to admit they're liberal? O'reilly admits he's a conservative, yet Andrea Mitchell looked as if he had called the people at NBC news child molesters when he suggested that Brokaw and Lauer are liberal.

[EXistentialTurd]

Actually, O'Reilly refuses to call himself "conservative" and uses vague labels like traditionalist instead. Mitchell's problem was that she refused to pidgeonhole any on air talent politically, thus allowing O'Reilly to win the argument even though there's many more conservatives on NBC than there are liberals on FOX.

[fluidoz]

Because Mitchell, Brokaw and Lauer pride themselves on being impartial reporters of the news, not biased sources of partisan spin. That's the difference between a news organization and a biased organization based on partisan spin, like Fox News. Fox doesn't have independent reporters that actually investigate issues, nor do they have a single overseas bureau. Why? Because they thrive on providing political commentary, not on providing factual analysis and insight into world events.

[jamesocon1]

When Bill quotes stats... you gotta be careful... he makes all this stuff up just to be controversial and increase ratings... his ratings...

[rajbtor]

dont get so mad, o'reilly is doing this for fun... hes not serious, nobody can be this idiotic, and he knows it. If hes not sexually harrassing his producer, then hes yelling at immigrants and promoting racism

[headbutt34]

Andrea is Alan Greenspan's wife.

How liberal could she be? Yeah, she's really on the side of Labor; right. This is a joke. Nice try O'Reilly.

This is O'Reilly trying to smear Chris Matthews for standing up to Cheney before Iraq.

[wtotheill1]

thank God this man dosn't have any control over anything but his slanted show and point of view. Oh crap, people actually listen to him.

[MidnightChimes]

Hmmm. NBC supported Kerry. I'd say 99.9% of the people at FOX news voted for Bush. I'd say 100% hated Clinton.

[MidnightChimes]

He's been doing an AWESOME job of allowing dissent.

[Number1BadBoyInnit]

O'Reilly is biased against bias!

[schambergler]

o'reilly is praising mitchell for being so fair, and he'll admit that he's conservative. since she's so fair, she would be a much better judge of journalism bias than poppa bear. i dont get that guy

[phi177]

You must not watch the show very often... He never claims to be conservative, but instead traditional. He says Andrea is fair in HER reporting, but faults her for not recognizing the overwhelming liberal attitude and reporting that is so pervasive at NBC News. The bias there is so obvious.

[sunlighter246]

I think Bill has a little crush first of all. He's glowing. As for the way she is talking about nbc and its reporters personal leanings she is completly clear. What she is saying is that political belief is not a factor in reporting the news at nbc. Over at nbc they report news. They report political fact not political opinion like old shithead O'Reilly.

[safuna]

I think O'Reilly is still smarting deep down because the network establishment rejected him as a major correspondent years ago. That's what he wanted.

He's gotten a fair amount of satisfaction with a popular cable show, but he probably still envies the traditional highly-respected network correspondents like Andrea Mitchell.

[phi177]

Of course they pushed him out... The nets have an agenda to push and he didn't tow the line. More power to him for finding a venue where he can set things straight night after night.

[MightyMike24]

Funny O'Reilly goes nuts about NBC being liberal when 99% of Fox News is conservative

[phi177]

Fox news leans a little to the right, but they make a real effort to be fair. NBC is off the charts left and makes no effort whatsoever to be objective. I'm going with Fox.

[baseplay23]

umm a little to the right? i'm sorry but Fox is far to the right and they are not making ANY effort to be fair. O'Reilly tries to intimidate his guests , who are pretty much nobodies like Andrea Mitchell (who?)

If you think that Fodx is only a little to the right i strongly recommend psychatriac evaluation asap.

[phi177]

If you think fox is so far to the right, what do you think about the rest of the liberal media (NBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, etc.)? Andrea Mitchell has been an NBC correspondent for a long time and is the wife of Alan Greenspan. Not trying to be condescending, but if you have never heard of Andrea Mitchell, then you probably aren't very qualified to comment on media in general.

[htruman]

Fox News said they helped Bush win the 2004 election.

[phi177]

They've never said that they tried to help George Bush win the election. Where, when, and who said it?

[CanadianMind]

He doesn't let her talk. Stupid asshole!

[phi177]

i like o'reilly and he is usually right, but i do wish he'd give his guests a little more breathing room.

[thielenm]

it's only a matter of time before the liberals take over!!!

[phi177]

i don't think so. america is a traditional country and conservatives have the numbers. other forms of media are quickly diluting the networks' power and that is certainly a good thing.

[thielenm]

You know, if there was a network that openly claimed to be left wing and then had a bunch of left wing people preach to me all day I wouldn't watch it for the news, but sadly this is exactly what conservatives do. I mean how far to the right do you have to be to agree with this administration really? Thank god the media isn't just fox news. Really just think about how ridiculous that would be.

[phi177]

that's not what conservatives do. fox doesn't claim to be right wing, they claim to be fair and balanced. they're much closer to the center than the networks who make no claim at all but, in reality, could be a mouthpiece for the democratic party.

[sixfootfo]

Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchannan, Tucker Carlson

[phi177]

Again, not the big players... Meredith Viera, Matt Lauer, David Gregory, Brian Williams, Ann Curry, even Katie Couric and Tom Brokaw. Tons of airtime and influence and all are liberal.

[Xicano82]

But this is strictly your opinion. Matt Lauer bashed Fahrenheit 9/11 and has been critical of liberals. David Gregory was voted best White House corresponent by the National Review a few years back.

[phi177]

you're not looking deep enough. watch how they question conservatives and liberals differently. conservatives get drilled, liberals get soft balls. pay attention to what they consider news and what they choose to ignore. how they covered newt gingrich then and nancy pelosi now. how often they label someone a conservative, but never use the word liberal.

[Xicano82]

Go look at the Matt Lauer interview with Michael Moore. He bashed him and his movie. The Dateline coverage of the movie was highly critical of him as well. The today show has been highly critical of democrats for having no substance and against John Kerry for flip flopping.

[88wildcat]

They are all MSNBC. You never see any of these three on NBC(Nightly News, Today Show, or Meet the Press). While on the subject of MSNBC I would like to note how you absolutely never see Keith Olbermann debate a conservative on his show or even see a conservative debating anyone else on his show.

[Xicano82]

Conservatives on NBC: Mike Viqueira, John Kohn, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, Susan Molinari, Tony Blankley, Lawrence Kudlow... Not to mention Trent Lott loves going to Chris Mathews' show.

[phi177]

My point exactly... all of those people are either commentators or obscure reporters. The main folks at NBC are/were Couric, Lauer, Viera, Curry, Gregory, Brokaw, Williams. Those are the big ones and all of them are (guess what!) LIBERALS.

[Xicano82]

These "liberals" bashed Michael Moore and didn't question the Iraq war when it was first announced. The conservatives I mentioned are not "obscure" reporters. Scarborough and Tucker have prime time shows. So you concede that there are conservative commentators? Which O'Reilly said there weren't.

[phi177]

There are a handful of conservative commentators at MSNBC, but I'm talking about the broadcast network. The mainstream, broadcast, NBC News division has given no top placement to any conservative anchors, reporters, or commentators. All are liberal.

[BaldEaglesNest]

This is hilarious, she claims that NBC isn't bias but can't name even on conservative on the NBC news team. The country is starting to see liberal leaning news for what it is, democrat propaganda. No wonder Fox News is the #1 news network.

[safuna]

No, I think she just didn't want to talk about the political leanings of anybody at NBC. She wouldn't agree with Bill O that the Today show people are liberal.

She's married to Alan Greenspan, so it's likely that she personally is relatively conservative.

[BaldEaglesNest]

Maria Shriver is married to Arnold, but she is a full blooded liberal. Whom she is married to isn't going to necessarily reflect her political views. The people on the Today show probably are liberal and I don't think it is so wrong to let viewers know it. It just allows the viewers to know how the information in the show is going to be presented.

[safuna]

Good point about Shriver, and the rest as well, I guess. But boy, if you learned the political leanings of the people on Fox's NEWS shows (not just opinion), I think you'd find most far to the right.

Nothing wrong with that. They just shouldn't pretend this "fair and balanced."

[phi177]

honestly, fox does have more on the right than left. i'm a conservative, and i'd like to see them add a few more liberals to put it at 50/50. i'm not saying that fox is perfect, but they have the right idea and are certainly more "fair and balanced" than the broadcast networks who have zero conservatives on the air and seem to make no effort to diversify.

[safuna]

So O'Reilly says Chris Matthews is a liberal because he worked for Tip O'Neill twenty-odd years ago, but HE's fair and balanced even though his boss, Roger Ailes, was a big-time Republican strategist for many years.

[Xicano82]

Bingo! And Rupert Murdoch supported Reagan, Bush Sr. and Margret Thatcher.

[phi177]

I think you can safely assume that anybody who works that closely with any politician in office shares his viewpoint (like Matthews). You certainly can't make that assumption for most other businesses, though. Even your specific reference to Ailes doesn't hold water. Geraldo works for him too and he's far left.

[Xicano82]

Roger Ailes worked for Ronald Reagan and Bush Sr as a top aide. By your logic, that means he must hold the same conservative philosophy which reflects Fox News. Chris Matthews is not liberal any more. He has bad mouthed liberals and he even voted for Bush. He had a love fest with Trent Lott this last week.

[phi177]

He's definitely a liberal. He worked for four democratic politicians including Jimmy Carter. Maybe he's trying to be fair, to his credit, but I wouldn't call him a true conservative by any means.

[Xicano82]

I wouldn't call him a true liberal either. Especially when he admitts voting for Bush and loves John McCain and Guiliani now.

[phi177]

John McCain and Guiliani aren't exactly bastions of conservatism. McCain is wishy washy and and Guiliani is liberal on social issues.

[Xicano82]

But it shows that he is no liberal. He VOTED for Bush. You also ignored my point on Roger Ailes. He left politics years after Matthews did and was in higher level positions under Reagan and Bush Sr. Not to mention Murdoch supported Reagan, Bush and Margret Thatcher. If you're on Matthews for working with O'Neil and Carter, then you should be harder on Ailes and Murdoch considering their close ties to conservatives into the mid 90s.

[safuna]

Geraldo? Far left? Where, in Bizarro World?

[phi177]

I'd say so. against deporting illegal aliens in the US, anti gun, i believe he was even against parental notification for abortion by teenage daughters.

[jpcstudios]

Bill O'Reilly was raped in the mouth by his liberal priest when he was 12. We can't really blame him for dedicating his life to hating liberals and being the most ignorant aggressive conservative known to man.

[phi177]

he doesn't hate liberals, just regularly points out that you all can't win a debate on the issues, so you resort to hate-filled personal attacks. much like you have just done.

[filmbandit]

"yes reporters political leanings matter:"

question: in your opinion how should we go about developing a more unbiased journalism? should we just watch what agrees with us? should we watch stuff that challenges us? serious what do you think?

[phi177]

i'm not as concerned about commentary as i am about straight news reporting. fill newsrooms with any one political ideology and the bias will, naturally, be overwhelming. an equal split between liberals, moderates, and conservatives is the only way to go.

[phi177]

He's only softening his message at the end because Andrea looked aggrivated that he didn't push her book enough.

The telling part about this piece the fact that Andrea cannot name ONE conservative at NBC News! Even the janitors are probably liberal.

Yes, reporters' political leanings matter; and, yes, every single reporter, commentator, producer, etc. for NBC News is a liberal. The truth comes out. Thank you, Bill O'Reilly.

[Xicano82]

So. She can't even name ONE liberal on NBC. Does that mean there are no liberals there?

[phi177]

no, bill took care of naming the liberals at NBC. she could't even name one conservative then copped out by claiming that it DIDN'T MATTER if they were all liberal anyway--which they are, and it certainly does!

[Xicano82]

She didn't cop out. She said there were reporters who were privately political but did not report that way. So her not being able to list one conservative is irrelevant.

[phi177]

to say that reporters political leanings do not matter is a cop out or is just ignorant. of course it matters. we all are inherently biased no matter how hard we try. the best we can hope for is (liberal buzzword here...) "diversity" in the newsroom. not diversity of color, necessarily, diversity of ideology.

[Xicano82]

Are you admitting "Fair and Balanced" is a false term? Which would explain the true reason he hates NBC, because he's a tradionalist conservative.

[phi177]

It's not a false term because they do strive for it and they certainly are more fair and balanced than the networks. In my personal opinion, Fox is much closer to the center than the others, but tips slightly to the right.

[Xicano82]

But aren't you contradicting yourself by saying there is "inherent" bias in media while claimimg Fox is fair and balanced?

[phi177]

i'm not contradicting myself. HUMANS are inherently biased, not the media necessarily. media has to deliberately fight that bias by a balance of conservatives and liberals in the newsroom. NBC places no focus on that and it shows in their biased newscasts.

[Xicano82]

Fox News is really in no position to criticize NBC. Especially from shows like Fox and Friends which is CLEARLY a propaganda tool for conservativism. No non-cable NBC show has shown that level of bias.

[safuna]

Andrea Mitchell (wife of Alan Greensan, btw, not exactly a liberal) just quietly lets O'Reilly expose his idiocy, with little help. At the end Bill seems to realize this and tries to backtrack and soften his message.

Where's his evidence that people in the US want the US to fail, beyond just saying that it would help them politically? That's not much of an argument.

At one point it's "my opinion," at another "it's a fact"! Same claim!

[BaldEaglesNest]

Bill was just exposing her network for what it is, liberal leaning propaganda for the democrats.