 Last year, he brought his FOX TV network show
to the national radio scene. I admit that I was intrigued by the
idea of an on air host that would examine the issues and make
conversation based upon the truth as opposed to either party line.
But it looks like the show that he hyped as having NO SPIN is being
oversold, much like the FOX news network's claims of being "fair
and balanced," while they lean way to the right. I admit that
FOX does bring some airway balance to the "fair and balanced"
left leaning news on CNN. The claims of fair and balanced and Bill's
"No Spin" are meant to imply that the rest of the world's news
services are either lying or only telling half truths, while they
are completely honest, and unbiased - only reporting the facts, and
letting you decide the truth. Actually they only report the facts as
they see them or perhaps, only the ones that they like. But if you
believe the claims that there is no spin, then you think that you
have heard truth - when at best you have only heard the other side
of the story.
I'm not even complaining about the fact that he leans
right. I am only complaining about his claim that he is unbiased. At
least the old guy with half his brain behind his back, freely admits
his bias. O'Reilly goes after an occasional GOP guy that finds
himself too far out on the fringe or he will scold them if they
acquiesce to something short of the Republican platform, and
then he points to it forever more as the time that he would not let
the "right" spin their foibles.
He spins everything, and then puts a reverse tail spin
on it by stating matter of factly that he is resisting someone
else's attempt to spin. By claiming to be in the middle, he can act
as if he is only supporting the Right - "This Time" because
"This Time" they happen to be correct.
Again, I don't say that either he or the "Right" are
wrong, I only say that he is a mouthpiece for the right, and that he
spins everything in that direction.
He should be nicked
named "Bill O'Righty"
I always hate to interject the specter
of race into an issue, so I won't try to spin this example. But
recently O'Reily went after PepsiCo and forced them to cancel an
advertising campaign with the rapper Ludicris. Among the reasons, he
sited that, in his records he often calls women bitches. So
Ludicris lost his deal, and PepsiCo found another spokesman - Ozzy
Osbourne and his kids. Ozzy Jr. has reportedly framed the word Bitch
as a description for his own mother. But Bill, Pepsi and America can
somehow look the other way on this. (oh no, I sound just like Larry
Elder, crying about a double standard. The Jury is admonished to
forget this last paragraph.) |
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