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Bill O’Reilly must feel pretty secure about his standing with his colleagues at Fox News, or else he’s past caring.
Answering a question from fellow Foxer Geraldo Rivera—does the right-leaning network cut President Obama enough slack? Does it treat him fairly?—the cable outlet’s prime-time star didn’t seem especially worried whose toes he stepped on.
“It depends on the hour,” the host of The O’Reilly Factor told a sold-out crowd at the 92nd Street Y Wednesday night. “If you watch Fox & Friends, [Steve] Doocy is an Obama-basher. He bashes Obama like clockwork. But the other two—Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] and Brian [Kilmeade]—they’d rather whip up a soufflé.”
“Rather whip up a soufflé”—a wonderful compliment or a withering dis? We report, you decide.
O’Reilly went hour by hour through the channel’s daytime lineup, claiming that morning hosts such as Bill Hemmer and Jenna Lee “have no ideology.” As for the noon offering, “Outnumbered or Outsmarted, those people, I don’t know,” he said with a dismissive shrug, prompting audience laughter. “Then, at 3, Shepard Smith is a liberal.” He added that Cavuto, hosted by Fox News senior vice president and managing editor Neal Cavuto, “is a business show…He’s not an Obama fan.”
O’Reilly continued, “The five people on The Five, they don’t like the president so much…At 6, it’s the signature show with Bret Baier, he’s not anti-Obama.”
“He’s a very solid newsman,” Rivera chimed in.
“Then you have Greta [van Susteren], who’s a liberal. At 8 you have me. I’m tough on everybody. At 9 you have Megyn [Kelly]. Again, not an ideologue…Then you have the Republican show, Hannity, at 10”—a flippant observation that drew a couple of knowing chuckles from audience members who might suspect that there’s no love lost between O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Assessing Fox’s would-be competitors, O’Reilly said of left-leaning MSNBC, “They’ve radicalized themselves…I get a headache. Al Sharpton is giving me a headache.” He was somewhat more generous to CNN, telling Rivera: “They’re good at what they do, covering the news. But they don’t have any flamboyant, obnoxious people like you and me. Wolf Blitzer looks like a U-Boat commander. You expect the periscope to come down.”
He's 100% spot on.
Bill O’Reilly must feel pretty secure about his standing with his colleagues at Fox News, or else he’s past caring.
Answering a question from fellow Foxer Geraldo Rivera—does the right-leaning network cut President Obama enough slack? Does it treat him fairly?—the cable outlet’s prime-time star didn’t seem especially worried whose toes he stepped on.
“It depends on the hour,” the host of The O’Reilly Factor told a sold-out crowd at the 92nd Street Y Wednesday night. “If you watch Fox & Friends, [Steve] Doocy is an Obama-basher. He bashes Obama like clockwork. But the other two—Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] and Brian [Kilmeade]—they’d rather whip up a soufflé.”
“Rather whip up a soufflé”—a wonderful compliment or a withering dis? We report, you decide.
O’Reilly went hour by hour through the channel’s daytime lineup, claiming that morning hosts such as Bill Hemmer and Jenna Lee “have no ideology.” As for the noon offering, “Outnumbered or Outsmarted, those people, I don’t know,” he said with a dismissive shrug, prompting audience laughter. “Then, at 3, Shepard Smith is a liberal.” He added that Cavuto, hosted by Fox News senior vice president and managing editor Neal Cavuto, “is a business show…He’s not an Obama fan.”
O’Reilly continued, “The five people on The Five, they don’t like the president so much…At 6, it’s the signature show with Bret Baier, he’s not anti-Obama.”
“He’s a very solid newsman,” Rivera chimed in.
“Then you have Greta [van Susteren], who’s a liberal. At 8 you have me. I’m tough on everybody. At 9 you have Megyn [Kelly]. Again, not an ideologue…Then you have the Republican show, Hannity, at 10”—a flippant observation that drew a couple of knowing chuckles from audience members who might suspect that there’s no love lost between O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.
Assessing Fox’s would-be competitors, O’Reilly said of left-leaning MSNBC, “They’ve radicalized themselves…I get a headache. Al Sharpton is giving me a headache.” He was somewhat more generous to CNN, telling Rivera: “They’re good at what they do, covering the news. But they don’t have any flamboyant, obnoxious people like you and me. Wolf Blitzer looks like a U-Boat commander. You expect the periscope to come down.”
He's 100% spot on.
