Do you think Bill O’Reilly’s show will survive past the first two years of the Obama administration? I don’t.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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He’ll find some way to rile up old white men and maintain his diminishing audience.
O’Reilly just said that (due to the election of Barack Obama): “No one can ever question the nobility of America again.”
Not kidding.
Too much loofah perhaps?
He’ll survive, if only to “stand up to the oppression of the power-hungry Democrats who want to stifle dissent with their non-existent Fairness Doctrine”.
I wonder if he’ll have the stones to invite Senator Al Franken onto the show.
This is about another subject but I just have to post this. Just went over to no quarter to see what was going on there and WOW. Larry and Susan were trying to calm down the crazed crowd and they were pilloried for even attempting. I wrote my own little homilie and within seconds and as expected, I was dismissed as a bot.
This is what I wrote.
and this response:
I felt like I was on Red State, these people are what I worry about. They bought all the conspiracy theories and started a few over there, now they are living it. By the way the comments I read were anything but civil, the most demeaning and negative comments you can imagine.
You show great fortitude, diane, venturing into such a swamp. Good to see you.
I took NQ off of my Blogroll. (A very small thing, I Know…) I have a few republican Bloggers on my Blogroll, a couple not just as a reciprocal courtesy but because they are half decent to read – if only occasionally. While some of those conservative Blogs have and will continue to push some of the memes that were chucked out there in their “throw everything and see what sticks” election plan… None of them would have tried to incite and fan the flames of commenters like they seemed to do at NQ.
That place just plain devolved into a madhouse. Too bad, considering that Susanhu and Larry Johnson helped make this THE “go to” page for the longest time. At that time, IMHO, Booman Tribune had the best front page group assembled.
Now I can’t read either of those two. They jumped the credibility shark and got bitten. And, now, the readership that NQ has left there have absolutely nothing of value to add. And they are still feeding those frickin’ frenzied trolls?
Republicans will spend two years repeating the mistake of the past. They will initially be convinced that they just were not enough of themselves.
Two years plus will likely show them the new way and guys like OReilly et al will either be part of a new conservative movement or they will be gone.
Why would you think that?
I’m figuring that O’Reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh are set for the next four years at a minimum. They can all go back to what they do best – the angry white guy railing and the injustice of the world schtick. For the last 8 years they’ve had to mix that in with water-carrying for “their guys”. Their shows have been weak because of it. Now they can totally unleash and really get back to basics.
For the last 8 years they’ve had to drum up faux outrages like the “War on Christmas” to keep their “woe is me, angry white guys can’t get a fair shake in this world” schtick moving. Now they’re going to have Democrats to beat up on every single day. They’re all going to be happier than piggies in a mudhole for a while.
Yep. They thrive on faux victimization, which has been harder to concoct when the Republicans were in charge.
Now they can bleat about their “marginalization” without any sense of irony whatsoever. For these types, it’s not about being on top, it’s about being in total control. That’s why the media really is “liberal”. If the conservatives had their way the news would be 100% propaganda. When it’s 95% propaganda and 5% truth they are outraged. Of course, if the news media never lets any reality leak in at all, it loses credibility with the majority of folks who will actually notice the discrepancies now and again. Hence the charges of “liberal” (truthful) bias (if you define “bias” as any amount at all, which they do).
No one can play the victim card like rich white men, and they’re not in danger of losing their target audience. Especially as middle- and working-class white men find themselves more and more on the ropes. Historically, the formerly privileged only want to hear how it’s all somebody else’s fault (certainly it’s never Daddy’s).
O’Reily will turn into a version Lou Dobbs. A single issue, anti-immigrant hater who pretends to be looking out for the little guy. That’s my 2 cents.
I hope you are right BooMan, but the hate mongers peddle a product that has been able to flourish in this country for a long time. Prejudice, intolerance, hatred and fear are their powerful allies. As long as folks out there think I before We, these guys like O’Reilly are still in business. I will grant you this though, Obama has the opportunity to make their game a much harder sell to a much larger segment of our population than has been the case in the recent past. I hope you are Right Booman.
Is Hannity really calling his show “Conservatives in Exile”?
You are more optimistic than I.
There is always an audience for hate.
Sorry BooMan,
but, they’re just begun. The hatefest will be full throttle in no time.
I’m not suggesting that O’Reilly’s ilk will go away. But I doubt the Factor will survive on FOX News.
I have never watched O’Reilly nor listened to Limbaugh. Some may call it ‘feedom of speech.’ I call them traitors.
It depends on whether those pulling his strings get what they want from Obama. If so, they will shut him up. If he shuts up, his listeners will go away and he is toast. His hard core listeners will never accept a Democrat. Most will never accept a non-white.