O'reilly gloats over death of post-intelligencer

In another gaseous fugue of self-righteous gloatation, Bill O'Reilly smirked and applauded Monday night as he reported that the Seattle Post Intelligencer would be folding any day, now.

The employees, he said, are trying to solicit donations to keep the website up.

Barely able to pretend to contain his fake laughter, and with that little neck-wattle wiggle that signals he's being sarcastic: "Yeah, like I'm going to give my hard-earned dough to help out those far-left loons."

O'Reilly takes credit for the P-I's demise; also for the financial problems of the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times,Newsweek, and every other paper he says are run by "far-left loons."

O'Reilly's enemies usually stem from a personal resentment. He excoriates, frinstance, the "mismanagement" of General Electric Company by CEO Jeffrey Imeld and reports on the big company's financial problems almost daily.

Why does he give a shit about this of all companies in trouble at the moment? Because GE owns NBC, which owns MSNBC who refuses to tell Keith Olbermann to stop mocking Billo. It's really about Keith Olbermann.

The New York Times ignored his demands they not publish the infamous "felafel" sex harrassment case that Billo paid millions to settle brought against him by his former producer, Andrea Mackris. He's had blood feuds with their editors and columnists ever since. (We're surpirsed he isn't gunning for ABC, too. The company owns The Smoking Gun, the website that posted the sexually explicit paperwork from the law-suit). 

(photo: Andrea Mackris, victim of Bill's imaginary loofah)

He claims newspapers' "extreme ideology," accounts for their finacial problems -- not the Internets, not the economy, not the absence of readership of people under 40, not the media climate changes that have been signaling this across-the-board erosion of the newspaper business model for 25 years. Here's a list of the next 10 newspapers who will fold or go 100% on-line. Their editorial POVs have little or nothing to do with their plights. (Billo's teevee show enjoys the same lack of audience under 40).

O'Reilly says he's nonpartisan and impartial, but takes every opportunity to crap on the lefty Internet sites such as Daily Kos, Move-On, and Media Matters which he says are vicious and partisan. For being so journalistically pure, he sure does forget to mention such vicious and partisan sites run by Melanie Morgan, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Laura Ingraham. What's bad for the left-wing loons doesn't hold for the right-wing loons. (especially when they're attractive women he can condescend to and treat dismissively).

After BlatherWatch ran Billo off the radie-yo, O'Reilly's teevee show has been trending more tabloidal. Fox News is still number one on cable,and Billo is number one on Fox; but Fox programmers, trying to get ahead of a distinct growth spurt by MSNBC and CNN, believe that more child sex-kidnappings,loops of scantily-clad Hollywood tushies; discussions of The Batchelor; minutiae about the murderous chimp rampage; scattered cases of teacher/student dandling; and the excesses of The Octomom will bring more viewers than the old blah, blah, blah of economics, foreign policy, and politics.

This while the bilious gasbag chews on the NY Times for not taking him seriously. Let us not forget that Bill O'Reilly is a vile bottom feeder who's using his Harvard education and a blue collar accent to make 10's of millions a year by demagoguing the lowest-brows in the conservative base.

Comments

[Tito]

Honesty, with the posts are becoming increasiny difficult to real with the sente flagments, bizarre punctiation selection/placements, and overdone use of cockwords. I've enjoyed the block but it's a migrade olfactory to try to decipher one of these poely. There are many opportunities for English crasses at a continuing education level in this state's fine cumunity college system, I wish some people would engage the opportunities available. It doesn't require a Harvardation to correctly use the tongue, mother Perhaps one of the educators who frequent this site could be enlisted to proof before they go live?

Anyway, just a suggestion.

[AuthenticAndrew]

Do you read at a third grade level?

[EvergreenRailfan]

O'Reilly, when he tries to claim to be the impartial journalist, maybe he can try to explain how he covered the Falklands again. The US was the middleman in that conflict, we supplied arms to both sides. Although only to Britain during the war. Not all of the Argentine aircraft that attacked British Troops and ships were French, some were A-4s. The Cruiser that was sunk by a British SSN was supplied by us. Although sinking that ship, in what might be one of History's most cost-effective naval engagements(they saved the modern wire-guided torpedoes in case the sonar on the accompanying destroyers(also US War Surplus) got lucky on sonar, used older WWII era torpedoes that had bigger warheads) broke up a pincer move on the British Fleet that might have been a disaster. The Royal Navy took some heavy losses in that conflict with a couple destroyers and frigates sunk, and a few others damaged.

Now I wonder if O'Reilly was objective then, if at least for his own safety(if he was reporting from Buenos Aires), in that conflict. After the initial invasion, the Junta got what they expected, patriotic rallies in the main square. Unfortunately for them, Britain also had an unpopular government in 1982. In fact, the Brits had tried to give the islands back a few years earlier, the problem? The Islanders loved being under British protection. Now there is a bigger military presence on those islands, to fight the next round in what some say was the last British Colonial War, although I doubt Argentina can do much. Their military has not totally rebuilt from the losses they got in 1982.

[Republicrat]

There you go again; "Blatherwatch ran Billo off the radie-yo". More of your BS. Yep, BW is nation/world known. A real powerhouse. NOT! Is it not getting to that time again to start asking for more $'s to keep you afloat? So far, it's not working for the bias P-I. You're small and local, you'll survive. We need a good chuckle once in a while.

Back to Billo. The far-left punches and O'Reilly counterpunches. And all you talk about is the counterpunch. Leaving out facts and distorting the story. But hey, that's how you get attention. If people bite, go for it. Hell, why not.

[Pancreatic pondering]

Billo Reilly is a tabloid entertainer. His posturings are taken seriously by idiots, and given too much attention by people like Michael on this blog. Speaking of idiots, Michael's funny tongue in cheek piece about driving Billo off the radio went totally aver the head of the guy above named Republicrat in the comment above. Michael should write more like that and show Billo the Clown for the rude buffoon that he is.

[marc]

Who will Bill beat up in Seattle now that the P-I is gone? Is it the stranger's turn? plenty of fodder there.

[Brian]

I wonder what Allen Prell is doing right now.

[WILD BILL]

THE STRANGER IS OPINIONATED, THEY MAKE no bones about it, they are proud and stand behind their bias. You either agree with them, or not. The reason the PI became "fodder" for the top rated cable yakker is that they slowly blurred their non-bias (which is the standard for a daily traditional newspaper) and injected their bias into their stories, but still tried to maintain that they were non-biased. Now, most of the PI's readers (especially the record numbers viewing the on-line version daily) most likely agree with the bias, since it is representative of the region. The product is extremely popular online. Alas, the business model (classified ad revenue stream) no longer functions, and nobody has come up with a new one, YET. The "dailys" will return, but they will not be in newsprint. Amen. Obama is the light. tbtl is the hope for a new America. Dave Ross is beloved and esteemed, spreading truth and those other ones, prudence, I think, but Rossian wisdoms. R&D are playful kittens at play in the fields of the Lord. And Dori is the fighter in the jungles and the swamps. May we all eats fried shrimps and Pronto pups as we listen in.

[WILD BILL]

GOD, I loved Uncle Al!

[AprilMayJune]

Allen Prell is HOT!!

[mrogi]

Keith Olbermann is a pathetic embarassment. His program is mired dead last of all the cable news talk shows.

[KS]

Too bad about all of the newspapers going down. The real reason that they are having problems surviving is because they have not been able to put their arms around being able to effective market advertising $ using the new media.

Hopefully some of them will figure it out and soon (i.e the Seattle Times, Tacoma NT and the Oregonian). After some of the covers that I have seen recently, I wouldn't mind seeing Newsweek and Time disappear. Their tabloid approach with their faux journalism is enough to gag a maggot