In the few times I watch him he often calls guests he doesn't agree with a "nut, idiot, lunatic, etc... because him and most Americans don't agree with the guest".
Personally, I watch O'Reilly a little. I've never heard him call anyone an idiot or nut who wasn't an idiot or nut... usually a Nambla type claiming they should be able to screw boys or a jihadi/apologist/enabler of some sort.
He's usually nice to everyone else, even people that I think are clearly nuts or idiots. He's always nice to ultraleftwing activists, judges, thinktank types, or politicians.
911 and Katrina combined to change many peoples minds. Suddenly, people didn't feel as secure and saw that there are threats both internally and externally that could require them to fend for themselves for a while. SHTF is more real. And people see that social order can break down quickly (though one can argue that there really isn't much social order in NO or many other large crime infested cities).
-Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Newt Gingrich,Mary Matilin,
Laura Ingram, Tony Snow ect.
You obviously don't watch the show. He has more libs than conservatives. If I want left wing claptrap, with guaranteed pro gun control coverage and every other Democratic speaking point, I can watch ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, pMSNBC, or NPR.
but O'Reilly is still trying to redeem himself from the Zumbo-like
Good. If he's feeling the pressure, then maybe the others are too.
Quote:Rush was the 1st to hop on the syndicated conservative band wagon
No. He's the tractor to which a bandwagon was subsequently attached.
For sure there was no syndicated conservative band wagon. Hard to imagine imagine now, but even though 35%-50% of America is conservative, ABC/NBC/CBS, liberal newspapers and others were able to completely quash any conservative commentators for many, many decades. There are no syndicated liberal commentators needed, see Scare America, because the liberal viewpoint already inundates the average viewer. No need to go shopping for libthink when you have ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/NPR spewing libthink all day every day.
But the tractor was Reagan, IMO. Unfortunately he too was lukewarm on gun control issues.