>My own impression of Fox was solidified in the early jet-lagged hours some years back, by a row of experts opining about healthcare. Paraphrasing: "they may have free healthcare in Europe," proclaimed one expert, "but they can't afford new clothes." The other experts adopted serious expressions and nodded.
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>I could have exercised my veto via remote control... but what a spectacle! So I watched on, waiting (hoping) for more pearls of wisdom about the dangers of accessible healthcare before the age of 65.
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>Which I suppose is the point. A silly baseless allegation kept me watching not just the talking heads, but interspersed adverts for ladders, machines that exercise for you and all the other useful stuff you Europeans cannot afford but Americans can because their healthcare is so expensive.
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>Clearly there's money in arrant nonsense and I'm as guilty as anybody of rewarding this sort of silliness. But isn't it just as silly to then complain about that which we incentivize and reward? ;-)

I have some good friends - and a dynamite girlfriend whose IQ intimidates me- who think that O'Reilly's was the only true voice in the media.
His books - one friend reads them all and lets me borrow the ones that interest me- are among the best historical narratives I've read.
The fact is that most "respected" journalists and historians are effete intellectual snobs basically writing for each other.
I wasn't surprised to learn that Walter Isaacson, author of several prizing winning biographies and CEO of the snobbish Aspen Institute is on the board of United Airlines, the carrier whose employees dragged a passenger down the aisle.

Can you imagine what the media would have done to O'Reilly had he been on the board?

You can bet that O'Reilly won't be getting any prizes from those snobs, but his books - I've read several of Isaacson's- are a lot more informative and readable.

Yes, O'Reilly panders and that's too bad, but do does the "mainstream" media.

I never watched him - I don't have the channel- but a lot of people do, and we should be asking why.