Speaking of obsession...

Apparently O'Blathering is going to have Stephen Colbert on his show, Jan. 18th, and Colbert having him on his show the same day...should be interesting...

3 to 1 odds say that Bill cancels his appearance because of 'all Colbert does is spin..' and 'he is a far-left looney, koola-aid drinker...'

Careful, Joe...

"I would be very willing to debate Bill O'Reilly anytime, anyplace, anywhere"

Joe may not be well versed in how Mr. O operates. This leaves him open for an invitation to come on the 'Factor', where Bill calls the shots, controls the mics, and has exclusive talkover rights. Of course, if Joes doesn't agree to that, he becomes "a coward". Joe should add one more phrase to his challenge:

"... just as long as it's not Bill's show."

NOT A FAN OF O'REILLY

but Scarborough is clearly trying to hold Olbermann's audience with this. It's fun to watch 3 or 4 people on national television discuss what a FRAUD Bill O'Reilly truly is, but you have to look at Scarborough's motivations here as well. If George Bush were popular right now, he would be whoring for him like he was back in 2003 and 2004 before his poll numbers really started to sink in early 2005. O'Reilly is playing this as well. The irony is that by covering O'Reilly, there might be some of Olbermann's audience that misses at least part of his show in order to tune in to O'Reilly, since they are in the same time slot. OReilly probably realizes that and is playing it up probably, at least in part, for that reason as well. Also, O'Reilly is probably mad at Law and Order for doing a show based on the lawsuit that Andrea Mackris filed against him for sexual harassment--the one where she claims he called her up several times and described graphic sexual fantasies he had involving her and even asked her in person if she wanted to have sex with him, albeit indirectly perhaps.

THANK YOU. njguy93@yahoo.com

that is a good point...

I wonder if O'Forcryingoutloudly is slowly being set up for the fall guy on cable tv...I keep envisioning the corporate lords as mafia bosses in a smoky dark room plotting who they are going to whack next because of insubordination (read: declining ratings), and the name they keep mentioning is Bill's...

These People

If these people (Scarborough, Olbermann, O Reilly) continue to talk about each other as if they are really important, they will continue to wallow in their scarce to nonexistent ratings. Who gives a damn?

I agree Bruce,

At first I got a laugh at Joe going after Bill, BUT enough is enough. I tune in to hear the latest political buzz NOT about their little "feud"

Bruce

Don't start that - don't you know these people like O'Reilly and the rest have huge audiences, and what they say is gospel to so many - their influence is widespread and the damage they do to the fabric of our society if off the charts, and we need to call them on every single word they utter because they are dangerous and on and on and on........whew, I am out of breath.

Tommy

I haven't seen that old Tommy condescension in ages , but here it is on display. Just a minor set a back I hope. These people you speak of most certainly have influence on a large segment of the conservative voting public, and you know it. That’s why GW and the bird murderer always show up on Fox and Limbaugh during campaign season, they have to be sure tot keep their base motivated to vote! But all in all you're still one of my favorite MMFA cons.

O'Falafel...

Is becoming a full-fledged loon. In just the past few months he published a book that was basically a hit list of people who are out to get him(dangerous to America, in his mind), launches a war on NBC, and just the other day called a liberal guest on his show a "lunatic" and insisted it was only "her opinion" that thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed, injured, or otherwise adversely affected by bush's (lowercase intentional)"crusade" across Mesopotamia.

While he's on the subject of ER, maybe they could help him out with some meds.

Perhaps.

"While he's on the subject of ER, maybe they could help him out with some meds."

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Or a lobotomy, but he'd come out exactly the same as he went in.

Excellent job by Paul Waldman...

under very trying circumstances.

This segment seems to have descended into the dreaded "cable news foodfight," due to the extremely poor moderating skills of Scarborough.

But Paul Waldman handled himself very well, and made his points with authority and dignity in the melee.

The Wald-Man...

was "steppin up" for MMFA.

I just thought it was funny...

that O'Numbnuts was going after ER. Maybe that scene was shoehorned in as something totally unrelated to the plot, but maybe it also had some dramatic or entertainment value. Perhaps somewhere in this land of 300 million people there are a couple of women who have had that exact same conversation. WTFC? The point is, this was a business decision, made by NBC which is running a business, for profit. If the people watching choose not......OUCH. Wait a minute, STOP THAT......Sorry, I was being channeled by Tommy or something.

I just think it's amusing that O'Dildo is making such a stink about one scene on one show when I don't recall him saying much at all to criticize ABC for airing that Pigpath to 9-11 revisionist history tripe. Or ESPN (both owned by Disney) for hiring brusque limpballs for football coverage? Or ABC again for getting Spocko's ISP to shut him down for calling for consumer boycotts of ABC owned radio stations for spewing hate-filled, violent right-wing garbage over the airwaves. Or an ABC executive being honored by a right-wing group saying that it is her mission to evangelize the entire world through the television media.

Being the objective "Independent" that he is, I'm puzzled by his lack of outrage.

No doubt he support's ABC/Disney's decision

to stand up for traditional values of decades past. You know, like the traditional values described in the novel 1984.

Makes for great TV

Bear in mind that, although Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough clearly vote the Republican line, they've both denied that conservative bias slanted the way they commented on the news. Now that Loofah Boy is calling out NBC old straight talk Joe is miffed that he's been branded a non conservative voice.

What I'm hoping for is an all out media war between the two stations...I'd be interested to see what the Ditto Bush Bots would think about debate brewing on the difference between a conservative and a Republican suck up.

Strange

MMFA is liberal, so that means nothing when they document conservative bias, it is obvious Kohn is conservative but claims NBC has take a left turn and is liberal.

I never have quite figured out how conservatives don't think they are biased but liberals always are. The only thing that makes sense is that since they are conservative it means they are always right all the time.

Amazing.

Go Paul

I thought it was interesteing how accomodating Scarborough was to Paul Waldman now that O'Reilly is attacking NBC. Contrast that to the last time Paul was on trying to tell him what a lout O'Reilly is only to have Scarbourough and his other guest (the idiot John Stossel I believe) take up the defense of O'Reilly and turn the discussion into an attack of Media Matters.