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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts) Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:55 PM Oct 2014

Bill O'Reilly demands that MSNBC be cancelled....says they promote left-wing causes

Bill O’Reilly: Time for NBC to Pull the Plug on MSNBC

Bill O’Reilly thinks it’s time for NBCUniversal to kill MSNBC and start over.

Appearing for a lengthy interview Sunday on Fox’s MediaBuzz, O’Reilly eagerly touted his own viewers-boosting abilities. “When I go on Letterman or I go on the morning shows, their ratings go up,” O’Reilly told Howard Kurtz. “That’s why they have me on.” The Fox host is currently in the midst of a press tour for his latest book, Killing Patton.\

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And then when the conversation shifted to O’Reilly’s opponents at MSNBC, he went off:

MSNBC’s ratings cannot really get much lower. They’re scratching, which means no one’s watching them during the day, and very, very few at nigh.”It’s not a news organization, alright? It’s a cable channel that promotes left-wing causes. Not a news organization. What I am amazed at is that NBC just doesn’t pull the plug. I mean, once you fall behind CNN — which they have, CNN is now beating them — where is there to go on this thing? They’re not going to be successful. They’ve been on the air 18 years. It’s not going happen. So why doesn’t NBC, with all its power and resources, use that cable network for something different and better?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-oreilly-time-for-nbc-to-pull-the-plug-on-msnbc/

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Bill O'Reilly demands that MSNBC be cancelled....says they promote left-wing causes (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 OP

I think "demands" in your title is a stretch brooklynite Oct 2014 #1

"Picky, picky, picky" pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #2

FU O'Reilly you hypocrite immoral AH still_one Oct 2014 #3

He is so full of himself JonLP24 Oct 2014 #4

We can watch and enjoy what we want, I am thankful there is other sources to receive news Thinkingabout Oct 2014 #5

I thought Fox News lost millions a year for the first five years it Cleita Oct 2014 #6

LOL, oh the irony! City Lights Oct 2014 #7

your network should be dismantled first asswipe and fool samsingh Oct 2014 #8

Please hold your breath until it happens, Bill n/t zappaman Oct 2014 #9

As opposed to NAZI causes. Octafish Oct 2014 #10

I feel every opinion-based news program should be cancelled. bigwillq Oct 2014 #11

brooklynite

(94,591 posts)

1. I think "demands" in your title is a stretch

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:59 PM

Oct 2014

He argues, however foolishly, that NBC is losing audience because of MSNBC's liberal spin, and should end it for business reasons. Nothing in his comment suggests he's demanding they shut it down.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

2. "Picky, picky, picky"

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:02 PM

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still_one

(92,216 posts)

3. FU O'Reilly you hypocrite immoral AH

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:04 PM

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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)

4. He is so full of himself

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:07 PM

Oct 2014

and I don't doubt he is one of the guests that gives a shit enough to check ratings before or after his appearance.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

5. We can watch and enjoy what we want, I am thankful there is other sources to receive news

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:07 PM

Oct 2014

Besides FOX, and I don't watch O'Reilly.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

6. I thought Fox News lost millions a year for the first five years it

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:23 PM

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was on the air.

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

7. LOL, oh the irony!

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:25 PM

Oct 2014

You're a clown, Bill-O!

samsingh

(17,599 posts)

8. your network should be dismantled first asswipe and fool

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:35 PM

Oct 2014

zappaman

(20,606 posts)

9. Please hold your breath until it happens, Bill n/t

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:36 PM

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Octafish

(55,745 posts)

10. As opposed to NAZI causes.

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:38 PM

Oct 2014

FOX News' Roger Ailes is a Big Fan of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite NAZI filmmaker.

According to the new biography (and a history going back a ways in GOP circles), The Loudest Voice In The Room: How The Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News — And Divided A Country:

Ailes was “a big fan” of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s notorious favorite filmmaker—not for her Nazi ideology but for her cinematic talent as a propagandist. “Ailes was especially taken by Riefenstahl’s use of camera angles.”

SOURCE: http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/extraordinary-revelations-about-roger.html

Terry Gross of Fresh Air interviewed Gabriel Sherman, the guy who wrote, the book today.

This is the kind of information that Fox viewers might appreciate knowing before watching their television screens.

Something everyone should know: Roger Ailes and the Big Money has been in bed with Big NAZI for a long time.

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)

11. I feel every opinion-based news program should be cancelled.

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:46 PM

Oct 2014

It's not news--it's opinion. MSNBC's primetime shows are biased to the left, Fox to the right--this is not how news is supposed to be presented. This is why I never watch any of the cable news network.

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