Bill O'Reilly's First Visit To The Daily Show

For some reason, The Daily Show sent me this clip of Bill O'Reilly's first visit to The Daily Show. It's pretty funny but also resonates today. The interview appears to take place around in 2001 (because O'Reilly says he has worked at Fox for 4 1/2 years and it appears to be very early in George W. Bush's presidency. Stewart confronts O'Reilly about Fox News' bias and O'Reilly claims that he'll let Republicans "have it" and "broadside 'em just as much" "if they misbehave." We can all see how well that worked out. Let me know when I missed Fox giving 9/11 Truthers the same kind of exposure and cred it has given to birthers and I might stop laughing. Meanwhile, O'Reilly and Stewart are stil funny togehter even after all these years.

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Aria Prescott commented 2012-02-07 18:24:44 -0500 · Flag

Ok, then- my bad. Yeah, usually the very small amounts of fairness Fox News can claim with a straight face is Shep Smith, or Geraldo when it happens on a weekend. Almost everyone with Newshounds is shocked when anyone else even tries to be genuinely fair, and not “Fox Fair”.

Geraldo’s look was “Fox Fair”, but it’s definitely a lot better than what the rest of them did.

Nicholas Soter commented 2012-02-07 17:47:13 -0500 · Flag

I did not mean to suggest that there was any parity or equality of reporting whatsoever, or that Fox News is fair or balanced in this subject, or any other. Only that one anomaly of 9/11 was raised at least once, which was a surprise to me.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-02-07 16:02:15 -0500 · Flag

An 8 minute segment… 3 1/2 of which he spent insulting the Truthers. Yep, that is certainly comparable to almost 170 hours of on-air time, as well as literally dozens of articles endorsing the birthers.

That argument is akin to thinking Shepard Smith asking if the New Black Panthers are really news balances out the 10 hours the rest of Fox News put into them.

Nicholas Soter commented 2012-02-07 14:21:07 -0500 · Flag

“Let me know when I missed Fox giving 9/11 Truthers the same kind of exposure and cred it has given to birthers and I might stop laughing.” While it is true that Fox (and Bill O’Reilly in particular, who tries to ridicule “truthers” any chance he gets) has given very little time to those holding the view that the Official Conspiracy Theory of 9/11/01 cannot withstand scrutiny, and who believe and understand that the evidence supporting the Official Conspiracy Theory is virtually non-existant, Gerardo Rivera at one time during his Fox program did attempt to address the apparent controlled demolition of WTC 7 that occurred later that day. http://911truthnews.com/geraldo-rivera-focuses-on-wtc-7/

Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-02-07 11:02:54 -0500 · Flag

The same old arrogant blowhard "Bile’,some things never change.

Aria Prescott commented 2012-02-06 23:37:12 -0500 · Flag

Some things never change. Seriously.

truman commented 2012-02-06 23:19:33 -0500 · Flag

Bildo and Fux Noise: Shoveling the same shit since at least 2001.

Didi commented 2012-02-06 21:23:02 -0500 · Flag

Look at how young Jon Stewart looked!!

Interesting that in 2001 people had not quite caught on to the Faux Noise propaganda mill. And for the record O’Really treated G W Bush with kid gloves after the stuff that “went on over the last 8 years”!