Ratings are up, so of course everything I said is true.

Interesting rationale there, but doesn’t pass the smell test.

scooter – you made a very important point.

“Look, tides go out, tides come in.” Yes accurate. “Nobody can explain that.” Not even close to accurate. Closer to extremely stupid!
Was that statement part of your history of “reportage” that you declared 100% accurate?

The next time Billo attacks Beyonce’ shouldn’t he be checking her record sales or radio play to see whether or not her songs are harmful to young girls?
I’m not a journalist(?) like O’Reilly, but I’m quite sure that neither of those things have anything to do with each other.
How is it that O’Reilly doesn’t know the difference?

“Only if I did something that wasn’t true,” O’Reilly said. “What I said was accurate.”
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It was “accurate” only in the mind of BOR. He worded his previous statements about his work the way he did because he wanted the folks to get the impression that he was a witness to the events that he was supposedly describing. If BOR was truly interested in being “accurate”, he would have worded his statements differently and he would have added qualifiers stating just how it was that he, ahem, SAW those events (which we now know was via photos/video). And we are still waiting for him to explain the phone call recording in which he said he was coming to Florida (the day AFTER the Oswald associate killed himself), right?

What’s even more crazy than BOR’s pretending that he actually was “accurate” is his thinking that he won out/proved his case because his ratings went up during that time period?! Bwaaah! I wish Letterman had explained to BOR just why it is that his ratings temporarily went up…because people who don’t normally watch his show tuned in to watch his head explode/to watch him tell more fibs in an attempt to cover up his previous fibs. BOR, your higher ratings were because everyone wants to look at a train wreck! LOL!

So, in BOR’s twisted mind, good ratings = a quality product, truth and trust?! He is actually crowing that high ratings have vindicated him?! OMG, this guy is so effing delusional! His ego keeps him from seeing reality. BOR’s ratings are like McD’s – just because they sell more burgers than their competitors, it doesn’t mean they offer up a better quality product that is good/healthy for the country.

Sorry, BOR, try to distract us all you want with your claims of vindication via the ratings but the folks now know the truth. You are an embarrassment to your profession and your work* will always have an asterisk beside it.

*Bill O’Reilly, proven liar; known to embellish and fib about his exploits in order to make himself look like the “big dog”; often resorts to playing the victim in order to distract from his own bad behavior; has no compunction about using ad hominem attacks and name calling to to go after those who dare to tell the truth about him.

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O’Reilly didn’t talk to reporters at the TV movie’s Monday premiere in New York City, and the conservative political host claims that he often feels that he is the victim of unfair media treatment.

“Not one day has the media been fair to me,” O’Reilly protests. “Look, I’m the big dog here, we make a lot of money, we have a lot of power. A lot of people don’t like the fact that Fox News has the highest rated cable network in the world. So, how do you get to Fox News? You come after me. So this is what I have to deal with.”

http://www.etonline.com/tv/161678_exclusive_bill_o_reilly_on_killing_jesus_controversy_not_one_day_has_the_media_been_fair_to_me/

The viewers of Fox are like a cult, and O’Reilly is their leader, so they do not care he is a liar.

After he said that his ratings jumped by nearly 20%, I had to check.
Sure enough, O’Reilly was LYING about that too.

Let’s just say, on average, his viewership was 10 people, a 20% jump would mean 12 people watched. The reality is, there was (On average) a 15% jump for the week following the controversy, after that, he went back to his normal viewership, which, is, to be honest, fairly good, but it still doesn’t come close to network news, or even reruns of Sponge Bob.

Of course, people with a reputation of dishonesty have a home with FOX.

And there you have it – the conservative mindset all explained. Ratings = money which trumps all, including truth. In Bildo’s world no other explantion is needed. Ratings are up, money is flowing, who cares what is true?

Bill, your rating victory is because of curiosity from those who don’t normally watch you who tuned in simply see how or if you would respond in the same way that Jimmy Swaggart got big ratings after he got caught with pants down in 1987.

The timing was perfect for you and Fox. It came in a ratings month sweep period. For those of you who don’t know a ratings sweep month is how advertising rates are set. I don’t know if it has changed over the years but I do know it was four months that this practice has been used in the months of February, May, July and November. For many years networks would have their mini-series during this period like Roots, but no longer because of the cost and competition from over 100 channels instead of two or three, and it’s also why the Super Bowl was moved from January.

Enjoy your imaginary victory lap and financial rewards.

@dave Wright
Are you saying Wrestling’s NOT real? You mean all these years I’ve been believing it was real, since there ratings were better than TNT, and now you accuse them of not being real? I guess we’ll see how real they are after WrestleMania’s ratings come out!
@jan Hall
Are you belittling one of the first “reality” TV shows in Amurica? Think of all the Duck Dynasty viewers dreams you’ve just crushed!
You two need to be more sensitive to the dullards that Bill calls his “viewers!”

Junior O’Reilly always links TV ratings with quality. Remember back when you were 14 years old Junior? The number 1 rated show the was “The Beverly Hillbillies”.

And so what if they did? WWE gets high ratings, too. Does that mean people believe everything those guys say, too? O’Reilly keeps wanting it both ways. He wants to pretend he is a journalist and yet be an entertainer at the same time. It doesn’t work that way. He loves the Fox brand but keeps trying to say he is above it as well. He has his devotees, to be sure. But the fact remains that, on his best day, the network news shows swamp him and every other cable outfit.

Bildo should know that ratings go up and ratings go down. You can’t explain it. Just like the tides.

But did the ratings stay up?