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O’Reilly Wanted To Give Romney A Full Hour The Night Before Election Day

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on December 09, 2012 · Flag

Bill O’Reilly visited Jay Leno and the Tonight Show last week and made a startling admission: That he wanted to give Mitt Romney a full hour of airtime the night before the election. And even though O’Reilly insisted he had not given either candidate “advice,” he also revealed that he had told Romney’s “people” that they would lose unless they did something “dramatic” – like coming on O’Reilly’s show for an hour.

O’Reilly told Leno that he had tried to get both President Obama and Mitt Romney on his show. O’Reilly said Obama “wouldn’t come on because he didn’t want to talk about Libya.” O’Reilly assured the Tonight audience that he would have insisted on talking about Libya.

O’Reilly didn’t mention any tough issues he’d confront Romney about. But when Obama refused (and don’t tell me O’Reilly didn’t know that would happen), he used that as an excuse to offer a full hour to Romney:

The Romney people inexplicably (declined) – and I was amazed. ‘Cause I told them they were gonna lose. I told ‘em. I said,  “You guys are gonna lose unless you do something dramatic, unless you make” – and we would have given em the whole hour, the Monday the night before, we would have given ‘em the whole hour. Because we did invite the president. They turned us down. Romney would have had an hour. In prime time on the highest rated show in the country in cable news. And he didn’t take it. We were just like amazed.

I’ve got to admit, I’m amazed, too.

Video available at Mediaite.

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Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-12-10 12:12:32 -0500 · Flag
President Obama would never go on this Dog and Poney show because, Bile is not well informed enough to talk about anything with the President,or anybody else ,in my opinion. Discussing Libya is not Bile’s place since he is only a talk show host on the level of “Current affairs”,not “Political Affairs”.I’m not amazed that Romney declined to go on this show,Romney is well aware of the fact that two flipflopping lying bullshitting millionaires can neither fool or impress the general public,even though both people’s viewing audience are uninformed drugged out Zombies.
I don’t know what it is going to take before it hits Bile’s overblown head that he has absolutely no relevance.
truman commented 2012-12-10 12:05:32 -0500 · Flag
Some say that Bildo’s self-serving anecdote is full of shit.

In any event, MagicUnderwear Mitt had nothing to gain by yet another fawning infomercial on Fux Noise. The Fux Noise audience was firmly in his camp already. Why wouldn’t they be after four years of non-stop Obama bashing by Bildo, KKKlannity, Van Suckup et al ad nauseam?
Kevin Koster commented 2012-12-10 11:16:39 -0500 · Flag
I agree with Joseph West. If O’Reilly had really been trying to get both Obama and Romney on his show and had been declined, he would have tried to make a much bigger deal about it. He certainly made no bones about talking about such things earlier in the campaign.

If anything, this is just another giveaway that O’Reilly was pulling as hard as he could for the GOP to win, even in light of the strong indications that they would not. He had predicted doom for Obama, all the way from the 2010 midterms, and he had predicted doom for the country if Obama somehow did get re-elected. He had presented Obama’s positions in a way that would make them sound irresponsible and ridiculous, while presenting Romney as a sensible businessman. Of course, he also expressed skepticism when people like Dick Morris embarrassed themselves with predictions of Romney landslides, but he was clear that he wanted to see Romney win in any case.

The thing to remember about Fox’s ratings, and O’Reilly’s in particular – is that it isn’t just the devoted fanbase. There is a large number of people who DON’T like Fox News who tune in as well, including people like myself, who want to hear what the other side is saying. Of course, the Fox base viewers don’t also tune into MSNBC, because they’re not interested in hearing that point of view. Hence, MSNBC has a lower rating number.
Chico Brisbane commented 2012-12-10 03:15:32 -0500 · Flag
I wonder if Bill O’Reillys butt ever get’s jealous of the crap that comes out of his mouth?
Kent Brockman commented 2012-12-09 23:42:27 -0500 · Flag
Killer O’Reilley sez

“But all’s well that ends well! I really, really enjoyed watching Rove crap his diaper!”
Bob Roberts commented 2012-12-09 22:34:14 -0500 · Flag
In O’Loofah alternate universe, he actually believes (well he doesn’t, he just says that to a national
TV audience) that the Mormon appearing on his show would have tilted the election his way. Ha!!! And again I say Ha!!!! Why do TV hosts let him get away with this shit?? Jeez, I wish I could get 5 minutes with O’Falafel on a national TV stage and just cut him to ribbons. Fuck Leno, The View, Letterman and Jon Stewart for not calling him out on his shit-filled prognostigations. Shameful that they let him get away with his crap.
Sandman2 commented 2012-12-09 19:13:17 -0500 · Flag
Gee Billdo, the hundreds of hours of fawning coverage and praise you’ve given Romney over the years, wasn’t enough?

Too bad for you, great for America!
Jan Hall commented 2012-12-09 18:40:53 -0500 · Flag
Governor Romney obviously feared the very tough questions he would get from the always fair and balanced Little Billy EGO’reilly.
Hey Billy, get an interview with that cop you were so interested in awhile back. We’d all tune in to hear those tough questions.
Bill Friday commented 2012-12-09 18:08:21 -0500 · Flag
As usually is the case, Billo far exaggerates his own self importance. It’s true his show gets high ratings on cable. What he never admits however is that he has almost zero political influence. For that matter none of the shows on Fox do. The only people that watch them are the loyal righties, and he already has their vote, and the hard core lefties, and we’re not changing our minds! All the persuadable voters are watching Dancing with the Stars and Survivor, and tuning in to Jon Stewart later! lol
Joseph West commented 2012-12-09 16:05:29 -0500 · Flag
Is there any evidence of these invitations BEFORE O’Really told this to Leno?

I mean, I can’t believe that O’Really didn’t spend days on end bashing Obama for not appearing on his show—especially for Obama’s brazen attempt to keep O’Really from asking all the “tough questions.” I can understand O’Really’s blah-blah about Romney (retconning—emphasis on the “conning”—is part and parcel of O’Really’s livelihood, and I doubt anyone from the Romney camp is going to bother coming forward at this late date and saying O’Really lied and never contacted anyone at TeamRomney about Romney’s coming on the show) but, missing another chance to bash Obama for an hour a day for days on end simply doesn’t sound like the O’Really we’ve all come to know and loathe.

And you’ve just got to wonder about O’Really’s “fans” after hearing this. What must they think? That O’Really just took a “no” from TeamObama without whining bragging about it for days and days—especially when O’Really had the chance to harangue challenge Obama about Benghazi—just seems unimaginable and must be disappointing. (Of course, O’Really would simply explain this away as……Okay, I’m not really sure where I was going with this. I started to write “a moment of simple human weakness” but, then I remembered, O’Really has never shown such a failing to his fans/followers/sickophants* in the past so why would he do so when there was such an important election—an election for the country’s very soul, if you’d believe FoxNoise—at stake? In reality, O’Really would probably just push something else to the top of his hate-filled agenda and pretend nothing else had ever been as important as whatever BS he was ranting about that night.)

*Yes, the misspelling was deliberate.








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