Crosspost from
Burnt Orange Report
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Might splotchy-faced slightly retarded right wing liar extrodinaire Bill O'Reilly be considering a run for the White House someday? As noted on
Political Wire, there's a chance:
Speculation about O'Reilly's political future has been around for years, but it's still tempting to think that all of this - the show, the books, the radio, the tchotchkes on billoreilly.com, the entire money-printing Bill O'Reilly industry, for crying out loud - is part of some manifest design on his part to run for higher office. The new book feeds into this. "Who's Looking Out for You?" - about the failure of American institutions to protect the average Joe - is both thoughtful and blustering, where a flame is thrown on every other page, a past slight avenged in every other chapter. Entertaining, yes, but also (at times) a political reformist's manifesto....
The prize would be the White House, but "the country's not interested in an independent candidacy. Maybe in 10 years they will be, but right now, you have 50 percent of Americans who don't know anything - they're totally disengaged from the process, the 'Mall People.' They don't know anything, don't watch the news or listen to radio or read the newspapers. The other 50 percent - and there was a recent poll on this - are a third crazy left and third crazy right and third in the middle. So the pie you're going for is a very narrow pie."
Yeah, maybe he "could mobilize a certain number of independent thinkers who think, 'This guy could be a ... Teddy Roosevelt kind of guy, who could come in and clean up the garbage...'"
Yeah, when I think of Bill O'Reilly I think of Theodore Roosevelt. In the same way that when I think of Pauly Shore I think of Henry Clay. What a conceited douchebag. The biggest problem is probably not O'Reilly but the asinine no talent reporters who come up with ideas like "a popular but inexperienced, barely mentally functioning former host of
Hard Copy should run for President!" These are the same mouth-breathers that stuck California with Arnold because the media are more interested in entertainment and making money than they are in reporting the facts.
Some liberal media eh? When's the last time somebody suggested that a popular liberal talk show host run for President... Oh, that's right, there are no popular liberal talk show hosts. Sure we have Oprah and Rosie, but they aren't hard news. That's it! Oprah vs. O'Reilly for President! Keep ratings up and Oprah would kill Bill. A black woman liberal Democrat and Dr. Phil for VP! I really do think I'm a genius...