A heated confrontation (what else on TVpolitical talk shows?) between Fox News talk powerhouse Bill O’Reilly and Democratic Senator Chris Dodd over O’Reilly’s latest rage campaign, this time against the YearlyKos convention and Daily Kos (O’Reilly uses the graphic to suggest the whole site is like that).
But this time someone finally NAILS IT. Chris Dodd cuts to it and notes what O’Reilly is really doing and what is really bugging him. Note also that O’Reilly also denies he made comments bout Al Qaeda and San Francisco, which were well covered on blogs when he made them (a reminder of that is HERE). Watch it, listen to Dodd’s comments even when O’Reilly tries to talk over him.
But this is GOOD TELEVISION which is why O’Reilly should also be seen as a canny showman who understands what gets ratings in 21st century America:
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.