Oops...but...but...Spike told us how much of a liar he is! Bill O’Reilly Scores His Best Ratings Of 2015 by Lisa de Moraes March 4, 2015 3:55pm The Fox News Channel host last night logged his biggest audience of 2015 to date – 3.3 million viewers. He also averaged 590,000 viewers in the news demo. That’s 166% bigger than the crowd he clocked same night last year, and 100% better in the demo viewers. O’Reilly’s ratings appears to be inversely related to the pelting he’s undergone about claims he made regarding his involvement covering major news events in the past. Last week, for instance, was his first full week since Mother Jones first reported discrepancies between his description of his role in covering various news events, most particularly his reporting on the Falklands War from Buenos Aires, with the headline Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem. Since then, Mother Jones and Media Matters traded off breaking stories about his claims on other major news events he covered as a news reporter. For that first full week, The O’Reilly Factor averaged 3.381 million viewers, and 590,000 in the demo – a 25% jump and 41% demo pop. Meanwhile, Anderson Cooper’s numbers at CNN for the week – 530,000 viewers and 209,000 demo viewers – are up a lesser 16% and 6%, respectively. And Chris Hayes’ MSNBC crowd for the week in the timeslot – 767,000 and 168,000 respectively – are down, a slight 2% in total viewers, but a noticeable 28% in the news demo. Which helps explain why reports were surfacing late last week that Haye’s show might be scrubbed or moved – not his FNC timeslot competitor who’s at the center of this latest credibility kerfuffle. O’Reilly’s Talking Point segment last night was about the speech delivered to Congress earlier in the day by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The speech aired at 11 AM and some Reporters Who Cover Television decried the fact that the broadcast networks did not interrupt their lineups in order to carry, leaving their viewers watching programs such as The View and The Price is Right and Access Hollywood. Meanwhile, those wanting to see the speech were left with only about six networks from which to choose, including Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span and Al Jazeera America, as well as livestreams on CBS and ABC web sites, among other outlets. FNC and CNN were rewarded in ratings. FNC clocked a primetime-ish 3.328 million viewers from 11 AM to noon – up 166% compared to same day last year. Similar story in demos: 558,000 – up 100%. FNC beat CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined by 112% with overall audience, and 44% with in the demo. CNN’s audience jumped 124% ,and 61% in the news demo, with Netanyahu’s speech. MSNBC did not fare so well: it averaged 352,000 viewers, which was up slightly compared to last year’s 265,000 in the timeslot. But, in the news demo, MSNBC plunged to 26,000 viewers compared to last year’s 101,000 – a 74% dive.
O'Reilly breaks the news and current events of the day down so it makes sense to bigots and knee jerk right wing republicans. his ratings are probably directly inverse to the level of human understanding he explains to people what life is like if you are white and have money I doubt that anybody has walked away from watching one of his programs with more understanding of the economy or the plight of the poor or any concerns of the minority. I can see why watching pc crap all day on the other networks would make him seem like a breath of fresh air, but if I want to experience the right wing propaganda I can just drink and post my own depraved thoughts when I am pissed off at anyone who doesn't feel like me. I realize tv isn't a church or even an education device, but I look for something that will either entertain me or broaden my shallow perspective of how the world works. The only entertainment I get from O'Reilly is knowing how much he pisses off thought control liberals who believe everyone who is not like them eats up Bill's lies hook line and sinker.
But a rich asshole that people watch and listen to. Whereas you....well, you're just an asshole who repairs HVACs that people giggle about.
O'Reilly's ratings and riches were acquired on his ponzi-scheme of stories, and we all know who his contributors and investors are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fox News Doesn't Care If Bill O'Reilly Is A Liar Of all the allegations levied at Bill O’Reilly, the most compelling -- the most difficult to wave away -- is his claim to have witnessed the suicide of George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fox host said in his book Killing Kennedy that he had been knocking on the door when he heard the gunshot. But O’Reilly’s colleagues say he was in Dallas at the time. Last week, CNN played an audio clip between O’Reilly and a congressional investigator in which the Fox host asks where the suicide took place and whether a gun was used. “I'm coming down there tomorrow. I'm coming to Florida ... I'm going to get in there tomorrow,” O’Reilly says. The Fox host’s explanations for his other fibs are far from satisfactory. However violent the protests in Buenos Aires got after the Falklands War, O’Reilly can’t claim he was in a “combat situation” or an “active war zone” -- quite simply, the war was over, and took place 1,200 miles away from the Argentine capital. Watching footage of an execution isn’t the same thing as seeing one firsthand. And a brick being thrown does not an ambush make. But all of these fall under the category of exaggerations. If O’Reilly were more forthright, he could simply say he misspoke. There’s no plausible explanation, however, for saying you were in one place when you were, in fact, in another. This is probably why neither O’Reilly nor the network have responded to this accusation. A spokesperson for Fox News directed questions to O’Reilly’s publisher, Henry Holt, which in typical PR fashion issued a statement of support but didn’t answer the question: “We fully stand behind Bill O’Reilly and his bestseller Killing Kennedy and we’re very proud to count him as one of our most important authors,” the spokesperson said.
There was a time when people like this -- and McCain and Sanford and . . . -- would have hung their heads in shame, faded away, and never be heard from again. Times, or rather people, have changed.