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Posted by: populist 2 years, 6 months agoA new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly calls "a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night."
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bubba2
May 2, 2007, 9:50 p.m.Here is the URL for the content analysis of the Indiana University study, which has the link to the PDF with the study statistics --
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Digidave
May 2, 2007, 10:49 p.m.I love that this was an actual study. Watching O'rielly always get's my blood rising. Now I know why -- he is scarring me at all times.
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Fedquip
May 3, 2007, 3:13 a.m.Man.. I would hate to be the poor fella who had to sit through all that Bill O
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earthlingerer
May 3, 2007, 8:34 a.m.Without the name-calling, fear, and making villains, O'Reilly is the same as any other boring, cantankerous grandfather.
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evelyna
May 3, 2007, 8:52 a.m.I think O'Reilly is funny. He expects judges and people in high office to take accountibility? That is an interesting concept.
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AngryEyes
May 3, 2007, 9:42 a.m.Wow - calling a judge who endangers children by giving light sentences to child predators a villian! Bringing to light politicians who are trying to stop states from adopting Jessica's Law and calling them villians.
How does the man sleep at night?
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CharacterCounts
May 3, 2007, 9:58 a.m.He calls 'em like he sees 'em. What's wrong with that? At least he has the guts to confront people who are screwing around which is more than you can say for 99% of the other talking heads. They just repeat what the networks tell them to say, oh excuse me, I mean what Hillary tells them to say. At least O'Rielly is his own man. Like him or not, you have to respect that about him.
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MntnWllm
May 3, 2007, 10:09 a.m.He mostly just confronts & shouts-down those he disagrees with though, yes? Pandering confused with Punditry.
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crespi
May 3, 2007, 11:49 a.m.Has anyone seen lately how O'Reilly has been reduced to doing movie trivia(!) with Ducey? (And they hate Hollywood.)
A far cry from his glory days of saying "everyone should go out and form a club in their town or community to destroy the ACLU." How sad.
Once FuxNews falls, most of the folks who sold hate as fact should go down too (that includes some at MSNBC and a few others locally, etc.)
Weirdest of all, COLBERT as uber-pundit has pulled O'Reilly's rage-strength into himself like a (comedic) warrior/shaman, leaving O'Reilly an empty husk...
Poor O'Reilly.
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NoWayMan
May 3, 2007, 11:57 a.m.didn't need a study to tell me this but glad someone verified it.
hats off to those poor researchers who had to sit through 115 episodes listening to this hater spout from the "no spin zone".
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Rinty
May 3, 2007, 12:07 p.m.What's the big deal.. I call O'Reilly a name every day. He's the king of comic book journalism.
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walden3
May 3, 2007, 12:21 p.m.Jeesh, I'm surprised no one mentioned this earlier. What are you all a bunch of troglodytes??
"â;¦claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies."
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mac...
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Commodore1
May 3, 2007, 12:55 p.m.This is the biggest bunch of crap I've ever read. And it's made to look like a legitimate study. What a big heaping bowl of bull. O'Reilly calls it like it is and he's not afraid to challenge people on their actions. When he complained about the State of Virginia not having a law barring people w/a history mental instability in the past from gettin guns, Virginia suddenly went and did it. Another example: Jessica's Law. There are lots of other examples of things he's complained about that have suddenly gotten done. The people who dreamed up this fiction are just a bunch of jealous and incompetent competitors or a group or deranged liberals. O'Reilly is still at the top of the ratings and he probably will be for quite a while. There's nothing U jealous morons can do about it either.
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bubba2
May 3, 2007, 1:34 p.m.Who is "jealous" of O'Reilly's ratings? Not me, for sure! I could care less.
This is a free country and I'll defend O'Reilly's right to be 'on the air'. But that does NOT mean that he is NOT a liar and a fear-monger and a name-caller, because he is. Thus, after trying to watch him for small periods of time, I totally stopped watching him.
So, not jealous.
But, I am appalled at O'Reilly's continual ridiculous, worng, and hateful commentary - see Charlson's posts above.
Ridicule the messenger all you want - the study is legitimate and if you don't agree with it that is your perrogative. Disagreeing with it does NOT reduce or diminish its validity and credibility.
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Rinty
May 3, 2007, 1:50 p.m.Bubba2: Keep watching him, he's way to ludricous to take serious.
Watching O'Reilly, too me, is no different than watching the Simpsons with my two young fellas. I get the same laughs.
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