In today's edition of what seems to be (I hope!) one of more popular series, we ask you the blog reader if you had a tv with only two channels_ Fox News and PBS, and it was a boring Friday night in which both your girlfriend and your bowling partners were preoccupied with other things, would you choose between Bill O'Reilly or Bill Moyers.
These two actually have a connection as O'Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushed Moyers at the National Conference for Media Reform this past summer in Minnesota. A Youtube video of the incident has received a lot of views.
Moyers is 74, and he served as White House press secretary for Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965-67 before turning to journalism. He is best known for being a CBS News commentator, but in recent years he has moved back to PBS.
He is currently the host of "Bill Moyers Journal" and recent interviews have included Sarah Chaves, a reporter who spent a lot of time in Afghanistan, and Gov. David Paterson (D) of New York.
Moyers has been heavily criticized by conservatives for expressing his liberal views with his segments and interviews.
O'Reilly, 59, was once a semi-pro pitcher for the New York Monarchs. Today he is known for being an over-the-top talk show host who tilts to the right_to put it mildly, though he claims to be a fair and objective talk show host.
The web site for his Fox News show did not seem to list any up-coming guests, but his hostile rants during an interview with Cong. Barney Frank (D-Mass) in October have received about as many hits on Youtube as the latest Shakira video.
There are some interesting tid bits I found out both men. O'Reilly was once a reporter for the alternative weekly "The Boston Phoenix," which is known for its progressive perspective!
Similarly, Moyers was born in Oklahoma, the same state that former action movie star Chuck Norris was born in.
From my perspective, Norris arguably makes O'Reilly look like a Greenpeace activist.
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I am a fan of Moyers - NOT of Mr. O'Reilly, but, believe it or not, the Fox News doyen does support abortion rights, gun control, and environmental reform. However, I do concur that his 'talk' show is anything but "fair and balanced".
Yeah, I've also heard O'Reilly is against the death penalty!
He's a more complex person than he seems, but he's still a loud-mouthed bully in many of his interviews.
At times, I wonder if it's an act, but I thought the same thing about Jimmy Swaggart.
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