Despite the fact that he's rude and obnoxious, he has the best cable news/ commentary show on television.....and knows it. Nobody is even close to him, frankly, and the ratings verify that. Why is the O'Reilly Factor so successful? Several reasons.
He's intense, somewhat unpredictable, usually has a good mix of culture and politics as the night's subjects, puts up with none of the usual "spin" you hear on other programs, keeps things rolling with a number of segments and, if something works he stays with it.
Although favoring Conservative views over Liberal, he will go either way on certain issues, as "60 Minutes" pointed out earlier in 2007 on its program. He won't allow boring guests, often cutting them off if they begin to "bloviate." His biggest fault, to me, is his constant interrupting. Sometimes I get impatient with that and turn the program, simply for that reason. Yet, if he isn't hosting the show, I usually am not interested. Nobody runs this program better than O'Reilly Everyone else seems dull compared to him. What I appreciate is his attention to the culture and how entertaining he makes the program.
Like a number of other talk show hosts, including sports guys, if you refuse to come on his show, he really tees off on you, considering you a coward for not confronting him. His favorite guests, other than guys who make him laugh like Dennis Miller, are pretty women. Most of the women who are regular contributors to the show have one thing in common: they all have beauty and brains. Examples include Laurie Dhue, Megyn Kelly, Lis Wiehl, Mary Katharine Hamm and Michelle Malkin (formerly a guest host). They all contribute, literally, to the look of this show each week. You don't see many, if any, plain or ugly women on this show. I doubt that is an accident. I am not complaining. As a guy, it's tough to me to ignore Kelly or Dhue, in particular.
O'Reilly also balances the "heavy" material with the light, having weekly fun segments of pop quiz contests and having a former TV icon as a guest each week - people many of us grew up watching - discussing their old shows.
O'Reilly can absolutely infuriate you, but he's fearless, outspoken, and more open to both sides than his critics will leave to you believe. This is one of the very few people who state he doesn't belong to any particular political party, and I believe him.
He's intense, somewhat unpredictable, usually has a good mix of culture and politics as the night's subjects, puts up with none of the usual "spin" you hear on other programs, keeps things rolling with a number of segments and, if something works he stays with it.
Although favoring Conservative views over Liberal, he will go either way on certain issues, as "60 Minutes" pointed out earlier in 2007 on its program. He won't allow boring guests, often cutting them off if they begin to "bloviate." His biggest fault, to me, is his constant interrupting. Sometimes I get impatient with that and turn the program, simply for that reason. Yet, if he isn't hosting the show, I usually am not interested. Nobody runs this program better than O'Reilly Everyone else seems dull compared to him. What I appreciate is his attention to the culture and how entertaining he makes the program.
Like a number of other talk show hosts, including sports guys, if you refuse to come on his show, he really tees off on you, considering you a coward for not confronting him. His favorite guests, other than guys who make him laugh like Dennis Miller, are pretty women. Most of the women who are regular contributors to the show have one thing in common: they all have beauty and brains. Examples include Laurie Dhue, Megyn Kelly, Lis Wiehl, Mary Katharine Hamm and Michelle Malkin (formerly a guest host). They all contribute, literally, to the look of this show each week. You don't see many, if any, plain or ugly women on this show. I doubt that is an accident. I am not complaining. As a guy, it's tough to me to ignore Kelly or Dhue, in particular.
O'Reilly also balances the "heavy" material with the light, having weekly fun segments of pop quiz contests and having a former TV icon as a guest each week - people many of us grew up watching - discussing their old shows.
O'Reilly can absolutely infuriate you, but he's fearless, outspoken, and more open to both sides than his critics will leave to you believe. This is one of the very few people who state he doesn't belong to any particular political party, and I believe him.