Bill O'Reilly Is Just Pissing Himself Over Colbert On Latenight

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An Insanely Jealous Bill O’Reilly Claims Conservatives Won’t Watch Stephen Colbert
By: Jason Easley more from Jason Easley
Tuesday, April, 15th, 2014, 11:44 am


Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly can’t hide his jealousy over Stephen Colbert taking over CBS’ The Late Show. O’Reilly’s latest shot is that conservatives won’t watch Colbert.

O’Reilly said, “Traditionally, late night has been light and breezy with a minimum of political posturing. Carson and Leno set the tone for that, but Colbert has built an entire career on pleasing the left, and if you don’t believe me, check out the reportage on his ascension. The far left websites and writers are thrilled, so he has to compete with Fallon and Kimmel, who are basically high energy guys who want to have good times on their shows. Be hard to fathom that 40% of Americans who describe themselves as conservatives will watch Colbert.”

Bill-O is, of course, wrong. Colbert’s audience isn’t just the left. According to a 2012 Pew Research study, Colbert’s audience is 12% Republican, 38% Independent, and 45% Democrat. Bill O’Reilly’s show is an example of a host that is playing to one side of the aisle. Bill-O’s audience is 52% Republican, 30% Independent, and 15% Democrat. O’Reilly has third highest percentage of Republicans watching his show. He trails on Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in terms of Republican partisanship.

Republican and conservative aren’t the same thing. Some Independents are disgruntled Republicans, and a portion of them are probably already watching Colbert.

O’Reilly is exhibiting all the signs of jealousy. The truth is that he may be the top dog on cable news, but Bill O’Reilly is a minuscule fish compared to network television. Steven Colbert is going to walk in the door, and draw more viewers than The O’Reilly Factor from day one. Colbert’s baseline is the three million plus viewers that Letterman currently draws. If his show is successful, Stephen Colbert will leave Bill O’Reilly in the dust. Colbert will be the one that people are talking about the next morning at work and school. O’Reilly will have to face that he is not the national superstar that he thinks he is.

Colbert better hope that Fox News viewers don’t watch him. Colbert won’t be hosting the Late Show for very long if his average audience is 65 years old, like it is at Fox News. Stephen Colbert is the future. Bill O’Reilly is the past. Since Colbert won’t be doing his Colbert Report character when he goes to CBS, it is clear that Bill O’Reilly is upset because Colbert is poised to become the star that he never was.

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Some of the dumber conservatives probably watch Colbert because they think he's one of them. And considering it gets harder every day to tell the difference between the Onion and FAUX/CNN, it's not even entirely their fault for not recognizing satire.

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The Real Reason Bill O’Reilly Won’t STFU About Stephen Colbert Hosting ‘The Late Show’


So last night Bill O’Reilly came back from the weekend after having lamented that comedian and America’s greatest living satirista, Stephen Colbert, is a subversive radical trying to bring down America by mocking the glaring hypocrisies of the right-wing in the previous week, and proceeded to bring up Colbert again. This time, he focused his commentary on the announcement that late night icon David Letterman was retiring at the end of the year and that Colbert would be his replacement. O’Reilly added his pretentious, peevish voice to the throng of conservatives who reacted with stunned outrage that CBS would hire Colbert. On his show, O’Reilly opined that he found it difficult to believe “that 40 percent of Americans that describe themselves as conservative will watch Colbert.”

So why exactly do O’Reilly and his fellow conservatives actually care who hosts the late night show? After all, late night TV is just a sliver of an ever increasingly splintered audience pool, and with the advent of streaming media on the Internet, it’s clear the old models of broadcast entertainment are going to chance. It’s also very obvious that Colbert won’t be hosting Letterman’s old show as his satirical character from “The Colbert Report,” but you have to know that’s what many conservatives fear. But deep, deep down that’s not really why O’Reilly is pissed off at Colbert’s ascension into the mainstream, not really.

The real reason conservative media is flipping out is that CBS hired Colbert clearly uncaring about any potential Republican and conservative backlash. I am positive that they discussed it in their meetings. After all, O’Reilly is right to point out that uber-conservatives probably really hate Colbert, so it stands to reason that any conservatives in Letterman’s current audience might be turned off by the new host. However, let’s be real, shall we? Letterman himself is a pretty progressive guy, and he has had his own run-ins with the conservative outrage machine when he had the gall to make fun of Sarah Palin and her family. So how many conservatives do you think really watch Letterman to begin with?

In point of fact, CBS’ hiring of Stephen Colbert proves just how completely irrelevant Fox News is to mainstream America, and that is the central issue driving the gargantuan levels of outrage and ire aimed at Colbert as soon-to-be new bosses. I don’t know what they think CBS should have done — hire someone from among their ranks? I hate to break it to them but there’s a reason you don’t see a lot of conservative “comedians” breaking into the big time: jokes need to be rooted in a fundamental truth in order to be funny. Not just fundamental, but universal. The entire conservative/Republican movement of the last 30 years has been an effort in walling themselves off from objective truth — because you know, “librul meediuhh biass” — and indeed from the rest of us Americans who don’t agree with their ideologies.

You know, it’s funny when Fox News crows about having the highest ratings of any cable news outlet. First of all, there are really only three of them, and CNN is so chock-full of derp these days that the only time you watch it is if you’re in an airport and you don’t have to shit so you’re stuck at the bar watching it. MSNBC is Fox’s ideological counterpart, but they don’t seem to have the same ability to toss out every scrap of unbiased journalistic credibility they have to just pound away at an entrenched, fringe philosophy. It’s funny to me that no one ever calls out Fox News’ ratings for what I’d call the “Howard Stern Effect,” meaning that when the radio and comedic icon was rising to the top, he was pulling in huge ratings, due in large part to people who actually hated him.

There’s a scene in “Private Parts” with radio execs baffled that Stern could turn off so many people, but that those people just couldn’t turn off the radio because “they wanted to hear what he had to say next.” I truly believe a large portion of Fox News’ audience are people who don’t agree one iota with the bile that’s being pumped out over there, and instead watch it in an effort to “know thine enemy.” My point in bringing this all up is that when you look at the last two presidential elections, in fact the last six, and you notice that the Republicans have lost the popular vote in five of those six, it’s plain as day that the so-called “moral majority” was as much a myth as “Trickle Down Economics.” Moderates were duped into voting for the b-movie actor, but over time the undeniable reality of the ruination his policies brought on, when presented alongside the ever-radicalizing nature of the Tea Baggers that have swarmed the party’s ranks have driven people farther and farther from the GOP and conservatives in general.

CBS didn’t care about any conservative fallout because they knew that the people who watch Fox News simply wouldn’t be watching their network once the late local news came on anyway. Bill O’Reilly and his fellow conservatives are terrified because between Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien, there’s nary a conservative among them. They’re all true comedians and therefore will have no problem lambasting the left when necessary, but represented within the current stable of late night hosts (hey TV execs, on a side note: Can we get a female on one of the big late night shows, please?) is the unflinching reality that conservatism in America is not the mainstream, and the mainstream doesn’t really care how much the right freaks out about anything — from Benghazi to blowjobs to late night hosts — because that’s all the right does now: Freak out about stuff.

Some people hear the winds of change and they get excited. Some people hear the winds of change and they freak out. Still others never hear the winds because they’re cloistered in their living rooms, huddled around a flickering box filled with images of similarly-frightened people who are all terrified about the wind they keep hearing about, but are dead sure simply does not exist. Polls were skewed. There was a stand-down order. The IRS was targeting them under direct orders from Maobama the Communist Muslim. The Obamacare numbers are cooked. Deny. Deny. Deny.

Sorry conservatives, but you’ve spent 30 years telling the rest of us we’re not worthy to be considered mainstream Americans, and now the truth has come to set you free — no one in the real Mainstream America gives two flying fornicated, deep-fried dough rings about your opinions on pretty much anything, much less which comedian hosts which late night TV show that you guys are all asleep during anyway.

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Some of the dumber conservatives probably watch Colbert because they think he's one of them. And considering it gets harder every day to tell the difference between the Onion and FAUX/CNN, it's not even entirely their fault for not recognizing satire.

Probably. Also, the article I just posted points to the "Howard Stern Effect" where people watch both Colbert and O'Really? because they enjoy being outraged or wanna keep tabs...

Of course for conservatives in general in the real 800lbs gorilla in the room: that the demographic that watches late night is a mostly younger, white male audience that they crave...

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It's comedy for Chrissakes. It's fucking entertainment on TV. I wonder what Bill does for entertainment? Gives his Grandchildren paper cuts?

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Colbert won't last a year; I still say Fallon won't make it past this summer.

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Even you're more popular than Falloff...

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The problem with O'Reilly isn't his politics, whatever, it's that he is dumb.

He can't argue his point of view because he is an ignorant and stupid man.

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Probably. Also, the article I just posted points to the "Howard Stern Effect" where people watch both Colbert and O'Really? because they enjoy being outraged or wanna keep tabs...

That's always possible. I watched FAUX Noize on occasion in the early 2000s.... just out of a case of "know thy enemy" and watch how badly they had to twist themselves into pretzels to defend what Chimpy and the BCE were doing at the time. After the second obviously stolen election in 2004 though, the gloating was just too much for me. Never watched that shit network again, apart from the clips that I and others have posted here.

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Stolen election ??

algore lost more and more with every pregnant chad he tried to fraudulently count...

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I think the heyday of late night television is over. It's no longer three primetime networks. People have far more distractions. Colbert is no Letterman. All I've seen the guy do is play some geeky jerk off on that political satire show what's his name does.

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All I know is that Colbert did the best gutsiest press corp speech of all of them...

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Stolen election ??

algore lost more and more with every pregnant chad he tried to fraudulently count...

Wrong as usual.....

http://www.theguardian.com/world/200...ctions2000.usa

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I'm pretty sure the world would be a bit of a better place but two things kind of take away from the stolen election argument.

a) Bush being re elected.
b) When a vote that big comes down to such small numbers it's basically a coin toss because every time you count it's going to give you a different result. The election was effectively a draw and the Republicans managed to win it by having the right tools to hand. Hundreds of years of the history of your two parties gerrymandering and pulling shit all over the place completely confirms that if the shoe had been on the other boot the Democrats would have done the exact same thing.
The real question is how the hell did it end up being so close when one of the candidates was GWB?

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Because the other was algore...

Same crap with Romney and Obomba...

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The fact that the DLC insisted that Gore take on Lieberdouche as a running mate probably cost him a few votes.

Joe didn't come out of his closet as a full blown neocon shitbag until after 9-11, but he was still pretty conservative for somebody who called himself a "Democrat" even then. In some ways, even more conservative than some of the Northeastern Republicans (a species that has since become entirely extinct)

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The fact that it was algore probably caused many a liberal to vote for Bush...

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I forgot Leiberman was the VP candidate.

Maybe things wouldn't have been any better, Leiberman was a nightmare.

If for some reason he had been president at 9-11 it could have been game over...

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The fact that it was algore probably caused many a liberal to vote for Bush...

There is not a Liberal on the face of this entire planet who would ever vote for anybody named Bush.

My father voted for Nixon in 1972. He thought about voting for Reagan in 84, but came to his senses. Voting for Poppy or the Chimp was NEVER an option. And I would describe my dad as a pro-labor union working class Democrat, but not exactly a Liberal. He voted for Clinton in 1992, even though he agreed with Perot on NAFTA, because he didn't think Ross & his pie charts would beat Poppy Bush.

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I forgot Leiberman was the VP candidate.

Maybe things wouldn't have been any better, Leiberman was a nightmare.

If for some reason he had been president at 9-11 it could have been game over...

Yeah, Holy Joe in charge after 9/11 would have been as bad as the Chimp. I don't think it would have happened at all, had Gore been allowed to take his rightful place in office.

I suppose there's always the slight chance that Gore could have been killed under the "Presidents elected in years ending in Zero always get shot" rule. It did happen to Reagan, though he survived. Chimpy saved his own ass by making sure he got into office without being elected.


Even if you don't believe the BCE made 9/11 happen or even let it happen, even the mildest assessment of the facts from Richard Clarke tells us that the BCE dropped the ball on the whole "Al Qaeda" thing when they took over, and a Gore administration would have been more on top of those things. Probably would have implemented the airport security procedures that he tried to get through as VP back in 1996, and was blocked by the Repuke congress.

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Looks like Rushbo and O'Liely have sand up their twat because they couldn't get the late night gig. Even though both of those fossils would be and EPIC FAIL!

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Even if you don't believe the BCE made 9/11 happen or even let it happen, even the mildest assessment of the facts from Richard Clarke tells us that the BCE dropped the ball on the whole "Al Qaeda" thing when they took over, and a Gore administration would have been more on top of those things. Probably would have implemented the airport security procedures that he tried to get through as VP back in 1996, and was blocked by the Repuke congress.

It's possible but who knows?

I can say that as people from Europe flying around and into America in the 90s we were always comparing stories about how crazy lax the security was.

The two biggest differences would have been I think maybe Gore may have used the huge good feeling dividend from the rest of the world post 9-11.

It's easy to forget the whole world was super pro USA after 9-11 and Bush managed to fuck that up totally within a year or two leaving the US as a world pariah.

Second difference is Iraq. 9-11 was obviously used as an excuse to invade Iraq despite there being no justifiable reason to do so, maybe Gore wouldn't have done it.

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Looks like Rushbo and O'Liely have sand up their twat because they couldn't get the late night gig. Even though both of those fossils would be and EPIC FAIL!

Mush already had his chance in that time slot. He literally had the CBS gig before Letterman did as Pat Sajak's guest host. Sajak's ratings were never great to begin with, but the week Mush filled in, they were even worse. In fact they cancelled the show just a couple weeks after Mush's epic fail. And his own syndicated late night show didn't really do much better. My friend Billy wanted to watch that shit.... I told him "Not on my TV you don't"

Back in those days, O'Reilly was hosting a tabloid TV show called Inside Edition. He would like you to forget that, of course. But he made it really hard to do so, thanks to this incident.... forever preserved on video and remixed as a dance club hit......

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I'm pretty sure the world would be a bit of a better place but two things kind of take away from the stolen election argument.

a) Bush being re elected.
b) When a vote that big comes down to such small numbers it's basically a coin toss because every time you count it's going to give you a different result. The election was effectively a draw and the Republicans managed to win it by having the right tools to hand. Hundreds of years of the history of your two parties gerrymandering and pulling shit all over the place completely confirms that if the shoe had been on the other boot the Democrats would have done the exact same thing.
The real question is how the hell did it end up being so close when one of the candidates was GWB?

Don't laugh. I smell Jebb Bush running. Also that creepy Romney character can't stay away from the limelight.