Fox News host Bill O’Reilly found himself playing defense on Thursday night when his guest, Fox media analyst Bernie Goldberg, accused the news network of having a conservative bias.
“Liberal news organizations are going to play down liberal screw-ups, but Fox News is gonna play down conservative screw-ups,” Goldberg said while discussing the “hyper-partisanship” of the news media on “The O’Reilly Factor.”
When O’Reilly protested that he personally selected his contributors for their independence, Goldberg responded: “This program is not all of Fox News.”
“This show is both smart and fair,” he said. “I repeat: That’s not all of Fox.”
When O’Reilly argued that several Fox hosts, including Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, were not ideologically driven, Goldberg agreed but said the network as a whole has a conservative slant.
“I never bought that, that Fox is the conservative network,” O’Reilly said.
“Maybe you don’t watch,” Goldberg said.
Watch the video at Mediaite.
Even stopped-watch Goldberg is right twice a day.
I would argue that Fox is Republican, rather than conservative. Sometimes the two overlap, but not always. Fox is sometimes conservative. Fox is always Republican.
O’Reilly is like the delusional alcoholic who denies reality over and over and over again. He is convinced of his own self-righteousness.
Welp, looks like O’Reilly has found the last raft of proven lies having no consequences whatsoever freeing. His last tenuous anchor of concern that some particle of truth might be necessary for his livelihood to continue has been slipped. Looks like clear sailing on the Feargasmic Sea from here on out.
Textbook cognitive dissonance.