Bill O’Reilly is on Chris Cuomo’s show on News Nation once a week. Recently, Cuomo interviewed Tucker Carlson, and O’Reilly was not happy about it. By the second quarter of 2020, Tucker had reached 4.56 million viewers before he was fired, averaging 4.33 million – the largest audience in cable history.
“I would never in a million years do it because my thrust as a journalist is clarity. So I want to know why Tucker Carlson believes what he believes,” O’Reilly said. “I know why he presents the way he does. I know that because when he took over for me in 2017, he inherited an 8 o’clock slot where 4,200,000 viewers watched the first quarter of 17; he couldn’t hold it, nobody could have, and if you want to say I’m bragging, fine.”
That’s when Cuomo put the graphics up on the screen.
Watch:
Bill O’Reilly got really testy when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the fact that Tucker Carlson had a larger audience in the same timeslot as the O’Reilly Factor. pic.twitter.com/gdZPwUHb1d
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“No, because the research says he had the biggest audience in the history of cable television,” Cuomo said. “Tucker Carlson had the biggest audience in the history of cable television… I have the proof. They could put it up on the screen if you want.”
“You believe what you want to believe; I just gave you the truth. Tucker Carlson fell off a million one in a year from what I did,” huffed O’Reilly. So he had to change, and he did, and he did it in a very sincere way. He wasn’t a phony, all right? He’s not contrived.”
“He said You know what? I’m going to reflect the grievance of a certain amount of people in America and I’m going to do what Black Lives Matter does. I’m going to pipe that grievance in, get people emotionally involved with me in my program, and they’ll watch. It worked,” he said, comparing Carlson to the communist, anti-police, supremacist organization.
“He never topped what I did, didn’t come close to topping it, but he was the highest-rated show,” he added.
O’Reilly then sounded like the leftists who blasted Carlson for interviewing Putin, especially that part about how clean Moscow was.
“If he had said it to me, I would have said, ‘You know, you sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 who went over to Germany and was very impressed how orderly it was, how clean it was,” he said, tossing out the obligatory reference to Hitler.
“There wasn’t any graffiti. There wasn’t any anything. Everybody did what they were told to do, and totalitarian regimes can make that happen fairly easily,” sniped the 74-year-old pundit, who seems to still be living in days of yore when America’s major cities had not yet become the crime-ridden hellholes of the 21st century.
“Now, are you impressed with the totalitarian regime?” O’Reilly asked Cuomo. “That would have been my question because I want to know why Tucker Carlson has presented Putin and his government in a fairly benign way. Okay? That’s what I wanna know. I’m a journalist, and I’m curious.”
Has O’Reilly moved left? Was he jealous of Tucker or sincere? What say you?
O’Reilly is the pundit equivalent of John McCain.
Ahh – the man I most detest – for many reasons. The way he treated women at Fox should have gotten him ousted a long time ago, but he was #1 at the time, so Fox let him terrorize. In the end, he paid through the nose for his behavior.
He’s got more guts than brains. Look at him now, showing up on every little venue on radio and TV. When I hear that voice, I shut it off.
Bill has the largest numbers in the size of his self inflated ego. I can’t think of anyone who comes close.
O’Reilly has always been an ego-driven blowhard. Comparing Carlson to BLM?? Carlson didn’t burn, loot, and vandalize cities for 9 months over a lie.
O’Reilly is confused. The amount that Fox had to pay out for O’Reilly’s sexual harassment lawsuits is bigger than Tucker’s. Tens of millions vs Zero.
O’Reilly always was a gossip/entertainment reporter.
Tucker advanced far beyond O’Reilly.
Tucker was a conservative on Faux, O’Reilly was not.
The sad state of O’Reilly is evident, since he works with Cuomo. Tucker made his own major show, all by himself.
O’Reilly should be ignored. When I uncovered that Barack Obama was using a stolen Connecticut social security number starting in his mid-20s, O’Reilly said Obama got his number from his father, Obama Sr., when he was living in CT. The number was issued to someone else in CT in 1977. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1963, when he was kicked out of Harvard. Harvard is in Massachusetts not CT. O’Reilly is a fool.
O’Reilly lied so many times, to cover for the corrupt establishment. He is a I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine guy.
The SS number situation was easily understood by any decent, honest reporter, which O’Reilly never was.
Jealousy is a stinky cologne.
Bill O’Reilly helped get Barack Hussein Obama, Ummm, Ummm, Ummm elected to the presidency and that was unforgivable.
O’Reilly is so full of himself. Hannity too.
Bill O’Reilly is on Chris Cuomo’s show on News Nation once a week.” You know, when he was fired from Fox, as far as Bill goes I didn’t really care. I was glad they didn’t fire Jesse. But, now I know why. All I know is Carlson’s Putin interview got over 210 million views. More than all the networks, and bloggers, combined. Fully 2/3rds of our entire nation. It seems those “old” people figured out how to use the Internet after all.
DAMMIT!, By ’84 (NCP web) I came here to GET AWAY from the WAPO mockingbirds.
Bill O’Reilly is an idiot. Always has been and it only gets worse as he becomes a cranky old geezer who is not a journalist and never was. His no spin zone is complete bs. And anyone who thinks they got the truth fom O’Reilly is still unaware of what a “mockingbird” is. He’s been part of the problem that put Americans to sleep and allowed a patriot act to happen since the beginning of his career. And that’s only one of many egregious examples of him posing as a journo. Go away old phony shill.
And unfortunately, I have to say the same thing about InfoWars. Nothing on it is anywhere near accurate anymore.
Unfortunately for you, you failed to cite one inaccurate thing with your cheap shot.
This article has nothing to do with Infowars.
This week, Infowars covered, for example, the factual lies of Crenshaw. The government is on record influencing the media with lies through intel.
Infowars has been covering, on the scene, the orchestrated invasion of the USA.
This nullifies your ridiculous claim.
O’reilly, “Was lookin out for us”???? Ya right!
He had a Communist on is show every week, Professor Lamont Hill. But he referred to Hill as liberal and/or progressive.
I was looking forward to his interview with Communist Obama. Thinking he would ask some tough questions. What a let down. His CIA handlers must have clued him in. He didn’t ask Obama about his boyhood Communist mentor and much more.
After Obama election, you could tell he was pandering to the left. He supported Obama Care and the Obama birth certificate that had been forensically proven fake by graphic expert.
The only thing he’s looking out for is $$$$ for himself! We The People are merely ATM machines to him.
Well said. I agree with you 100%. How O’Reilly managed to be a clown and a chump at the same time is the only thing he deserves credit for.
Faux News was the only conservative network, and it put this boat anchor host O’Reilly into the top slot on cable, to prevent having an honest show hosted by a conservative. It was a scam.
Thank you. O’Reilly elevated the careers of several leftists on his show, giving them lots of air time, while giving them softball questions. He had few real conservatives, and treated them with suspicion.
Yes, O’Reilly supported Obamacare, amnesty bills, …. yet gullible people watched Faux and confused his tough talk with conservatism.
O’Reilly also elevated Meghan Kelly, who then got herself a big show and went on a campaign to smear Trump.
You’re correct; it reminded me of when he had Oath Keepers founder on and accused him of being a far right anti-government revolutionary terrorist group. Maybe not BO’s words but what he meant. BO’s CIA handlers gave him the nod to attack his guest.
Certainly-Mr. Bill has the most obvious problems and similarities like the old school SNL figure…
Oh No, Mister Bill!
O’Reilly seems to somehow never fail
injecting himself into everything,
where Tucker almost never does that
Talking about Tucker: he probably means what he says. But I think he means most of the things he says, no matter how misguided he can be (and he can be VERY misguided). To Bill’s credit, I don’t think he’s shilling for anyone. He’s just an arrogant sanctimonious dope most of the time.
O’Reilly is a gun-grabber. I consign him to the dustbin of history.
O’Reilly was left on every major issue, and the gullible fans were fooled.
O’Reilly WAS very popular, and I watched him quite often. He still is a compelling speaker, but the arrogance needs some shelf-time. Tucker is completely different, and unafraid to tackle controversy. In addition, Tucker is far more “likable” and conservative – a winning combination.
O’Reilly is a pompous blowhard idiot. I listened to him a few times many years ago, never understood how he managed to attract an audience. Most of his beliefs are wildly inaccurate, including his numerous ghost-written books.
He’s a neocon, a warmonger liberal-lite
O’Reilly needs a Rektal Decraniectomy.
Bill o’Reilly is delusional and offensive.
You should have ended the article with ‘what say you?’
O’Reilly is full of himself, he’s a pompous ass. Tucker is better and has a larger Audience. O’Reilly is Jealous.
Get that guy a tissue while I call a waambulance.
Best comment here, and there were a lot of good ones!
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