{"id":1231,"date":"2009-03-29T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T02:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T02:47:25","slug":"bill-oreilly-moveon-forced-cnbc-to-hire-howard-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly: MoveOn Forced CNBC To Hire Howard Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill O’Reilly gets funnier by the day (or scarier, depending on your perspective). His latest broadcast falsehood<\/a> is that MoveOn.org has wielded its mighty power to “force”<\/em> NBC\/Universal CEO Jeff Zucker to hire Howard Dean as a contributor to CNBC. This display of domination was allegedly in response to conservative commentaries by CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Mark Haines.<\/p>\n

Even if someone was stupid enough to believe that a relatively small political activist group could boss around the chief of a major entertainment and news empire, the accusation is completely without foundation. In fact, Sam Stein of the Huffington Post, who did some actual reporting<\/a>, unlike O’Reilly, found that:<\/p>\n

“…the decision to bring the recently departed DNC Chair on board, the source says, was finalized well before the current wave of CNBC-angst. So while grassroots groups have sprouted up in recent weeks petitioning the network to make wholesale changes, Dean’s hiring can’t be viewed as a direct result of public pressure.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

O’Reilly’s stupidity, however, extends even further. The source he quotes for his baseless and false allegation is Noel Sheppard. O’Reilly identifies him as the author of a column in the Washington Examiner. What O’Reilly doesn’t tell you is that Sheppard also happens to be the Associate Editor of NewsBusters, an arm of the uber-conservative Media Research Center. The MRC was just revealed<\/a> to be the source for many ideologically twisted stories on Fox News, a fact that former anchor Brit Hume confessed just last week. Now O’Reilly has admitted that he too is disseminating MRC propaganda as if it were news. It should be noted that neither O’Reilly nor Sheppard produced any evidence that either MoveOn or Zucker played any role in Dean’s employment.<\/p>\n

As if that were not enough, O’Reilly went on to disparage Dean saying that he “know[s] little about economics.”<\/em> Where O’Reilly gets the gumption to knock Dean’s credentials is beyond me. Dean served as governor of the state of Vermont for twelve years. For a portion of time he was Chairman of the National Governor’s Association. Prior to that he was a Wall Street stock broker. And his father was a top executive at Dean Witter Reynolds. But O’Reilly, who expounds on economics every day is a former tabloid TV news reader. So on whose advice would you prefer to rely?<\/p>\n

On the comedy tip, O’Reilly is even having trouble organizing his outrage. For years he has been hammering NBC and its cable units as being irredeemably compromised by wicked leftists. He reveled in characterizing them as despicable purveyors of group-think. The following quotation, however, reveals a psyche that is sorely starving for air.<\/p>\n

“Now many on Wall Street believe Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric which owns NBC, has completely lost control of his company, including the actions of Mr. Zucker. The evidence of that is that MSNBC is supporting and promoting the same far-left loons that are hammering the sister outfit CNBC. I mean, how rich is this?”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, the “many on Wall Street believe”<\/em> canard is an example of a lazy intellect. O’Reilly won’t, and can’t identify these imaginary critics. Secondly, his complaint that MSNBC is critical of CNBC contradicts his contention that all NBC units think alike. Even worse, by mocking this diversity of opinion, he is implying that he would prefer it if they did think alike. Of course, he would prefer no such thing. He would simply go back to accusing them of being blindly and uniformly liberal. It’s the O’Reilly way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill O’Reilly gets funnier by the day (or scarier, depending on your perspective). His latest broadcast falsehood is that MoveOn.org has wielded its mighty power to “force” NBC\/Universal CEO Jeff Zucker to hire Howard Dean as a contributor to CNBC. 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