So you think you can do better than Alan Colmes?

[mwebster]

Here's your chance to prove it. OK, you can't take on Hannity. You've got to start somewhere.

<blockquote>O'Reilly Challenges Viewers to Debate Him

NEW YORK - Love him or not, viewers will have the chance to debate Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News Channel talk show, "The O'Reilly Factor," next month.

O'Reilly has announced the Great Factor Debate Contest, in which six winners will face off with the outspoken TV commentator on a topic of their choice.

"You want a piece of me?" O'Reilly said Monday. "Would you like to sit on this set right here and let me have it? Of course you would. Well, now that can happen."

He warned viewers to "be careful what you wish for."

Applicants can enter by e-mailing OReillyContest"at"foxnews.com.

The segments will air Feb. 7-8, Feb. 14-15 and Feb. 21-22.</blockquote>

 

[brian71]

I beg to differ.

I think taking on O'Reilly would be more difficult than taking on Hannity. Sean is not a very good debater/arguer. Judging him based on how he handles heavily screened radio calls or Alan Colmes(!) hardly proves his aptitude in debate.

Tom Leykis (the old version) would make minced meat out of Sean on a daily basis if he had the opportunity.

There is a reason Alan is referred to as "the conservatives favorite liberal".

 

[SaltyDog]

> There is a reason Alan is referred to as "the conservatives
> favorite liberal".

Yes. That reason is that he appears on Fox News. Alan had a career long before there was a Fox News but his reputation among liberals didn't seem to suffer until he went to work there. <P ID="signature">______________
"On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War."-Michael Badnarik</P>

 

[tbetz]

> > There is a reason Alan is referred to as "the
> > conservatives favorite liberal".
>
> Yes. That reason is that he appears on Fox News. Alan had a
> career long before there was a Fox News but his reputation
> among liberals didn't seem to suffer until he went to work
> there.

I disagree. I remember Colmes being sort of a wuss even when he was on WNBC and WMCA. I listened to him then because his program (more old-fashioned general talk radio than anything overtly political) was more interesting than the alternatives available when he was on. That is no longer the case.<P ID="signature">______________
also known as tombetz.</P>

 

[SaltyDog]

No one is liked and admired by everyone. But the widespread disdain heaped on him now was not in evidence when he had his first syndicated radio program. I doubt we could find any reference to the hackneyed phrase: "conservatives favorite liberal Alan Colmes" that pre-dates Fox News.

> I disagree. I remember Colmes being sort of a wuss even
> when he was on WNBC and WMCA. I listened to him then
> because his program (more old-fashioned general talk radio
> than anything overtly political) was more interesting than
> the alternatives available when he was on. That is no
> longer the case.
> <P ID="signature">______________
"On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War."-Michael Badnarik</P>

 

[KingDaevid]

> No one is liked and admired by everyone. But the widespread
> disdain heaped on him now was not in evidence when he had
> his first syndicated radio program.

...perhaps because a pitiful few ever heard his first syndicated program. He was on Daynet! Nothing but one-lung suburban and rural sticks!...<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie
WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://www.radio4all.net/
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>

 

[SaltyDog]

> > No one is liked and admired by everyone. But the
> widespread
> > disdain heaped on him now was not in evidence when he had
> > his first syndicated radio program.
>
> ...perhaps because a pitiful few ever heard his first
> syndicated program. He was on Daynet! Nothing but one-lung
> suburban and rural sticks!...

..for the most part perhaps, but we had 'em on in a medium size market... oh, and then there was the New York City Show. I understand they had a couple of listeners even back then.<P ID="signature">______________
"On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War."-Michael Badnarik</P>