Jan. 17, 2006, 8:38AM Bill O'Reilly challenges his own audience to a debate Newsday You want a piece of him? (And, really, who doesn't?) Now's your chance. In what the Fox News Channel is calling a "rare opportunity" to go face to face/mano a mano/toe to toe/eyeball to eyeball with TV cable news ratings boss Bill O'Reilly, the network is launching a "sweepstakes" contest in which viewers will be invited to debate him in brief segments that'll air on The O'Reilly Factor in February. Seriously. And yes, the thought has occurred to us as well: David Letterman should definitely enter. Titled "Bloviate with Bill," the contest -- announced Monday night on The Factor -- even has a rallying cry: "You want a piece of me? Then here's your chance," said O'Reilly in a prepared statement. Because -- in fact -- so many people would like a piece of him, Fox News on Monday said that would-be Bill debaters should not send in tapes, but instead e-mail "a description of the issue they want to debate, in 100 words or less." These should be sent to oreillycontest@foxnews.com. If O'Reilly is "interested" in pursuing the issue, the person will be contacted, according to a spokeswoman. There will be six grand prize winners. No cash -- just a chance to clash with Bill, which is even better. Each of the six taped mini-debates will last five minutes, and air just before the show's "Most Ridiculous" segment on Feb. 7, 8, 14 15, 21 and 22. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/celebrities/3591947.html
Old faithful Bill O'Reilly...will do anything for ratings. A true capitalist if I have ever seen one...
I don't want to debate Bill O'Reilly. I want to strip him naked and chain him to a light pole at the intersection of Montrose and Westheimer, the sexual predator b*stard. Either that or just beat the living crap out of him. Either way, I'd probably get a medal.
the only way the audience member would be able to win a debate with Bill is if he brings like 5 or 6 other peopel with him. Bill, afterall, has been known to have a problem with mass debating. This should be interesting, I think Bill is one of the most fair guys on TV in all honesty
this was my email: What is with all the “Conservative Man Love” over President Reagan? He was not a great President; he was a great speaker who could make an anarchist feel good to being an American, there is a difference. After 30 years of cold war conservatives claim he won it by reviving the B-1, which never worked as advertised and has to be rated as one of the biggest busts ever. Trying to sell “Star Wars” which wasn’t feasible 25yearsago and still isn’t. Came up with the strategy to build the super carriers so they could attack the USSR in case of a war, one the most ridicules plans ever. He totally ignored AIDS, we might have be able to stop it the President had acted. The worst environmental President until W. came along. Basically he was a joke who could make you feel good about being an American.
Can we stuff the votes for Mike Tyson? Tyson: "I ****** your mother you *** ******" O' Reilly: Puh-lease Michael, why do you hate my mother and America? GET HIM OFF ME!! GET HIM OFF ME!! HE'S GOING FOR MY EAR!!
I think they mean argue rather than debate. It also sounds like they think this would simultaneously get good ratings and validate Bill O'reilly and his opinions. Somehow bickering with viewers will "prove" something? Bill O'reilly may be a complete idiot, but he has plenty of practice bickering on television, which is all this will be. I wouldn't put any stock in this at all.
Angry? Me? Naaaaaah...... I just think Bill O'Reilly is a piece of human garbage, that's all. He's a sexual predator who tells the right what issues are important. Just like Rush Limbaugh, the drug addict who tells the right what to believe in, and Bill Bennett, the degenerate gambler who tells the right what is moral. To me, anyone who believes what these human wasteiods say is a human wasteoid themselves. It's hypocrisy personified.
