<p>Pat Buchanan I will accept, O’Reilly not so much. He has added to his resume since he has been on Fox even with a book that was assigned to my DS when he was a freshman. At least the book allowed by son to argue about sexual harassment in the workplace and hypocrisy in the family-values set. he learned how to think very critically as a result of that book.</p>
<p>Didn’t Bill O’Reilly move straight from Entertainment Tonight to Fox? Of course, that makes sense since the talking head circuit is really more about entertainment and shock value than factual based analysis. Personally, I would like to see them * all * disappear - left, right, TV, radio, print media, blogs…it’s all just worthless opinions in my book. (Of course, that’s just * my * opinion.) :)</p>
<p>The only thing I know about O’Reilly is that his has some sort of a graduate degree from Harvard, he used to be a US History teacher, he has toned down a wee bit over the years which allows me to watch him about once every 6 months, and he will be interviewing President Obama right before the Super Bowl</p>
<p>O’Reilly: “During the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a news reporter for various local television stations in the United States and eventually for CBS News and ABC News. From 1991 to 1995, he was anchor of the entertainment news program Inside Edition.” (Wikipedia).</p>
<p>Also taught high school for a couple years and has master’s degrees from Boston U.(M.A.) and Harvard (M.P.A.).</p>
<p>Compare all that to Olbermann…</p>
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<p>Will have to watch that. O’Reilly knows when to tone it down. I’ve noticed with interviews with high-powered people he tends to throw a lot more softballs. Will be interesting to see how he deals with Obama.</p>
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<p>Oblermann went to Cornell University at age 16 (according to wikipedia). I wouldn’t exactly call him a slacker. If you look at his bio, it’s sort of impressive. Not that I’m defending Oblermann - didn’t particularly care for him anymore than O’Reilly. </p>
<p>Now Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, has a truly impressive educational pedigree - Stanford, Rhodes Scholar, PhD from Oxford in politics. I don’t particularly care for her show (I just don’t like any of the talking head shows, unfortunately my husband watches them non-stop 
) but she does seem a little more rational and intelligent than some of the others. </p>
<p>Actually, Jon Stewart seems the most sane of them all. A comic of all things!</p>
<p>Compare all that to Beck. Took one class at Harvard, either flunked it or quit, and that’s the total of his educational attainments.</p>
<p>It always slayed me that Olbermann would address his “special comments” to people like the President himself as if he truly believes that Barack Obama is sitting in his oval office just waiting for Keith to tell him what to do about the latest national problem. I would not be surprised to see him try to run for office ;)</p>
<p>IIRC O Reilly was already an established TV personality, from “Inside Edition” and “The World News Tonight”, before he was accepted to Harvard, it’s not like he got in there right out of school or something. Most famous newspeople don’t choose to leave mid career to pursue a second graduate degree, but I find it reasonable to speculate that a number of them could at that point get into prestigious graduate programs based in part on their current fame if they, like O Reilly, decided they wanted to do that. I think the "impressiveness’ one ascribes to that credential has to be viewed in that context. On his own, pre-fame, he attended Marist and Boston U. Nothing wrong with these of course but not like dropping the “H” bomb.</p>
<p>Maybe Olbermann will go pursue an MPA at Harvard now too. If he doesn’t have something better to do. It would actually be pretty funny if he did.</p>
<p>Of course, that makes sense since the talking head circuit is really more about entertainment and shock value than factual based analysis.</p>
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<p>At one time I enjoyed O’Reilly AND Olbermann, but I got tired of the regular misstatements by Bill, and I finally died from boredom by Keith’s obsession with B.O.</p>
<p>One thing I don’t agree with are statements that Olbermann has been an ultra-liberal from the get-go. I remember some not-so-liberal opinions from him as an ESPN sportcaster and as a radio commentator a few years back before he joined MSNBC.</p>