Bill O'Reilly is neither fair nor balanced.

I appreciate you taking this debate. For my first argument, I will give a recent example. As we all know, Bill criticizes other networks a lot for being unfair. Recently, he went after MSNBC, calling them irresponsible. His reasoning was that a reporter on the network made a crack about Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson watching the Super Bowl together. It was some subtle joke about Richardson (a hispanic) passing the guacamole to Clinton. http://www.youtube.com... In the above video, O'Reilly goes after the network, not for the comment, but for failing to apoligize and condemn the unfair comment. However, just a few days before that, Bill had a guest host named Michael Smerconish on "The Radio Factor" and he was speaking about why Mitt Romney would not get the nomination. The following is what was said in the "no spin zone": "No wonder some Americans are reluctant to support Mitt Romney for president. A Gallup poll conducted in the days after Romney delivered his "Faith in America" speech found that 17 percent of voters said they wouldn't vote for a Mormon presidential candidate. That's the same result Gallup got when asking a similar question about Romney's father, Michigan Gov. George Romney, when he was running for president. "NO DOUBT THESE people are largely Christians (like me) and Jews. We're clearly aided by an ability to spot a whopper when we hear one, a skill obviously lacking in Scientologists and Mormons. Maybe it's our grounding in the Old and New Testament that enables us to easily size up the preposterous nature of the customs that guys like Cruise and Romney follow. I'm thinking we have certain street smarts emanating from our belief in the Good Book that's given us the ability to filter out obviously bogus beliefs. After all, we know that the earth was created in seven days, and that the son of its creator was born to a virgin mother. Indeed, a star over Bethlehem led three wise men to the scene of Jesus' birth, and, 30 years later, he walked on the water of the Sea of Galilee. If only the Mormons and Scientologists would take the time to read those stories - and with them learn about the great flood that Noah survived by building an ark and loading two of each animal onboard, or the drowning of Pharaoh's army after Moses parted the Red Sea - they'd surely come to their senses over the obviously fictitious lore surrounding L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith. Heck, say what you will in this time of war with radical Islam, but not even Muslims would fall for the trappings of faith that Cruise and Romney have." Would you call these comments a bit unfair and unbalanced? This was a blatant attack on Mitt Romney based on his faith. His intellegence and logic are belittled because of his Church. In the days to follow, Bill O'Reilly recieved several letters, emails, and phone calls about these comments being allowed to go unchallenged in his "no spin zone". Bill refuses to comment, it just never happened. Interesting huh? I also recall Bill going after Cindy Sheehan for comparing Radical Islamists to freedom fighters. He said that he would not stand for anyone comparing freedom fighters to radical islam on his show, never. Yet, in these comments, Romney is compared to radical islam based on his religeon? Why won't Bill simply condemn these unfair comments? One week later, after recieving complaints from many LDS people, O'Reilly had a special on his show about the different religeons. He did not mention the faith. His guest attempted to bring up "the Mormons" and Bill quickly turned away from it. Yet another opporitunity to fix the damage done on his airwaves, and he refused to comment. Bill O'Reilly is quick to judge the other networks when they are unfair, but does not take the responsability that he feels others should be obliged to take.