you know, and, you know, dan suspect going to get millions of people watching. he s getting hundreds of thousands of people watching every show. but at the same time because of digital media, because a lot of the shows get posted, at least segments get posted online, the audience grows and grows and good work attracts an audience and good work attracts respect. as a basketball guy, you ll understand, as the clock is winding down, let me sneak in one more question. sure. you ve criticized news in general, the news media as too corporate and too ratings driven. what do you mean by that? well, you know, there s different ways to e evaluate it. really defining it as too ratings driven, it depends which medium we re talking about. newspapers, as an example, i think they re leaving a lot of money on the table by not recognizing they re in a digital environment. you know, let s look at the pay wall example of the new york times. that has a chance to be very, very successful if they
it. in the specific case of bill maher, and, believe me, this is not a shot at bill maher, i don t think he is important enough to matter. if barack obama had said those words, that he thinks you are a bigot because you asked him about football, knowing i can t even explain, this because is he a basketball guy, and everybody knows black people play basketball, you, bill o reilly, are racist. bill: don t black people play football? that s the crazy logic, whatever. so, if barack obama said it,. bill: then it would be elevated. but bill maher said it. bill: i m more interested in the audience reaction. there are two audiences. the american audience, and to the extent that the people watching us tonight are a part of the american audience, they find it reprehensible. there is no question about that he speaks to a subculture. he speaks to people who believe what he says.
bill: thanks for staying with us. i m bill o reillyed in the weekdays with bernie segment, it was fascinating to see the reaction from my interview with president obama on super bowl sunday. i never expected the interview to be branded racist. on hbo, it was. worse than that, it was actually bigoted. when he asked him if he knows football. i mean, if i was the president, i would say get the [bleep] out of my house. [ applause ] do i know football? like you are a basketball guy, wink wink. a inner city basketball guy. you are not really american. muslims don t play football. also throw dice in the rose garden, right. bill: i believe what you just saw is the lowest point in the history of far left discourse. that s how insane what you just heard really is with us now the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come mr. goldberg.
bill: thanks for staying with us. i m bill o reillyed in the segment, ith bernie was fascinating to see the reaction from my interview with president obama on super bowl sunday. i never expected the interview to be branded racist. on hbo, it was. worse than that, it was actually bigoted. when he asked him if he knows football. i mean, if i was the president, i would say get the [bleep] out of my house. [ applause ] do i know football? like you are a basketball guy, wink wink. a inner city basketball guy. you are not really american. muslims don t play football. also throw dice in the rose garden, right. bill: i believe what you just saw is the lowest point in the history of far left discourse. that s how insane what you just heard really is with us now the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come mr. goldberg. all of this works for hbo on a
conversation with president obama. all right, mr. president, egypt, a lot of turmoil, people in the street and all that jazz. what s going to happen? bill, the egyptian people have spoken. clearly. as you know the factor has been on the egypt thing for a couple days now and this mumbarak guy, trust me, he ain t going nowhere. okay? he is going to be there a long time. he knows we are on him because is he a factor viewer. i don t think is he going to try any funny stuff, not with the factor watching. i mean, he could be, maybe. but i doubt it. that s good to know. all right, a cull couple more questions, the segment we call the culture quiz. first up the andy griffith show delighted american audiences from 1960 to 6 which member of the cast went on to direct such films as the beautiful mind and doid? bill was it a, don knotts? b ron howard c jim neighbors or henry winkler. bill, it was ron howard. do you have a paddle? yeah.