During a discussion on broadcast news interview styles on the October 25 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed, “If you watch my television program ... [n]inety-five percent of the guests are treated respectfully. The five percent who are not are either liars or defamers.”
O'REILLY: But there aren't many venues in the country right now where the interviewer is going to say, prove it, you know, prove it, back it up. They're going to let you say what you want to say, because of a lot of different reasons. But it is a lot easier to interview that way. Not on The Factor. On The Factor, we're going to say, “Well, how do you know that?”
Now we have a lot of people who run and hide, and they use the excuse that [Dallas Morning News columnist] Macarena Hernandez -- “Well, I don't want to go on the Jerry Springer Show.” I'm not even gonna -- that's not even going to be entertained here. If you watch my television program -- we've been on the air nine years, nine years. Ninety-five percent of the guests are treated respectfully. The five percent who are not are either liars or defamers.
One of the two categories, or they filibuster, which means that they won't shut up no matter how much I'm trying to say, “OK, I need to ask you another question.” They keep going on and on. That's not allowed. And all the guests know that. They're told that before. If you filibuster, Bill is going to get angry. Don't do it. Because finite amount of time, gotta get a bunch of questions in, keep it pithy.
