Reply #8: No. He has labeled himself a self-styled "independent" from day one, but his views are always [View All]

[iris27]

conservative. He gets seen as moderate only in comparison to the truly extreme assclowns. For example last Tuesday he did a short segment "Obama: Fact vs. Myth" and shot down a lot of the garbage that gets thrown around about the first family like "Michelle Obama lost her law license", "Michelle has more staff than previous first ladies," and he even did a half-hearted debunking of the birther crap:

“We’re going to put this to bed tonight. He does have a legitimate birth certificate. The state of Hawaii says they have it. And we have no reason not to believe that.”

So, sadly, there are folks out there to whom this passes as 'moderate', but in terms of his actual views on the issues, no, O'Reilly is not moderate. And it's pretty damn sad that the RW noise machine has gotten so ridiculous and extreme that he is now the voice of reason among them. In the early Bush years, we all thought of him the way we see Beck now...they have really cranked it to 11 in the intervening years.