Anyone Watching Bill Maher Tonight? (Guests: Bill O'Reilly, Jesse Jackson)

[Crankie Avalon]

"Real Time with Bill Maher returns with a new edition Friday, April 1 at 11 pm.

Bill's guests will include TV host Bill O'Reilly, academic Cornel West, comedian Whoopi Goldberg, actor Alec Baldwin, and Rev. Jesse Jackson.

This week's Hot Topic:
Richard Nixon famously dismissed liberal anti-war protests by claiming that the 'silent majority' was on his side.
Could it be the conservatives who now constitute a vocal minority?
If so, how should liberals take the country back?
Also: what does it mean to be a conservative these days?"

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_cate...

I don't know who is actually in the studio, but I'd love to see O'Reilly just try to bully Cornel West, or even Whoopi Goldberg.

O'Reilly recently appeared in an anuual "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" feature in a NYC alternative weekly paper I read sometimes. Here's the entry on him:

"29. Bill O'Reilly
Host, The O'Reilly Factor

Ah, yes, after two near misses, the sun-blotched king of swing finally makes the list. O'Reilly is the classic lace-curtain Irish boor: thin-skinned, wistful, bloated and delusional, and a whining Miss Nancy to boot. His personality would be a desperately pitiable object if he weren't also the kind of behind-the-scenes suck-up demagogue who will one day be Commissariat of Information and Media Punishment in George Bush's Emergency Third Term. This is a man whose only answer to challenge is girly tantrums, a man who screams down Al Franken when Franken busts him for lying about winning a Peabody Award, who cuts his guests' mics when they disagree with him. He calls his fellow Americans "traitors," "unpatriotic" and "dangerous" when they simply refuse to agree with the president. When O'Reilly suggests that for Valentine's Day we buy each other copies of his lousily written, poorly researched, mendacious tracts, we see a man looking for the love his drunken abusive daddy never provided to the one and only daughter in the family."

http://www.nypress.com /

[Mistress Quickly]

1. Is that an April Fools joke?

Gads, I'm paranoid.

[Huckebein the Raven]

2. nope

[GalleryGod]

3. Jeeez I wish I could say "Decidedly Not!" in 44 languages.

:rant: Bill's time came and went in the blink of an eye.

When he beseeched NeoCons to come to his show and be audience members was the :nuke: end for me!

[southpaw]

4. Damn, I wish I had HBO!!!

Cornell West, ALec Baldwin, Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly, Whoopi Goldberg, Jesse Jackson...

It's like one of those 'Which One Doesn't Belong in this Picture" things we used to do in our Weekly Readers.

I bet that will be a hoot!

[mcscajun]

5. I wouldn't miss this for Anything!

It promises to be one of the hottest shows since Richard Belzer called Ann Coulter a "fascist party doll."

[SharonRB]

6. I've been looking forward to this one since he announced

the lineup two weeks ago.

I hope Whoopi and O'Lielly are both in the studio. I can't wait to see the fireworks!

[Bombtrack]

7. that NY Press article came out a year ago. Second

O'Reilly is sort of likely to be on the panel since he's the only conservative of those guests.

Although he'd have to be doing his radio show from LA to be there. Any word on whether that's the case?

I guess we'll know at 8

[Crankie Avalon]

8. Sorry, but that article came from current issue of the NYPress...

...available for free in newspaper boxes all over Manhattan. Trust me, I live here.

When was the last time you were in New York?

Hope you're right about the panel, though. :)

[Bombtrack]

9. Sorry, I assumed it was last years because of no mention of O'Reilly's

Loofahgate.

And they might have used the same discription of him the previous year.