Juan Williams is supposedly one of the “liberals” on Fox News even though he is nothing of the kind. Williams is, at best, a moderate. But, in all honesty, he barely fits that description based on upon how often he is in agreement with Bill O’Reilly. It is impossible to be considered a liberal or even a moderate when you agree with O’Reilly as much as Williams does.
Now, I can imagine Bill O’Reilly putting Juan Williams in the anchor chair for self-serving purposes as a fill-in host of The O’Reilly Factor. He uses the reputation of Williams as “a liberal” to portray himself as more fair and balanced than he is (since most of us understand that O’Reilly is neither fair nor balanced). Williams is being pimped by O’Reilly. Williams is very well paid for services rendered, I would imagine, so he must be cool with this role as the pretend liberal.
O’Reilly is certainly free to have whoever he wants host his show, but it’s laughable to try and portray Williams as anything but a right-leaning moderate (who generally is double teamed, when offering up liberal opinions) by Mary K. Ham and O’Reilly.
Here is a comment from The O’Reilly Sucks Blog:
Juan Williams filled in for O’Reilly so there was no TPM. Juan made the Obama agenda the top story and had the White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton on to discuss it. They talked about health care, cap and trade, etc. Juan sounded just like O’Reilly, he hammered Obama on every plan he has, and did not have one good thing to say about anything Obama plans to do. He asked a series of long questions to Burton with criticism of Obama in every question. Burton answered his right-wing spin questions, and it was pretty much just like O’Reilly was asking the questions. In fact, I would not be shocked to find out O’Reilly wrote the questions for him.
Juan is the so-called Democrat on FOX but he sounded more like Newt Gingrich than he did a Democrat. All his questions were full of Obama criticism and right-wing spin, just as if O’Reilly or Crowley were there asking them. It was just like having O’Reilly there, with just a different person to ask the questions. I would bet O’Reilly wrote those questions for him, because they sounded exactly like the questions O’Reilly would spin out. So if you thoughtBlogger: Best Seat In The House - Create Post the Factor would be any different with Juan Williams hosting you would be wrong. It was no different than if O’Reilly had been there, except without all the screaming and yelling.
Well said. Juan was brought in there to play a role and when you’re hosting the O’Reilly Factor, whether you’re Bill or not, you’re expected to be a right winger. Williams did what he was paid to do. He played his part well so as not to be punished.
The O’Reilly Sucks Blog:
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/
