A plurality of his listeners are still Republican, and so is O'Reilly. However, that's entirely irrelevant. Why did you bring any of this up, it has NOTHING to do with whether or not he spins the news.Ironic? In what way? O'Reilly has blasted Bush right along with Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank. If anyone on Fox News is middle of the road, its O'Reilly. In fact, listener/watcher surveys have pointed out that over half of his audience considers themselves to be Democrats or Indepentents. Here's info from the PEW organization: http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1353
I watched him once when Dawkins was on, and he said Hitler was atheist. Dawkins said that he was a Roman Catholic (which he was, and is a pretty widely known fact by all middle school graduates), O'Reilly counters back "he was a man of poor moral character", implying atheism is the making of poor moral character (if he thinks "THE WORLD IS 6000 YEARS OLD, MAN LIVED WITH DINOSAURS, AND A COSMIC JEWISH ZOMBIE WHO IS HIS OWN FATHER RULES THE UNIVERSE" is more rational or qualifies someone to be made of better moral character, which I presume he does, he's an idiot). O'Reilly is an idiot.