Personal Story Segment Trasncript, Monday, October 16, 2006:
Subject: Oprah Winfrey's Liberal Agenda
BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, you have to admire Oprah Winfrey. She is the most powerful woman in the country and comes from a very humble background. The woman has succeeded on talent and energy.
Her daytime talk program is a launch pad for books, movies, TV shows, and records. Most who appear on Ms. Winfrey's show benefit from the experience greatly. But an analysis of the programs shows that liberal guests far outnumber conservatives and traditionalists in the arena.
We can only find four traditional guests in the past few years. Four. President Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson.
On the other side, there are literally dozens of liberal people who have been given a forum on Oprah's program. Just last week, Bush hater Frank Rich was given an hour to pontificate, one hour. I had no idea Mr. Rich was so popular among daytime viewers.
Also on Oprah's show, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Al Gore, Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, George Clooney, Jim McGreevey, on and on and on. You got three weeks? I can keep listing them.
In the interest of full disclosure, Oprah has declined to interview me, even though I had four No. 1 best selling books, including the current one, "Culture Warrior".
Once "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids", it really confused me. Here we have the best selling children's non-fiction book in 2005. Oprah, as you know, is interested in protecting kids, so why then was there no interest in talking about "The Factor for Kids"?
Now you call it sour grapes if you want. I know I'm going to get those kind of letters, but facts are facts.
One more thing: Oprah Winfrey has the perfect right to book any guest she wants and on any topic she wants. Her program. Right now, looks like her show is leaning left in a big way, and that is a legitimate story
