Cronkite Considers O'Reilly Attacks A Compliment

Texas Monthly - I saw where Bill O'Reilly, who's one of the FOX people, read your first couple of columns and jumped on you for announcing that you're a liberal.

Yeah. O'Reilly said that I was an internationalist! My God, what a terrible thing to be.

What I wonder is, why is it wrong for you to be a liberal in your column but okay for O'Reilly and his friends at FOX to be openly conservative?

That's the inconsistency you find with the all-out propagandists. I don't find any reason or rationality in that at all. The O'Reilly attacks on me, I think, are almost a compliment. I like the fact that he feels that I'm important enough and what I say is enticing enough to the populace that he has to attack it.

Do you ever watch his show?

No. I try to avoid it if possible.