Those are the kinds of questions any decent journalist should have asked. Of course, a decent journalist would have also had Manson further explore his ideals and beliefs. O'Reilly was undoubtably floored by Manson's thoutful and reasoned responses. He looked a bit like he was in shock.

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... he comes off as a relatively normal and thoughtful person.

For once O'Reilly does a pretty decent interview.

Still doesn't beat G. Gordon Liddy getting dissed by the mom from the Brady Bunch for being a convicted felon after he was complaining about Manson on a show they were all on.

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who wrote the intro to this? the interview is one of the best he has ever given that i have seen. why so negative? hate him, but be level headed. ps hate is bad

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THEM!!!

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...there is MORE than enough to point out about folks like O'Reilly. There is NO NEED to distort things like this just because the clip is interesting. This undermines credibility... the LAST thing progressives need in the face of rampant Republican (and to a slightly lesser degree Democratic) corruption and foolishness.

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... floored. I've never seen O'Reilly conduct an interview with somebody who didn't agree with him, where he didn't try and rip them to shreds. Manson IS a very polite, well-spoken guy and he responded perfectly to O'Reilly's questions, showing that despite being fantastically _weird_, he also puts a lot of thought into his actions and isn't just out to horrify the "squares".

However...

I still don't respect O'Reilly at all, he is a muck raking shock "journalist", so he doesn't get much credit for this. I think he knew his loyal viewers would draw their own conclusions - that Manson is immoral and indecent - no matter what he said. And then they would laud Bill for walking among the sodomites and being polite while he did it.

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Every single time I hear Manson talk... I wish his music were actually better.

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Are you in the twilight zone? This is a great interview. Manson was given time to answer, was challenged fairly, with no cheap shots taken, and evrything was pretty much above board. Good journalism. Eat your heart out, CNN!

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I'm not a fan of Manson (the schtick is a bit much) and certainly not a fan of O' Reilly but this is a decent interview. The questions are legit and Manson is given time to fully answer. I thought Manson could have done a bit better..."In a world where so-called Christian clergy tell their parishioners to vote for a party that starts wars for its own political advantage, why are you worried about somebody saying the "f" word on stage?"

Not bad overall, though.

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When I did have cable I rarely watched O'Reilly's program, after so many disappointing shows, I got to the point that I found something better to do with my time in that time slot. For that reason, I didn't view the clip. I agree it was a sane interview, but O'Reilly did make statements that MM wasn't allowed to respond to, in that way he did control what he wanted the viewers to leave with. But hey it's O'Reilly's show and he controls that particular press.

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...I must say I am pretty schocked by such an interview. The "journalist" is really making himself ridiculous, nothing that he asks can be taken seriously, especially when you know even just a little bit about Manson who's a clever artist building his image and business on provocation. I think most people here (I am French living in Germany) would write to the TV-company to have this O'Reilly fired... There are billions of great things in the American culture, art, music etc., and many of them became common for us here on the other side of the Atlantic too, so it's always astonishing and frightening to see that such people as this "journalist" have such a power on the minds. But in a way, it seems that people like O'Reilly and Marylin Manson are encouraging each other, each of them being a reaction to the other... who started it??

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