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:: 10.09.2003 ::
Ah, Bill O'Reilly. What an idiot. Here are some things he said on NPR the night before last:
"Why would anyone take anything that he says seriously? He's an activist who propogandizes and demonizes." Um, that sounds more like him, and not Al Franken.
"They take an interview that runs, I don't know, five minutes, and they'll extrapolate 60 seconds out of it to make you look foolish." Actually, he did that with the Terri Gross interview, on his own website. Near the end of it he complains that she spent 50-min keeping him on the defensive, when 12-min of the 40-min interview was them talking about his upbringing, how he became politically active, his spiritual beliefs etc. She did read a bunch of reviews and quotes to him and ask him to respond, but really, that seems pretty reasonable to me.
"We very rarely tell anybody to shut up, I think it's been done 5 times in seven years, and the other times that we do it, it's like "Oh, shut up!" It's a joke, y'know, that kind of thing." Ok, THIS is a blatant lie. He did it twice just in that interview with Jeremy Glick. Here's an excerpt from that transcript: O'REILLY: All right. You didn't support the action against Afghanistan to remove the Taliban. You were against it, OK.
GLICK: Why would I want to brutalize and further punish the people in Afghanistan...
O'REILLY: Who killed your father!
GLICK: The people in Afghanistan...
O'REILLY: Who killed your father.
GLICK: ... didn't kill my father.
O'REILLY: Sure they did. The al Qaeda people were trained there.
GLICK: The al Qaeda people? What about the Afghan people?
O'REILLY: See, I'm more angry about it than you are!
O'REILLY: What about George Bush? He had nothing to do with it.
GLICK: The director -- senior as director of the CIA.
O'REILLY: He had nothing to do with it.
GLICK: So the people that trained a hundred thousand Mujahadeen who were...
O'REILLY: Man, I hope your mom isn't watching this.
GLICK: Well, I hope she is.
O'REILLY: I hope your mother is not watching this because you -- that's it. I'm not going to say anymore.
GLICK: OK.
O'REILLY: In respect for your father...
GLICK: On September 14, do you want to know what I'm doing?
O'REILLY: Shut up. Shut up.
GLICK: Oh, please don't tell me to shut up.
O'REILLY: As respect -- as respect -- in respect for your father, who was a Port Authority worker, a fine American, who got killed unnecessarily by barbarians...
GLICK: By radical extremists who were trained by this government...
O'REILLY: Out of respect for him...
GLICK: ... not the people of America.
O'REILLY: ... I'm not going to...
GLICK: ... The people of the ruling class, the small minority.
O'REILLY: Cut his mic. I'm not going to dress you down anymore, out of respect for your father. We will be back in a moment with more of THE FACTOR. Someone please answer this question for me - how exactly is Bill O'Reilly acting in a fair and balanced manner in this interview?
Another example of his bullying:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Michael McGough heard it from O'Reilly in November 2002, when he went on O'Reilly's nationally syndicated radio show to debate his paper's editorial in favor of allowing prisoners to form musical groups and be filmed for a documentary. The writer ended up having to defend himself from a crime victim the show brought out, whom O'Reilly worked up to the point of tears. Afterward, when McGough told O'Reilly that the show exploited the woman, O'Reilly responded with, "Mike, shut up. I resent the fact that you said that we exploited this woman. We gave this woman a voice. That's something that you and your stupid newspaper would never do, you pinhead." Again, he refuses to address the guy's argument and calls him names instead.
Finally, a quote from O'Reilly's Feb 26th show of this year: "Once the war against Saddam Hussein begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if you can't do that, just shut up." Yeah, he's not conservative. Nope, uh-uh.
:: Deb 11:23 AM :: permalink ::
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