Letterman tells O'Reilly '60% of what you say is crap'

[quaoar]

O'Reilly was on Letterman's show and Dave tore into his pretty good. He ripped him on Cindy Sheehan, ripped Bush on why he started the war and told O'Reilly he was full of crap.

There is a link to this at HuffPo. The link gives you a transcript at this RW blog:

http://newsbusters.org/node/3454

Letterman: “See, I’m very concerned about people like yourself who don’t have nothing but endless sympathy for a woman like Cindy Sheehan. Honest to Christ.”

O’Reilly: “No, I’m sorry.”

Letterman: “Honest to Christ.”

“O’Reilly: “No way. No way you’re going to get me, no way that a terrorist who blows up women and children.”

Letterman: “Do you have children?”

O’Reilly: “Yes I do. I have a son the same age as yours. No way a terrorist who blows up women and children is going to be called a ‘freedom fighter’ on my program.”

Letterman: “I’m not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling, I have the feeling about 60 percent of what you say is crap. But I don’t know that for a fact.

Paul Shafer: “60 percent.”

Letterman: “60 percent. I'm just spit-balling here.”

[AlCzervik]

1. i am so glad i stayed up to watch, Letterman let "Billy" have it

and him taking up for Cindy Sheeham was wonderful.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. 60 percent?

I doubt it. I'm saying 95.

[Deep13]

4. It's how the right distorts the truth.

Mix bullshit with an odd smattering of known facts and they will hide the lies. Still, 60% seems pretty generous.

[MADem]

6. Dave was being kind and gentle, see

Ever since the birth of Harry and his heart attack survival he's giving everyone--even patent shitheads--a huge benefit of the doubt!!!

[quaoar]

13. I'd say 99

[Deep13]

3. "...no way that a terrorist who blows up women and children..."

Cindy Sheehan blows up women and children? :shrug:

Why women and children? Does O'Reilly suppose blowing up men is acceptable?

[mattomjoe]

5. If they are in SF, he does.

[Rob H.]

7. I like this exchange

(Emphases added by me.)

Letterman: Yeah, but I think there’s something, this fair and balanced. I'm not sure that it's, I don't think that you represent an objective viewpoint.

O’Reilly: Well, you’re going to have to give me an example if you're going to make those claims.

Letterman: Well I don’t watch your show so that would be impossible.

O’Reilly: Then why would you come to that conclusion if you don't watch the program?

Letterman: Because of things that I’ve read, things that I know.

I have a friend who watches Shill Ho'Lielly, and he believes most of what Ho'Lielly says because he doesn't read much and gets all his news from FoxNews. No one who actually pays attention to the news (as in, reads the news on the web, for example) would believe a single word that comes out of any show on that channel, much less anything said by bloviating gasbag Ho'Lielly.

[Atman]

12. Same here

My skiing buddy was a life-long republican until the 2004 "election." I give him credit for finally waking up to Bush. But while he dislikes Bush for reasons that personally impact his life -- he's a vet, and a laborer -- he doesn't have a clue just how bad things really are, because...you guessed it...he only watches Fox News. And during one of our rare political discussions, he told me "love him or hate him, ya gotta give Bill O'Reilly credit. He really lays it on the line, tells it like it is!"

Ugh. It's a viscious circle of lying that keeps them afloat.

[SillyGoose]

8. I'm so glad I caught this last night. Letterman made O'Reilly look

like a complete idiot. It was truly a thing of beauty. Next to the Phil Donohue interview, I don't think I've seen a better take-down of that pompous blowhard.

[joeprogressive]

9. Then O'Reilly better not ever call the US military freedom fighters

because they have blown up innocent women and children.

[hogwyld]

10. So worth the lack of sleep!

Man did Dave let him have it! I have never seen O'liely look so uncomfortable. He looked like he was passing a barrel of oil through his rectum. Tell me Bill, how's it feel???

[zbdent]

11. I heard the audio on the Bill Press show this morning, and I almost

bust a gut at the "applause" when BS O'Reilly tried a comeback and his mom was the only person in the audience clapping . . .