O'Reilly: "The secular movement is getting its butt kicked."

[StellaBlue]

:rofl: bwhahahahaha

He just said this - I was only flipping channels. 'The secular movement is getting its butt kicked on this issue' (Bill says as his overinflated head is displayed to the left of a text box a la Colbert's 'The Word' segment that says some kind of gibberish about the 'war on Christmas').

...what's the 'secular movement' exactly? When was the last time you saw a bunch of secularists on a secular 24-hour news channel talking about how Christmas should be exclusively secular? And how is it that this 'secular movement' is getting its 'butt kicked'? I daresay most actual secularists don't even know that there is a 'war on Christmas'. Maybe because they forgot to pay their dues. Or because most secularists are in France? Dunno.

He is so mature and well-reasoned in his arguments, too. bwhahahahaha 'Butt kicked'? Surely you can do better than that, Bill! For someone so hateful, that's a very wimpy insult.

[KingFlorez]

1. He's a clown

In fact, most Republicans are. They are always complaining about non-existant problems.

[Cha]

2. And how is bo's

Devil movement coming?

[RandomKoolzip]

3. It's hard to fathom how the rightists think they'll come away from this

NOT looking ridiculous.

BTW, http://www.fuckchristmas.org/

[StClone]

41. Well in the end

The secularists will have been defeated. That is for certain but the whole hornswoggle to convince the ditsy Christians that there is in fact a threat to Christmas is B.O.'s aim. Well heck yeah, Bill's effort to succeed in protecting Christmas is a lock. Sure genius.

[AlCzervik]

4. "the secular" crowd imo respect all religions and don't try and cram

their particular religious views down anyones throat.

[HockeyMom]

9. O'Reilly is pandering to the NATIONAL "Christian" audience

As someone who has lived 50 plus years in New York, he must know that we have been saying Happy Holidays for decades here, out of RESPECT for other religions, specifically, for our large percentage of Jewish neighbors who also are celebrating their holy days at the same time.

Mr. O'Reilly, you are a HYPOCRITE.

[StellaBlue]

14. YEAH... good point!

'Secular' does NOT equal 'atheist'. Secular is a term used to describe a type of public life/space in which no religion is given a privileged position, or is assumed as the default position, or is inappopriately treated as sacred by non-sacred authorities (e.g. the police, the schools, etc.). Right?

secular /sekyoolr/

• adjective 1 not religious, sacred, or spiritual. 2 (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule. 3 Astronomy denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets. 4 Economics (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.

• noun a secular priest.

— DERIVATIVES secularism noun secularist noun secularity noun secularize (also secularise) verb secularly adverb.

— ORIGIN Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’, from saeculum ‘generation’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’.


http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/secular

[AlCzervik]

18. thats how i think os myself, i respect other people religions

and i don't assume that everybody i come across shares the same beliefs as me.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. Really

That's pretty rude if you ask me. Saying "happy holiday's" is only polite to other people. If I don't know someone and what they celebrate I will say "happy holiday's" to them. If I do know the person and if they celebrate Christmas I'm going to say "Merry Christmas." Whatever happened to manners? These people are just "crying wolf." Maybe someday they might have a real problem and nobody is going to take that seriously.

[AlCzervik]

38. thats true, if i know the person does celebrate i wish them a merry

Christmas or Happy Hanuka or Happy Kwanzaa.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Exactly

And these people claim to be so Christian but are forgetting the second commandment from Jesus: love thy neighbor as thy self.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Did one of you guys start a movement

and forget to invite ME???

[walldude]

8. He we can't just be letting every tom, Dick and Harry Liberal

in on the big secret...

[Warpy]

6. The loofah king is getting his ass sued, so there

Those school districts he's lied about have incurred a lot of costs responding to irate phone calls from evey fundy wack job in the country as well as the occasional freaked out parent.

I hope even Pox decides he's a liability, and soon.

[FreedomAngel82]

37. Good!

I'm glad they are. These people need to learn they can't spread their shit and get away with it.

[Donkeykick]

7. Hey StellaBlue...

if people like O'Reilly really believe this nonsense, I believe that they should watch and re-watch 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas'. I mean even the Whos in Whoville have more brains than Bill and his followers!:banghead:

[stepnw1f]

10. The Fruitcake Fascist

needs a new vibrator. Bigger size....

[Todd B]

11. I can't remember if I heard it on Stephanie Miller

or the local show here in Boston (Braude, 96.9) but one of them played a clip of O'Reilly from his radio show actually defending the the fact that not everyone celebrates Christmas and it was ok to say Happy Holidays (he was responding to a caller who actually threatened to punch someone because they didn't say Merry Christmas - or at least that's what he said).

Does anyone have and audio of that?? Or did anyone else hear it? I can't remember which show it was but it was a total reversal.. hilarious!

[NMDemDist2]

16. wasn't that the bit where the guy stiffed his waitress for wishing him

Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas?

I'll be canofun has it

[Todd B]

21. I think so!

I was listening at work, so of course my mind wasn't totally focused on it.

I'll check out the site.. thanks! :)

[tjdee]

12. O'Reilly's nuts, and preaches to his own choir.

Most of these Republicans are hilarious. They create issues, and then claim to conquer them.

[tularetom]

13. WTF is the "secular movement" and who is kicking their butt

Is it FAUX News who advertises their Holiday Decorations, gets called on it and changes the ad to Christmas Decorations? Now that Oreilly has personally silenced rappers, brought the nation of Canada to its knees and destroyed the French economy, he's gonna save Xmas. Maybe he can put on some camo and go over to Iraq and bring democracy to the "camel jockeys".

[DemNoir]

15. Ya know

When DU gives this stupid crap respect by talking about it we aid the FOX cause.

[Initech]

17. I know CHRISTIANS who didnt know there was a war on Christmas going on...

What the fuck? O'Reilly is way beyond completely delusional!

[Faygo Kid]

19. O'Reilly is in it for the money, and his ego. Period.

This is ridiculous, and getting out of hand. He should not get any more attention. The weasel.

[undeterred]

20. there is no secular movement and it would have no but if there were

:smoke:

[Liberal In Texas]

22. He made up a problem and then charged into the fray (that didnt' exist)

to be the hero that solved it!

Brilliant, BO...I'll bet nobody saw through that!

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. Sounds like more "us and them" warmongering.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Hi, I'm from the Secularist Movement. Would you like a pamphlet?

Please come to our Sunday non-services during which we recite an un-liturgy and ignore Jesus.

[bridgit]

25. i've never seen a pic of o'reilly going in or out of a church...

:thumbsdown:

[DELUSIONAL]

26. Problem is his "followers" are non-critical thinkers

and the Fox watchers believe that they are getting the "truth".

Would "the t.v." lie??? If it's on the t.v. then it must be true.

I watched a Canadian take down some O'Liely watchers -- asking them what they knew about the upcoming elections in Canada -- and the political crisis up there -- the Fox viewers were completely clueless about what he was saying.

"And you all get your news from Fox?" he says -- and they don't cover Canada!

he added a few more insults and this group was so far out of it that they had NO idea that he was insulting their viewing habits.

[ewagner]

27. "Tell me Bill..."

Just what color is the sky on the planet you live on?"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

secret message to DUers.....there will be a secret meeting of the secular movement in the cemetary under the full moon...pass it on.....

[hankthecrank]

34. That's where the last meeting was

Maybe we should move it, because my butt still hurts

Please leave Bill off the list

[rustydog]

28. His eminence Pope O'Really is kicking Satan's ass

and taking names!
Whatever happened to his enemies list? Does it still contain only 3 enemies?

[sniffa]

29. the movement is in its Last throes

:yoiks:

[kevinbgoode]

30. What I love most about this . . .is that the nuttier he gets

the closer he gets to being permanently tossed on his butt. And since he is basically talentless, he'll be forced to take his sexually harassing butt to the streets, where he belongs.

Let's help keep his ratings falling even more. His credibility is already gone; soon he'll be so limited in audience that he'll be hawking Depends on television commercials for a living.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Some people don't care about his little fake war

Some people can't even afford to celebrate anything this year. How is Bill helping them? Me saying "happy holiday's" or "Merry Christmas" isn't going to change how I celebrate or someone else. These people need to get over themselves and buggar off! Stop ruining Christmas for everyone else by being selfish!

[Windy]

32. There is no secular movement

These people just create one to keep focus on themselves! Just like this war on Christmas crap. There is NO war on Christmas. Its been celebrated the same way for decades. Happy Holidays and Seasons' greetings are commonly accepted phrases and have been for years. These fundies are crisis creators. Its how they keep their sheep in line!

I am beyond sick of their games.

[librechik]

36. I can think of very few people MORE secular than Shill o Fryly

or less spiritual.

Tell me, can you be both neurotically self centered and also utterly lack self awareness? If you can it looks like Bill.

[bullwinkle428]

39. YES!!! "Worst Person in the World" AGAIN, on Keith Olbermann's

"Countdown"! You know the pathetic little worm is completely terrified by Keith, as he's never even hinted at mentioning his name in any of his insane little fatwas...

[tlsmith1963]

40. I Can't Wait...

...until the neocon/fundies start getting their butts kicked. It's the one thing I most live for. Let them see how it feels. They deserve it. I won't even feel sorry for them.

Tammy