O'Reilly on Madison WI and "those people communing with Satan"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

For the second time in five days, Bill O'Reilly smeared a city in the Midwest. On the December 13 edition of his Fox News show, The O'Reilly Factor, he compared the Richmond Times-Dispatch to media in "Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan." He made the comments in a discussion with Forbes.com executive editor David Adelman and former NBC correspondent Jackson Bain about editorials critical of his Christmas crusade. O'Reilly was particularly upset at a December 3 Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial, which wrote of "war on Christmas" promoters such as O'Reilly: "What planet do these Scrooges inhabit?"

The Times-Dispatch editorial board wrote that "to hear some voices -- Bill O'Reilly's, for instance -- Christmas lies under siege. Unless defended, it even could disappear!" O'Reilly denounced that statement as a "lie," and he also reacted with incredulity to the editorial's claim that "to refer to Christmas vacation as Winter Break in no way demeans an occasion blest best not by baubles but by souls in quiet communion."

As Media Matters for America noted, O'Reilly targeted another Midwestern town on the December 9 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, The Radio Factor, falsely claiming that Saginaw, Michigan, "opposes red and green clothing on anyone." His assertion was vehemently denied by township officials; the township hall is adorned in red and green lights.

From the December 13 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.

O'REILLY: All right, well, listen, Jackson, we respect your opinion, but you're dead wrong on this one. Now --

BAIN: Well, maybe.

O'REILLY: -- in the South, Richmond Times(-Dispatch), for example.

BAIN: Right.

O'REILLY: Now, this is a conservative city, Richmond. I mean, this is not Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan up there in the Madison, Wisconsin, media.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512140012

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. I am beginning to think that he is mentally deranged.

His behavior is becoming more erratic, his accusations less rational. Should we start a petition to have him examined by a specialist. A monty python-esque brain specialist?

"It must come out"

[AlCzervik]

14. it's only a matter of time before he implodes, hopefully on the air

i've predicted this for awhile but i think within a few years he's gonna be walking around in his bathrobe yelling at tress in Levittown.

[davidinalameda]

2. why are we cursed with people like him

I think he's the one in communication with Satan

nah, Satan has better taste in minions

[greenman3610]

3. I think it's good what he' s doing

Get crazier and Crazier. Keep it up.
Alienating people in places like Saginaw just
helps us.

[stepnw1f]

5. Look Who's in Power...

Bill is Satan's little helper.

[MadisonProgressive]

4. We Madisonians take that as a high compliment!

What a funny sorry little man...

[B3Nut]

9. "You are a sad, strange little man."

About sums up this vituperative peurile nincompoop. You couldn't make a guy like this up.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[B3Nut]

10. "You are a sad, strange little man."

About sums up this vituperative peurile nincompoop. You couldn't make a guy like this up.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[undeterred]

6. Well shucks that's awfully nice of him to notice us!

Now I have to perform a ritual or two before dinner using some parts from a recently departed human -grocery stores here sell that kind of thing :evilgrin: since there's such a high demand and all...

[LondonReign2]

7. He smears anyones that dares disagree with The Great O'Liely

The man is so thin-skinned its a wonder his blood doesn't leak through his pores.

[LondonReign2]

8. He smears anyones that dares disagree with The Great O'Liely

The man is so thin-skinned its a wonder his blood doesn't leak through his pores.

[Lefty48197]

11. Madison, WI is such a great town, I'm glad to hear O'Lielly hates it.

I'm sure Madison feels the same way about him.

[Initech]

12. I still nominate O'Reilly for the "biggest douche of the universe" award.

He deserves it wholeheartedly this year!

[jane_pippin]

13. I communed with some weirdos when I lived there, but I'm pretty sure satan

wasn't one of them.

I think that's one thing I'd remember.

So, let me yet again say:

Fuck you Bill, you idiot. Grow up.

[stray cat]

15. I must have missed that when I lived there.

[zbdent]

16. Isn't Wisconsin one of those "fly-over" states that Repukes accuse

lefties of avoiding?

He just endeared himself to one of his strongholds, then . . .

[Dudley_DUright]

17. My father lives in Madison and I somehow can't imagine him

communing with Satan (although perhaps he has a secret life that I don't know about).