O'Reilly the Wimp

[anti_shrub]

Good ol' Billo has made many references to people being "afraid" to come on Fox News, or his show specifically. In his world, choosing not to go on a show that would almost certainly be a verbal gangbang is admitting that you can't defend yourself and Fox News is right.

Yet today he admitted that Al Jazera asked him to appear on one of their shows and he turned them down saying "they hurt the country and I don't want to be a part of that".

No reports on if he understood the irony or not.

[Fenris]

1. Irony is beyond Blotchy Bill's comprehension

[Arkana]

6. Al Franken put it best

In "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," he has a chapter titled, "Bill O'Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully".

[thegreatunraveling]

2. Bill O'Reilly vs. Canada

In today's Globe and Mail, there's a hilarious column about Bill O'Reilly, his ideas, and his oh-so-cultured viewers.
I split a side reading this, it was so funny.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040421.wxdoyle21/BNStory/Entertainment/

snip

Reacting to my column, which cheerfully suggested that the proposal to bring the Fox News Channel to Canada should be acted upon promptly, so that we can all take a look, and get a laugh, O'Reilly gave us a Fox-style whacking. In his segment The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day, he quoted from my column (which called him "pompous"), dismissed The Globe as a lefty outfit and said, "Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I'm honest."

snip

The people who support Fox News must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. This is an informed opinion. They'd give English soccer hooligans a run for their money.

I lost count of the number of times I was called "an a**hole." It was at least 43 times, anyway. I was called "a pussy," "a wussy," "a pr**k," "a jerk," "a hack" and "a creep." A man in Cleveland not only called me "an a**hole" but also wished me a "f***ed-up day." A lady -- and I use the term advisedly -- in Colorado wrote to say that all Canadians are "a**holes" and then ordered me not to visit her state. I was also called a Canadian numerous times, as if that were an automatic and withering insult.

In an nice touch, a man from somewhere-in-the-USA opened by cheerfully calling me "sonny bub" and, after some confusing name-calling that involved the word "intellectual," he rose to a great rhetorical flourish -- he asked if I had served in Vietnam! Nothing of the sort has ever come from viewers of Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, CNN, MSNBC or, indeed ROB-TV. My point was that we have a great deal to learn from the Fox News Channel. And I am proved right. Talking to Americans is always a tonic. Bring on Fox News and bring it fast. Let's see this thing that has so many ardent and incredibly aggressive viewers.

[LeftCoast]

3. Welcome to DU!

Great 1st post! :hi:

[rhino47]

25. Hiya the greatunraveling Welcome To DU the saner side of life

well at times
:hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast:

[richmwill]

4. Bill

Oh, don't be so hard on Billy. He won a Peabody award, you know! Oh, wait a minute- I meant a Polk. But his hard work, investigating, and reporting won that Polk award for his show! Oh, wait a minute..... :)

I can hear him if this turns out to be false- "It wasn't Al Jazera that I turned down. It was CBS. Hey, I simply mispoke- you gonna call me a liar because of that??!!"

[Serenades]

5. FN

Fox News is nothing more than tabloid crap. All the stories are rumors and crap. The earth is going down the crapper in a hurry.

[jeff30997]

7. "Fox News is nothing more than tabloid crap."

Yes,i couldnt agree more whit you,Serenades.Rupert murdoch made his fortune publishing crap so why not broadcast the same kind of crap?
Fox "News"? What a good example of an oxymoron!!!

[Dark]

9. Welcome to DU jeff30997!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:hi:

[BurnInHellFoxNews]

8. Well,

I have this username for a reason. :)

[Dark]

10. Welcome to DU BurnInHellFoxNews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:hi:

Like the name!

[BurnInHellFoxNews]

11. Thanks

Damn, folks on this site are friendly. Such a welcome. :toast:

[RedefeatBush]

12. Oh, Really?

has anyone read the book "Oh Really?" It's all about the idiotic mess that is Bill O' Reilly and definitely worth buying.

[LeftCoast]

13. Welcome to DU RedefeatBush!

Great user name. :hi:

[DylanWaco]

14. I've read most of it...

..on the computer at the FAIR website. Peter Hart wrote and compiled it and I would reccomend it to everyone.

[hasbro]

15. I've read it.

Very measured deconstruction of Bully Oh Really. With Franken he could write off his "smear book" to their feud, but FAIR hits egO'Reilly's quotes and slimy rhetorical techniques and not just in semantic quibbling and "out of context" statements (as if Big O didn't wield that sword like he were a Samurai.)

[realisticphish]

21. Great book

though kind of depressing in large chunks

[alarcojon]

22. Yeah, I read it

then loaned it out to friends. Great book, by some guys from FAIR.

[rhino47]

24. Hiya BurninHellFoxNews Welcome to DU

:hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast: :hi: :bounce: :toast:

way cool name !

[hasbro]

16. Bill's rattling the saber at Canada again

http://www.timesrepublican.com/columns/story/0517202004_colcol.asp

The usual boycott threats, which make sense considering we import oil from Canada and gas is at an all time high.

great passage:On my television program I have advised the Canadian government that if the deserters are not returned post-haste, I will no longer buy Canadian products or visit the country. I believe many Americans will take the same stance.He "advised" like he has some official capacity. E-G-O!

[SlingBlade]

17. He would make the top 5 on my jack ass list.

He’s a fascist and proud of it.

[fdr_hst_fan]

18. Jackass list

It's tough to say who would be #1 on that list: Limbaugh, Hannity or O'Reilly?

[hasbro]

19. Hannity is out of the running

Since he's already holds the title King of the Douchebags and Spirit of Roy Cohn.

[anti_shrub]

20. not only is he a wimp, he's scared poopless over Soros now...

Devoted an hour of his radio show to completely smear Soros, to the absurd point of twisting his support of assisted suicide into Soros wishing his dad would die.

Completely sick.

[alarcojon]

23. David Brock has been begging to go on O'Really's show

to rebut his endless attacks on Soros. No luck yet. Help Bill out by sending him an e-mail!

http://mediamatters.org/items/200406080003