Bill O’Reilly:
By on Sep 2nd, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Bill O’Reilly:
“A lot of the people — a lot of the people who stayed [in New Orleans] wanted to do this destruction. They figured it out. And that’s — I’m not surprised.”
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This leaves me sick to my stomach. I guess the poor minorities wanted to stay behind and loot because that’s what they’re good at, right?
I guess the sick wanted to have some fun while their city sank into the Gulf? What a prick.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:37 pmWhat a putz.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:39 pmUseless waste of skin.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:45 pmO’Reilly’s kidding, right?
This isn’t so much premeditation as it is how people are conditioned to instinctively react in a free-for-all society, when things get desperate and even apocalyptic. Compare that to the tsunami a few months back when the locals there, faced with terrible devastation, for the most part tried to help each other with what little they had left until foreign aid arrived.
Heck, even during the ice storm up in Montréal and southern Québec a few years back, you didn’t see the kind of looting we’re seeing in New Orleans right now. No one could anyway, with 3 solid inches of ice for as far as the eye could see in the city, and the burbs getting even more.
That part of the world, which has long had sharp divisions along the English-French fault line as well as across classes, pulled together in a way it hadn’t been since terrorists had the city under seige in 1970. The tensions are still there, naturally, but the spirit of solidarity built during the ice crisis was quite still evident when I went there a few weeks ago.
I doubt you’d see the same pulling together even in, say, Toronto, which has an even more diverse ethnic makeup and class divisions that are just waiting to explode.
In the present case, things just boiled over and is totally to be expected. It would have happened anywhere in America, even most parts of the industrial world where cooler heads don’t prevail. For O’Reilly to suggest a mass conspiracy is just …
Well, what do you expect from Fox News? My free preview of the channel ended last night. I might subscribe to it after all, but I’m going to suggest to the satellite provider they really should put it under the comedy package, not news. It’s been about the only thing that’s given me laughs during a slow news summer.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:53 pmThis is a cultural problem. The very fact that these people did not have the resources to leave NO is very sad. However, if people reach out honestly on these issues, they called racist. Liberals have soooo failed the inner cities, but it’s the inner cities fault for being in lock-step with one political party. Liberals use these people at the polls and that’s about it. Sad.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:13 pmDon’t even think about responding to northeast demented
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:30 pmNot a problem, wisedup. We already know what they will say anyway. We win, you lose, etc.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:33 pmO’Reilly needs his ass kicked.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:34 pmAnd O’Reilly NEEDED the New Orleans unrest to PROVE just how incapable black folks are at keeping peaceful. Them uppity colored folks need to be put in their place!
//snark!
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:36 pmWhat??? Oh ya, I can see it now. What if all those refugees (I’ve heard as many as 300,000) were white, thin, blond, a few women with loads of cleavage, business suited men, and wealthy? Does anyone honestly believe that the rescue operation would have taken this long just to BEGIN?
Bill needs to be removed to a rest home somewhere far away. The outlets that host him ought to have their FCC licenses pulled.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:42 pmP & P – I make a good argument. Liberals, while they live in their northeast mansions, use the black community to advance their agenda. They don’t really care about them or they would be preaching independence from what you believe is incompetent government. This is a real argument – one which brave conservatives will one day make.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:42 pm#10 – YOU failed the people of Louisiana. Their Democratic leaders, not Bush. It’s sad that you don’t really care about them – you just need their vote.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:44 pmIt looks like Halliburton got the Katrina contract – surprising. Bastards from hell.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:45 pmhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475914/posts
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:46 pmSo… let’s see… 30% of the people in New Orleans are poor… many of whom could not afford transportation out of Dodge when the screaming huge howling hurricane came screaming down on them… and Bill O’Rxxxx thinks the poor folk stuck around just to have a good time burning the place down after everyone else had the “good sense” to leave?
I have witnessed some truely insensitive, unreal, and truely wonderous wishful thinking while living under the Bush Tyrants. But this has got to be near the lowest of the low.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:49 pmBill better not show his ass anywhere among the common folk for a very long time. I’m sure there are a lot of people who who would like to “do his destruction.”
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:51 pmThis morning, as I rode the public transportation system into work, I spoke with a woman who works in the Government. That $10Billion that the Senate appropriated last night? Guess who’s pockets the majority of it will end up in? That’s right.
How anyone with clear morals or ethics can support the Bush the Dumber is beyond me.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:52 pmHow many body guards does it take to protect bill o’wrongly……answer: there arn’t that many on the planet.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:59 pmBlame the victim. Dump responsibility and keep that guilt from rising into consciousness. Every time a feeling like that(guilt) rises, BO and his kind lash out, trying to keep it down.
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:16 pmI am deeply saddened by some of the Political CRUD that I have seen in the last few days. I won’t say which party is responsible for that in my opinion.
I truly appreciate the spirit of the “Common American People” who are trying to help out as best they can. Donating time, money, equipment, whatever to help their brethren.
NED, I will ask you one question. Seeing that the Army Corps of Engineers has been warning about the consequences of the funding for New Orleans work being cut for several years. Given that the funding has been cut despite the warnings. Given that FEMA raised this as one of three “catastrophic scenarios” in 2001. Who is responsible for the lack of funding and the lack of preparation for exactly this type of disaster?
I’ll give you ONE guess which party was in power, which party has EXACERBATED this problem, and which party should be blamed.
On a side note, Bruce Schneier has been recommending that Anti-terrorsim funding should be spent, not on security theater, but on two main thrusts. Intelligence so that we can catch and stop terrorists before they do anything. First Responders – No matter what terrorists throw at us these are the people who need to be trained and equipped to handle any type of large scale disaster. Given the second part, New Orleans would not be such a problem as the relevant people would be trained, equipped and geared up for EXACTLY this sort of scenario.
Why don’t we ever learn?
Z.
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:17 pm(pssssssssss..hey bill, talk dirty to me..ok?)
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:19 pmSigned: the ‘no contest’ winner of the lawsuit she won.
“Shoot to kill” orders in NO ought to please Bill. ahole
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:33 pmRepublicans are showing their true racist attitudes. Hey scumbag O’Reilly, like you we are not surprised that you hate the displaced Americans!
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:49 pmHow does the Left respond to natural disasters impacting millions of their fellow citizens? With donations, support and prayers.
The Right, on the other hand…
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:59 pmI was driving home today listening to Air America and they had a snip of the Prez talking about how this is a tragedy but how this is an opportunity to rebuild the gulf coast region into something better than it was and how Trent Lott’s house was destroyed too and how he can’t wait for Trent to rebuild his house and sit on the front porch…I about hit the person in front of me ’cause I was staring at the radio…I looked for a link to this but couldn’t find it. Has anyone else heard this bile coming from his orafice?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:11 pmThe man is a pervert. A self-aggrandizing blowhard. He can’t fathom that anyone can become desperate when they haven’t had food or water for their children or themselves for a week – when they have lost everything except their clothing – when corpses are floating past them in the street, because he is a bloodless and heartless, self-serving idiot. He is so smug, so sanctimonious that he is incapable of seeing his own serious character faults. He is sick and pathetic — Fox should pull him but there are too many sickos who agree with him and there he stays. He makes me puke.
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:12 pmI think Louisiana is a “Red” state isn’t it?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:16 pmNo one should respond to NED.
Ned Who?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:20 pmI have one thing to say…
LOOFAH!
No wait…
FALAFEL!
Loofah, falafel, Fallujah, Latifa — wanna have phone sex?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:20 pmYep, the conservatives are blaming the victims. That’s what they do best — it gets them off the hook for helping.
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:21 pmNow if the sorrorities of all the colleges in the south were suddenly hit with a storm, you can bet that those victims would get nothing but sympathy. Nothing but the best if you’re blonde, blue-eyed and a sweet young gil — just ask O’Reilly, the pervert.
You people have got to agree with NED. I know I do, especially when at #5 he says it is a cultural problem. Myself, I’m like Bush, and I could tell by looking at them that they were mostly registered democratic voters so I’m a little slow to help out.
But correct me if I’m wrong, NED, weren’t some of those cultural problems white, or was the sun just flashing on the Fox News camera lens.
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:29 pmHey, NED, I like the comment you made at #11 and I must confess, I couldn’t agree with you more. Those rotten liberals use the blacks for their own agenda all right. And especially great was the remark about the “brave conservatives.”
But correct me if I’m wrong, and I certainly agree with you, but does the brave part apply to Cheney, O’Reilly and Limbaugh who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War, or to W who used his father’s influence to hide out in the National Guard during those same years?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:37 pmNED,
And yet the Moveon.org just secured 49,000 beds for victims when the CONservatively run FEMA couldn’t pull its head out of its ass with all of the funding and resources of the federal government… You’re such an insane and pathetic little apologist – how do you sleep at night with all of the lies, deception, spin and delusions that you must forcibly maintain daily? How do you even reconcile the level of lies you must tell yourself daily to live? Oh that’s right – you only believe the freepers, and you presume the other side is 100% wrong even when they quote the federal government, leaders of your own party, and independent resources that reject your lies. It must be hard being so crazy and coming in the midst of so many people that see your insanity – why do you punish yourself in this way?
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:41 pmDid anyone else catch the guy from the army corps of engineers (hardly a liberal organization) on cavuto (faux news) state that they had proposed a proper levy system for New Orleans a few years ago, and that the federal government wouldn’t fund it? And I wonder who wouldn’t spend money to protect a largely democratic city? I bet even NED the idiot knows even though his head is too far up bush’s butt to admit it…
September 2nd, 2005 at 7:46 pm#34: Molly Ivins reported this morning that in June, Bush “took his little ax” and chopped 71.2 million from the New Orleans Corps of Engineers budget (a 44% reduction).
She went on to say the New Orleans City Business reported it at the time and that, among other things, a study had to be shelved that determined ways to protect the region from a Catagory 5 hurricane.
The Army Corps of Engineers are military and will not question or embarass their commander in chief. Not only out of honor, but so they won’t end up designing leveys on the Tigris River in Iraq. My question is since when has Bush cared about a budget or how much he borrows or spends so why the untimely cut?
September 2nd, 2005 at 8:31 pmRepublican policies have always robbed from the poor to give to the rich and since the New Deal’s inception they have tried to destroy it and in fact disable upward mobility. The middle class ALWAYS suffers under Republican “leadership” and policies.
Over the last 25 years Republicans have held the office of President for all but 8. The poor and the middle class had their best years between 1993 and 2001 over the course of those 25 years. That’s a fact, so you slimeball Republicans can take the argument that Democrats have failed the poor and failed blacks and shove it up your a*s. As weak as Democrats have been of late, the heart and soul of that party (what little of it remains) stands for helping the common folk get ahead and protecting them from being preyed upon (as they are now) by Corporate America and the greedy, fascistic Republicans.
September 2nd, 2005 at 8:36 pmJay, if Bushco had’t been scaring the sh*t of the ill-informed the last week of the election with code reds and code yellows courtesy of Homeland Suckurity, timely records of Osama bin Forgotten, having Colon Powell and John McCain throw away their pride and self respect to get on stage and endorse this incompetent, shifty-eyed idiot, Kerry would have been elected.
On a good note, can you imagine the screams of rigthwing indignation if it was Kerry right now with this mess to clean up, and a failing war in Iraq? Maybe God really is on our side.
September 2nd, 2005 at 8:55 pmHank,
Yup, scaring the dumbed-down masses, relying on the future ambitions of compromised American patriots (McCain)…..and a handful of well-placed friends at Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, the Supreme Court and the Ohio and Fla. local governments.
If the chickens weren’t on their way home to roost after all the devestating news from Iraq and Cindy Sheehan’s stand for truth….they are now. I pray that Bush spends time behind bard where he belongs.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:01 pmShoot to kill orders? Ahh, BO, finally something they can do right. Now you will sleep well tonight.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:03 pmAs bad as this disaster is, at least now the south and everyone else knows that Bushie could care less about them. Even if these folks were white, as they were on 9-11 Bushie will not do his job as a leader.
Yes, it is true that Bushie likes whites better than blacks but when it comes to being a MAN he fails every time.
votetoimpeach.org
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:05 pmNortheast Dilemma
Liberals use these people at the polls and that’s about it. Sad.
I don’t like your characterization anyway…’Liberals’ as though it’s bad thing.
What has this administration done for ‘these people’?
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I think what’s scary for me is that I actually understood what O’Reilly meant. Doesn’t mean I agree with it.
I tend to think that what happened in NO will force many people to confront not just racism in our society, but the subtle racism we carry and manifest daily without thought.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:09 pmGeraldo was just interviewed from inside the convention center in NO. He was crying saying they were locked in and to please get a call out and get help. The authorities have locked the people into the convention center. Another FOX news reporter – Steve Smith (?) said that anyone who tried to leave NO was being turned back. They weren’t letting people leave.
Then Hannity turned it over to people saying everything was just fine.
Does anybody out there have a phone number to call – who can we call about this – maybe there needs to be a legal representative of the people of NO who are trapped inside the convention center – dying
who’s going to stand up for those people?
Any suggestions
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:27 pmHey people – anybody got connections to anybody in the newspapers, media, government, lawyers – anybody who can be called – Geraldo’s begging for help – people are trapped in there
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:34 pmany lawyers in the group
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:36 pmany govt people
anybody at all
I’d contact the ACLU cmw. I don’t know their number but I’ll look it up and post it.
Did you see the coverage on Charity Hospital in NO? The medical staff is using i.v.’s on themselves to stay hydrated. There is no food or water there either. Doctors are begging to have the hospital evacuted and nobody is listening.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:36 pmSusan
I saw that too.
Do you think anybody at the ACLU will be answering a phone tonight?
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:38 pmWhat’s that NY lawyers guild. They defended the RNC protestors last summer in NY.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:40 pmhttp://www.aclu.org
At the bottom/left of the homepage you can locate your local office.
For example:
ACLU of Illinois
Executive Director: Colleen K. Connell
180 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-201-9740
E-mail: acluofillinois@aclu-il.org
Lets flood them with calls and e-mails to ensure the victims have legal representation. Plus Bushie hates the ACLU
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:41 pmI’m going to start with an e-mail. Unfortuanately its a holiday weekend but they will probably answer the phones tomorrow during the day.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:43 pmtomorrow will be too late
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:47 pmbut if that’s all we can do
is there no one who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone famous who could call someone who could say let those people go –
God and I bet fox news will not show that again – hannity was pretty upset with Geraldo and the second reporter STeve Smith (?) – i don’t watch fox enough to remember these people’s names
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:49 pmNational Lawyers Guild student contacts
http://www.nlg.org/students/student_chpcontacts.htm
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:52 pmI called, they do not answer phones on Saturday. Guess e-mail is all we can do. Like you said, it will probably be too late.
Jesse Jackson is down there but I’m sure nobody is listening to him. I’ll keep thinking though.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:54 pmI just emailed a student lawyer from National Lawyers Guild at LSU.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:55 pmjust wanted to share this website
http://www.wwltv.com
its a pbs station in baton rouge – 24 hour coverage, lots of aerial views and local stories – not to mention they carry all press conferences, etc.
they just mentioned that 2 hospitals (not sure which ones) have been evacuated…
they really screwed this up — i hope it gets better very soon…like tomorrow at the latest — 1 week is way too long.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:57 pmin regards to this legal thing…
they declared martial law…doesnt that suspend lots of rights?
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:58 pmI’m calling the news department at wwltv now, but no one is answering.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:07 pm#56
They shouldn’t have had to declare martial law (if they really did)
The chaos and distruction is due to nobody providing authority. You see, George Bush is the ultimate authority in the United States of America. He is the one who pulls the strings and tells peopl what to do. But, rather than rally the troops and take command, he was eating cake with Jon McCain in Arizona and playing guitar in San Diego.
He made a “plea” on Saturday for everybody to leave and then went back to vacationing. He shoudl have started the ships leaving on Monday. They are coming from Virginia. Virginia didn’t have wind on Monday. They could have left then.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:32 pmthe gov of the state said that there is no such martial law ‘law’ … so i guess they didnt.
i agree that it has been a horrible plan, i hope it get better.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:43 pmFunny how some people may characterize liberals as northeaterners. I happen to live in Florida, work for a non-profit, and spend a good deal of time donating my time and efforts on causes I believe to be important to me. Liberals (and conservatives, too) are found in many places across this swath of land. Funny how some people fall for simple methods of propaganda.
Change, at least to me, does not inherently happen on the national level. Stories fade after time, names are forgotten, but what matters happens on a daily basis. I work at the local level to effect change on a larger level.
I am not too naive to think that both parties exploit people in various ways to seek a means to their political ends. But that does not absolve us from taking our personal responsibilities to seek social justice, eradicate poverty and ignorance, and learn to live together. We have to educate ourselves; when folks spend their time watching FOX, or even CNN or any other news organization, we open ourselves up to the unmoderated flow of propaganda.
Only progress will save us; not conservatism or limited liberalism.
September 3rd, 2005 at 12:04 amI wonder why Lord Bush didn’t take several hundred refugees back to DC on Air Force One? It’s a 747 after all and he would’ve been heralded as a savior and hero. The photo-ops would’ve made Karl Rove cum all over himself. I guess Bushco and wife Pickles are afraid of the great unwashed masses — smelly, covered with feces and chemicals. Scariest of all, they are largely black. Black folks from the ‘hood’ don’t ride on Air Force One. Sad, really.
September 3rd, 2005 at 8:31 amTIE STONES TO HIS ANKLES AND THROW THE SERPENT-RIDDEN BASTARD IN!
September 4th, 2005 at 4:20 pmoreilly is nothing but a broken down, foul mouthed, pervert.
You recall he was sued by a co-worker for all sorts of things.
One of the comments he made to her was “I want to smell you ass, I would eat a mile of your shit just to get a chance to smell you ass”.
Confirms my suspicion that he is a shit eating dog.
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December 4th, 2005 at 3:05 pm