Comments on: O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine” http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:38:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Nicholai http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-457413 Nicholai Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:53:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-457413 Private Media Group, one of the largest Porn Companies in the world, will soon release a movie called “God’s Will.” Apparently the movie is a shameless parody of Bill O’Reilly, America’s favourite ultra-conservative, and his incredibly popular program, The O’Reilly Factor. I have not seen the movie as yet, but it appears that the movie is making fun of O’Reilly’s constant “holier than thou” attitude. In the film our anchor man is endowed with the powers of God after claiming that he would make a pretty good job of it, but instead of solving the problems of the world as you would think a good ultra conservative right wing radical would do, he uses his powers to engage in several acts of sexual debauchery... I can't wait to finally see it :D Private Media Group, one of the largest Porn Companies in the world, will soon release a movie called “God’s Will.” Apparently the movie is a shameless parody of Bill O’Reilly, America’s favourite ultra-conservative, and his incredibly popular program, The O’Reilly Factor. I have not seen the movie as yet, but it appears that the movie is making fun of O’Reilly’s constant “holier than thou” attitude. In the film our anchor man is endowed with the powers of God after claiming that he would make a pretty good job of it, but instead of solving the problems of the world as you would think a good ultra conservative right wing radical would do, he uses his powers to engage in several acts of sexual debauchery… I can’t wait to finally see it :D

]]> By: Mark Marco http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-251145 Mark Marco Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:19:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-251145 Media Matters....sounds safe, smells bad, not good.... Media Matters….sounds safe, smells bad, not good….

]]> By: Innocent Bystander http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-192041 Innocent Bystander Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:28:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-192041 Lenore @ 312 - "I found this a very humorous article. The right invented charicter assination. (Remember Clinton?)" It started loooong before Clinton. My first recollection of the new Republican politics of personal character assassinations started with them going after Ed Muskie's wife. Lenore @ 312 –

“I found this a very humorous article. The right invented charicter assination. (Remember Clinton?)”

It started loooong before Clinton. My first recollection of the new Republican politics of personal character assassinations started with them going after Ed Muskie’s wife.

]]> By: Gearge "What Me Worry" Bush http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191776 Gearge "What Me Worry" Bush Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:41:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191776 "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -Harry Truman- "A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law." -Benjamin Franklin- "Redefining the roll of the United States from enablers to keep the peace, to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." -George W. Bush- “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
-Harry Truman-

“A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”
-Benjamin Franklin-

“Redefining the roll of the United States from enablers to keep the peace, to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
-George W. Bush-

]]> By: Matt http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191756 Matt Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:32:15 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191756 RE: posts #96 and #187 - The deficit may have been less this year than last year, but clearly you've got your terms slightly confused if you think this decreases the DEBT. Your link to the CBO's projections shows that through 2015 (the last year on the report) there is no projection for a budget surplus. In other words, each year until 2015 (and likely beyond) we are INCREASING the debt. In fact, the report projects that by 2015 the debt will have increased by nearly 50% due to the year-by-year deficits. Given that Bush in the 2004 campaign pledged to halve the deficit by 2009 and the CBO projections show that the 2009 deficit will be only slightly less than it is this year I think he has a long way to go in fulfilling his promises. And you'd be naive to state that the deficit is not the direct result of Bush's huge increase in spending combined with tax cuts. Considering that real income has stagnated (except for the top 10% of earners), that poverty has increased in four consecutive years, that unemployment is still a full percentage point higher than it was at the end of the Clinton administration and that there's been a tremendous increase in the number of people without health insurance, it's fairly clear that Bush's economic policies have hurt those who are worst-off while benefiting only a small portion of the population - namely the upper class. RE: posts #96 and #187 – The deficit may have been less this year than last year, but clearly you’ve got your terms slightly confused if you think this decreases the DEBT. Your link to the CBO’s projections shows that through 2015 (the last year on the report) there is no projection for a budget surplus. In other words, each year until 2015 (and likely beyond) we are INCREASING the debt. In fact, the report projects that by 2015 the debt will have increased by nearly 50% due to the year-by-year deficits. Given that Bush in the 2004 campaign pledged to halve the deficit by 2009 and the CBO projections show that the 2009 deficit will be only slightly less than it is this year I think he has a long way to go in fulfilling his promises. And you’d be naive to state that the deficit is not the direct result of Bush’s huge increase in spending combined with tax cuts. Considering that real income has stagnated (except for the top 10% of earners), that poverty has increased in four consecutive years, that unemployment is still a full percentage point higher than it was at the end of the Clinton administration and that there’s been a tremendous increase in the number of people without health insurance, it’s fairly clear that Bush’s economic policies have hurt those who are worst-off while benefiting only a small portion of the population – namely the upper class.

]]> By: Jeremy http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191615 Jeremy Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:46:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191615 Naturally, the common people don't want war, but they can always be brough to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country. It works the same in every country. --- Herman Goering, Hitlers Reichsmarschall at the Nuremberg trials Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but they can always be brough to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country. It works the same in every country. — Herman Goering, Hitlers Reichsmarschall at the Nuremberg trials

]]> By: Lenore http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191605 Lenore Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:40:06 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191605 I found this a very humorous article. The right invented charicter assination. (Remember Clinton?) What did they think the left was going to do when all republicans were in control, roll over and play dead? The shoe is on the other foot now and the right HATES that! If they want to talk hatefull charicter assination just tune into Rush Limbaugh - he's a master at it! I found this a very humorous article. The right invented charicter assination. (Remember Clinton?) What did they think the left was going to do when all republicans were in control, roll over and play dead? The shoe is on the other foot now and the right HATES that! If they want to talk hatefull charicter assination just tune into Rush Limbaugh – he’s a master at it!

]]> By: Jane Claymore http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191596 Jane Claymore Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:34:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191596 I think the Dems are doing fine keeping their mouths shut and not reacting to the wide open baiting I saw last night from Tucker Carlson and Scarborough. O'Reilly needs a session with his loofah. JWC I think the Dems are doing fine keeping their mouths shut and not reacting to the wide open baiting I saw last night from Tucker Carlson and Scarborough. O’Reilly needs a session with his loofah. JWC

]]> By: Robert Metairie http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191447 Robert Metairie Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:58:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191447 The neo-cons who have taken power in this country are not your grandfather's conservatives. This is a group of very well-connected insiders who have used religion and fear to convince just enough of the American voters that they have the best plan for America. You get voters to vote against their best interests when you bait them with religious dogma. So the right-wing has been able to bait and switch America by proclaiming itself the "Christian" party that will uphold Christian moral values and their talk-radio machine follows the talking points given out by the White House to the letter. Funny thing is those who are in the Bush Administration tend to behave as if they have never heard of Jesus or read the New Testament. Their war on the poor to line the pockets of the rich and powerful certainly wasn't a part of the teachings of Jesus I ever read. Their assault on science & education will put America at a greater disadvantage in competing with China, India and other emerging nations in the years to come. Their enviornmental legacy is that corporate profits mean more than saving our precious natural resources. They have learned well from the lesson left by the Nazis. Those lessons are to use religion and nationalism as a method to advance your agenda and to attack anyone who dissents as a disloyal citizen who hates their country. To get a glimpse of the mindset of the neo-cons, read Richard Steigmann-Gall's "The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945." Then substitute any right-wing mouthpiece for the Nazi mouthpiece in the book and amazingly you get the same propaganda as we hear out the White House and the right-wing talk machine. Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat those mistakes... much to the detriment of our freedoms and way of life. The neo-cons who have taken power in this country are not your grandfather’s conservatives. This is a group of very well-connected insiders who have used religion and fear to convince just enough of the American voters that they have the best plan for America. You get voters to vote against their best interests when you bait them with religious dogma. So the right-wing has been able to bait and switch America by proclaiming itself the “Christian” party that will uphold Christian moral values and their talk-radio machine follows the talking points given out by the White House to the letter. Funny thing is those who are in the Bush Administration tend to behave as if they have never heard of Jesus or read the New Testament. Their war on the poor to line the pockets of the rich and powerful certainly wasn’t a part of the teachings of Jesus I ever read. Their assault on science & education will put America at a greater disadvantage in competing with China, India and other emerging nations in the years to come. Their enviornmental legacy is that corporate profits mean more than saving our precious natural resources. They have learned well from the lesson left by the Nazis. Those lessons are to use religion and nationalism as a method to advance your agenda and to attack anyone who dissents as a disloyal citizen who hates their country. To get a glimpse of the mindset of the neo-cons, read Richard Steigmann-Gall’s “The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.” Then substitute any right-wing mouthpiece for the Nazi mouthpiece in the book and amazingly you get the same propaganda as we hear out the White House and the right-wing talk machine. Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat those mistakes… much to the detriment of our freedoms and way of life.

]]> By: Patrick Crowley http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-191365 Patrick Crowley Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:29:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-191365 YAY!, they are afraid of us again!!! YAY!!! I can't wait to be called a "red" or a communist again! YAY!, they are afraid of us again!!! YAY!!! I can’t wait to be called a “red” or a communist again!

]]> By: Ryan Neat http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190865 Ryan Neat Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:44:59 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190865 DAN, So true. Mellon-Scaife is the very face of evil itself. DAN,

So true. Mellon-Scaife is the very face of evil itself.

]]> By: Ryan Neat http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190861 Ryan Neat Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:40:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190861 "No “lay people on this site” had a CLUE whether the report about Atta was true or not at the time the report was provided to Cheney and you still don’t. You have absolutely no way of knowing whether Atta met with anyone in Prague or not - none."SShithead Sure there's a way to know. The CIA and FBI had full access to the czech intelligence, and they dispute the findings. Not to mention the fact that the person who was 'mistaken' to be Atta was later identified. Not only 'can' we know, but we DO know. Once again, you lose, you lie, you're an IDIOT! “No “lay people on this site” had a CLUE whether the report about Atta was true or not at the time the report was provided to Cheney and you still don’t. You have absolutely no way of knowing whether Atta met with anyone in Prague or not – none.”SShithead

Sure there’s a way to know. The CIA and FBI had full access to the czech intelligence, and they dispute the findings. Not to mention the fact that the person who was ‘mistaken’ to be Atta was later identified.

Not only ‘can’ we know, but we DO know.

Once again, you lose, you lie, you’re an IDIOT!

]]> By: Average TV Viewer http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190817 Average TV Viewer Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:41:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190817 I think any cogent rational reason for war should have been better spelled out. CLEARLY, by listening to Septic man there was enough evidence. OH! But wait, Cheney said he knew under the table stuff that little people aren't privy to. Oh well, better luck next time! That'll teach ya to go off to war in the heat of a national uproar and loyalty blackmail! Goshgolly! How were we to know we would actually HAVE TO be held accountable! Gosh darnit! I think any cogent rational reason for war should have been better spelled out. CLEARLY, by listening to Septic man there was enough evidence. OH! But wait, Cheney said he knew under the table stuff that little people aren’t privy to. Oh well, better luck next time!
That’ll teach ya to go off to war in the heat of a national uproar and loyalty blackmail! Goshgolly! How were we to know we would actually HAVE TO be held accountable! Gosh darnit!

]]> By: duhgopmustend http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190801 duhgopmustend Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:19:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190801 Notice the references were from mainstream right wing media not from Moore or Daily Kos. Not that there is anything wrong with those references as they do tell the truth you a-hole. Notice the references were from mainstream right wing media not from Moore or Daily Kos. Not that there is anything wrong with those references as they do tell the truth you a-hole.

]]> By: Dan http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190800 Dan Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:19:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190800 Hey Guys, When is someone going to point out Richard Mellon Scaife- the hoover institute - heritage foundation etc etc etc. O'Reilly sugested that there is nothing like Media Matters or CAP... what a lying piece of trash. Hey Guys,

When is someone going to point out Richard Mellon Scaife- the hoover institute – heritage foundation etc etc etc.

O’Reilly sugested that there is nothing like Media Matters or CAP… what a lying piece of trash.

]]> By: duhgopmustend http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190795 duhgopmustend Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:18:21 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190795 Idiot SS, I provided a direct quote by Newsweek indicating it had been disproven by both FBI and CIA. Here is a different link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6192327/site/newsweek "undermined by a series of recent U.S. government reports, including the September 11 Commission report, which concluded there was no “collaborative operational relationship” between Iraq and Al Qaeda" read it and come back with some modicum if intelectual honesty you moron - or stfu. lying ass. Idiot SS,
I provided a direct quote by Newsweek indicating it had been disproven by both FBI and CIA. Here is a different link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6192327/site/newsweek

“undermined by a series of recent U.S. government reports, including the September 11 Commission report, which concluded there was no “collaborative operational relationship” between Iraq and Al Qaeda”

read it and come back with some modicum if intelectual honesty you moron – or stfu.
lying ass.

]]> By: Sceptimus Smith http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190773 Sceptimus Smith Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:56:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190773 "He lied when he said it. that is the point that Ryan and I are making. If lay people like many of the readers of this site KNEW that the Atta meeting was bulls!t - how is it that the VP of the US did not know. He did, and chose to lie," Dumbastard or whatever your name is, No "lay people on this site" had a CLUE whether the report about Atta was true or not at the time the report was provided to Cheney and you still don't. You have absolutely no way of knowing whether Atta met with anyone in Prague or not - none. You are doing what all good little DNC spin monkeys do, you are operating on a set of preconceived assumptions. You don't want to believe anything that supports the Bush administration, so you simply dismiss anything that does - facts and evidence be damned. Cheney thought the report was credible - you don't. That's the sum total of your argument. It doesn't mean Cheney "lied" or Bush "lied" or any other silly, juvenile talking point you acquire from Michael Moore and the DailyKos. “He lied when he said it. that is the point that Ryan and I are making. If lay people like many of the readers of this site KNEW that the Atta meeting was bulls!t – how is it that the VP of the US did not know.
He did, and chose to lie,”

Dumbastard or whatever your name is,

No “lay people on this site” had a CLUE whether the report about Atta was true or not at the time the report was provided to Cheney and you still don’t. You have absolutely no way of knowing whether Atta met with anyone in Prague or not – none. You are doing what all good little DNC spin monkeys do, you are operating on a set of preconceived assumptions. You don’t want to believe anything that supports the Bush administration, so you simply dismiss anything that does – facts and evidence be damned. Cheney thought the report was credible – you don’t. That’s the sum total of your argument. It doesn’t mean Cheney “lied” or Bush “lied” or any other silly, juvenile talking point you acquire from Michael Moore and the DailyKos.

]]> By: Average TV Viewer http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190768 Average TV Viewer Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:49:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190768 Pardon me(Hee hee!), I am referring to the "vile" comment. Pardon me(Hee hee!), I am referring to the “vile” comment.

]]> By: Average TV Viewer http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190766 Average TV Viewer Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:48:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190766 I agree with you, Sceptimus Smith. I agree with you, Sceptimus Smith.

]]> By: Sceptimus Smith http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/26/oreilly-character-assassination/comment-page-7/#comment-190758 Sceptimus Smith Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:42:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/?p=2304#comment-190758 "And what about the TP’s post yesterday quoting a WH 'ally'–I would assume that to be a Republican–who described Fitz as 'a vile detestable' man with 'no conscience'. That doesn’t sound like praise!" I read that too, Lily, and I find it quite suspicious and convenient that the quote is from yet another anonymous "ally" - I find the comments completely offensive, and if a Bush ally did in fact make them, he (or she) did so in direct conflict with Bush's own statements about Fitz. Bush has praised Fitz on more than occasion. I wouldn't be surprised if this "ally" turned out to be a paid Post shill who says whatever they ask him to say. “And what about the TP’s post yesterday quoting a WH ‘ally’–I would assume that to be a Republican–who described Fitz as ‘a vile detestable’ man with ‘no conscience’. That doesn’t sound like praise!”

I read that too, Lily, and I find it quite suspicious and convenient that the quote is from yet another anonymous “ally” – I find the comments completely offensive, and if a Bush ally did in fact make them, he (or she) did so in direct conflict with Bush’s own statements about Fitz. Bush has praised Fitz on more than occasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if this “ally” turned out to be a paid Post shill who says whatever they ask him to say.

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