O’Reilly explains when it’s OK to support terrorism:
“If you want to ban military recruiting [in public schools], fine. But I’m not going to give you another nickel of federal money,†O’Reilly said. “If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, ‘look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.” (Via C&L)
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Once again, a right-wing pundit who confuses the war on terror with the occupation of Iraq.
Nice spin there buddy.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:16 amShouldn’t a comment like that get him investigated?
Shouldn’t the FBI be knocking on his door?
Isn’t he inciting a terrorist attack?
Why the Hell is he still on the air, anyway?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:18 amAny other reporter or commentator whould have been shit-canned by now!!
I am THOROUGHLY disgusted.
BO is in charge of federal money? Who knew? In which branch of the military did BO serve? Such a drama queen…
November 11th, 2005 at 11:19 amBoy, that sounds similar to Pat Robertson’s comment on Dover.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:24 amIf O’Liely is speaking for the president, would that make the prez smarter or dumber?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:25 am“But they can only do it when O’Reilly is in San Francisco… ”
Seriously, banning military recruiting in public schools does not seem unreasonable to me. It is not as if they don’t have other places to meet potential recruits. Every county or state fair I’ve been to has had recruiters at it. Every parade has a display. Some of the local malls have large recruitment offices… Why can’t they hold their own events to meet recruits… “It’s like a big party… With recruiters!” “Join the army, it’s just like this club… but with guns!”
Z.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:29 amGoing after middle school students to fill an army with a retarded leader is wrong
November 11th, 2005 at 11:31 amcomment #7 made by Dr. Obvious
November 11th, 2005 at 11:32 amSpeaking of torture, here’s an excerpt from Bill O’Reilly’s 1998 novel, “Those Who Trespass.”
“He gently teased her by licking the areas around her most sensitive erogenous zone. Then he slipped her panties down her legs and, within seconds, his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly.”
Apparently, he went to the same writing class as Scooter Libby.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:34 amNow is the time to send those letters to the FCC, this is probably a terroristic threat according to the California Penal Code.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:36 amBut but but Michele Malkin said Liberals are soooooo much more “Unhinged”™ than Conservatives.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:38 amI don’t think BO actually believes there is ever justification for an attack. Bottom line is his opinions aren’t much different than white trash high skool drop outs. It’s amazing he has such a high profile job and salary.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:39 amone of the problems with military recruiting in schools is that there is typically no group with an opposing viewpoint allowed on campus to talk to the students… and, of course, the recruiters will emphasize the positive aspects of service and gloss over the negative, so students won’t know exactly what they’re getting into…
also, we treats kids like kids when it comes to privileges, yet treat them like adults when we want something from them… cigarette companies can’t solicit customers from people who are too young to smoke; why can the military sign up people who aren’t old enough to be in the military?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:40 amIs it me? Or does it take an inordinate amount of time to post now?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:41 amActually, it is No Child Left Behind and not Bill O’Rielly that takes away federal funding if recruiters are banned.
Page 559 & 560/670 total
‘‘SEC. 9528. ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTS AND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION.
‘‘(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION.—Notwithstanding section 444(a)(5)(B) of the General Education Provisions Act and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.
These bastards knew way ahead of time that schools would start banning recruiters to feed children to their illegal war, so they buried this section way down in No Child Left Behind.
It is intersting that Bill O’Rielly didn’t mention this. He either doesn’t know or he knows that it would look bad if people found out that this was in No Child Left Behind.
November 11th, 2005 at 11:41 amHey O’Rielly Fans:
You can order the “O’Rielly Factor” dildo/coffee stirrer for only $99.00.
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No bloviating, that is what my little secretary, Falafelletta, in the mini-skirt does.
Sincerely yours,
Dildo R’ielly
November 11th, 2005 at 11:43 am#17
Funny stuff!
November 11th, 2005 at 11:50 amI won’t hold my breath for O’Reilly to do a show on this:
From EWM, a scientific shocker: Study: Euthanizing Right-wing Pundits would Solve Global Warming
November 11th, 2005 at 11:51 amUnbelievable how this guy can still be on Fox TV. Is the FBI going to be on his doorstep for what he said?
November 11th, 2005 at 11:57 amNo Surprises Here.
Cheney is a Pervert from the Franklin Investigation Days As I recall, Libby is of Course a Pervo as Well.
Man these Neo-Kooks are ALL Major Hypocrites.
Lynn Cheney Dicks Wife is Course a Stepford AEI Wife
Lynn Cheney is AEI
Lynn Cheney Also Wrote a Book with Very Lesbian Overtones.
Their Daughter is also Lesbian
Say Didnt Wolfowitz or Kucinich Just Get Married to some think Tank Person?
http://www.wonkette.com/ politics/ paul-wolfowitz/ breaking-paul-wolfowitz-married-not-really-so-much-128712.php
The organization held a mock wedding ceremony of the Pentagon, played by Dossani, and the World Bank, played by Gupta and Sen portrayed Paul Wolfowitz as the wedding minister.” This is the kind of confusion that happens when you stray from the giant puppet route.
Now Wolfowitz of world Bank has sent His “Bride” to work.
S. rizA Here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/ blogs/ bushbeat/ archive/ 001865.php
A family affair: Wolfowitz girlfriend Shaha Ali Riza, on the job as a World Bank flack (above), now gets to go to lunch at the State Department with Liz Cheney, Dick’s daughter.
Shaha Ali Riza, lately in the news as World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s Saudi-born girlfriend, has been assigned to the U.S. State Department. The move, which has not been announced by either huge agency controlled by the Bush regime, means that she’ll be working with Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney, a top official in the key Near East Affairs bureau.
Sick Group Of FREEKS!!!
In Control??
Plames Leak Was Likely all PART of the Bigger Plan?.
Wolfowitz+AEI+RIZA
WTF?
November 11th, 2005 at 12:01 pmThis Group of Idiots Must Be Stopped And Outted.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:02 pmFALAFEL FALAFEL FALAFEL FALAFEL
November 11th, 2005 at 12:03 pmThis person (I won’t call him a man) is a sideshow on a tabloid trash production, faux news. When you give him space here (TP), actually quite frequently, you only give his act creditability. Can we refocus to people who are relevent and who’s actions/statements make either a positive or negative impact. Only about 1.4 million morons watch Faux entertainment news, that means 299.6 million are smart enough to not watch. So, please spare us the parade we already intended to miss.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:03 pmSo RIZA a Saudi and Cheneys Daughter are Going to Head the U.S.
Grrr
State Department?
That’s the word from one of my moles in the World Bank. This significant assignment — a hardened link between the money of the World Bank, which is supposed to focus on poverty, and the neocons’ aims of trying to salvage their privatization plans for Iraq — has not be reported anywhere else, to my knowledge, and I see no word of it on the World Bank website either.
This new loan by the World Bank is strictly from hunger, and it’s sure to do nothing to help us in the Arab world. Wolfowitz’s girlfriend and Cheney’s daughter, in charge together of the U.S. State Department’s Near East bureau? W.B. Staffer One, as I’ve referred to this particular source, copied me on a September 16 internal memo from Christiaan J. Poortman, the W.B.’s vice president for Middle East and North Africa (MENA, in bank parlance), that says in part:
So this is the True Plan? The NOBLE cause?
November 11th, 2005 at 12:07 pmWhy the Coit Tower, of all San Fransisco targets? I mean, the city has a big bridge, a building called ‘TransAmerica,’ and another bog bridge, but Bill fixates on a big phallus. Is he just totally gay? Does he want to bomb the gay men and women who hang out by the tower because he hates that he’s gay? And, come on, his writing about ‘his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly…’He’s obviously never done that.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:12 pmanother big bridge
November 11th, 2005 at 12:13 pmWolfowitz Admits Mistakes..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ articles/ A37468-2003Jul23.html
Yet hes still at World Bank….??
(Read Above Links)
This is a DISASTER in the Making.
“People always say that sometimes people plan for the wrong war,” said Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former head of the State Department’s policy planning office. “One can say in some ways that the administration planned for the wrong peace. In particular, there was an emphasis on preparing for a humanitarian crisis when in fact the larger challenges turned out to be political and security.”
Richard Haas, CFR, US STATE Department.
Wanna Bet hes Connected to AEI and PNAC
And the Noose Tightens –AJ
November 11th, 2005 at 12:15 pmWolofwitz+AEI Wife
Cheney+AEI Wifw
Kucinich+Elizabeth Harper
Elizabeth Harper=
Yuppp Just as Suspected another Stepford Wife
Think Tanker
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a former mayor of Cleveland, celebrated his marriage at an appropriate venue, City Hall.
****Harper, Kucinich’s third wife, is a British national who works for a monetary policy think tank in Chicago**.
The guests included politicians, 17 people who flew from London for the occasion and movie stars *Shirley MacLaine and *Sean Penn. *Kucinich, a Democrat, attracted a small but enthusiastic following with his presidential campaign last year.
“It was a lovely ceremony, and the congressman really wanted to do this in the heart of Cleveland,” said Doug Gordon, Kucinich’s spokesman.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:21 pm#27 - The Coit Tower is a memorial (I believe) to SF firefighters, hence the look. I think BO’s got a thing for firemen.
“And, come on, his writing about ‘his tongue was inside her, moving rapidly…’He’s obviously never done that.” No, falafel boy just likes to talk about it on the phone.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:25 pmLewis Lapham of Harper’s magazine wrote a provocative piece about this, called Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill, A Brief History (September 2004).
Robert Kennedy Jr. also wrote a piece in the May 2005 issue of Vanity Fair called *”The Disinformation Society” in which he argues that the Bush re-election can be traced to the American people being misinformed by news media that presented
“propaganda disseminated by the right wing machine”.
November 11th, 2005 at 12:48 pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Araound here in the Bay Area, we call it Coitus Tower!
November 11th, 2005 at 1:10 pmAnd I agree, he’s never done it. Of if he did, she probably didn’t enjoy it much… such a juvenile!
So the fine Republican Bill O. invites terrorism to our shores. Apparently he’s developed amnesia when it comes to how 9/11 affected our country. We should demand an on-air apology immediately. And here’s where to do it: Email: Comments@foxnews.com
November 11th, 2005 at 1:16 pmEmail: Oreilly@foxnews.com
To Call FOX News Channel:
1-888-369-4762
What is a ‘Rightwing EXSTREAMEST’???? It is like any other exstreamest, ‘dangerous!!!!’. As his ratings drop, he vile mouth gets louder.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:24 pmFox News should fire O’Reilly A**. He is totally disgussing.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:26 pmAnyone know if O’Reilly has children old enough to enlist in the military.?
November 11th, 2005 at 1:32 pm#1. O’Reilly (thankfully) does not determine government funding.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:46 pm#2. There is something distinctly opportunistic and devious about recruiting highschool kids.
#3. His comments will draw no hue and cry of traitorism from his peers in Bushworld.
The hypocritical, pompous pervert should follow Pat Robertson - to the mountaintop and await the rapture.
Republicans had no problems supporting terorrists as long as they fought the soviets. That’s how AlQueda came into being after all. It was Reagan & Republican funding, training and military equiping of AlQueda that brought us this mess in the first place. Republicans are the fathers of AlQueda!
November 11th, 2005 at 1:46 pm#17, I am still laughing at your “ad.”
November 11th, 2005 at 1:48 pmThe sex talk in the novels written by the so-called moral values people of the right is curious.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:52 pmThey are all repressed puritans who would take us all back to the 17th century.
Agreed, Marie. Very repressed and very fearful of their own self they are. Republican extremists that hate themselves and thus, project.
Psychology 101 needs to be taught at an elementary school level. Actually, every year it should be a mandatory class. Good grief, get in touch, neocons. The sky is not falling, just your party.
November 11th, 2005 at 2:03 pmWait a minute now. If he’s saying the City & County of San Francisco can now succeed from the United States, count me in! That would be way cool & I’m all for it.
Funny that he focuses on Coit tower so much. For those of you out in the rest of the world, Coit tower is a very popular cruising spot for ananymous sex w/ the gay crowd. Maybe Bill doesn’t like it cause the locals rejected him there. A man only a (non-living, non-sentient) fallafel could love.
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eh, doesn’t this make O’Riley a terrorist by the Bush criminatration’s own rules?
I’m asking you.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:24 pmPat Robertson and O’Scumbag can share a maximum security jail cell. They can share toys and spend the rest of their lives jacking one another off.
Or would that be too good for the criminals?
November 11th, 2005 at 9:32 pmI will be requesting license revocation by signing the comment log book at KNEW in San Francisco (across from the CalTrain station) and I have already written the FCC to complain about FOX News regarding the inflamatory comments of Bill O’Reilly.
I’ll also be providing form letters for a request to revoke KNEW’s license to anyone who would care to comment. Any thoughts on how it should be worded will be appreciated.
November 12th, 2005 at 12:40 amRingo #44,
Thanks for the list of sponsors. We should all really give that some attention. What if we got only a few thousand thoughtful Americans to write to each company and explain that so long they pay Fox to promote such irresponsible, anti-American, ridiculous views of BO, their products will not be bought by us?
That works.
November 12th, 2005 at 8:02 amI have begun sending emails to sponsors listed above in #44. In these brief emails, I am stating that in response to the increasingly irresponsible and offensive comments by Bill O’Reilly, I can no longer purchase products from companies which financially benefit FOX.
Pass it on. Let’s get the message to the folks who pay his salary.
November 12th, 2005 at 8:39 am[…] MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on O’Reilly’s statement about San Francisco: “Someone at the O’Reilly website tried to cover that up — I can’t imagine why — removing the entire part about al Qaeda from the show’s transcript. Heads up to that enterprising individual: It’s on tape. Removing the words from the transcript doesn’t make the audio disappear.” 8:57 am | Comment (0) […]
November 12th, 2005 at 8:58 amThis man is so demented that he has perfect home at Fox.
November 12th, 2005 at 12:44 pmum…do people really believe the bill o’reilly advocates the bombing of sanfransisco?
have you self-righteous people ever heard of ‘hyperbole’?
the guys a performer, not a journalist. what do you expect? you can’t take him seriously, and you can’t really hold him to the standards of serious journalism - or integrity for that matter…
and last I checked, we liberals were against censorship - against the idea that certain things could not be said; I say, let the man make an ass of himself…and stop giving him so much damn free publicity - I’m sure his publicist loves it…
November 12th, 2005 at 3:34 pm#27, Coit Tower because it brings the word coitus to his feeble mind. For a tremendous hoot, carefully reread Dild o’ Reilly’s shower fantasy. You want to see gay allusions? Whoa. In his fantasy he approaches the woman from behind. Naturally. He covers his hand with a loofah (here think of the word “aloof”). He does not touch the woman with his bare hand. In his piddling stream of half consciousness, he switches to the word “felafel” when he describes touching the woman. Felafel - “felt awful”. Do you see? Yes, that ejacu-head is totally gay. Could it be more obvious?
November 13th, 2005 at 8:21 am[…] “We take on the orchestrated campaign organized by left wing critics who have whipped up controversy about his satirical riff on the city of San Francisco.” “Satirical riff“? 5:03 pm | Comment (2) […]
November 14th, 2005 at 5:11 pm[…] Bill O’Reilly is an idiot. This conclusion is hardly new. I am sure that most of us are aware of his crazy rant about San Francisco. After hearing it and reading a little about it I sort of dismissed the whole thing as Bill being idiotic Bill…until this morning. […]
November 15th, 2005 at 11:38 am[…] Now re-read O’Reilly’s statement on November 8: If you want to ban military recruiting [in public schools], fine. But I’m not going to give you another nickel of federal money. If Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we’re not going to do anything about it. We’re going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead. […]
November 15th, 2005 at 3:20 pmWould having military recruiters in a public school make the students any safer or smarter? Let’s remember the purpose of school. It is not a place to propagandize or sell a product. Let them show up on career day, along with recruiters from MIT and Microsoft.
November 15th, 2005 at 4:40 pmWell what is an American Citizen?
A) hungover transvestite that works for the city of SanFran (Hi Bob!)
B)the son of a senator attending The Daughters of the American Revolution High School who is decended of British nobility
C) a Porta Rician
D) Bill O’Riley
E) all the above
The sad thing is that Bill is helping destroy freedom of speech by exercising it with such idiocy. I feel he is destroying his own society with his words. “Your a sad, strange, little man” and it would be justice if you were charged and convicted of treason.
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Do you want that Palestine will be free?
If your answer is yes, I recommend you the following home page:
http://www.alah.hu
“This image shows the future. A minaret-form skyscraper rises from the
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It symbolizes two things: on one hand there are a growing number of Moslem
people in the U.S.; and on the other hand it shows that the U.S. is in
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Sincerely,
December 17th, 2005 at 12:09 pmZoltan Biro