O’Reilly: Easter Bunny Under Attack!
By on Apr 12th, 2006 at 11:35 am
O’Reilly: Easter Bunny Under Attack!
It started with right-wing news site WorldNetDaily and Fox News daytime:
Now, finally, primetime cable’s fiercest culture warrior has joined the battle. Last night, Bill O’Reilly invited on Newsweek’s John Meacham to discuss the brewing ‘war on Easter’:
O’REILLY: Although some left-wingers in the media deny it, we have documented a number of cases where Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have been attacked by secular interests. Lawsuits and corporate policies have proved this point over and over again.
Doesn’t take much to get O’Reilly hopping mad.
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From what I remember all of the stories about the war on christmas that he used as proof were debunked.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:40 amDo he and Jay Sekulow have the same tailors?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:40 amO’rielly is a turd, what more needs to be said?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:41 amO’Reilly. what an unbelievable loser.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:41 amThe Mad Hare
April 12th, 2006 at 11:42 amwith
BAD HAIR
OMFG NOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!
The Global War on Easter has begun.
Get you $23,000 Italian shotguns and blast those bunnies.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:43 amLife imitates art. Colbert has been featuring the War on Easter for weeks.
As for O’Reilly, his weapon of choice is the video editing machine.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:43 amOh my ——- God. Please make it stop. Please………………..words fail
April 12th, 2006 at 11:45 amWow…I thought I had made up the phrase on this comment boards months ago. Holy sh*t, someone like O’Lielly actually ran with it….
Can we predict a War on Memorial Day, too? War on Secretary’s Day?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amO’Reilly does realize that the Easter Bunny and Santa aren’t actually in the Bible, right??
April 12th, 2006 at 11:47 amDoesn’t this stupid jerk realize that neither the Easter Bunny nor Santa Claus have anything to do with Christianity?
They are both related to Pagan holidays, not Christian holidays.
What a dumbass.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:48 amDS,
Exactly.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:49 amBill must be REALLY getting desperate to recycle this kind of pathetic and fabricated tale.
There is no war on religion. Just a bunch of irritated people standing up when it is forced upon us against our will. Not the same.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:49 amEaster Bunny stew, my house, this Sunday.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amWear your bunny ears and your favorite rabbit fur jacket.
Door prizes: Cute little pink and blue chicks, squeezed to death by toddlers.
O’Reilly does realize that the Easter Bunny and Santa aren’t actually in the Bible, right??
Comment by DS — April 12, 2006 @ 11:47 am
But talking dragons and fire-breathing dragons are. Think the holidays should change their mascots?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 amAnyone else remember the original TV, right-wing whackjob, Wally George? O’Reilly makes him look sane.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 ammeant ‘talking donkeys’
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 amDoor prizes: Cute little pink and blue chicks, squeezed to death by toddlers.
Comment by Zookeeper — April 12, 2006 @ 11:50 am
You’re too funny… though a little demented ;)
April 12th, 2006 at 11:52 amI happily support BO’R and his campaign to keep the Easter Bunny holy.
All join me in hailing the great big bunny in the sky!
April 12th, 2006 at 11:53 am… gosh … so all those Peeps, Cadbury eggs, plastic Easter baskets and cello grass I saw at Target the other night … not to mention the giant frickin Bunny for kids to take pictures with at the Mall … those are all banned, now?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:53 amBut talking dragons and fire-breathing dragons are. Think the holidays should change their mascots?
Comment by unbelievable — April 12, 2006 @ 11:51 am
meant ‘talking donkeys’
Comment by unbelievable — April 12, 2006 @ 11:51 am
No, you were right the first time. There is a talking dragon in Revelations.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:56 amFrankly, as a follower of methological naturalism, I would not mind if there actually were a secular campaign to divest this nation (and the world) of outdated superstitious nonsense. Sadly, there is no such ‘war’, however. In light of the attacks by religious groups on science, human rights, the arts, privacy, and intellectualism, it is proper, if not mandatory, that secular America speak up in it’s own defense. If that means going after their sacred cows, then so be it.
If Bill O’Reilly and Jay Sekulow are products of this sort of religious nonsense, then the sooner we get rid of what created them , the better we will all be for it.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:59 amFrankly, as a follower of methodological naturalism, I would not mind if there actually were a secular campaign to divest this nation (and the world) of outdated superstitious nonsense. Sadly, there is no such ‘war’, however. In light of the attacks by religious groups on science, human rights, the arts, privacy, and intellectualism, it is proper, if not mandatory, that secular America speak up in it’s own defense. If that means going after their sacred cows, then so be it.
If Bill O’Reilly and Jay Sekulow are products of this sort of religious nonsense, then the sooner we get rid of what created them , the better we will all be for it.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pm#21: There is a talking dragon in Revelations. – - Would that be ‘Puff’? Or in today’s world it’s more like ‘Poof.’
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pmNo, you were right the first time. There is a talking dragon in Revelations.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — April 12, 2006 @ 11:56 am
Along with the four cornered earth? Which isn’t that where the dragons live – off the ‘face’ of the planet?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:03 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
Comment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Clearly you do not recognize humor, wwallace. We are making jokes. Should try it sometime. You might find a prom date then and not need to hang outin here so much.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:05 pmOReilly should be reminded that the easter bunny is actually a pagan symbol, but then again are many of the object that christians hold so dear.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pmMaybe O’liely is mad because check-out people at walmart are saying “Merry Easter” instead of “Happy Easter” when customers go in to buy their peeps.
Nothing makes a reich wing nut madder then when you don’t get the wording correct!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:10 pmGuest what? He is right this time :)
enjoy: http://www.waroneaster.org/
April 12th, 2006 at 12:13 pmEaster Bunny is a pagan symbol.
http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_easterbunny.htm
April 12th, 2006 at 12:13 pm#25 – You are correct, warrantless domestic wiretapping is against the law.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:14 pmI gotta get cracking on my holiday song for next December. Title will be a snappier version of: “It Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas Until I See His Mottled, Red, Angry Face On My TV”
April 12th, 2006 at 12:14 pmI am a Christian who attends chruch regularly, I am not sure how I would qualify as anti-christian.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pm#18 – You’re too funny… though a little demented ;)
Comment by unbelievable
*blush*
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmYou’ve got to wonder if Bill’s seen this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060411-8.html
It goes all the way to the top Bill, the nation is doomed!
–
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com – grumblings from the heartland
I.Q. 4.7
You are right – it s sad when Christians attack science at the peril of the world and its children.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmSuch a war! So fierce that the battle rages as the White House has it’s Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn each year. This year it’s a day late on Monday, April 17, 2006.
Wonder why OReilly isn’t concerned about the lack of Passover menions in the press or the nearly invisible month long celebration of Ramadan each year? Maybe because the country is dominated by an almost 77 % Christian majority.
What a moron!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmALL HAIL THE FOX NEWS QUESTION-MARK HEADLINE!!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIQ 4.7, I find myself agreeing with you once again when you properly point out that the war against christians is nothing more than a tool being used by the right wing in an effort to distract us from the real crimes of this administration and that O’Rielly is nothing more than a GOP hack.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
Comment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
OK, so since you’re not on the left, it shouldn’t bother you if I call you out as a Christian bigot?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pmActually, I am a Christian stupid. My Christian parents raised me to know that both the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus have nothing to do with our religion. They are just holiday mascots for fun.
The truly important part of Easter is the resurrection of Christ and the important part of Christmas is the birth of Christ.
Everything else is bullshit.
If you were a true Christian, you would know that.
Idiot.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pmIf we’re so organized as to wage “war” on 2,000 year old religions, why can’t we win an election?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pmIf somebody actually called in and informed O’Reilly about the pagan origins of the holidays he holds so dear to exploit, he would…
1. Hang up on the caller and inform his listening audience that Fox Security will be handling the issue.
2. Go on some long side tangent about how the caller was completely wrong and then “correct” the caller with something he just made up.
3. Do that silly little smug smirk that he does when he thinks he has made his point and no further discussion is possible…. And since he already hung up on the caller, there is no way to counter his argument.
What a sad little man he is…
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pm“MERRY EASTER ” sounds stupid. If I want to say HAPPY EASTER I will and no one will tell me what to say. If I worked at Wal-mart I would say HAPPY EASTER. These people need to get a life.
Bill OReily is an idiot. Who watches Fox anyway only the Right Wing Nuts that can’t think for them self.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:20 pm#27, no actually it was you and your reichwing religious whack job that tried to tell me in sunday class that god was in a white robe with a walking stick along with his lambs sitting on a “cotton ball” cloud would greet me at the pearly gates. then when my family tried to get me to go to confirmation so i could eat a round wafer that you call flesh of jesus and drink cranberry juice that you call blood i realized there are alot of scaredy cats, gullable folks that can’t handle the truth and not knowing. so do you believe in the book of judah(that was recently found and the contents) or are you one of those christians? ones that cherry pick info and only apply the contents that fit your lifestyle.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:20 pmooops #46 was intended for #25 sorry.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:22 pmOh boy, oh boy. I can’t wait to watch Keith Olbermann’s show tonight.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:26 pmDoes anyone even take O’Lielly seriously anymore? His ratings have been plumetting
April 12th, 2006 at 12:27 pmbs,
Don’t forget the Apocrypha.
You know the book that holds the Books of Esdras 1 & 2, Tobit, Judith, The Rest of Esther, The Wisdom of Soloman, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, with the Epistole of Jeremiah, The SOng of the Three Holy Children, The History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, and Maccabees 1 & 2.
The Acpcrypha is not denounce by the Catholic church. They just don’t use them because “The just repeat a lot of stuff in the other books of the Bible”
I bet dippy ding dong had never heard of the Apocrypha before I mentioned it here.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:28 pmThis isn’t about religion, it’s about culture. The Democrats have been losing elections in large part because they are so out of touch with American culture. Attempts to banish Santa, Baby Jesus and now the Easter bunny from the public sector are wrong. A large majority of Americans don’t want that. So of course the right-wing is going to use it politically because we think you are wrong.
When it comes to issues of culture and religion, the left is truly fascist. You don’t want to debate – you want everyone to go along silently with your radical agenda. That’s gonna change. Can’t wait to see the hissy fit you throw when John Paul Stevens steps down from the Supreme Court this summer.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:30 pmHere is a definition from bible.com
A Christian theological definition of Apocrypha according to CARM – The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:
Apocrypha
The word apocrypha means hidden. It is used in a general sense to describe a list of books written by Jews between 300 and 100 B.C. More specifically, it is used of the seven additional books accepted by the Catholic church as being inspired. The entire list of books of the apocrypha are: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, the Rest of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, (also titled Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, The Letter of Jeremiah, Song of the Three Young Men, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Additions to Daniel, The Prayer of Manasseh, and 1 and 2 Maccabees.
The books accepted as inspired and included in the Catholic Bible are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees Wisdom of Solomon Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch
The Jews never recognized these books as being canonical (inspired). There is no record that Jesus or the apostles ever quoted from the apocryphal books. The Septuagint (LXX) includes the books, not as scripture, but as part of the translation of the Hebrew manuscripts as a whole.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pmPoor billie, he will do anything to get attention…..fox ‘National Inquirer’ news. How are thoes rating drops doing billie? I see you DIDN’T get Keith Olbermann off t.v. did you…LOSER….
April 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmDeath to Santa and the Easter Bunny!
But seriously.. no I said seriously… C’mon, stop laughing! Oh never mind, if you aren’t gonna be serious about it..
April 12th, 2006 at 12:35 pmSure it is.
Nise try, but this IS about religion. A religion you know nothing about.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:36 pmAnyone catch David Letterman’s bit last night on Easter? He prefaced it big-time and then when they played it the audience howled at the end (something about everyone being invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll….except if you’re Jewish).
This is just more of O’LIElly bloviating to somehow bolster his sagging ratings. What a pathetic loser he is.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:37 pmSee, Fox & Co. want it both ways. They want their viewers to believe that liberals are a laughingstock, have no ideas, are made ineffective by their rage at the president, and screech instead of talking. Then they want the viewers to believe that liberals are engaged in a vast conspiracy against them, vast enough to be the cause of every story of somebody taking down an Easter symbol.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:40 pmI think it is the Republicans that are out of touch with the American culture not the Dems.
The Dems will take over both houses and we will impeach Old Bushie and his administration.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:41 pmIQ 4.7 – you’re spot on again my friend. I completely agree with your assertion that the right wing is truly facist when it comes to issues of religion and culture. You’ve hit the nail on the head again when you suggest that they are not interested in debate and only want everyone to go along silently with thier radical agenda. I certainly hope that your are correct in your statement that this is going to change.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:42 pmThese are a bunch of whining, spoiled rotten crybabies. These “There’s a war on Christianity”, “War on (put your cause here)”, bunch are a whole lot of losers. They will never be satisfied, even if they take over the world. Everything is about them sickens me. Bill O’Reilly is raising a new generation of paranoid, self-deluded, spoiled rotten losers.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:45 pmThe Easter Bunny died for your sins!
I’m glad that O’Reilly has finally started covering this crisis, so ably first documented by The Colbert Report.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:45 pmLet’s see… as far as cacao is originally a product from south america, “discovered” five hundred years ago by the christians, tell me HOW IT CAN BE A CHRISTIAN TRADITION, as soon as Christ has been around for two hundred years, a bunny (???) laying chocolate eggs!!!
(By the way, I’m christian, catholic brand, and I have no clue where in the Bible is the paragraph about bunnies and eggs).
April 12th, 2006 at 12:47 pmBut, I like chocolate…
April 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pmComment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
Why do you insist on using that ridiculous nickname? I’ve already demonstrated that it’s a lie. Or do you get a masochistic kick out of trumpeting yourself as a liar?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pmBut, I like chocolate…
Comment by Bruce Gorton — April 12, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
Me too. You’ll be happy to know that you can buy, and eat it year ’round now :)
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pm#62 Oops, obviously, Christ has been two THOUSAND years around.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pm“The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices.”
That word made me laugh!
-Tommy Torquemada
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pmO’Dildo is just doing his job, people. His job is to rally the religious wackos to the GOP (corporate) cause. The Repugs have to fight the next election and the one after that. If the GOP does not run on gays, guns, god and fetuses, what are they going to run on in 2006 and 2008…….. their record?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:58 pmo’reilly is simply a paranoid delusional
April 12th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Wild Bill is too dumb to realize that the easter bunny, chocolate, eggs, easter baskets etc… ARE THE SECULARIZATION OF EASTER. Easter has noting to do with those things.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:00 pmYou go get ‘em, Bill! The next thing you know, them damn anti-Christians will be crucifying Jesus instead of celebrating Easter. Oh, wait…
April 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pmI’m starting to think Fox News is really a very long-running satire piece. Kind of like The Daily Show, but not funny. They can’t possibly be serious.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pm#58 – 66% of Americans do NOT want Bush impeached. So yes, you are out of touch. AND a fool, I might add.
As for the culture wars, you people have no idea what you are in for. The Court will shift radically to right and there is not a thing you can do about it. Your Stalinist agenda will be stopped once and for all.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pmI posted the following on a UK board back in December when the religious right were going on about the War on Christmas:
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: The War On Christmas
After having come off of this last major religious holiday, it struck me, has anyone else noticed how Christians seem to have this whole persecution complex going? I mean, every time we hit a major Christian festival, we get told the PC Brigade (which, so far as I can see doesn’t exist) has declared war on it. And these festivals aren’t really even Christian any more.
Face it, who do your kids identify with Christmas? A fat guy in a red suit, or Jesus? Easter? Jesus getting offed or a bunny armed with chocolate eggs? Hell, I identified Christmas as being about the fat guy in a red suit when I was small, and I didn’t believe in Santa! I believed in presents but that is another story.
Now, as an Atheist, with vaguely liberal leanings, I have come to the conclusion that Christianity is in dire need of real persecution. As one of the number one parties getting blamed for said persecution, I feel that it is only fair that I get to engage in it. Thus I as an all powerful atheist person, have declared war on Christian festivals, except for Saint Patrick’s Day because that one oddly enough never gets mentioned and I like leprechauns.
Now, for next Christmas, as my first act of war, I will hereby tell all and sundry children that Santa doesn’t exist, their parents are buying them those presents, and besides don’t they find it kinda creepy having some fat old guy knowing when they are say, having a bath or on the toilet? Or even wanting to know? Second, I shall attend church with the distinct aim of being asked to leave after heckling the priest and replacing the choir’s prayer books with Kevin Bloody Wilson lyrics.
Now I am waiting till Easter after next, because I want all of those Christian fundies to at least have a chance at not being whiny wussies about whatever Easter variant of “Happy Holidays” hits the shops. The Easter afterwards however, will likely see red cherry jam filled chocolate (dark chocolate) Crucified Jesus sweets appearing all over the place. They at least will be on topic.
Saint Valentine’s Day? Porn! And anyway, both Valentines were celibate. So who will join me in this holy crusade against the “holy” festivals? Sure we will get called jackasses, but hey, at least the Christian right will have reason to bitch and moan instead of doing it for practice.
Now Easter has come, and I must start preparing for next year, anybody know where I can get some Jesus shaped cooking moulds?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmO’Reilly is an idiot.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmOh no, not the Easter bunny!
I thought the Pat Robertson’s and Jerry Falwell’s were opposed to the bunny as being irreligious, and “diluting the message of Christ?
If this is the case then O’Really has put himself in an odd position even by his own standards.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pmWe’ve had enough! If there are going to be fake wars on Easter and Christmas in the press, we’ll wage real war and let him know what’s up! This Easter nowhere is safe from the truth as we non-violently spread copies of “The God Who Wasn’t There” DVD in the hymnals and pews for unsuspecting worshippers to see.
Visit http://www.waroneaster.org and this thread for some audio files about the event including radio appearances we’ve made!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pmIt almost makes me feel pity. Almost. The best O’Reilly can do is parrot Stephen Colbert’s satire. The Colbert Report was there first, Bill. Get your own war.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:08 pmOkay Joseph MacCarthy.
You know who else was scared of the communists?
Hitler.
That fits rather well, since you are a facist.
You have been bitch slapped up one side and down the other here.
STFU
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmI do hope that Bill stands up for the Tooth Fairy next. Tooth Fairy believers have had ENOUGH
Oh, wait … Bill will probably never stand up for any kind of “fairy.”
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmmaybe O’reilly can use The Colbert Report’s graphic for “Easter Under Attack,” featuring a pistol-toting Jesus fending off bullets as he emerges from the tomb!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmSecular interests? THat is like saying black people who fought against slavery were pushing “black” interests. How dare people NOT want to be oppressed! How dare people NOT want Christianity forced on them eveywhere they go! And how dare anyone think religion should be a spiritual private matter as opposed to a boistrous, brag-fest.
After all, that is the “secular interests” O’Reilly is laughably talking about…people not wanting to have someone else’s beliefs forced on them in public.
And WTF does the Easter Bunny have to do with Jesus’ death and resurection anyway?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmIs the “War on Easter” anything like our “War on Porta-Potties in the Iraqi Desert”?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pmSomebody unwrap this nut bar…and stuff him in a microwave.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pm“As for the culture wars, you people have no idea what you are in for. The Court will shift radically to right and there is not a thing you can do about it. Your Stalinist agenda will be stopped once and for all.”
Because everyone knows that the best way to stop things becoming The Way I Don’t Want Them To Be is to FORCE everyone to do it My Way. Threaten. Threaten. Screech. Screech. Screech.
If that isn’t real, Tooth-Fairy-Blessed DEMOCRACY, what is, Paw?
Stalinism. Yeah, RIGHT, pal. Like the theocracy YOU want is anything people with better than a 3rd grade education would ever sanction.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:12 pmGlenn – I can feel the hate. We have been living in a liberal theocracy since 1968. Your religion is a hatred of religious values and those who have them.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:16 pmO’Reilly is the dumbest man on planet Earth! Easter became a more secular holiday years ago! Does he think the Easter Bunny, Ducks and eggs are in the Bible? Almost everything about Easter is created nonsense! Only if you go to church on Easter Sunday, and listen to the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, do you understand its meaning! But do not give all that gooey candy to your kids, and paint eggs, if you believe in Christianity!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmHa ha ha — “hopping mad”
April 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmO’Lielly the loser is so trite now – so predictable. With Colbert nailing Bill’s delivery and attitude on his satirical program, it’s surprising to me that Bill O continues to provide fodder for Colbert and all the other comedians who mock him.
Not that he doesn’t deserve all the derision he gets, and then some.
The Easter Bunny may not bring the rabble-rousing fomenter a basket on Sunday.
I wonder if O’Lielly will attend church Thursday, fast on Friday and make the Stations of the Cross, and attend the sunrise service on Sunday – or will he buy new outfits for the family, eat a few chocolate bunnies, and help the local kids color a few eggs, and then join the kids on the White House lawn for the Easter Egg Roll.
Marie – YOU are loser. SO predictable. A poster child for the far left.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pmHey Spudge Boy, Unemployment line and the rest of you hypocritical Christians!. If you guys hate us “leftists” ergo We Secular humanists, then leave our SCIENCE alone! Don’t take advantage of our medical discoveries, our electronics discoveries, our airplanes and transportation, computers or telephones or anything technological. Those were made with SCIENCE! Next time you or your kids get sick, PRAY, don’t use modern medicine. Use your FAITH, not our Science. Leave my Easter Bunny and Santa out of your silly war. The War on Easter and Christmas is a war on your STUPIDITY not the holidays. Next you’ll want to claim the Tooth Fairy.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#86 – I completely agree with your assertion that the right wing is truly facist when it comes to issues of religion and culture.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmAs the Knights of the Round Table can attest, the bunny can take care of itself.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmBush is a dictator and has to be stop. You are out of touch with reality.
Bush has done nothing for the American people except give us an unjust war. This administration was behind 9-11.
The American people do want this man Impeached. We will win in November and you can cry in your beer.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pm#90 JAG, Spudge Boy is only pointing to the reasonement failures of IQ 4.7
April 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmBruce – did you bring the royal grenade?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmO’Reilly is absolutely ridiculous.
My brother-in-law is a hard-core Protestant and he refuses to have anything to do with the Easter Bunny or the egg hunt. He thinks is too pagan.
Don’t even ask him about Halloween.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:24 pmThese guys are desperate they runnuing out justification for their wars ,Now the easter bunny .NOW WHO WILL BE NEXT . Tshe jews , the gypsies , the gays , they have done that done this , old shit . Thair imagination of hate is running dry . Well may be not.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:24 pmZookeeper – I said the left is fascist when it comes to culture. Of course, you agree.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:25 pmJAG,
You got the wrong guy. I am directly attacking Unemployment and O’Rielly over the fact that they know nothing about the Christian religion. Jesus was in fact a liberal and was fighting against the tyranical opression of the Romans.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:26 pmKeith Olbermann will probably get on this and make O’Lielly TONIGHT’S WORST PERSON IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRLD!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:27 pm[...] Meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly, confronted with perhaps one of the biggest war crises in his country’s history reports on…the war on Easter. This is not a joke. [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pm[...] Meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly, confronted with perhaps one of the biggest war crises in his country’s history reports on…the war on Easter. This is not a joke. [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmFunny how the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are myths that Christians like to tell to their children as if they were true.
I guess they’re just softening them up for the really big myth they’re going to teach them as truth when they get older.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pm98
As a South African, I have a long history of knowing people who were all about defending their culture. In fact that was the exact rationale behind Aparthied. So you will excuse me if I take your “Defending American Culture” stance a bit less then seriously.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmUnemployment Rate – 4.7%,
Hey dipshit, everytime you say left and facist in the same phrase you make yourself look very stupid. Facism is a right wing policy, not a left wing policy. Get your attacks straight. You are supposed to call us communists.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:29 pmratings must be very low for O’Liely! very,very low. I think i’ll sic all the kids in the United States on him. What an old miser. taking all the fun away! as a kid we went to mass FIRST then we had the easter egg hunt and pigged out on chocolate the whole day so when my mom called for dinner we all groaned!! I’m sure thats how most american families still play it!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:31 pmFirst this:
It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are.
Comment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Followed by this:
This isn’t about religion, it’s about culture. (..) Attempts to banish Santa, Baby Jesus and now the Easter bunny from the public sector are wrong.
Comment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
UR47/wwallace cannot keep his stories straight… such a sad spectacle…
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmA-HOLES all of them! If they only knew that EVERY LAST CHRISTIAN celebration
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmwas STOLEN from the PAGANS!
First they came for Santa Claus
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmand I did not speak out
because I was not Santa.
Then they came for the Easter Bunny
and I did not speak out
because I was not the Easter Bunny.
Then they came for the Tooth Fairy
and I did not speak out
because I was not the Tooth Fairy.
Then they came for me
and there were no imaginary friends
to speak out for me.
Spudge – good points. However, the modern day left has a touch of fascism and communism. You people are like the thought police. You viciously attack anyone who disagrees with you (case in point, Alito). O’Reilly, too. You would gas conservatives if you had the power – you would.
You hate religion unless you can invoke to save the life of murderer. You also like to use religion to justify taking my $$.
It is quite an achievement, but ThinkProgress is both fascist and communist.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:35 pmNeD, you must reread your helpful, insightful, intelligent comments once again. Can you honestly say you are useful to anyone? Aren’t you embarrassed?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:36 pmSomeone with an IQ over 100 is still listening to O’Reilly’s big fat mouth from his big fat head?
Get the facts. Watch Keith Olbermann instead.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#98 – *snort* You are correct, warrantless domestic wiretapping is against the law.
#107 – Ah Spudge, now you’ve let the cat out of the bag. I was going to let him go on that way. Left=fascist…HA!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pmI.Q. 4.7 – I Love You Man!
I think Jesus does too.
How could he not when you work so hard to spread the Loving message that he died for.
You go Girlfriend!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pmAre you having trouble reading?
I am a Christian, so every time you say I hate religion, you make yourself sound like a fool.
Besides, It is the right who hates the Muslim religion, so if you are going to generalize, please at least say the left hates Christians. But, considering that you consider me left, which I am not, that would make you sound stupid also, because once again, I am a Christian.
I just don’t believe your bullshit lies or those of O’Rielly or those of the Bush cabal.
You need to go to church and learn about what Christ really wanted.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:39 pmBoth the “War on Christmas” and the “War on Easter” have been wholly invented by Fox. On the other hand, it’s great to see Fox using the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus to symbolize to deeply Christian holidays. Anyone else think they’re missing the point here? What a bunch of morons.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pm#116 – prove that you’re not fascist. You are the thought police. You hate anyone or anything who doesn’t share your views. Did you watch Teddy Kennedy disgusting tactics at Alito’s hearing? Did you hear Leaky Leahy grilling Alito about what he thought thirty years ago. You are an Orwellian novel, except you have no power to enact your agenda.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pmYou know what is funny? The first protestants where people who was not in sintony with the Roman Catholic Church because they thought that the way of the Church was far from the teachings of Christ. And look today: their descendants “ingeniously” integrated the non-christian traditions (easter & bunnies, Santa Claus, Halloween…) into their brand of christianity. I think that Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli, Thomas Cranmer, and John Knox would be very disappointed if they knew what have done their ideological descendants to christianity.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:42 pmActually, I would force them all to watch BBC news insteda of Fox News. I would make them all attend higher education, not just go to the building, but actually attend. Then I would make them all read the Bible from front cover to back, so they could learn abou the religion they preach to everyone.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:43 pmFlying Spaghetti Monster – That’s some funny shit man!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pm#100, If you want to see his head explode start talking about the UNDEREMPLOYMENT of America, which has been steadily rising for the last few years.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pm#120 – You are correct, this is the most incompetent administration ever.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmNeD, do you really think you are religious? Isn’t it obvious when you read your own posts, that you are judging others and not doing God’s work? Do you think you are any better than any other human walking the earth? And really, aren’t you worried about how your party looks? Republicans are barely keeping afloat. There is much division and it would seem that if you actually cared, you would be trying to assist them instead of wasting your time here – not that I mind.
And NeD, you are very confused about what we think and what we are about; that is why your posts are so strange to us here. You sound like a pimply faced teenager. How could anyone want that? Don’t you have any pride? Why weren’t you taught self-respect? That evil mother issue again?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:46 pm#124 – I think we’re getting close, Mark.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:47 pmSpudge – I would make people like you live in Iran and pre-war Iraq for a year to see what oppression is really like. Then, maybe you would appreciate this wonderful country even if you don’t like the current leadership.
I would make the left live under all the dictators they would have left in power because they are cowards and don’t believe in their country.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:47 pm[...] Remember the thoroughly debunked persecution complex of the right wing’s War on Christmas meme? We’re more Hanukkah people here at DoubleSpeak, but we found it silly nonetheless. Looks like they’re using the same playbook this spring. Via Think Progress, from last night’s O’Reilly Factor: O’REILLY: Although some left-wingers in the media deny it, we have documented a number of cases where Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have been attacked by secular interests. Lawsuits and corporate policies have proved this point over and over again. [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pmI have declared Jihad against the Easter Bunny! Alahu Akbar!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pm“Doesn’t take much to get O’Reilly hopping mad.”
You think Father O’Reilly gets mad about the unrelenting attacks on Christianity from the Filthy Left, wait until all those R.C. Mexicans that have been streaming across the border wiegh in on the subject. They are not used to putting up with the fun and games our secular humanists on the Filthy Left plays on the Christian faith. It won’t be long before disrespecting the Christian religion in this country is considered a hate crime. When that happens you losers will really be screwed. I suggest you learn the Rosary. You heard it here first.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pm#120 A negative cannot be proven. More of that crazy science that you don’t understand. Geez, NeD, you really have be more clever, if not smart.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:49 pmThe left believes in our country not the current dictator Old Bushie.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmAha ah ah ah ah a
You mean the dictators that the republicans put in power?
WHy are you trying to change the subject. What happened to defending the Christian religion, you know nothing about. Why are you not talking about the Global War on Easter.
Because you don’t have a religion.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmUnderemployment – we have a dictatorship here – no need to leave.
By the way…when are you going to Iraq? If this is such a just cause, why aren’t you serving?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmActually, my feelings on the matter is that all prisoners should be treat according to the facts of their case, not according to their religion, so I disagree with letting converts off easy just because they found God (or gods.)
My misgivings about the death penalty are more based on what Gandalf said then anything Jesus said, so your argument fails there too.
Oh, and your taxes? How about this, try living without any of the services those taxes pay for, then get back to us.
Now lets all get back to mocking the Rightwing Pundit.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
#131 – “…all those R.C. Mexicans”??? You think that they’re radio-controlled?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pmUnemployment Rate – 4.7%,
When was it that you said that you joined the military to go fight the dictators?
I served my country during Operation Desert Storm.
How about you. Fought for your country lately?
Didn’t think so.
Chickenhawk Facist.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pm#131 Yes, O’Liely gets very mad about almost everything – much like yourself. And you are not a Christian. You are what we were warned about in church – false profits disguised as believers. You will be dealt with, one way or another.
You should try to atone.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pm#134 – you should live in Iran since you fear Bush more than their President. Let’s see what they to do dissenters like yourself.
Also, live with your buddy Chavez with Cindy Liar Sheehan. You can be put in jail for criticizing him.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pmPROOF of the war on Easter:
April 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pmhttp://www.doei.org/misc/Easter_is_cancelled.jpg
IQ 4.7… Christian Brother – let’s bury the hatchet… or maybe paint it and hide it in the yard… whatever works best for you.
I think a compromise is in order!
Why don’t we pull the troops out of Iraq and then take the hundreds of billions of dollars that wed save from no longer funding an illegal war and buy plastic Santas and plastic Easter Bunnies for every man woman and child in America… even the illegals.
Oh yeah – and we could get all the soldiers that wed save from certain death to deliver them.
Mmmmmmmmmmm – now that’s good compromise!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:58 pmIn the name of Christianity HE should be waging war on the Easter Bunny which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Christian Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This guy is bipolar.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pmComment by I-RIGHT-I — April 12, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
dribble on you pea-minded ignoramus!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pm#140 – You are right in your assertion that it’s a travesty that George W. Bush lied us into the Iraq War, at the cost of over 2300 of our troops, including Casey Sheehan.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmComment by I-RIGHT-I — April 12, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
dribble on you pea-brained ignoramus!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmHa, Bush doesn’t scare me. The whole Bush cabal reminds me of the Keystone Cops. They fvck up everything they touch.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmUnemployment Rate: Why didn’t you tell Spudge Boy to live in Iraq? I know why. It’s because you know that Preznit Half-wit screwed the pooch on Iraq and it’s WORSE THERE NOW THAN IT WAS BEFORE PUDDIN’ HEAD BUSH GOT ALL MESSIANIC AND DECIDED TO INVADE IRAQ WITH A LOAF OF BREAD AND A COUPLE OF FISH.
Let’s examine some reality for a change:
“No one could have predicted that they’d use airplanes as missiles!”
– Condi Rice
“No one could have predicted that the levees would be breached!”
–George W. Bush, nincompoop
“No one could have predicted there would be looting!”
–Donald Rumsfeld
“No one could have predicted there’d be an insurgency!”
–Dick “Dick” Cheney
It should be clear to all those watching that this administration is dangerously incompetent in assessing the real world. If they are telling us today that Iran is dangerously close to possessing ‘nucular’ weapons, then I will predict that it is just a matter of time before one of these dangerous asshats stands in front of us and tells us, “No one could have predicted that Iran didn’t really have nukes, after all!” Of course, this will be after tens or hundreds of thousands of people have died.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmRyan – do your homework. You can be put in jail for criticizing Chavez’ govt. It’s digusting that the left would associate with him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:03 pmUnemployment Rate: Chavez was democratically elected. Do you have a problem with democratic elections? Or are you just in favor of ‘Free-dumb’?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:05 pmUR – do your homework. You can disappear just like that for criticizing Bushco’s government. It’s no wonder the right associates with him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:05 pmActually, I would probably be greeted as a hero for standing up against Bush.
Same should be true in the US, too bad republicans control the “liberal media” here.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:06 pmIf there was an official label put on the first decade of the new century, the right wing media outlets would choose “The War on…” decade.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm#150 – Spaghetti – They need to call Ms Cleo. That crazy bitch can predict anything!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm#154 – you are SICK. You are an un-American scum bag. Done debating with trash…
April 12th, 2006 at 2:08 pmGeez! First those Liberal-Commie bastards try to take the son of God out of Christmas [leaving just "Merry mas"].
Now they try to take God’s favorite Bunny Of the Month (April . . . although S/he sometimes appears in March) out of the centerfold of Prayboy magazine!
What next? Will they try to de-Saint Patrick . . . WHAT???
April 12th, 2006 at 2:08 pm“you should live in Iran since you fear Bush more than their President. Let’s see what they to do dissenters like yourself.”
this idiot hasn’t a clue. People in Iran, like us, CANNOT stand their leader either.
And that is the thing we are turning into. Not being able to SPEAK OUT! For fear of the SLIME MACHINE!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmMission Accomplished!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm#78: The best O’Reilly can do is parrot Stephen Colbert’s satire. The Colbert Report was there first, Bill. Get your own war. – - And that sneaky bastard O’Reilly waited to do this story until Colbert went on vacation this week. When Stephen gets back he’s going to weep over how his ‘mentor, idol and template,’ O’Reilly, betrayed him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmJust a quick quote pulled from Wikipedia on the subject of Chávez. Now who do we know who uses routinely uses the “But they did it too” excuse?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm#156 – You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! We were sold the bill of goods that this imbecile was going to be “The CEO President”. After all of the disasters that he and his incomptent band of thieves have managed to perpetrate on us, I’ve decided that we don’t need a CEO President–we need a CLEO President, just like you said. Miss Cleo could have predicted that stuff and saved hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and tens of thousands of lives!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmRyan – you’re an idiot. If you had your way in the 50s, Stalin would have committed more crimes against humanity because you are too busy crying about Joe McCarthy. He wasn’t the enemy – Stalin was.
You twisted fucks would have let Stalin, Hitler and Hussein in power. You have always sided with the enemy. FDR would be ashamed.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pm#157 Good riddens. We don’t want you here. You are an insulting right wing idiot.
By By!!!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWhat the hell does the Easter bunny have to do with Jesus rising from the dead?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pm#154 – you are SICK. You are an un-American scum bag. Done debating with trash…
Comment by Unemployment Rate – 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Damn Spudge – You did it… you wore that simple bastard out.
And they say that ignorance has no bounds… Ha!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWe were sold the bill of goods that this imbecile was going to be “The CEO Presidentâ€.
Seems to me most people should have noticed that Bush was a failed CEO before they fell for that line of crap.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:13 pmUnemployment Rate – 4.7%
Actually, we can argue that without McCarthy, America would have beaten Russia sooner, because valuable resources that were wasted on persecuting Charlie Chaplin could have been better spent on fighting Communism.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:14 pmUnemployment Rate – explaining stuff to you is kind of like showing a card trick to a cocker spaniel. The dog cocks it’s head as though it’s trying to understand what’s going on, but clearly it doesn’t have the intellect to cope.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:14 pmHitler’s Industrialist Party was funded in part by Prescott Bush. George Bush’s Grandpa.
Saddam Hussien was good buddies with Regan and Rumsfeld.
Get your facts straight.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:15 pmHey you all – have you seen this – I keep posting it but you HAVE to see it.
Check it out here…
it really does explain the mind set of these idiots!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:16 pmBTW, in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, we can celebrate Easter even though we don’t believe in imaginary friends like the Easter Bunny. We have REAL friends–like the Easter Penne.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pm#100 Ryan :) !
April 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pmUR is quick to label everyone who doesn’t think (does he think?) like he does.
madashell,
That is definitely funny stuff. I sent it to all of my republican friends.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pmWait till they find out about the Easter Beaver, who brings us whole new method for hiding the Easter eggs.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmThere *is* a war on the bunny – but they have it wrong: the RIGHT is after him, not the LEFT. Silly Billy. From a local (PIttsburgh) phenomenon in 2004:
No passion for Easter Bunny at church show
Children in audience watch as actor in rabbit costume whipped
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:37 a.m. ET April 8, 2004
GLASSPORT, Pa. – First, the Passion of the Christ. Now, the torment of the Easter Bunny?
It may not have been as gruesome as Mel Gibson’s movie, but many parents and children got upset when a church trying to teach about Jesus’ crucifixion performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs.
People who attended Saturday’s show at Glassport’s memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, “There is no Easter bunny,†and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was crucified.
Melissa Salzmann, who brought her 4-year-old son J.T., said the program was inappropriate for young children. “He was crying and asking me why the bunny was being whipped,†Salzmann said.
Patty Bickerton, the youth minister at Glassport Assembly of God, said the performance wasn’t meant to be offensive. Bickerton portrayed the Easter rabbit and said she tried to act with a tone of irreverence.
“The program was for all ages, not just the kids. We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ,†Bickerton said.
Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman, said Jennifer Norelli-Burke, another parent who saw the show in Glassport, a community about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
“It was very disturbing,†Norelli-Burke said. “I could not believe what I saw. It wasn’t anything I was expecting.â€
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmWait till they find out about the Easter Beaver, who brings us a whole new method for hiding the Easter eggs.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmImagine…George Bush has been President for more than 5 years, and the best thing that our not-bright friend can come up with about the Bush administration is “Unemployment Rate 4.7%”. Of course, that’s higher than the unemployment rate when Clinton had been President for 5 years, but I guess that ‘our friend’ didn’t have room in the name field for other Bush accomplishments like, “Over 25,000 Americans dead and wounded in 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina!”
April 12th, 2006 at 2:20 pmI want to know what books in the Bible have the stories about the Easter Bunny and about Santa Claus.
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April 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pmVeruca,
The truth is stranger than fiction. You can’t make this stuff up.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pm#112 FSM
April 12th, 2006 at 2:25 pmThat is hilarious!!
Oh Eve! Stop your war on Christianity! Only 95% of Americans are Christian! Why must you persecute us so?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:25 pmPolitical discourse in the current era is, frankly, rather embarrassing. I yearn for the days I was considered a ‘running dog lackey of the imperialists’ by the ‘nattering nabobs of negativism’.
You bozos today can’t even spell.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:26 pmAh Spiro…We hardly knew ye….
April 12th, 2006 at 2:28 pmTo quote Chico Marx in “A Night At the Opera”
“You can’t fool me, there’s no such thing as sanity clause!”
April 12th, 2006 at 2:28 pmGET READY O’REILLY FOR THE GLOBAL WAR ON LOOFAHS!!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:28 pmI’ll say it again, words borrowed from another blogger…
Dear Lord, please protect me from your followers. Amen.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:29 pmYes. It’s about time George Bush started doing God’s work and not God’s job.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:31 pmBill O’Reilly Song
(To: Silent Night)
Bill O’Reilly, Shrill O’Reilly,
Ninety-eight percent fact-free!
When he opens his mouth to expound,
Few indeed are the facts that are found.
Right-wing nut-job is he!
Right-wing nut-job is he.
Bill O’Reilly, Shrill O’Reilly,
Talking trash about you and me.
A War on Christians, he sees at each store,
With liberals plotting, and oh, so much more;
Right-wing nut-job is he!
Right-wing nut-job is he.
Bill O’Reilly, Shrill O’Reilly,
Shill for George Bush and his liars, we see.
There’s nothing this madministration won’t do
That Bill is sure to approve it, it’s true!
Spying and lying and war!
Lying and spying and war.
©2006 Bob Clayton & Ed Drone
April 12th, 2006 at 2:32 pmBush put his hand on the Bible and Swore to protect the Constitution. He did not put his hand on the Constitution and sware to protect the Bible.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:32 pmThe 4.7 % for unemployment is a joke.
In my state of Wisconsin companies are closing or going bankrupt. Employees are looseing their jobs all the time. They don’t count all the people that have stopped looking or are not receiving unemployment benefits.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:34 pmhttp://talkingasshole.cf.huffingtonpost.com/
O’Reilly on the War? O’Reilly on Religion? O’Reilly on Immigration? It all sounds the same to me. Ba-ba-ba-oh-mow-mow-ba-ba-oh-mow-mow…
April 12th, 2006 at 2:36 pmThe so-called “war on Easter” & “war on Christians” is nothing but a canard.
Because the Republicans can no longer kick-start the Christians into a frenzy with their baseless attacks against liberals/Progressives & Democrats, they have to make up more calumny about a fake “war” on Christianity.
Since they didn’t get any traction out of their mendacious “war on Christmasâ€, they’ve gone after the next religious holiday that was convenient.
They’ve only got a few more days until Easter has come & gone, then they won’t have any convenient straw-man to prop up until Christmas, and that’s after the mid-term elections!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:38 pmI think that Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli, Thomas Cranmer, and John Knox would be very disappointed if they knew what have done their ideological descendants to christianity.
Comment by Evil Spaniard —
Correct but they’d still call the Pope the anti-Christ.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:39 pmMight not a war on Easter at this time derail our pincer attack on Iran from our bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There will be plenty of time for a war on Easter when and if they get oil fields.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:40 pmI hadn’t been reading this thread. But when I saw the ticker hit 193, I had to take a look. Well, that plus HuffPo has a link to it today too.
ever notice that some of our trolls are one trick ponies? Why do I see the same effluent from them on every thread every day? Can’t somebody contact karl Rove & tell him to change his tape so we at least have some new complaints from our resident Rovebots…..
April 12th, 2006 at 2:41 pmkindness
Kinda brings new meaning to the term spin cycle doesn’t it?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:44 pmThe easter bunny is a pagan symbol of promiscuity and sex at the time of the spring equinox. Eggs? More sex.
If people really were serious about Easter, they’d be reenacting the passion, just like Jim Cavezial.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:45 pmDidn’t you know, Jesus had bunny before the cross – and he squirted out the easter bunny when he rose up later. He’s jesus crap.
Comment by Ryan Neat
Nope, no leftwingfucktard Christian bashing to see here…move along.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:46 pmI think O’Reilley will next become outraged that so many of those illegal aliens have stolen Jesus’ name.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:46 pm#86 – I completely agree with your assertion that the right wing is truly facist when it comes to issues of religion and culture.
Comment by Zookeeper
From the inventors of political correctness, multiculturalism, feminism, homosexualism and the ACLU? And you wonder why I call you idiots fucktards?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:50 pm#199 I see your point. The germ of insanity has been forever in the core of protestantism? Or you mean the whole christianism? So you’re a true christian, that’s your point. Good for you.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:50 pmDidn’t TCR (The Colbert Report) already turn this into a joke months ago?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:51 pm#204 – Yeah, it’s only rightwingfucktart spinning going on here.
Wow! It’s IS a liberating feeling to suspend my logic and engage in ad hominem attacks!
“Right between the I’s”, you’ve shown me the LIGHT! I can now engage in blind hateful speech EXACTLY like you do, you ratbastardfascistRepublitard!
Ewwww. Now I’ve got to go take a shower. Acting like the neo-con trolls makes me feel oh so dirty.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI just figured out UR 4.7’s beef. He’s in the 4.7% of unemployed. Otherwise he wouldn’t have time to hang out here with all us lazy America-hating commies.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:52 pmBTW – gotta love that picture of Bill O’Liely. Doesn’t it look like he’s playing with his “falaffel” outside of camara……
April 12th, 2006 at 2:52 pm#86, “Glenn – I can feel the hate. We have been living in a liberal theocracy since 1968. Your religion is a hatred of religious values and those who have them. ”
Hmm. Weird. So you are including the years of Nixon, the years of Reagan, the years of Bush I and the years of Bush II in that “since 1968″? That’s interesting arithmetic, Master Shecky.
And it is so dull to have to point out that, no, I don’t hate religion qua religion, but whatever arguments I might marshal to “prove” that to you would sail so far over your microcephalic head … I mean, I’d have to essentially /define every word/ and then you still wouldn’t /read/ them.
Nah. It’s not religion I mind so much as … fools.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:54 pm#105, yes, it’s been typed before but God is essentially Santa Claus for adults. Note the similar hairstyle, the similar “methods” (making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice … he sees you when you’re sleeping …).
Heh.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:56 pmNow this is funny. A phony war on Easter is hatched to promote a DVD, and the Morons that are being made fun of fall right into the trap.
Absolutely priceless.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:56 pmIf we’re having a war on Easter, I want to know why I didn’t get an invitation.
And what does one wear to a cultural war anyway?
Is Cheney coming? I want to watch him shoot. From a distance.
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April 12th, 2006 at 2:57 pmI’m all for removing Easter/Christmas etc from the books.
2 more days I can get out of the employees. Less holiday pay.
Works for me
April 12th, 2006 at 2:57 pmIGNORE THE UNEMPLOYMENT TROLL. Enough of him leading any meaningful discussion away from the topic at hand.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:58 pmOh Eve! Stop your war on Christianity! Only 95% of Americans are Christian! Why must you persecute us so?
Comment by Flying Spaghetti Monster — April 12, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
Interesting statistic there oh noodly one… You might wanna check it though, it’s a little high.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:59 pm#217, “IGNORE THE UNEMPLOYMENT TROLL. Enough of him leading any meaningful discussion away from the topic at hand.”
Thanks for the reminder. I for one keep forgetting that. :(
April 12th, 2006 at 3:00 pmO’Reilly is clearly running out of ‘real news’. He does have to ignore all the crap the Bush junta has done wrong after all…
April 12th, 2006 at 3:02 pmWOW, I’m on a thread with the INVENTOR of “homosexualism” according to #206!!!!!
Which one of you invented that and what is it?
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April 12th, 2006 at 3:02 pmU don’t think I-RIGHT-I or Unemployed dipshit have derailed this thread at all. It keeps coming back to the fact that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus have nothin gto do with Christianity and anybody whos says it does is not a true Christian.
April 12th, 2006 at 3:09 pmFrom the inventors of political correctness
Okay, I guess it’s better to call someone a ‘n****r’ than African-American in your book?
, multiculturalism
Surprise! There are people in this country who aren’t white, middle class suburbanites. They are allowed to have a culture, too.
, feminism
You’re right. It was much better when women couldn’t vote and had less rights than a sack of potatoes. Much better.
, homosexualism
Sweet! We invented sexuality?!?! Cool! Ummm…. how’d we do that?
and the ACLU?
Heck, if you don’t want your rights, I have a nice dark cell I can lock you up in for no reason and throw away the key. Me? I prefer to have civil rights.
And you wonder why I call you idiots fucktards?
I’m going to subscribe to the “I-Right-I is really, really, really confused and has been drinking too much Hate Flavored Kool-Aid.”
April 12th, 2006 at 3:09 pm#223 – Great rebuttal!
Of course, “Right between the I’s†is going to respond with more partisan clap-trap and come up with another non-thinking “fucktard†or some other immature jibe.
If only the trolls would wake up and smell the reality! The only “war†going on is their partisan “war on freedomâ€. Since they cannot debate the facts (which aren’t on their side) and they cannot debate the subject (which they’ve imagined) they have to attack the people with whom they disagree.
April 12th, 2006 at 3:17 pmThey celebrate the resurrection of Jesus by telling their childern that a giant bunny rabbit goes around laying chocolate eggs in the night..
p.s. why do christians wear crosses around their neck, do you think the first thing Jesus wants to see when he comes back is a freakin cross!!
April 12th, 2006 at 3:30 pmThey celebrate the resurrection of Jesus by telling their childern that a giant bunny rabbit goes around laying chocolate eggs in the night..
p.s. why do christians wear crosses around their neck, do you think the first thing Jesus wants to see when he comes back is a freakin cross!!
April 12th, 2006 at 3:31 pmthat’s like having Jackie O’Nassis wear a rifle pendant around her neck..
Actually, i don’t get this one at all.
I thought the conservatives hated the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause because they “secularized” religious holidays.
Do these people even know what they’re supposed to be against anymore?
Or do they just need a reason to be pissed about a holiday?
Weird, even for Fox.
April 12th, 2006 at 3:35 pmI RIGHT I also forgets that the ACLU defended, of all people, the release of Rush Limbaugh’s medical records following his pain medication abuse scandal.
April 12th, 2006 at 3:35 pm[...] Yes, well it was bound to happen. The liberals have declared war on Easter! Good thing we don’t have more important things to think about, like say, World War IV? [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 3:50 pm#95 It’s the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. The weapon of Choice against bunnies.
April 12th, 2006 at 4:00 pmChrist-nazis are an irrational bunch
#128 UR4.7 Your wish is come true. He’s called Bush and the Repblican Party. Savor it while it lasts. 06 is around the corner…and you will fall under our feet. Gay and Proud.
April 12th, 2006 at 4:06 pmDEMOCRATIC SOLDIER…. that was exactly my thought. i have been asking MIGHTY HYPOCRITE for 2 weeks now why the bush administration has refused access for american women to the morning after pill? why have they cut off funding to the World Health Organization for safe and effective birth control for third world women. all she and IRI can do is fling insults. nothing substinative. so they are delegated to the bin. no challenge there!
April 12th, 2006 at 4:16 pmI suppose it won’t help matters much that Scientists have apparently found the ‘Missing Link’…
http://www.cnn.com/ 2006/ TECH/ science/ 04/ 12/ fossil.evolution.ap/ index.html
April 12th, 2006 at 4:18 pmStephen Colbert will love this, he began reporting the “War on Easter” almost 2 weeks ago!
April 12th, 2006 at 4:24 pmI suppose it won’t help matters much that Scientists have apparently found the ‘Missing Link’…
http://www.cnn.com/ 2006/ TECH/ science/ 04/ 12/ fossil.evolution.ap/ index.html
Comment by unbelievable
I thought I was the only one looking for you?
April 12th, 2006 at 4:25 pmAaaaah-ha-ha-ha-ha-eeeeehhh
April 12th, 2006 at 4:31 pmPlease – we no longer have ‘Secretaries Day” We prefer Administrative Professionals Day – we want more than some crappy flowers, too! And never, never, declare war on us – we’ll make your life a living hell!
I hereby call upon all my sister and brother APs to declare war on Bill O’Reilly – he’ll never know what hit him!
April 12th, 2006 at 4:32 pmUnbelieveable looks like you have a stalker!
April 12th, 2006 at 4:32 pmUNBELIEVABLE… a stalker with warts! no less. :)
April 12th, 2006 at 4:52 pmI thought I was the only one looking for you?
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — April 12, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
The only one that matters sugarpants ;)
April 12th, 2006 at 4:53 pmUnbelieveable looks like you have a stalker!
Comment by Jules — April 12, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
UNBELIEVABLE… a stalker with warts! no less. :)
Comment by meg_mac — April 12, 2006 @ 4:52 pm
It’s true love… couldn’t you tell :)
April 12th, 2006 at 4:56 pmThey say opposites attract but this is over the edge.
Your smart, he’s stupid. You have common sense, he does not. You are rational, he is not.
Wait….it is a he isn’t it? Not that there is anything wrong with that……
April 12th, 2006 at 5:00 pm“Or do they just need a reason to be pissed about a holiday?”
You could lop off “about a holiday” and it would be a yet more inclusive question. These people all have psychic stomachache, can’t stand that things aren’t as white and safe and glowing as they [never really] used to be, and need to lash out at something. They aren’t happy unless they have a Cheney-sour scowl on their faces and are pointing a hairy-knuckled finger at someone brown and saying something about how things ain’t how they used to be before all those homos, darkies and women got so uppity.
They’re pissed cuz they feel as though we’re saying that they can’t bait, kill or even taunt what they want to bait, kill and taunt any more with immunity and impunity … it’s as if the playground bully had actually gotten caught and told “you can’t do that any more,” and had his bacon-y little ass smacked. It’s pretty much the same emotion, and it is base, bloody and primitive (all the things some religious folk think the Generalissimo Baby Jesus absolves them from and lifts them above).
April 12th, 2006 at 5:04 pmFor a minute there, I thought the screen shot read:
Fox & friends
Bunny Brain?
April 12th, 2006 at 5:07 pmthese trolls are so full of crap that it comes out both ends.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:08 pmThey say opposites attract but this is over the edge.
If it makes the nightmares go away, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve never actually been in the same room together at the same time.
Your smart, he’s stupid. You have common sense, he does not. You are rational, he is not.
Well, I’m flattered. I’m guessing, IRI, not so much. : (
Wait….it is a he isn’t it? Not that there is anything wrong with that……
Comment by Jules — April 12, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
I can’t vouch. With my luck, he’s really an extra large lesbian who shoots up testosterone to grow back hair and a winkie : )
April 12th, 2006 at 5:11 pmThe people I’ve known through the years who are truely, deeply Christian are secure enough in themselves and their faith, to not feel under assualt if someone wishes them a “happy holiday”.
On the other hand, the people I know who are merely superfically Christian and hypocritical tend to go off the deep end at the slightest hint that anyone might be “taking the Christ out of Christmas.” They ought to be having a field day right now that the Easter Bunny is under assault. Thank goodness (I mean, thank the Lord) that the Bunny Brains over at Fox News are keeping vigil.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:18 pm#246 – Now you’re just getting everyone excited. :-p
April 12th, 2006 at 5:23 pm#206 – I-RIGHT-I, sweetie darling, go f*ck yourself.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:25 pm“#206 – I-RIGHT-I, sweetie darling, go f*ck yourself. Comment by Zookeeper ”
So in otherwords you want I-RIGHT-I to carry on as usual – DOHHHH!!!
April 12th, 2006 at 5:28 pmI may be a hetersexual guy, but the idea of two large hairy lesbians going at it, does not get me excited.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:29 pm#246 – Now you’re just getting everyone excited. :-p
Comment by Zookeeper — April 12, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
Gets a bit stale around here otherwise, don’t you think?
#206 – I-RIGHT-I, sweetie darling, go f*ck yourself.
Comment by Zookeeper — April 12, 2006 @ 5:25 pm
If he could, I believe that he would. :)
April 12th, 2006 at 5:29 pmI may be a hetersexual guy, but the idea of two large hairy lesbians going at it, does not get me excited.
Comment by krazny — April 12, 2006 @ 5:29 pm
Hey – I’m not a large hairy lesbian. Sorry, but I’m far too vain to even play along with that. So, that would leave you with just one large hairy lesbian f*cking herself. Any better of a visual for you?
April 12th, 2006 at 5:32 pmSo anyone…what’s with “fucktard?” Are we in junior high here? Have we been communicating with a student from auto mechanics?
April 12th, 2006 at 5:34 pmDoh
sorry unbelievable, I didn’t mean to paint you with a large brush, no pun intended. I have always pictured you more as a Salma Hayek, or Portia DeRossi.
as for the visual image you suggested above, I think I will be abstaning for a while.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:36 pmugly tie…
April 12th, 2006 at 5:36 pmDid Jesus wear a bunny suit?
April 12th, 2006 at 5:39 pmDaniel C. Dennent has written that, “religion is a gold plated excuse not to think.”
Seems like that’s true of John Meecham and Bill O’Reilly. (you can see the interview on Crooks and Liars.
I think what the founding fathers and several Supreme Court decisions were saying is that the State can’t favor one religion over another or make a particular religion official. They came from a place that had experienced hundreds of years of sectarian strife, both in England and on the Continent.
They knew that the best way to divide a country was to put one religion, or one sect above any others, and to persecute non-believers.
All of that aside, since when did the Easter Bunny, a marketing ploy, become a religious symbol?
April 12th, 2006 at 5:40 pmHave we been communicating with a student from auto mechanics?
Comment by progressive and proud — April 12, 2006 @ 5:34 pm
That’s IRI favorite insult… given his ignorant, racist, misogynist, homophobic rants, I doubt he has the cerebral bandwith to complete auto mechanic studies. I’ve met auto mechanics who were actually smart and -unlike IRI- made sense when they talked and could focus on a topic.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:41 pmI think that the easter bunny, and easter eggs were part of a pagan spring festival. Christianity felt the need to not only end the pagan practices, but smartly substituted new rites for the old. In most cases, they adopted existing rights, or incorporated them into church ceremonies and celebrations. Much like decorating trees at christmas.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:42 pmI have always pictured you more as a Salma Hayek, or Portia DeRossi.
No offense taken. Though I could certainly feign some offense every now and again for compliments like this (though, you do know that Portia is gay, right… of course ;). But that’s okay, I’m a brown-eyed brunette, so Selma works for me ;)
as for the visual image you suggested above, I think I will be abstaning for a while.
Comment by krazny — April 12, 2006 @ 5:36 pm
Sorry… please apologize to your wife for me as well :). I’ll try to behave in the future… (operative word being try)
April 12th, 2006 at 5:44 pmit’s one of those Republican-Christian words. The religion that (as opposed to other Christians) believes God, the father, son, and holy rover.
April 12th, 2006 at 5:45 pm[...] What? The left is set to make war on Easter? I just hope they know who they’re messing with! [...]
April 12th, 2006 at 5:46 pmIt seems like this country is awash with holiday dreck, from Christmas decorations sprouting up in October to creepy looking easter bunnies (at least the ones on the Fox screen shots) clogging the Walgreen’s aisles at least a month before the event.
How does that equate with a War on Religion? Or is O’Reilly confusing a war on shallow materialism with genuine faith. After all, no one is preventing or inhibiting him from practicing his beliefs.
Somehow I don’t think Jesus ever imagined or intended that the Resurrection would end up as just one more marketing tool for the candy and stuffed toy industries, or Fox news.
April 12th, 2006 at 6:01 pmConsidering that the resurection ends up as a foot note in consumerism, and the saviors birth is largly overlooked at christmas, I would say the war on christmas has effectively been won by crass consumerism.
April 12th, 2006 at 6:04 pmRe: the war on christmas has effectively been won by crass consumerism.
For sure. So why is someone like John Beecham, a managing editor at Newsweek, doing the O’Reilly show? O’Reilly is as serious about religious issues as Hitler was on human rights. That’s how twisted the MSM has become.
April 12th, 2006 at 6:24 pmI think you guys are being too hard on these Rabid Religious Right Easter Protectors! After all, Easter is a Pagan holiday celebrating fertility, fornication, and eggs. Although O’Reilly might have to go to a fertility clinic to assist with his formation of ideas, Bush & Company (aided by FOX) have been fornicating your country for five years now, and then laying eggs everywhere. So, all you dastardly skeptics, you’ve got to admit they have a right to celebrate their lack of accomplishments! So… three cheers for Pinhead O’Reilly and FOX! Hip hip…
April 12th, 2006 at 6:27 pmhooray. :-(
April 12th, 2006 at 6:33 pmWhat do pending nuclear attacks on Iran, the President declassifying bogus information to sell his war, the President authorizing the leak of a covert CIA agent to reporters to discredit a critic all have in common? NON-STORIES in Foxworld.
The real story is Christians are being persecuted in America. Christmas wasn’t enough, now liberals hate chocolate eggs!!!
Doesn’t O’Reilly have any good news from Iraq to report?????
April 12th, 2006 at 7:22 pmMy belief is that I don’t believe in Bill O’Reilly.
April 12th, 2006 at 7:35 pmO’Reilly, the “ancient bunny” is sacred in Celtic lore of the spring fertility. A lot nicer idea than this dog-pile-o-matic christian idiocy!!!
Get a Life! Or a Clue, or anything else useful, like an education!
April 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pmI stopped watching Fox News and stopped visiting their web site about 6 weeks ago. My life is so much better for it. I even had my wife program the TV remote to by pass station 39 in our town, 36 TNT, 37, Headlines News, 38 CNN, 40 MSNBC, 41 …
Why? because there is nothing on that station that is of any value. It is all carefully prepackage propoganda for Bush / republican officials. Murdoch’s advertisers can have that 24 hour infomercial and market their products to the lemmings. I will never watch it again. What nonsense — a War on Christmas and now a War on Easter. This is just nuts but I’ll ask my daughter how her Easter Egg hunt goes tomorrow when she comes home from her PUBLIC SCHOOL kindergarten class.
April 12th, 2006 at 9:20 pmA bear and a rabbit were in the woods…
April 12th, 2006 at 10:12 pmAh,America and Americans. O’Reilly draws almost 300 comments? No wonder American Idol is the top rated show.
April 12th, 2006 at 10:20 pmSomeone should tell Bill that the position of “Savior” is already taken. And as about 80% of Americans consider themselves to tbe “christian”, I really doubt that Easter is in any real peril. But reality is just so darn yucky for the Right these days. No wonder they are looking elsewhere for a “cause” they can support. Easter has nothing to fear from me, I love a good “Brunch”! But, whatever, Bill.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:10 pmYou scoff but it’s true. I personally am a left-wing non-believer who have been at war on Easter for forty years.
I suppose there are some folks for whom it really is a holy day. Bless ‘em, I guess. They’re generally quiet about it ( and get it done before I wake up.)
But the secular face of the holiday is insufferably insipid–all those gastly pastels and all. Except for the chocolate covered easter eggs (which are hard to find anymore) it’s an abomination.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:11 pmHe’s kidding right?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:24 pmIf O’reilly is defending the ( actually ) Pagan Easter Bunny, does this mean he will also defend the Playboy Bunny?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:39 pmOh boy! Can’t wait to see Countdown tomorrow! More laughs from Keith on the escapades of Ted Baxter. Keep it coming, o big, giant head. You make the left’s arguments for us.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:47 pmJoke’s on all of you. It was the Ground Hog that arose from the hole after three days.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:35 amActually the only danger to the Easter Bunny (and I do worry about this) is if it gets in Dickhead Cheney’s line of fire.
#You twisted fucks would have let Stalin, Hitler and Hussein in power. You have always sided with the enemy. FDR would be ashamed.
Comment by Unemployment Rate
To Unemployed,
April 13th, 2006 at 1:33 amSuch loving lovely language you use for one who loves to accuse others of hatred. Are you aware that Prescott Bush, Dumbya’s grandpa, had financial links to Hitler? And where were you when all those photos of Rummy Dumbsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein circulated, while the Reagan government was giving aid to that dictator’s government? Or do you really mean that we would have let Hussein, the late King of Jordan, stay in power?
206,
April 13th, 2006 at 1:35 amah yes, the recognition of human beings as being actual human beings instead of your little tools and the recognition of the bill of rights, yes, scourges os society. When you don’t have the right to post your idiocy on this blog anymore, don’t complain, it was in the name of security of course
So—-Bill “BUTTHEAD” O’Reilley is concerned about a war on the Easter Bunny? Amazing what this turd has on his mind. He spends every waking hour making excuses for the smirking dictator as thousands of young Americans die in a war fought to satisfy the blood lust of these neo-con thieves and liars….as Iraq reels toward civil war….and the nut job in the Oval Office pisses on the constitution….and he’s concerned about a friggin bunny? What the F%$^ do these people use for brains? The lunatic rantings of all the Rush Limpdicks, Sean Haddilies, and Bill “I’d like to do you with a loofa” O’Reilley aren’t worth putting a single American soldier in danger. Screw you O’Reilly. By the way—-(Keith Olbermann)—-there, I said it. Is that FOX NEWS SECURITY at my door? Bring it on you fat head f^%&ing bag of stale donkey shit!
April 13th, 2006 at 2:29 am“…However, the modern day left has a touch of fascism and communism. You people are like the thought police. You viciously attack anyone who disagrees with you…” No actually, most of us are laughing at you and O’Lielly…I love Easter. And I have no idea how a war on Easter would actually work. Even Agape Press has no mention of a court case attacking Easter. Where do you all get these insane ideas?
April 13th, 2006 at 3:12 amIs Bill O’Reilly on crack?
April 13th, 2006 at 8:48 amTime for War on the Gregorian Calendar!
War on Polypeptides!
War on Candybars!
How about War on Fox News!
April 13th, 2006 at 8:59 am#69 – you should have included an additional symptom of delusional paranoia (from your source):
“Erotic delusions are based on the belief that one is romantically loved by another, usually someone of higher status or a well-known public figure. Individuals with erotic delusions often harass famous persons through numerous letters, telephone calls, visits, and stealthy surveillance.”
I think this also fits Billy Boy’s profile.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:59 am[...] According to Fox News’ douchebag-in-chief, anyway. Of course we all knew Bill O’Reilly was such an idiot that it hardly seems notable to point it out. But honestly… a War on Easter is so stupid on the face of it that it deserves special recognition. [...]
April 13th, 2006 at 11:04 amYou know, the thing that gets me, is isn’t one of the old standbye insults the rightwing have for leftwing animal rights activists, “Bunny Hugger”?
April 13th, 2006 at 12:17 pmOReilly has a wild hare you know where.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:49 pmcan someone please explain to me, preferably “unemployment rate 4.7%”, what exactly makes the “liberal agenda” the “Stalinist” agenda? And as for the culture wars… look at the poll nubers, kool-aid drinker, the majority of the population is on our side of almost every issue of national importance these days, can’t wait until the elections this fall, you’re in for a rude awakening- unless Diebold & Co. can manage to steal even more races this time around. Fascist mofo.
April 13th, 2006 at 1:14 pm[...] Aside from his insidious plot to kill our children through obesity and juvenile diabetes, that furry bastard has officially declared war. Check this out, courtest of Think Progress: [...]
April 13th, 2006 at 1:28 pmVenus also has a connection with Easter, the feast that occured during the first full moon after the spring equionox based upon a tale where the rabbit takes flight like a bird after laying eggs. As the story goes Istar found a bird with frozen wings during the winter and turnned it into a hare– which is why we have hares laying eggs.
April 13th, 2006 at 1:39 pm#291, “can someone please explain to me, preferably ‘unemployment rate 4.7%’, what exactly makes the ‘liberal agenda’ the ‘Stalinist’ agenda?”
I’m not the troll you cite, but I suspect that the essence of that misfire in its “brain” is:
liberals want certain changes -> certain changes frighten me -> THEREFORE -> changes must be “something bad” -> I read “bad” things about Stalin once when I was forced to read something for some high school assignment or other -> THEREFORE -> liberal = bad = Stalin
April 13th, 2006 at 2:17 pmGlenn,
The “logical” chain is true, but needs a little enhancing.
‘Stalin’ is actually a token and can be replace with “anything about which I read bad things”, e.g, ‘Hitler’ -which changes the “conclusion” to: liberal = bad = Hitler.
That is the reason why these trolls will spout utter nonsense such as “you are a typical liberal fascist”.
My two cents…
April 13th, 2006 at 3:01 pmWhat the hell am I gonna do with all this chocolate?
April 13th, 2006 at 3:32 pmNext thing you know, the PC Police won’t let us have our pogroms. What’s becoming of this country?
April 13th, 2006 at 4:06 pmYou guys can blame me. I think O’Reilly must read our site. I did a snark post on this topic a week or so ago. Suddenly out of the blue O’Reilly steals my idea? Can I sue the bastard?
See:
April 13th, 2006 at 4:42 pmIf there is a war on Easter , Does that make Jesus a war God? The Pope a war Pope? All the Evangelist war evangelist? The Easter bunny a war Bunny…… and so on and so on
April 13th, 2006 at 4:54 pmMust be a slow day for “a ‘war’ on Easter” to make the news — or maybe it’s just an obligatory ’tis the season — in this case Easter — news story.
April 13th, 2006 at 6:19 pmThe name itself is Pagan not Christian! And as luck would have it, the Easter Bunny was a symbol of the Goddess Eastre and carried colored eggs for childern in the Pagan Rites of Spring!
April 13th, 2006 at 7:03 pmSO THERE Billy O’Reilly
[...] Apparently, Fox News’s alleged War on Christmas wasn’t enough. Now they’ve postulated that liberals have engaged in a war on the Easter Bunny. [...]
April 13th, 2006 at 9:18 pmI have to apologize to those #72 and beyond (at this point it’s #303),but how could anyone even think they could be any more succinct or profound after reading #71? My hat’s off to an almost biblical profundity,stated so exquisitively and efficiently (also so humorously),that there was no need to seek Nirvana…oops,wrong religion. Commentators, where do you go after summiting Mt. Everest? Why bother? Great job “highschoolcivicsteacher”
April 13th, 2006 at 11:37 pmDon’t you believe it folks. there is no truth to the rumor that Bill O’Reilley and Rush Limpdick are the unmarried homosexual parents of Sean Hannity. Ann Coulter is their only child.
April 14th, 2006 at 3:08 amHannity is the son of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Please! Get your facts straight!
Dear Bill O’Reilly; when you have a moment free from playing phone sex with your assistant and have finished your “hide the loofa” routine, try reading something. Maybe Sinclair Lewis, who said: “WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA, IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG AND CARRYING THE CROSS.”
April 14th, 2006 at 3:22 amThe really sad part about O’Reilly is that a lot of people listen to him and actually believe the shit that comes out of his mouth. This country really has been dumbed down. Every day becomes a little more frightening than the last. I wish there were a God that would smite the nasty bastards that are lying, cheating and killing in the his name. I’d pay to see that judgement day.
April 14th, 2006 at 6:50 amCHENEY SHOOTS EASTER BUNNEY!
April 14th, 2006 at 9:24 amFilm at 11:00
Diversifying!…
Christmas is just too far off to have any real marketing impact at this point, so the Fox News juggernaut is branching out. There’s now a war on…wait for it…Easter bunnies!
Coming soon: The War On Shrovetide! The War On Pancake Day! And, The W….
April 14th, 2006 at 11:29 amActually, the Easter Bunny is under attck. So we blogged about it this morning.
April 14th, 2006 at 12:58 pmIf you grew up on a farm, click URL link. Otherwise, you might be wise to avoid it.
[...] Gosh, where could Tucker have gotten the idea that talk show hosts like O’Reilly claimed Easter was under attack? Bill O’Reilly, 4/11/06: [...]
April 14th, 2006 at 1:18 pm[...] Yes, well it was bound to happen. The liberals have declared war on Easter! Good thing we don’t have more important things to think about, like say, World War IV? [...]
April 14th, 2006 at 9:54 pm[...] Apparently not everyone at Fox News buys into talk of a ‘War on Easter.’ [...]
April 16th, 2006 at 2:10 pmIts kind of sad that his show is the top rated cable news show in the US.
November 6th, 2006 at 3:56 amI live in australia and i’ll admit i watch his show. I started watching because i was and still am intrigued as to how he was given a show in the first place, but i spose it is FOX news, the masters of missing the point. Oh and his book “culture warrior” would be a great book for anyone studying mental illness. Its written in the format of a paranoid schizoprenic talking about alien abduction or big foot or something
Spudge_boy is totally right, christianity has nothing to do with christmas or easter, it got tied into it becouse of the beleifs. It’s all about patton holidays
bill should really do his research
December 7th, 2006 at 10:58 pmWhich is typical wing-nut hypocrisy. Who’s encouraging all this crass consumerism? Large corporations. Who owns and runs the large corporations? Wing nuts, of course. Complete fabrication (along the lines of the crock about the “liberal media”) intended to get the uneducated (or in some cases just plain stubbornly stupid) to vote and act against their own self-interest. Business–in every sense–as usual for the bottom-feeding right-wing slime.
February 12th, 2007 at 6:09 am[...] “a War on Easter.” Last year, Bill O’Reilly suggested the Easter bunny was “under attack.” After embarrassing himself and his colleagues, O’Reilly eventually acknowledged, [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 7:34 pm